Kitchen Quotes - Page 3

• If I actually ran the world, I'd do it from the kitchen. It's not anything deliberate or a statement or anything, that's just how I understand things. It's arranged along informal lines.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  World, Lines, Ran

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• Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

  Charles Bukowski

  Funny, Spiritual, Men

  1967 Tales of Ordinary Madness,'Too Sensitive'.

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• When you're the conscious captain in your kitchen, you'll feel better mentally and physically.

  Kris Carr

  Feel Better, Captains, Conscious

  "My Crazy Sexy Meal Plan" by Kris Carr, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 25, 2013.

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• A fat kitchin, a lean Will.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Food, Science, Fats

  Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.276, Oxford University Press, USA

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• A man who loves good food has a way of making it gravitate toward his kitchen.

  Angelo Pellegrini

  Men, Way, Good Food

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• I hope we can get back to what I call the kitchen table. Everyday issues that people are really worried about and focused on.

  Dick Gephardt

  Issues, People, Everyday

  Twitter post from Oct 05, 2016

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• My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and three or four of her friends. . . told stories. . .with effortless art and technique. They were natural-born storytellers in the oral tradition.

  Paule Marshall

  Mother, Art, Technique

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• I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Witty, Sex

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• I've been my mom's kitchen helper since I was a little kid.

  Taylor Swift

  Mom, Kids, Littles

  "Six Foods You'll Find in Taylor Swift's Fridge". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.bonappetit.com. October 24, 2012.

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• Onions and bacon cooking up just makes your kitchen smell so good. In fact, one day I'm going to come up with a room deodorizer that smells like bacon and onions. It's a fabulous smell.

  Paula Deen

  Smell, Cooking, One Day

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• I went into a French restaraunt and asked the waiter, 'Have you got frog's legs?' He said, 'Yes,' so I said, 'Well hop into the kitchen and get me a cheese sandwich.'

  Tommy Cooper

  Funny, Humor, Cheese Sandwiches

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• There are may of us who cannot but feel dismal about the future of various cultures. Often it is hard not to agree that we are becoming culinary nitwits, dependent upon fast foods and mass kitchens and megavitamins for our basically rotten nourishment.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Becoming, Culture, Rotten

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  The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.

  Julia Child

  Attitude, Block, Real

  FaceBook post by Julia Child from May 15, 2012

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• She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl.

  Harper Lee

  Girl, Thinking, Skills

  Harper Lee (2014). “To Kill A Mockingbird”, p.96, Random House

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• If you let too many cooks in the kitchen it could cloud your vision of what you want to do.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Clouds, Vision, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Problems in a company are like cockroaches in the kitchen. You will never find just one

  Warren Buffett

  Cockroaches, Problem, Company

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• If people are made to feel uncomfortable in the kitchen, they won't go in there. That's why I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Children, Thinking, People

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• We have the whitest kitchens and the most shining bathrooms in the world. But in the lovely white kitchen the average [person] can’t produce a meal fit to eat, and the lovely shining bathroom is mostly a receptacle for deodorants, laxatives, sleeping pills, and the products of that confidence racket called the cosmetic industry. We make the finest packages in the world, Mr Marlowe. The stuff inside is mostly junk." —

  Raymond Chandler

  Sleep, White, Average

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Lady in the Lake: The Little Sister ; The Long Goodbye ; Playback”, Everyman's Library

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• Perhaps the world will end at the kitchen table, while we are laughing and crying, eating of the last sweet bite.

  Joy Harjo

  Sweet, Laughing, World

  "The Woman Who Fell From the Sky". Book by Joy Harjo, www.npr.org. 1994.

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• Remember, you are all alone in the kitchen and no one can see you.

  Julia Child

  Remember You, Remembers You, Cooking

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• I'm a homebody. I'd rather be in the kitchen cooking than hanging out in a bar.

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Cooking, Bars, Homebodies

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

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• You start out playing in kitchens, and you end up playing in kitchens.

  Trisha Yearwood

  Ends

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• Our kitchen is a kitchen that makes food designed to be tasted with the five senses and it requires concentration to appreciate all that we want to express.

  Ferran Adria

  Appreciate, Want, Five Senses

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• Food is a passion because I basically grew up in a kitchen. My mother was a gourmet chef and I'm the youngest of five kids. We would always congregate in the kitchen.

  Laura Prepon

  Mother, Passion, Kids

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

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• Jump out of bed and I stumble to the kitchen, pour myself a cup of ambition and yawn and stretch and try to come alive.

  Dolly Parton

  Work, Ambition, Trying

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