Sour Quotations

All of the plants that we do not consider food that are safe for the human body to digest, we don't eat because they're sour and bitter. The reason why you don't eat Kentucky bluegrass or crabgrass is because it tastes sour and bitter.

Between the ages of six and nine, my palette was taking shape as well as my identity as a chef. It was then that I learned the difference between salty, sweet, sour and even spicy.

Of course, I'm sour that if (retirement) happens, I didn't get to quit on my own terms.

Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.

It's a shame the Manchester United situation turned sour.

It is hard to imagine the World Series being held in the sweet hazy sunshine of late September rather than the sour night air of late October, but that is precisely what has transpired in baseball over the past 50 years, a deterioration from light to darkness.

Sour Patch, Swedish Fish. I love candy, man. I can't go without candy. And when I'm recording, I always have a TV on with cartoons - on mute, though. When I'm recording, I like to look at the TV now and then and see some crazy, wacky stuff. When you're thinking creative, it just keeps you creative. Everybody got their way of making music.

I delight in the sweet and sour moments we routinely share, together applauded by muppets in leotards.

The loneliest, most down-on-his-luck person can have a dog who adores him. The most bitter, sour person can light up with joy when he sees his dog. It is magical, and as 'The Dog Master' reveals, it is biological - we evolved together.

It's sour grapes, I admit, I want to be more famous so people are examining my work couplet by couplet, you know what I mean? That's the level where I want to go.

There is stuff I would have liked to have done. But there are no sour grapes.

The interesting thing about the miracle berry in chemo patients is that it actually straightens out their taste buds, whereas for you and I, it blocks our bitter and sour receptors. For them, it straightens them out to taste food as it normally tastes.

Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I'm doing, I always tell myself, 'You can do better than this.'

There's nothing wrong with the screaming style of singing, and I'll be the first to admit that it conveys an emotion. But I'm getting older, and I can't scream and shout about the same things anymore. The songs I'm writing with Stone Sour call for a lighter, different approach.

You've got to take the bitter with the sour.

I like Xtreme Sour Strips. These really colorful little strips that are so good. I like snacking on them. They're not healthy for you, though!

In Australia, even the darkest subject matter has a little pinch of humor. A little sweet to make the sour go down.

I will always make music with Stone Sour. Stone Sour will always be here.

There's a certain darkness to Slipknot, but at the same time, there's a very strong dose of positivity. Stone Sour is the same way. There's a certain melancholy that comes with the slower stuff, but at the end of the day there's also that other side that is very positive. It's all how you deliver.

A sour corporate culture can actually make an entire society unhappy. This means that a strong corporate culture can have a positive impact on a society.

I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one's temper and disturb one's quiet.

When you've got them backed up to third-and-whatever-it-was, you'd really like to be able to capitalize when they make a mistake and present us an opportunity. I hate to say it, but it kind of turned sour after that.

I know how to be sour. I know that taste.

We have no sour grapes. We're looking to the future.

I don't know much about the Supreme Court. If it's anything like the Supreme Taco, it's like a regular court, but with extra sour cream.

This was a sour way to end the regular season.

Yes, it was a fumble, if that's what you're asking, ... It's not sour grapes. It's just what it is.

We did OK for the first half of the month and then faded out -- a lot of the economic data in the last few weeks have been a little discouraging. It's kind of a sour way to end a good quarter but not too bad for the month.

We didn't want to leave a sour taste in our fans mouths. The positive that I take from this season is that I am very comfortable with my teammates. I feel like I am becoming a leader. We have to build chemistry, work hard this summer, and come into training camp jelling with each other.

Parody is homage gone sour.

My face is sour. Maybe that's why they say I'm a dictator.

When I left, I got on the bus to go to Tokyo with Chris Chelios and Gary Suter and some of the guys, we were kind of sour because of what we heard had happened. I want to go and make it better and rebuild a great thing, which is USA hockey.

We won the election. I think that for the most part this might be considered sour grapes.

When there?s competition, the cream rises to the top. Pennsylvania is tired of the same old sour milk.

Magma's always coming up in Sour Creek dome and going through the system. But maybe there are pulses when more comes up. That may be what causes the surface to rise.

Last year put a sour taste in our mouth. We're not going to take anything for granted. In our minds, we have to continue to win.

