I was just taught very early that if I didn't solve problems, I was headed for a very dark path. Problems were everywhere. Now, even if there are no problems, I look for problems. I'm like, 'You know what? I don't like the way this spoon works. I want to design a new spoon.'

Just because someone doesn't have a silver spoon in their mouth doesn't mean they can't be highly intelligent.

Everyone can guess what 'Corn Flakes' tastes like, even if you've never had them. But what, pray tell, does 'High School Musical' or 'Spider-Man' cereal possibly taste like? In this late era, we have reached the ultimate deracination between product image and what actually sits on our spoon.

I did not grow up with a silver spoon in my mouth.

I wasn't born with a silver spoon in Beverly Hills, but I was born with a great deal of self-worth.

They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon.

I wasn't born with a golden spoon in my mouth. It was a really tough life.

If you can't tell a spoon from a ladle, then you're fat!

When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.

I like stuff designed by dead people. The old designers. They always got it right because they didn't have to grow up with computers. All of the people that made the spoon and the dishes and the vacuum cleaner didn't have microprocessors and stuff. You could do a good design back then.

Gag me with a spoon!

I once got a letter from a woman who told me she was 90. She said if she were 30 years younger, I would have had to watch out. I guess 60 seems really young when you're 90. She said she would eat me with a spoon.

I'm more like a spoon symbol. I think women just want to spoon me.

I was eating cereal on my couch when I saw the first commercial for 'The Wiz' on TV. I dropped the spoon and the tears came out of nowhere.

Frankly, I was born with a silver spoon.

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.

I'm a simple man. Grew up in a small town. Came from humble beginnings. No silver spoon.

I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth; I came from really humble beginnings - the projects of New York City - and I worked my way to get to where I am.

I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.

You wake up in the morning and you look at your old spoon, and you say to yourself, 'Mick, it's time to get yourself a new spoon.' And you do.