Claggy is often seen as a negative word, yet for me it describes perfectly that full-mouthed feel of a treacle tart of banoffee pie.
With limited shifts, low wages, and scarce benefits, it feels almost impossible for many Americans to get their slice of the pie.
Positive thinking is so firmly enshrined in our culture that knocking it is a little like attacking motherhood or apple pie.
In all the classic comedies of the old silent movies, the pratfall always got the biggest lauch. Even more than a pie in the face.
We resort, frankly, to pies, which is a comedy staple that's gone back, I guess, to since the first pie was ever baked.
Channing Tatum. He's a cutie-pie, but he's also got swag. Before him, my crush was Brad Pitt forever!
That song didn't just happen. It grew out of my experiences. 'American Pie' was part of my process of self-awakening: a mystical trip into my past.
Well, I'm proud to say American Pie was the kind of crazy, gross-out film that guys thought was the greatest.
It is satisfying following such an emphatic victory over the current unbeaten champion (Lucian Bute) to know that there's a lot of people eating humble pie.
If you're more interested in looking like a hipster, a jazz musician, or a young hunk, I'd recommend the pork pie. It has a narrow brim and a flat top.
I remember I was so crabby in my third trimester - I got gestational diabetes because I'd been acting like I was in a one-woman pie-eating contest.
One of my favorite dishes, absolutely from my childhood, was something my grandmother made, on my mother's side. It was a shepherd's pie, and I really adored that.
I have a soft spot for 'Wind of Change' because it was my first one, and it was a departure from Humble Pie - very much so. It showed me the spectrum of what I could do.
A slice of pie without cheese is like a kiss without a squeeze.
Success doesn't come from pie-in-the-sky thinking. It's the result of consciously doing something each day that will add to your overall excellence.
It's weird what can trigger the beginning of a song or some bars. It can be a banging slice of apple pie or it can be smelling a certain perfume or something.
My final, considered judgment is that the hardy bulb [garlic] blesses and ennobles everything it touches - with the possible exception of ice cream and pie.
In July and August, when everyone I know is at the beach, I am cooking through turkey, potato, and pie recipes for Bon Appetit's November issue.
The weight comes off, you know? If you stop with the bread and the pie, it really does. It really works.
My father tried to discourage me from going into comedy, mainly because he felt like it wasn't promising. It was pie in the sky.
The fact that I was a junkie for a long time is only one slice of my own personal pie, which is made up of a lot of different slices.
Is that a lion with horns and a pitchfork?" "Yep." "Is he carrying the moon on his pitchfork?" "Nope it's a pie.
I've put an umbrella in my mouth and opened it. I sat in a lemon-meringue pie. I've done terrible things to my dog with a fork.
Autumn. Pretty leaves, pumpkin pie and sweaters. Perfect weather for reading. Winter is great but I hate shoveling.
I am a Southern girl at heart, so I have a pulled pork sandwich and Key lime pie every day. It's a problem.
The Moon Pie is a bedrock of the country store and rural tradition. It is more than a snack. It is a cultural artifact.
Harry Styles threw a cream pie at my face in front of 15,000 people to thank me for the months we spent on the road.
The jabroni beating, pie eating, trail-blazin', eyebrow raisin', all around, smack it down People's Champ, The Rock!
I'm what is known as perimenopausal. "Peri", some of you may know, is a Latin prefix meaning 'SHUT YOUR FLIPPIN' PIE HOLE'.
In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.
Just had lunch with the president who seems pensive, slightly deflated, realistic, aggravated and resolute. Didn't eat his pie.
World peace is no longer some pie-in-the-sky thing, because no single person or country is going to solve it on their own.
But see, in our open clearings, how golden the melons lie; Enrich them with sweets and spices, and give us the pumpkin-pie!
For me, religion is serious business - a farrago of authoritarian nonsense, misogyny and humble pie, the eternal enemy of human happiness and freedom.
When traveling, I like Urth Caffe in L.A. for eggs Benedict with prosciutto or Balthazar in New York, where I order duck shepherd's pie.
I don't like the phrase having it all. It implies we're being greedy, like "have a second piece of pie."
The most conventional customs cling to the table. Farmers who wouldn't drive a horse too hard expect pie three times a day.
I've got a wife, two kids, a dog and a mini-van. Isn't that disgusting? We're talking Americana, man. Apple pie on the table and everything.
[I like to cook] Shepherd's pie, which is a classic British dish. But my version reflects my Jamaican roots, because I add jerk to it as well.
The Gesundheit Institute is a pie in the face of greed - by taking the most expensive thing in America, health care, and giving it away for free.
Tolerance is the value that was selected to put on here, and tolerance is as American as apple pie.
I tried the Crisco, and I hated it. Hated it! I couldn't roll it out. I'm a butter girl for my pie crusts.
Hugs aren't like pieces of pie. Plenty of hugs to go around.
I think there should be laughs in everything. Sometimes, it's a slammed door, a pie in the face or just a recognition of our frailties.
...and so many orchards circled the village that on some crisp October afternoons the whole wold smelled like pie.
And what's interesting about him as a comic character is that the custard pie hardly ever ends up on his face.
When I'm acting, I'm just worried about that piece of the pie, contributing to the whole. But when you're directing, you... get the vision out of your head and on the stage.
Because I’ve got a lot more terms of endearment to use. Honey pie. Sugarplum. Bread pudding," “Why are they all high-calorie foods?
Your pimples are the Lord's way of chastising you. Now eat your pie.
The whole can be greater than the sum of it's parts, that we all have something to put in the pie to make it better, and that the collaborative interaction works.
It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.
There is a tradition in Southern cooking of recipes handed down for generations. And when I make my grandmother's strawberry pie I feel her right with me.
Do you want me to call you Celery Stick instead of Cupcake or Honey-Pie? It just doesn’t inspire the same warm and fuzzy feelings.
Better-paid workers buy more goods and services, increasing aggregate demand and baking a bigger economic pie for everyone.
I love thee like puddings; if thou wert pie I'd eat thee.
I love eating at my dad's pub, the Queens Arms in Kilburn. It does a traditional Albanian spinach pie.
Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.
Someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.
Sometimes it's like you're a big pie settin' on the table, and everybody runs up and gets their piece of you. When it's over' the plate's empty.
I'm not much of a chef, so people keep buying me cookery books to broaden my culinary horizons, but I've not got far past shepherd's pie yet.
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