Top 88 Leftovers Quotes & Sayings

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

In restaurants in my Brooklyn neighborhood, I always ask for a doggie bag to bring the leftovers home.

All things come to him who waits, but they are mostly leftovers from those who didn't wait.

The Leftovers is a great basketball book that shines a light on what true competitors can overcome with a solid work ethic.

My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.

I simply believe food is too good to throw away - and Christmas leftovers can be a gastronomic opportunity for the well-skilled kitchen forager. With a little imagination, there are a million ways to use up leftovers rather than bin them.

Finding exciting ways to use leftovers is what we all struggle with. There's one simple thing that you can do to transform them: Stock your pantry.

My wife cooks. I can't cook. I can remix leftovers pretty good, though.

'The Leftovers' is my favorite job I've ever had in my life, anywhere, ever. It is one of the greatest TV shows ever made.

I think if people stick with 'The Leftovers,' it's a very rewarding viewing experience. I wanted to be part of that - and what a great cast we got. I wanted to be one of those actors, in that show!

I feel like, in some ways, I couldn't be a luckier actor to have Stick from 'Daredevil' and Senior from 'The Leftovers.' Two really different, incredible parts to do. I'm just lucky.

The whole point of the system is to bribe you with the leftovers of what they have stolen from you in the first place.

I'm a busy mom and I'm a big snacker throughout the day, so I'll do everything from leftovers from what my children did not eat, whether that's like a half bowl of cereal or a banana or whatever.

I grew up with nothing, and I know that I don't need anything to be happy. We were wearing second-hand clothing and eating leftovers, and I was so happy. Five-star hotels and private pick-ups hasn't changed that.

I feel like 'Leftovers' is dealing with subject matter that's kind of taboo when you're talking about religion and faith. They found a way to make it mysterious and intriguing without making people upset.

At the end of the week, my husband and I do a leftovers dinner, where we have to use whatever's in the fridge. It's sort of a game.

Molded salads are best served in situations where they have little or no competition ... Like television, gelatin is too often a vehicle for limp leftovers that couldn't make it anywhere else.

With so many delicious varieties and flavors ranging from subtle to bold, Keebler and Carr's crackers are an unexpectedly genius way to celebrate leftovers and serve up one-of-a-kind recipes.

"Solid wastes" are the discarded leftovers of our advanced consumer society. This growing mountain of garbage and trash represents not only an attitude of indifference toward valuable natural resources, but also a serious economic and public health problem.

I am someone who puts their takeout or leftovers into the Tupperware and stores it in the refrigerator overnight.

Since I don't have much time to cook, I tend to cook in bulk and eat leftovers.

We want to teach families how to cook Tuscan wherever you are. How to reuse your leftovers. How to trick the kids into eating whatever you want by putting it into a frittata.

It's not leftovers that are wasteful, but those who either don't know what to do with them or can't be bothered.

We're still eating the leftovers of World War II.

My look is more grandmother’s leftovers than heroin chic.

Bein' rich is having leftovers. Good leftovers make yo' tongue fly outta yo' mouth and smack yo' brains out.

Each new season grows from the leftovers from the past. That is the essence of change, and change is the basic law.

Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past.

Once, I was a master at recycling leftovers. Now I cultivate the art of simmering memories.

He stood there for a moment looking around the silent room, shaking his head slowly. All these books, he thought, the residue of a planet’s intellect, the scrapings of futile minds, the leftovers, the potpourri of artifacts that had no power to save men from perishing.

I go light on breakfast. Sometimes it's a yogurt, but a lot of times it's leftovers from one of my wife's dinners.

A quick shallow fry is a great way to transform leftovers, and no more so than in the case of risotto.

I really have the good fortune that the actors who work with me on 'The Leftovers' are thoughtful, hard working, open people and generous people.

I was living in a house with five guys, eating their leftovers when they weren't watching. I went from that to having $1-billion-plus on paper.

But nothing beats a Woody Allen film on a Sunday night, with a glass of wine and some leftovers.

The only exercise I got as a kid was fork to mouth. Food was equated with love in my household. I thought you left the table when the zipper was down and you'd explode if you took another bite. I'd eat my plate and then everyone else's leftovers.

When Bob goes into the studio, he didn't just say, 'I'm going to do one album by itself.' No, we always had leftovers and some that were what you'd call rejects, we have those too.

I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.

New York apartments are notoriously small, and my cute little studio is no exception - space is at a premium, which is one of the reasons that I only have a mini-fridge. Great for leftovers, cheese, and chilling Diet Coke.

At school, I always wanted to belong to a gang, and no one would have me. So I'd have make my own gang, but with everybody else's leftovers.

For me, the two weeks between Christmas and Twelfth Night have come to be reserved for desultory reading. The pressure of the holiday is over, the weather outside is frightful, there are lots of leftovers to munch on, vacation hours are being used up.

Unlike excluding neoliberalism, which puts aside and discards millions of human beings and condemns them to survive on the leftovers from the banquet of the richest one per cent, the COVID-19 virus does not discriminate between them.

I rarely get recognized, and whenever I do, it has to do with 'The Leftovers' because it came into someone's life at a particularly important time for them - if they were dealing with grief or loss or whatever tragedy - and they just caught it. And there is no rhyme or reason to the kind of person it is.

Dating is like trying to make a meal out of leftovers. Some leftovers actually get better when they've had a little time to mature. But others should be thrown out right away, No matter how you try to warm them up, they're never as good as when they were new.

The first time I read 'Leftovers,' I didn't get it at all.

I'm very average. I'm into fresh, yummy family food. I'm into leftovers.

Whenever people ask me if it's okay to stop watching "The Leftovers," I always say OF COURSE IT IS.

For lunch, I tend to eat leftovers. I'm always recipe testing, so I tend to enjoy whatever is left in the fridge. I'm a big snacker, too.

With 'The Leftovers,' I was actually super, super lucky. It was my first major audition. When I came out, the casting director was kissing me on the face, and I was like, 'Oh, that's probably a good sign.'

I think 'The Leftovers' is one of the most extraordinary shows that has ever seen the light of day.

My grandmother used to make the most incredible chicken divan, and my mom has carried out that tradition. It's my comfort food. It's amazing how you can almost taste the memories with a dish like that! And the more leftovers, the better.

Another suggestion is to cook a meal, maybe not every night, but a couple more times a week than you usually do. That way you have leftovers, and you take your lunch to work.

Boxing is one of those leftovers from a more primitive past that should be finished off and killed. I don't love it anymore.

Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

I love art. But I love it because it is the expression of a living philosophy. It's the leftovers. Art is what's left over from life.

Restaurants should be forced to recycle their leftovers for animal consumption - and should create fewer leftovers in the first place.

The best jokes on The Leftovers are the ones that make you feel a little sick to your stomach.

I really don't do much on the night of Thanksgiving other than bring the wine and carve the turkey. My contribution comes the day after, in the form of breakfast. I usually just forage through the leftovers for things that will go well with eggs.

Cooking Tip: Wrap turkey leftovers in aluminum foil and throw them out.

If I'm in the country, my big idea is to do nothing. It means talking, it means cooking with the leftovers in the fridge - l'art d'accommoder les restes - it means gardening.