A Quote by Terry Pratchett

The only really sane person in there is Igor, and possibly the turnip. And I'm not sure about the turnip.

Terry Pratchett

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Terry Pratchett
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April 28, 1948 - March 12, 2015

[There is] one distinctly human thing - the story. There can be as good science about a turnip as about a man. ... [Or philosophy, or theology] ...There can be, without any question at all, as good higher mathematics about a turnip as about a man. But I do not think, though I speak in a manner somewhat tentative, that there could be as good a novel written about a turnip as a man.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

There's no getting blood out of a turnip.

Frederick Marryat

I look like a turnip with hair in the morning!

Dominic Cooper

In German, a young lady has no sex, but a turnip has

Mark Twain

This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.

Richard Burton

The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best.

Waverley Root

To him who is stinted of food a boiled turnip will relish like a roast fowl.

Saadi

I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip.

Billy Bob Thornton

A lot of chefs don't have a natural sense of economy. I was with one guy the other day, and I had to show him how to peel a turnip, because the way he was peeling turnips, he was throwing half of it in the garbage. It's not about being cheap. It's about being proper.

Daniel Boulud

A lot of chefs don't have a natural sense of economy. I was with one guy the other day and I had to show him how to peel a turnip, because the way he was peeling turnips, he was throwing half of it in the garbage. It's not about being cheap. It's about being proper.

Daniel Boulud

I really appreciate an actor who has paid their dues and who has learned hard knocks and has been rewarded in the end. I don't understand young actors who get off the turnip truck and land in Hollywood and get a great job. They do not realize how fortunate they are.

Enrico Colantoni

If you'd take your head home and boil it for a turnip it might be useful. I can't say. But it might.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Women. You'll interpret anything as love. You see a man wearing an idiotic expression, and you assume he's been struck by Cupid's arrow when in reality, he's digesting a bad turnip.

Lisa Kleypas

I still wanna know who to sue to get my store fixed. (Bubba) I’m a turnip. Sue the rich kid who started it. (Nick)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I suppose the implication of that is the president and the vice president and myself and Colin Powell just fell off a turnip truck to take these jobs.

Donald Rumsfeld

Sweeping from butcher's stalls, dung, guts, and blood, Drown'd puppies, stinking sprats, all drench'd in mud, Dead cats, and turnip-tops, come tumbling down the flood.

Jonathan Swift

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