Dishes Quotes - