Top 412 Wooden Spoons Quotes & Sayings

Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.

Seine and Piave are silver spoons, But the spoonbowl-metal is thin and worn

Mother and daughter like spoons in a drawer.

When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.

Most civilized lives are measured out with coffee spoons.

A man's style is his mind's voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.

A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match.

I have a well-documented obsession with spoons.

We called Pete Rose and Larry Bowa the soup spoons, because they were always stirring things up. Twenty years later, nothing's changed.

A dedication is a wooden leg.

Forks and spoons have probably done more to reconcile people who cannot agree than guns and bombs ever did

Question your tea spoons.

Bless all useful objects, the spoons made of bone, the mattress I cook my dreams upon, the typewriter that is my church with an altar of keys always waiting.

I love music and I enjoy creating sounds. I got into making music when I was a child, starting with the spoons and the koto before moving onto the piano.

I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it did not know its friends from its foes, and I lost all my remaining respect for it, and pitied it.

'Silver Spoons' was great memories - absolutely the best.

While artists fervently believe that the art marketplace was invented by the devil and remains in his henchman's hands, they have no choice but to carry long spoons and sup there.

I like sporks. They're like spoons, but you can poke people with them.

The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

I've always tried different stuff in the studio. I use rakes, spoons, cans... I'm a surround-sound type of guy.

I too saw the wooden horse blocking the stars.

John Wooden has been a vital force in the lives of many with his inspirational messages. He represents all the elements necessary to be a winner in the Game of Life, which makes him the perfect person to write this book filled with lessons. Coach Wooden has been a mentor to people in every walk of life.

I recommend against a wooden squat rack, for much the same reason that I recommend against a wooden car.

It's been an unbelievable thing for me to walk Bruin Walk and walk past Coach Wooden's statue, a guy that when I was in elementary school, it's Coach Wooden winning his final championship, his 10th in 12 years.

The Schnauzer listens to jazz. I listen to jazz because he likes it, and I have even gone to jazz concerts with him, but truthfully I would rather listen to retarded children pounding on pan lids with wooden spoons.

Uri Geller may have psychic powers by means of which he can bend spoons; if so, he appears to be doing it the hard way.

It's like ten thousand spoons, when all you need is a knife.

Imagine this guy hits Mike Hammer over the head with a wooden coathanger and knocks him out. You hit Mike Hammer over the head with a wooden coathanger, he'll beat the crap out of you.

Maybe they should go back to wooden sticks.

I have a phobia of spoons I haven't used one in about 10 years

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

You bought me some forks. And knives. And spoons. Because you love me!

The contrast between the familiar and the exceptional was everywhere around me. A bullock cart was drawn up beside a modern sports car at a traffic signal. A man squatted to relieve himself behind the discreet shelter of a satellite dish. An electric forklift truck was being used to unload goods from an ancient wooden cart with wooden wheels. The impression was of a plodding indefatigable and distant past that had crashed intact through barriers of time into its own future. I liked it.

Don't you always feel bad when they take away one of the spoons? It's like you ordered wrong.

Round-heads and Wooden-shoes are standing jokes.

If you have the chocolatiest everything you eat two spoons full and be out on the couch for the rest of the day. It's better to have something you can enjoy.

What, in the devil's name, is the use of respectability, with never so many gigs and silver spoons, if thou inwardly art the pitifulness of all men?

I feel cheesy when I see 'Silver Spoons.' Some of it was funny, but some of it was just cheese! My kids love it, but I look at it and cringe.

There was always a real reason for everything - why spoons tarnished, and jam furred, and people declined into God, or drink, or card games.

To get rid of swelling... I put green tea bags on my eyelids. Or I grab cold spoons that I leave in the freezer and put them on my eyes.

I saw a man with a wooden leg and a real foot.

If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.

I've finally been able to trust and have intimacy with somebody, which I've never been able to do. Like a lot of guys, I just have a hard time getting that connected. I can actually sleep with her in my arms - spoons position, right? Women smile, they love the spoons. Men would rather fork.

I love the noise of my wooden clogs on my wooden floor. Dancers wear clogs. They're good for you.

I was at UCLA when John Wooden was the basketball coach. The next coach was Gene Bartow, who got fired for winning 90 percent plus of his games. He wasn't John Wooden. It's incredibly difficult to replace someone who has been seen as an icon.

Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself.

The fish are naked. The fish are always awake. They are the color of old spoons and caramels.

To the counsel of fools a wooden bell.

Slotted spoons don't hold much soup.

John Wooden's books are great.

I don't understand why they keep forks and spoons on the table while serving biryani. You are supposed to eat it with your hand, and I prefer it that way.

?Who would die for this chance to be fed this death of pleasure with spoons, in their warm homes, alone, unmoving?

I have half a cutlery shop's worth of spoons in my pocket at all times designated for tasting.

Hagrid. You live in a wooden house!

I stopped using plastic cooking spoons years ago and love my bamboo spoons and spatulas by Bambuhome.

I've always had a strange fear of spoons.

I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?

Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.

I feel cheesy when I see Silver Spoons. Some of it was funny, but some of it was just cheese! My kids love it, but I look at it and cringe.