1) "I like refried beans. That's why I wanna try fried beans, because maybe they're just as good and we're just wasting time. You don't have to fry them again after all." ~ Mitch Hedberg, comedian
2) "Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans and brains on the ceiling." ~ Wavy Gravy, activist
3) "The American dream is a crock. Stop wanting everything! Everyone should wear jeans and have three t-shirts, and eat rice and beans." ~ Bill Hicks, comedian
4) "There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans." ~ Marcelene Cox, writer
5) "Me, sexy? I'm just plain ol' beans and rice." ~ Pam Grier, actress
6) "Being in a band didn't buy me my beans on toast!" ~ Alex Kapranos, musician
7) "Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something." ~ Mitch Hedberg, comedian
8) "When my hoe tinkled against the stones, that music echoed to the woods and the sky, and was an accompaniment to my labor which yielded an instant and immeasurable crop. It was no longer beans that I hoed, nor I that hoed beans; and I remembered with as much pity as pride, my acquaintances who had gone to the city to attend the oratorios." ~ Henry David Thoreau, writer
9) "I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don't eat meat anymore, I now eat rice cutlets." ~ Vladimir Lenin, politician
10) "Talk doesn't cook rice." ~ Chinese Proverb
