Kitchen Quotes - Page 17

• Lips half-willing in a doorway. Lips half-singing at a window. Eyes half-dreaming in the walls. Feet half-dancing in a kitchen. Even the clocks half-yawn the hours And the farmers make half-answers.

  Carl Sandburg

  Dream, Wall, Eye

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.89, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What is a family without love? And by family I don't just mean a packed kitchen table with a hoard of children around it. A family can be made up of any number of people. Me and my fiancee are our own little family, a family of two (and the dog!), and our love is at the heart of that.

  Pink

  Dog, Children, Heart

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• I have been in a youth hostel...You are put in a kitchen with seventeen venture scouts with behavioural difficulties and made to wash swedes.

  Victoria Wood

  Luck, Venture, Youth

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• Half of all home accidents happen in the kitchen, and the family has to eat them.

  Sam Ewing

  Home, Half, Accidents Happen

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• Beyoncé and pathos are strangers. Amy Winehouse and pathos are flatmates, and you should see the kitchen.

  Clive James

  Amy, Classic, Stranger

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• Can Ken Starr ignore the apparent breadth of the sympathetic response to the President's speech? Facially, it finally dawned on me that the person Ken Starr has reminded me of facially all this time was Heinrich Himmler, including the glasses. If he now pursues the President of the United States, who, however flawed his apology was, came out and invoked God, family, his daughter, a political conspiracy and everything but the kitchen sink, would not there be some sort of comparison to a persecutor as opposed to a prosecutor for Mr. Starr?

  Keith Olbermann

  Daughter, Apology, Glasses

  "Olbermann Compares Bush White House to Clinton's 'White House in Crisis'" by Brent Baker, www.newsbusters.org. October 21, 2005.

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• The first thing Julian wanted to do in life, well, before he wanted to be an artist and then a musician, was to be a chef. He'd come home and say 'Why don't you bake cakes like my friends' mothers?' I'd say, 'Oh, Julian, go out and buy a Mary Baker cake mix and do it yourself!' That started him off! By the time he was 13, he'd disappear into the kitchen whenever we had visitors and emerge with beautiful canapes. Now he thinks nothing of cooking for ten or 15 people, and he does it so calmly.

  Cynthia Lennon

  Beautiful, Mother, Home

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• I foresee great refinements in the field of short-pulse microwave signaling, whereby several simultaneous programs may occupy the same channel, in sequence, with incredibly swift electronic communication... Short waves will be generally used in the kitchen for roasting and baking, almost instantaneously...

  Lee De Forest

  Communication, Fields, Baking

  "Dawn of the Electronic Age" by Lee De Forest, blog.modernmechanix.com. January 1952.

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• The science of life is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen.

  Claude Bernard

  Long, May, Life Is

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.44, Courier Corporation

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• You soon learn there’s no elegance or dignity in death if you spend time in the castle kitchens. You learn how ugly it is, and how good it tastes.

  Mark Lawrence

  Castles, Ugly, Taste

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.89, Penguin

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• Adam Roberts is the affable and infectiously curious friend we all wish we had with us in the kitchen—the one who prods us with questions, entertains us with amusing tales, and makes us feel better when our cake flops.

  Amanda Hesser

  Feel Better, Cake, Wish

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• It is odd how all men develop the notion, as they grow older, that their mothers were wonderful cooks. I have yet to meet a man who will admit that his mother was a kitchen assassin and nearly poisoned him.

  Robertson Davies

  Mother, Food, Men

  Robertson Davies (1986). “The papers of Samuel Marchbanks”, Viking, 1986

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• I often write into recipes techniques that I learned in the restaurant kitchen. There are ways of organizing your prep and so on that are immensely useful. Those are woven into all the recipes I do.

  Sally Schneider

  Writing, Technique, Woven

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• It's kind of cheesy, but my mama, who you all have seen on the show, says to cook for your man. She's Southern, so when he comes home, be pullin' a pie out of the oven. That's always been her advice, and you know what? It works. Your man wants to see you in the kitchen, puttin' some love into some food; it works for Eric, that's for sure.

  Jessie James Decker

  Home, Men, Pie

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• I had to have a large kitchen because I look to cook

  Traci Bingham

  Looks, Cooks

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• Cookbooks, it should be stressed, do not belong in the kitchen at all. We keep them there for the sake of appearances; occasionally, we smear their pages together with vibrant green glazes or crimson compotes, in order to delude ourselves, and any passing browsers, that we are practicing cooks; but in all honesty, a cookbook is something you read in the living room, or in the bathroom, or in bed.

  Anthony Lane

  Honesty, Order, Together

  Anthony Lane (2009). “Nobody's Perfect: Writings from The New Yorker”, p.651, Vintage

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• You can’t bake a cake without getting the kitchen messy. Halfway through surgery it looks like there’s been a murder in the operating room. If you send a rocket to the moon, about ninety percent of the time it’s off course—it ‘fails’ its way to the moon by continually making mistakes and correcting them.

  Price Pritchett

  Mistake, Moon, Cake

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• I spent the morning smashing fliesI killed one fly against the doorjamb. Another I stalked into the kitchen...A third fly wavered by the kitchen window. When I swatted, a wild ferocious swing, a whole trembling crowd shot from the window like pebbles from a blunderbuss, then settled back. My heart pounded. I felt flushed with disgust and irritation. Why must I always have such obstacles to my writing?

  Bonnie Friedman

  Morning, Writing, Heart

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• In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius.

  Alex Cox

  Cameras, Genius, Steps

  Interview with Maximilian Le Cain, sensesofcinema.com. January 2003.

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• Once you have tasted the nectar of Silence, then whether your eyes are open or closed does not matter. Once you have tasted the nectar of that dimension, then it does not matter whether you are sitting in a room or working in an office or the kitchen or talking to people. The quality of aloneness, the quality of motionlessness, the quality of thoughtfreeness does not get affected by physical or verbal movement.

  Vimala Thakar

  Eye, Talking, People

  Vimala Thakar (2016). “Glimpses of Raja Yoga: An Introduction to Patanjali's Yoga Sutras”, p.18, Shambhala Publications

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• But we disposable women have to be realistic in this life, you know. Else we get itchy and discontented and start contemplating the kitchen knife and wondering whether it wouldn't look nicer between someone's shoulder-blades.

  Jude Morgan

  Knives, Looks, Wonder

  Jude Morgan (2011). “The Taste of Sorrow”, p.108, Hachette UK

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• Pie can't compete with cake. Put candles in a cake, it's a birthday cake. Put candles in a pie, someone's drunk in the kitchen.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Humor, Cake

  "Jim Gaffigan: Beyond the Pale", www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• Cooking allows you to have travels, adventures and journeys without going anywhere. The running joke between my partner and me is that I'm not really concerned about how long it takes, or how much I destroy the kitchen, because I just have such a good time doing it.

  Ted Allen

  Running, Adventure, Journey

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To me, the kitchen is a place of adventure and entirely fun, not drudgery. I can't think of anything better to do with family and friends than to be together to create something.

  Ted Allen

  Fun, Adventure, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Show me a woman who is prouder of her clean kitchen than of her collection of lingerie and I'll show you a woman with enlarged pores.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Lingerie, Clean, Show Me

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