Men are like sour apples, they can make you pucker, make you cringe, and still make your mouth water for more.

Mean spirits under disappointment, like small beer in a thunderstorm, always turn sour

Nothing can be sour and sharpAs a love that has decayed --On the loose strings of the harpOnly discord can be made.

Nothing can be sour and sharp As a love that has decayed -- On the loose strings of the harp Only discord can be made.

I would get a sour taste in my mouth and experience heartburn quite often, so I took antacids. But as time went on, the antacids helped less and less. For a long time, I tried to take care of the problem before the problem finally got so bad that I went to see a doctor.

I'd like to think our guys have a sour taste in their mouth. Both teams will be familiar with one another. Whoever makes the adjustments from game one to game two will win. But I'd like to see our team have the fire in their eyes.

I am ready for this game, that was my plan. I was supposed to be a month out and I'm coming back a week early. It's always special to play against your ex-team, especially the way it went down with them. I left on a real sour note.

I hated that they had to go out on such a sour note when they had done so much for our program, our school and our community. They generated a lot of excitement for the community with their run to the championship game last year. I know they were set on bringing that back this year.

I feel that Sharon is certainly a negative addition. He will sour the atmosphere. He will shift the whole terrain of the discourse to the extreme right.

I finished a lot better than yesterday. The previous two days, I haven't made anything, and I missed little putts. It really leaves a sour taste in your mouth, especially when I feel like I'm playing go well.

I don't want this to sound like sour grapes, but I don't like the playoff system.

If it (the CN-BNSF merger approval process) goes forward, it will be catalyst for the end game for the railroad industry, ... And in that end game, no one wants to get left out. If you're left out, the terms of trade can turn very sour for you.

I got a little tired after awhile and I made some mistakes. You can't make mistakes against good teams. I feel good about the first three innings but I have a little bit of a sour taste in my mouth because of the fourth and the fifth.

If that's their chat then it's sour grapes and they are simply searching for excuses,

Guys were upset over some of the things that were going on off the ice. But the timing of it, it sounded like sour grapes after losing.

Kids today want to eat their risotto with curry and shrimp and sour cream, not risotto alla Milanese, like they should, in my opinion.

I thought tactically we were pretty good, but we were a little sloppy at the end, which leaves a sour taste in your mouth.

I think it still leaves a sour taste. Ultimately, our goal every year is to play far into the postseason.

I think we all have a sour taste in our mouth because we haven't been on the winning end of many of those games. We have this year to change it.

I think they have a sour taste in their mouth because they weren't expected to come in here and get beat.

I think they got a little sour taste in their mouths from not winning that district title. I think that gave them a little extra hunger. They're not ready for their season to end. In hindsight, it might have been a blessing in disguise to not get that victory. I think it's made them more focused to try and get a nice run in before they're gone.

Last week left a sour taste in our mouth, ... (Defensive coordinator Ron) Rivera told us to be one play better than we were last week. If 11 guys are one play better, that's 11 better plays. That was our goal this week, to come out and dominate. We did that.

My wife is a terrific Southern cook. My favorite of all the great things she cooks is 'trash potatoes.' That's mashed potatoes with sour cream, bacon, cheddar cheese, and horseradish. It's a total gut bomb.

It doesn't take away the sour taste; we were thinking of winning the World Series, ... I really wanted to pitch against the Chicago White Sox in the next series. If it had been my back, I wouldn't have come out.

It doesn't take away the pain I felt, the sour taste in my mouth about how the season ended. This is a great accomplishment but I still wanted us to go further as a team. We were all thinking about going to win the World Series.

I think he's uncomfortable when the topic is something he's not prepared for or when it's a very hot topic. And when Bush is uncomfortable, he purses his lips and he gets this sour look. 'Don't want to talk about this.' He picks up his tempo, sharpens his tongue. He gets into pointing a finger when he gets defensive.

Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent

We just went sour after we hit a few shots early in the game. They were just an all-around great team and we got in too big of a hole.

When it started here, we wanted to create a tradition. We had a bunch of enthusiastic athletes, but we never quite built a sustained thing. We had some success in the 1980s, but it went sour again. For the last few years we've had a team that was expected to win.

We have to learn how to like bitter, sour and other flavors, but sweet is something that people really, really love.

We're widely regarded as having the most stringent and complete sour gas regulation in the world.

