Gary Payton

Xavier McDaniel made me respect him. I thought I could do anything I wanted to. He grabbed me one time and almost choked me out. He said, 'You're going to do this. You're going to go get coffee. You're going to go get doughnuts.' It's a game of respect.

American Athlete

Claire Saffitz

The first time I ever deep-fried something, I was terrified. I was making yeasted jelly donuts, and I was so nervous that I fried them, unblinking, with a pounding heart and sweaty palms.

American Editor

Venus Williams

My mom didn't want us to go to the candy house, she didn't want us to go to the ice cream truck, she didn't want us to go to the... There was actually a donut truck, if that makes sense.

American Tennis Player

Jocko Willink

I would say there are some foods that I strongly recommend that you do not eat. No. 1 on that list, I believe, is doughnuts. Comfort food. Zero value. Don't eat them.

American

Carlos Sainz Jr.

I had no idea at two or three years of age that my dad was a rally driver and he was doing doughnuts around the world.

Spanish Driver

Katie Lowes

After having a real baby, I was sitting on a doughnut for a month.

American Actress

John Prine

I'd rather get a hot dog or a doughnut than write a song.

American Singer

Jameela Jamil

With a doughnut in each hand, anything is possible.

English Celebrity

John Belushi

American Comedian

Jermaine Fowler

American Actor

Doughnuts are commonly associated with police in American culture and humor.

Cultural Icon

Doughnuts come in many flavors and toppings; 'chocolate doughnut' refers to one popular variety.

Variety

Use 'doughnut' to describe objects with a hole in the center for visual clarity.

Visual Imagery

In North America, 'doing a doughnut' refers to a thrilling car stunt, not food.

Action-Intensive

A 'doughnut' spare tire means a short-term fix until a full-size tire is available.

Temporary Solution

Doughnut can symbolize areas in urban planning lacking services or advancement.

Economic Metaphor

 that sharks and dolphins are these mortal enemies, but during the Sardine Run, they actually coexist. In fact, dolphins actually help sharks feed more effectively. Without dolphins, the bait balls are more dispersed and sharks often end up with what I call a sardine donut, or a mouth full of water.

Dive into an ocean...

 I had to put on sunscreen. This was no small feat, because if you listen to dermatologists, they say that you should have a shot glass full of sunscreen. And you have to reapply it every two to four hours. So I think half of my book advance went into sunscreen. I was like a glazed doughnut

How healthy living...

 Maybe this'll help. Exchange the water particles for donuts. If you had a mole of donuts, they would cover the entire earth to a depth of eight kilometers, which is about five miles. You really need a lot of coffee for that. If you had a mole of basketballs, you could create a new planet

How big is a mole? (Not...

 That narrow path, it always has its share of burdens and challenges. But I was certain that we were going to see this through to redemption. I looked at my dad and I looked at my girls who were dancing and eating their doughnuts, and I said aloud to no one in particular,

The story of a parent's...

 donuts with grilled cheese on top I thought hey that's interesting but they went on to tell me a living detail what they were gonna build this giant restaurant Empire ending with they have best idea of all they were gonna rival Disney World and open a table and she

Entrepreneurs come from...

 strange though this is going to sound, it came out looking like a doughnut. I know, I'm sorry, but let me introduce you to the one doughnut that might actually turn out to be good for us. So imagine humanity's resource use radiating out from the middle.

A healthy economy should...

 because part of being rational is doing the better thing rather than the worse thing, choosing what you have most reason to choose. In such a world, we'd have most reason to wear black socks instead of pink socks, to eat cereal instead of donuts,

How to make hard choices...

 Shanghai be discs are essentially round flat doughnuts they're created from in general nephrite which is a specific kind of jade material they were clearly important to the society that created

The Mystery of the Jade...

 Women came out, protested a brutal dictator, fearlessly spoke. Not only did the wish of a piece of doughnut come true, the wish of peace came true. This young woman wished also to go to school.

Leymah Gbowee: Unlock...

 Because let's face it, things go wrong. Things go wrong. And don't misunderstand me, I'd eat that doughnut in a minute. But we need to understand the consequences of what it is that we observe,