Top 235 Bean Counters Quotes & Sayings

A poem is good if it contains a new analogy and startles the reader out of the habit of treating words as counters.

Every study on chocolate is pointing to the same conclusion: there is something in chocolate that is really good for us. That something is the raw cacao bean, the nut that all chocolate is made from. The cacao bean has always been and will always be Nature's #1 weight loss and high-energy food. Cacao beans are probably the best kept secret in the entire history of food.

When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean.

If we're all talking about something that doesn't matter, it can be bean talk. If we're talking about something that we're talking about together, it could be bean talk.

You know what a lima bean does when it's attacked by spider mites? It releases this volatile chemical that goes out into the world and summons another species of mite that comes in and attacks the spider mite, defending the lima bean. So what plants have - while we have consciousness, toolmaking, language, they have biochemistry.

There's too many people in seats of power who just haven't got a clue what they're doing. They're bean counters, and it just pisses me off because consequently our kids go to see crap movies.

The fire trucks are out, there are thousands of people in the streets. You have a choice. You can have this, or you let Negroes eat at the lunch counters.

It applies in any business. Shoemakers should be run by shoe guys, and software firms by software guys, and supermarkets by supermarket guys. With the advice and support of their bean counters, absolutely, but with the final word going to those who live and breathe the customer experience. Passion and drive for excellence will win over the computer-like, dispassionate, analysis-driven philosophy every time.

Every little bean must be heard as well as seen!

I make a sensational chicken, chorizo and mung bean stew.

I am here to make an announcement that this Thursday, ticket counters and airplanes will fly out of Ronald Reagan Airport.

In Dallas, I eat bean soup and bean pies every day. On Saturdays, I treat myself to a veggie pizza.

I make bean stalks, I'm A builder, like yourself.

If she were going to die, I'd already be screaming. I'm a female bean sidhe. That's what we do.

Corn and bean people, I'm afraid, have extremely specialized minds.

Do you like vegetables?" Sophie asked, hoping to steer the conversation towards a slightly less dangerous kind of food. "You is trying to change the subject," the Giant said sternly. "We is having an interesting babblement about the taste of the human bean. The human bean is not a vegetable.

When I'm overseas, I suspect I look like Mr. Bean.

My wife just so happens to make an amazing bean dip.

There are a million studies that say the money you put into a kitchen and bath update you get back. That's one of those places you can't go wrong. It can be as simple as updating counters and a backsplash.

I have this saying: They either want The Bean or they don't want The Bean. I just am my own thing. It works or it doesn't work.

Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.

When I graduated high school, I was 6-5 and 305. I think I swallowed a magic bean pill.

The difference between a cow and a bean is a bean can begin an adventure.

I was doing science," Giddon said. "He threw a bean." "I was testing the impact of a bean upon water," Bann said. "That's not even a real thing." "Perhaps I'll test the impact of a bean upon your beautiful white shirt.

[But] they can't kill music. God knows, they've tried. But music always wins. As long as there's kids coming up that have a passion. All the bean counters in the world can't kill that. You know? You just can't. They can try, of course, to feed you the most puerile, benign horse manure, but some kid's going to come along and demand something more than that.

The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.

Affection is important because it counters anger, hatred and suspicion that can prevent our minds from functioning clearly.

I got left for Mr. Bean. I found out a year after we split up. I opened the newspaper and there was a full-page story. No one else in the history of time has ever been left for Mr. Bean.

I especially like to make my own ginkgo soup, bean curd sheet soup, and red bean soup. This way, I can control the sugar portions.

In Manhattan, my go-to bag is a black L.L.Bean tote it never looks dirty!

I'm very pleased with being a part of the Bean Pole family. It's a relationship that makes sense to me. I'm very pleased to have my name associated with Bean Pole Jeans.

He walked down the corridor, lined with his soldiers, who looked at him with love, with awe, with trust. Except Bean, who looked at him with anguish. Ender Wiggin was not larger than life, Bean knew. He was exactly life-sized, and so his larger-than-life burden was too much for him. And yet he was bearing it. So far.

Lentils are friendly - the Miss Congeniality of the bean world.

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

The slothful is the servant of the counters.

The Church counters the culture of death with the culture of love.

I really like keeping my kitchen counters as clear as possible. I tend to function better when there's less clutter.

Ordinary Geiger counters, worn on belt clips and resembling pagers, have been in use by the U.S. Customs Service for years.

They're both southpaws, Anderson is good with counters and McGregor is good at straight punches.

I'm easy to pick on because I'm a string bean.

Can we save the live demo for later, please? Bean Sidhe in angst, here.

There is a beautiful thing which is wonderful, to look like a woman, not a green bean

My earliest memory? Trying to use a red jelly bean as lipstick.

There's too many people in seats of power who just haven't got a clue what they're doing. They're bean counters, and it just pisses me off because consequently our kids go to see this crap movie.

You know, the funny thing about Lorne and that show is that, you can go over one million things, but in a business of bean counters, he still likes to laugh at small things and creates a show around it.

Good stories are not written by people who live in a city of dirty strip malls, forced to listen to the machinated opinions of lawyers, bean counters and statisticians… Good stories strong enough to love are created by those brave enough to live.

Words are the counters of wise men, but the money of fools.

Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.

My style is like Bruce Lee, I'm like water. It's everything from defensive, to counters, to offense.

If you read Wall Street?s reports, they don?t talk of soya bean as originating in China. They don?t talk of soya bean as soya bean. They talk of Monsanto soya. Monsanto soya is protected by a patent. It has a patent number. It is therefore treated as a creation of Monsanto, a product of Monsanto?s intelligence and innovation.

Voters decide nothing. Vote counters decide everything!

If there is one vegetable which is God-given, it is the haricot bean.

Scepticism and cynicism about politics is so great that one of the best counters to it is what you can do at a local level.

Life is a child moving counters in a game.

When every one of your arguments is characterized an attempt to bring back slavery or resegregate lunch counters, it's a little hard to have any sort of productive debate.

Our education system has been taken over by bean counters and narrow-mindedness.

When I was doing Bean more than I’ve done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean.

I know how to use computers. I was one of those guys on Myspace who had one of those fake hit counters.

Removing the weeds, putting fresh soil about the bean stems, and encouraging this weed which I had sown, making the yellow soil express its summer thought in bean leaves and blossoms rather than in wormwood and piper and millet grass, making the earth say beans instead of grass, - this was my daily work.

One time, I was so hungry, I ate the beans in a bean bag chair.