We have the ability to attain our goal. We have ended every season with a loss, and that leaves a sour taste in your mouth.

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless it does - what alas! It too often does - unless it hardens you and makes you sour and narrow and skeptical

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless it does - what -alas!- it too often does, hardens you and makes you sour and narrow and skeptical.

You know the phrase 'Jesus laughed' isn't ever used in the Gospels. So, most people walk away with the idea that Jesus is a pretty serious guy, pretty sour faced most of the time, pretty upset at what's going on around Him.

We are not pleased with the outcome, it leaves a real sour taste in our mouths. But it puts things in perspective.

We didn't play real well in the third period, they kind of took it to us. It left a real sour taste in our mouth. The coaches and players were pretty unhappy and used that as something to kind of get us a little extra fired up.

We definitely left the island with a sour taste in our mouth. We welcome them to the mainland. We're looking forward to seeing them.

We do have a little bit of a role reversal. The vulnerability is that (tech) stocks are priced at such levels that any disappointment leaves investors with a quick and sour taste in the mouth. Today's action reflects a little insurance being taken out that if somebody falters, it will bring the others down.

We've got a lot of young guys in the lineup and hopefully they can learn from this experience. I hope they have a sour taste in their mouth. I don't ever want to go through a year like this.

I am sure the grapes are sour.

I thought these grapes were ripe, but I see now they are quite sour.

The experience at state last year was fantastic. We wish it would have been a little more fantastic. It sounds like sour grapes that we were disappointed with finishing third, but we felt like we were strong enough that we could have done better than that.

But I always kind of knew in the back of my head that I could come back and do Stone Sour.

My life will be sour grapes and ashes without you.

The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary.

We're trying to do it for us and end on a good note. It's been such a sour middle of the year. And also for our manager, Sam. Everybody wants to win for him, and we want him back.

We think we've done enough to get into the NCAA Tournament, but we don't want to take anything for granted. Last year put a sour taste in my mouth about leaving anything to chance.

We are so happy to get Brock and Aaron to states but Charlie's loss put a sour note on everything. It was a good day and a bad day.

We were focusing on that. We didn't want to go out and have a sour taste in our mouth and finish strong.

What we are looking at is very strong and very necessary steps as the first installment of a Kmart turnaround, ... What he's doing right now is terribly important. It needed to be done, biting into the sour apple so to speak, in order to create a clear path for the future. I think Kmart is going to be customer-centric in the future, competitive in the market place and exciting to shop.

We are building upon unprecedented regional confidence. We will be going to the market place very shortly to look to launch our next contract, which will naturally fit our sour crude oil contract and which has been strongly desired and recommended by the marketplace.

We could be playing anybody the first game. We'd still have a sour taste in our mouths.

We're going to adjust. We're going to tell our kids ... it's a new opportunity. We'll be competing with schools we're not used to dealing with. We will definitely take this as a win-win situation. We're not going to take it with sour grapes.

There's no corruption proven in that story to justify a letter to Carol Lam or anybody else for that matter. We continue to dispute (the critics') . . . allegations. The facts are on our side. There was nothing illegal or unethical done in the advocacy of this project, and this is simply sour grapes on their part.

The workers were in the hole, ... They heard some popping sounds and they came out. They don't know if they affected the electrical service or if the electrical service went sour for some other reason.

The sour quality is set opposite to the bitter and the sweet, and is a good temper to all, a refreshing and cooling when the bitter and the sweet qualities are too much elevated or too preponderant.

No one wants to sour the IPO market. That will make investors nervous.

After each of our first two games were over, we tried to get it out of our system and get ready for our next game. You're always sour when you come off a loss and now we're going on our third week off. We want to get these losses out of our heads and the only way we can do that is by playing.

Something like that always leaves a sour taste in your mouth. (The loss) never really left our minds. That was a big focus for us coming in.

A quarrel is like buttermilk, once it's out of the churn; the more you shake it, the more sour it grows

That game was the whole season in a nutshell. We got our butts handed to us. We had a sour taste in our mouth all spring, all summer and all winter.

This is not sour grapes. This is a person who lost a contest by misinformation.

This is really much more important than OPEC supply as their spare capacity is largely heavy and sour and the real shortage is capacity to upgrade such fuels anyway.