Creatives Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases |
|
Compiled by:
| Icon Group International, Inc. Staff, |
ISBN: | 978-0-546-70078-7 |
Publication Date: | Nov 2008 |
Publisher: | Icon Group International, Incorporated
|
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $28.95 |
Book Description:
|
Familiar Quotations CreamsYo, Flo. Tell Mel to whip me up a toasted bagel with cream cheese. You want one too? Make that two. And kiss my grits, noooch.–Chasing AmyTwo frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out.–AnonymousAge does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.–Jim FiebigIt is a known fact...
More DescriptionFamiliar Quotations CreamsYo, Flo. Tell Mel to whip me up a toasted bagel with cream cheese. You want one too? Make that two. And kiss my grits, noooch.–Chasing AmyTwo frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out.–AnonymousAge does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.–Jim FiebigIt is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they couldn't charge sixteen dollars for that little tiny jar.–Jane GoodsellIt seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.–Zora Neale HurstonMy opponent called me a cream puff. Well, I rushed out and got the baker's union to endorse me.–Claiborne PellWhoever is fond of cream should take the cow around with him.–Proverb Use in Literature CreamsThe trip home from Dodge was no pleasure jaunt, and now I was determined to draw extra pay in getting the cream of that horse herd.–Andy Adams in The Outlet.Here! take it away and bring me the cream.–T.S. Arthur in Home Scenes, and Home Influence.It was Pauline's poverty that seemed to humiliate her, and to reproach me with my want of consideration, and I melted at once and accepted the cream that might have been meant for her morning's breakfast.–HonorÉ de Balzac in The Magic Skin (tr Ellen Marriage).The officer overcame this objection by undertaking to repay her amply for the wasted cream, and then tied up his horse at the door, and went inside the cottage.–HonorÉ de Balzac in The Country Doctor.