Salt Quotes - page 9

I'm not going to give up salt and sugar because I want to look like Adriana Lima. But I am going to work out to make myself feel good in my own body. (Zoey Deutch)
As early as in the time of Sultan Iltutmish (1210-1236), soon after the establishment of the Delhi Sultanate in 1206, some Ulama suggested to him to confront the Hindus with a choice between Islam and death. The Wazir Nizamul Mulk Junaidi replied: "But at the moment in India... the Muslims are so few that they are like salt (in a large dish). If such orders are to be enforced... the Hindus might combine... and the Muslims would be too few in number to suppress(them). However, after a few years when in the capital and in the regions and small towns, the Muslims are well established and the troops are larger, it will be possible to give Hindus, the choice of ‘death' or ‘Islam'.”68. View quote
Iltutmish
But at the moment in India... the Muslims are so few that they are like salt (in a large dish)... However, after a few years when in the capital and the regions and all the small towns, when the Muslims are well established and the troops are larger... it would be possible to give Hindus, the choice of death or Islam. View quote
Iltutmish
[Within two years of the death of Muhammad bin Qasim ], the people of India rebelled, and threw off their yoke, and the country from Debalpur to the salt sea only remained under the dominions of the Khalifa. View quote
Muhammad bin Qasim
.. I also got to meet w:George Maciunas, the father of Fluxus. I wanted to know what this Fluxus was, so I asked him, 'If I put salt in a tea bag and then into hot water, then the salt will dissolve, and when you pull the bag up, there is nothing in it. Is that Fluxus?' 'Let's make that one right away,' Maciunas replied. And it became a Fluxus object. I told him that I was a painter and that I would keep painting. 'Well,' he said, 'that doesn't matter, as long as you do it the right way. View quote
Per Kirkeby
Any actor worth his salt has a responsibility to reinvent himself from part to part. View quote
Matt Smith
892. Better eat Salt with Philosophers of Greece, than eat Sugar with Courtezans of Italy. View quote
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Fame comes and fame goes, but you have to be able to laugh about yourself and to take it with a grain of salt. View quote
Khloe Kardashian
I think that going to the beach as a child, being in the water and smelling that salt air and hearing the seagulls, it had a real calming effect. But also, it was a mysterious thing - I remember wondering what was under those dark New England seas. View quote
Brian Skerry
So for twelve miles I rode with Sherman, and we became fast friends. He asked me all manner of questions on the way, and I found that he knew my father well, and remembered his tragic death in Salt Creek Valley. View quote
Buffalo Bill
If people say something rude or off-color, you have to take it with a grain of salt, because they don't know you. (Chris Daughtry)
When you say you are a gamer and you are a celebrity or a former celebrity there's a grain of salt that everybody takes that with. View quote
Curt Schilling
I come from a family of screamers. If they are trying to express any emotion or idea beyond pass the salt, it comes in shrieks. View quote
Elizabeth Wurtzel
You can easily put together your own favorite spice blend, whether that's a salt and pepper mixture or you're adding herbs to it or Creole spice. Just watch out for the sodium content. That why I encourage you to make your own. View quote
Emeril Lagasse
What I know about Mike Tyson, I see in the boxing ring. As far as all of the gossip stuff that I hear about him, I know first hand to take that with a grain of salt. View quote
Gerald McRaney
In Mexico we have a trick - add a crystal of salt to the kettle and the tea tastes better, almost English. But after four pots, your kettle's broken. View quote
Gael Garcia Bernal
I think the water dictates how food will taste in a country. In England the apples taste unlike apples grown in any other place. England is an island, there's a lot of salt in the air and in the water. I think that has something to do with it. View quote
Gael Garcia Bernal
Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together. View quote
Gail Simmons
Most smoked salts are made with liquid smoke, which is a condensate, but really, really good smoked salt is literally smoked. View quote
Grant Achatz
When I was a kid it was big news when someone flew around the world in a little aeroplane, but nobody cared when I did it. Then, to rub salt into my wounds, the customs people ripped my aeroplane to pieces, looking for stuff. View quote
Gary Numan
Yesterday the flame of the Olympic torch was carried through our great state on its way to Salt Lake City. (Jane D. Hull)
And I definitely do that very British thing of, take things with a pinch of salt, stiff upper lip, you know what I mean? View quote
Jessie J
Life has evolved to thrive in environments that are extreme only by our limited human standards: in the boiling battery acid of Yellowstone hot springs, in the cracks of permanent ice sheets, in the cooling waters of nuclear reactors, miles beneath the Earth's crust, in pure salt crystals, and inside the rocks of the dry valleys of Antarctica. View quote
Jill Tarter
Any journalist worth his or her salt wouldn't trust me. View quote
Joey Skaggs
Everything we think about regarding sustainability - from energy to agriculture to manufacturing to population - has a water footprint. Almost all of the water on Earth is salt water, and the remaining freshwater supplies are split between agricultural use and human use - as well as maintaining the existing natural environment. View quote
Jamais Cascio