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  • Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.

    Food   Beard   Bread  
    "The Soup & Bread Cookbook: More Than 100 Seasonal Pairings for Simple, Satisfying Meals". Book by Beatrice Ojakangas, p. 7, 2013.
  • When not writing and directing, my bread and butter comes from acting and stunt work. I've been fortunate enough to be part of some amazing productions.

    Writing   Acting   Bread  
  • False hope is the bread - and - butter of my existence, the only thing that keeps me going.

    "Working Class Zero". Book by Rob Payne, 2003.
  • Tell me what it is like to die," I answered. He dismounted from his horse, looking at me strangely the whole while. "You experience something similar every day," he said softly. "It is as familiar to you as bread and butter." "Yes," I said. "It is like every night when I fall asleep." "No. It is like every morning when you wake up.

    Morning   Horse   Fall  
    Martine Leavitt (2016). “Keturah and Lord Death”, p.89, Highlights Press
  • The coffee was boiling over a charcoal fire, and large slices of bread and butter were piled one upon the other like deals in a lumber yard.

    Coffee   Fire   Cooking  
  • You are offered a piece of bread and butter that feels like a damp handkerchief and sometimes, when cucumber is added to it, like a wet one.

    Food   Cooking   Pieces  
    'Vestal Fire' (1927) bk. 1, ch. 3
  • All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems, I turn my adventures into bread and butter.

    Adventure   Joy   Sorrow  
    Louisa May Alcott, Ednah Cheney (2010). “Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters, and Journals”, p.262, Applewood Books
  • In moments of considerable strain, I tend to take to bread-and-butter pudding. There is something about the blandness of soggy bread, the crispness of the golden outer crust and the unadulterated pleasure of a lightly set custard that makes the world seem a better place to live.

    Food   World   Golden  
  • It's nice to be in a situation where the two books that I write for a sort of regular monthly income are also works that I enjoy immensely, rather than them being some kind of bread and butter, do it because you have to do it.

    Nice   Book   Writing  
  • Give us this day our daily mask.

    Tom Stoppard (2013). “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead”, p.31, Faber & Faber
  • If we give someone a piece of bread and butter, that's kindness, but if we put jelly or peanut butter on it, then it's Loving Kindness.

  • I was raised in Mississippi, so heat and humidity is my bread and butter. It keeps me going. I can't stand cold weather.

  • Not a deed would he do, Not a word would he utter, Till he's weighed its relation To plain bread and butter.

    Food   Cooking   Deeds  
  • I had an excellent repast - the best repast possible - which consisted simply of boiled eggs and bread and butter. It was the quality of these simple ingredients that made the occasion memorable. The eggs were so good that I am ashamed to say how many of them I consumed ....It might seem that an egg which has succeeded in being fresh has done all that can be reasonably expected of it.

    Memorable   Simple   Eggs  
    Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.11484, Delphi Classics
  • I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them, they might as well cut bread and butter. Unless you give at least 45 minutes of careful, fatiguing reflection upon what you are reading, your minutes are chiefly wasted.

  • From the time I was twelve I was dancing for bread and butter, but in my heart I was always an actress.

    Heart   Dancing   Twelve  
  • I've done my share of period stuff. I'm not sure why, but people say I have a period face. The bread and butter of British TV is Jane Austen adaptations and bridges and bonnets and boats and horses.

    Horse   Bridges   People  
  • You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far.

    Cake   Missing   Tea  
    Oscar Wilde (2015). “Oscar Wilde The Dover Reader”, p.402, Courier Dover Publications
  • I spent many years in grad school in English, so I've read a lot in a variety of genres. But adventure fantasy is my bread and butter as a reader, and probably always will be. So it's only natural that I came to that genre as a writer.

    Source: fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com
  • A man's bread and butter is only insured when he works for it.

    Work   Men   Bread  
    Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.8, Ravenio Books
  • My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets.

    May   Bread   Poet  
  • The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter.

    Men   History   Records  
  • The second suggestion is to think as well as to read. I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them they might just as well cut bread-and-butter. They take to reading as better men take to drink. They fly through the shires of literature on a motor-car, their sole object being motion. They will tell you how many books they have read in a year. Unless you give at least 45 minutes to careful, fatiguing reflection (it is an awful bore at first) upon what you are reading, your 90 minutes of a night are chiefly wasted.

    Book   Reading   Cutting  
    Arnold Bennett (2013). “How To Live On Twenty-Four Hours A Day”, p.40, Read Books Ltd
  • Such things as anguish, woe, affliction, guilt, feelings of awfulness, and utter wretchedness, the bread and butter of Days of Yore and Russians, sadly have very little staying power in these lickety-split Modern Times.

    Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.166, Penguin
  • "She can't do Subtraction." said the White Queen. "Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife-what's the answer to that?" "I suppose-" Alice was beginning, but the Red Queen answered for her. "Bread-and-butter, of course."

    Queens   Science   Knives  
    Lewis Carroll (1929). “Alice in Wonderland: Through the Looking Glass and Other Comic Pieces”
  • The radicals...want speech regulated by codes that proscribe certain language. They see free speech as at best a delusion, at worst a threat to the welfare of minorities and women....The most obvious (and cynical) explanation for the switched positions is the switched situations. Protesting students became established professors and administrators. For outsiders, free speech is bread and butter; for insiders, indigestion. To the new academics, unregulated free speech spells trouble.

  • And she hates being managed - that is not the word I want. What is it, Maturin?' 'Manipulated.' 'Exactly. She is a dutiful girl - a great sense of duty: I think it rather stupid, but there it is - but still she finds the way her mother has been arranging and pushing and managing and angling in all this perfectly odious. You two must have had hogsheads of that grocer's claret forced down your throats. Perfectly odious: and she is obstinate - strong, if you like - under that bread-and-butter way of hers. It will take a great deal to move her; much more than the excitement of a ball.

    Girl   Mother   Strong  
  • I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.

    Food   Men   Cooking  
    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1771). “The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.258
  • I try to be really balanced. I walk a lot, I wear a Fitbit, and that has really been a game changer for me. I get my steps, I eat whatever I want, I go to France and put on my bread-and-butter suit. Then I'll be balanced, like I'm going to eat my salads for a few days. But I just try to be really balanced with my body. And that has been a good pact for me so far.

    Games   Trying   Body  
    "Origin Series: Mad Men and True Detective actor Abigail Spencer". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
  • I've always enjoyed mixing and mingling with the Tasmanian community and that's, if you like, the bread and butter of politics. And from my perspective, it's meant more time at home, which I also enjoy and it's also meant the greater interaction with the Tasmanian community. And it's also given me freedom to speak out.

    Source: www.abc.net.au
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