Olive Quotes

Once I was working in a movie with Harry Carey and his wife Olive (Olive Carey), and I was complaining about being typed. "Duke," Ollie said, "look at Harry over there - would you like to see Harry Carey play any other way?". "Of course not," I said. "Well," Ollie said, "the American public doesn`t want to see you any other way, either. So wake up, Duke! Be what they want you to be." See, I`m not against Women`s Lib. Ollie gave me some real good advice.

A woman would never make a nuclear bomb. They would never make a weapon that kills, no, no. They`d make a weapon that makes you feel bad for a while. About comic lines written by Mark Shaiman being removed for innuendo (i.e. Chip `n Dale are both strippers") the week before for his presenting of Best Animated Film at the 77th Academy Awards: "For a while you get mad, then you get over it. They`re afraid of saying Olive Oyl is anorexic. It tells you about the state of humor. It`s strange to think: how afraid are you? We thought that they got the irony of it. I guess not."

Seems there`s a big debate going on about whether a new TV commercial for Minute Maid orange juice portrays Popeye and Bluto as gay lovers or just good friends. The commercial shows Popeye and Bluto at the beach and riding a bicycle for two. I don`t think that makes them gay. I think the fact they both find Olive Oyl attractive, that makes them gay. (From "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" (1992), June 4, 2001)

I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter`s gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

On why she called everyone "dahling": "Because all my life I`ve been terrible at remembering people`s names. I once introduced a friend of mine as Martini. Her name was actually Olive."

We`d have tea on a Friday night at home and Dad (Dan, a former Fitzroy premiership player) would clear the plates off the table, put on the kettle and treat my back with hot water and olive oil,

(The Basque Table `s 130 recipes introduce American cooks to a cuisine that is as easy to prepare as it is elegant and satisfying. These delicious dishes are flavourful and healthful, as Basque cooking is based on fresh vegetables, fish and shellfish, lean meats, rice, potatoes, and the olive oil for which Spain is justly famous. These time-honoured recipes are perfect for today`s sophisticated palate and health-conscious concern for a balanced diet that doesn`t compromise on flavour.) It`s a delight to encounter a book that revels in the honest flavours of the farm, garden, and sea, ... as I sit back and read Ms. Barrenechea`s book, there unfolds a cuisine at once pure, simple, and joyful.

(Color, always an attraction in any Missoni collection, is here in abundance -- but more subdued.) Amber, gold, orange, kind of light olive-greens and yellow, but very mixed, ... They`re never, never precise colors. Lots of mixture. Lots of soft interpretation.

Drinking the (extra virgin) olive oil was exactly the same sensation I felt in Paul`s study on ibuprofen. When I returned to Philadelphia, I poured a small cup for Paul and asked him to taste. He realized the same throat-sting.

Some olive oils are even rated as zero-cough, one-cough or two-cough. But you don`t feel the sensation until it is deep in your throat. It`s not like hot peppers, which burn everywhere.

Some media reports have associated consuming more extra virgin olive oil with relieving a headache (another inflammatory body response), but that`s silly.

Why is it that an extended olive branch often turns to a clinched fist of hatred?