A Quote by Elsie de Wolfe

No, I don't take soup. You can't build a meal on a lake.

Elsie de Wolfe

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Elsie de Wolfe
American - Actress
December 20, 1865 - July 12, 1950

Never, under any circumstance, do I touch soup, as I do not believe in building a meal on a lake.

Elsie de Wolfe

Everyday I eat some soup. This is part of our culture - our mommies and grammies make it, and at any restaurant in Serbia, you can go in and find some soup. There might be minestrone, butternut squash, chicken noodle soup, tomato soup, mushroom soup, lamb soup. Whatever you can find, you can make a soup with that.

Boban Marjanovic

Every meal I want to start with soup.

Boban Marjanovic

Soup is just a way of screwing you out of a meal.

Jay Leno

Soup is probably a way associated with screwing you outside of a meal.

Jay Leno

Grilled cheese and tomato soup is the ultimate comfort meal.

Ina Garten

Marriage is commonly a meal wherein the soup is better than the desert.

Austin O'Malley

All of writing is a huge lake. There are great rivers that feed the lake, like Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky. And then there are mere trickles, like Jean Rhys. All that matters is feeding the lake. I don't matter. The lake matters. You must keep feeding the lake.

Jean Rhys

Soup is to the meal, what the hostesses smile of welcome is to the party. A prelude to the goodness to come.

Louis Pullig De Gouy

We lived near a supermarket, and whatever they threw away, we would get it, and my mother would make soup. Or she would get a big can of lard, a big can of meal, a big can of flour, a big can of beans, and fix the same meal for months.

Ernie Banks

I'd like to know about some of the things that they teach down there, like building a lake. If I ever wanted to build a lake, I'd like to know how to do it.

Tom Felton

It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it.

M. F. K. Fisher

It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it

M. F. K. Fisher

The sign said 'The Green Turtle, Chelonia myadas, is the source of turtle soup....' I am the source of William G. soup if it comes to that. Everyone is the source of his or her kind of soup. In a town as big as London, that's a lot of soup walking around.

Russell Hoban

I applaud the work of Clean Power Lake County in their leadership to call for Lake County to build a just transition from coal to clean energy, and I'm proud their work will be highlighted on the national stage for TV viewers around the country.