Chop Quotes

Any time you stick your neck out in high school, there’s someone right there to chop your head off.

I enjoy domestic life. Cooking gives me great pleasure, especially if I can chop vegetables slowly and think about what I’m doing and dream a little about this and that.

I can chop and peel vegetables but can’t cook full meals.

Every now and again I just really have to have that steak or lamb chop. But yeah, B.C. – before cancer – I would eat red meat probably three or four times a week, easily. I am convinced that the amount of red meat I contributed to it.

A proper respect for nature means that you can’t pollute the air, poison the rivers and chop down the forests indiscriminately without suffering greatly.

When you chop down a tree you can look at the rings and see what the tree’s been through. That’s what you can do when you listen to my records.

I grew up in the Cayman Islands. I didn’t play video games or watch TV. I would basically come home from school, throw down my backpack, grab my machete, and go hike and chop down trees to make a fort.

You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree’s fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down – bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds.

The Wahhabists are the boogeymen, the guys who will chop the head off any American they catch. And they will destroy Iraq without a second thought if they believe that the instability will benefit them.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

When I eat, I have to chop up everything on the plate and stir it all together. It devastates my mom. Everyone at the table is like, ‘That looks like cat vomit.’ And I stir my Coke with a spoon until it’s flat.

When I’m away from New York, the thing I miss the most is the food. I miss going to my deli to get a pomegranate-flavored aloe water and a chop cheese. That’s my favorite sandwich.

I adore water, so it would be a real adventure to visit the Amazon before they chop down all the trees.

I have a weird thing with knives. I don’t like knives very much. Like when my parents are cooking in the kitchen and using knives to chop vegetables, I can’t be in the same room. For whatever reason, knives just terrify me.

If you come to The Kitchen and get a pork chop with polenta, which is our kind of food – simple – there is only one way it should taste at The Kitchen.

When our employees walk in in the morning, they see food. They have to cook. At the restaurants, we chop cilantro, onions, and limes two or three times a day. We make guacamole from fresh avocados.

Salt is a preservative. It really holds flavor. For example, if you chop up some fresh herbs, or even just garlic, the salt will extract the moisture and preserve the flavor.

I can wash utensils, chop vegetables and can fold beds. I don’t think I can do anything beyond it. In fact, cleaning toilet pots is my biggest nightmare.

Cooking is physical; it’s easier to learn than playing golf. You chop food, you pan fry it – what else is there to it?

I love watching a single pork chop seasoned with garlic and shallots cook and see the fat bubble around it.

I’m glad ‘Honest‘ came out right after ‘Karate Chop,’ because I don’t want to be seen as a one-hit wonder.

When I was in school, I would use a roller brush to curl my hair inwards. Once, the brush got stuck in my hair and I had to chop off my hair with a knife. It was a total disaster!

The genius of vinyl is that it allows – commands! – us to put our fingerprints all over that history: to blend and chop and reconfigure it, mock and muse upon it, backspin and skip through it.

It’s not in my nature to chop people‘s heads off, per se, or rob a bank or any crazy thing I’ve done on screen. I’m just comfortable reading a book or spending time with my wife and my daughter or watching the fight on TV with the fellas.

This is probably an asset that my wife hates, where you compartmentalize. Most times, I think it’s an asset, where you can just sort of feel like you chop off one part of your brain to do the next thing that you’ve got to do.

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.

The destruction of the natural beauty, the ecosystems, and the majesty of mountains affect us in ways we’re not even aware of. Every time a mountain is beheaded, we chop off a little part of our souls.

If I wasn’t acting, I would own a farm. Not like growing crops but maybe have a few animals like cows, and maybe an alpaca or a llama. I would chop wood all day. I would make a living doing that; it’s, like, an idealistic scenario for me. It’s very contrary to my upbringing, but maybe that’s the appeal to it.

Atlanta is interesting. You have high education rates but there are plenty of regular folks. People have degrees but chop wood on weekends.

You’ve got to chop back the performance like a rose bush. That’s when it’s beautiful.

The kids are really great at baking cupcakes, cookies, of course – that kind of stuff – but I love delegating responsibilities for dinner so you have them picking herbs, or I have plastic knives for them so they’re learning sort of how to chop. It’s pretty great.

I believe in nonfat. I gain two pounds when I eat a lamb chop.

We have the ability to be able, if we have the right resources around us, to really do chop and change and have fun in our time and not just be stuck in one world or the other.

‘Solja Rag‘ was designed for Juvenile. It wasn’t one of them beats where I was gonna chop it and see who I was going give it to: it was Juvenile all over it.

I have a lot of cultures within me – I’m basically chop suey.

When I was in Milwaukee, I would go into this sneaker shop near my mom’s salon and chop it up with the older heads about music. At school, I would make drum noises on the table so much that I would always get suspended.

I like the guy who reads. Being articulate is something that’s very important to me. But you need to know how to chop wood and fix a car and do guy things. I didn’t grow up with spectators. Nobody was a spectator.

I always think of a show like a plant – a little pruning now and then keeps it healthy, but you shouldn’t pull it out and chop the roots up.

The first thing you have to do is to sequence the Neanderthal genome, and that has actually been done. The next step would be to chop this genome up into, say, 10,000 chunks and then… assemble all the chunks in a human stem cell, which would enable you to finally create a Neanderthal clone.

So he said ‘I’m going to chop off the bottom of one of your trouser legs and put it in a library.’ I thought ‘That’s a turn-up for the books.’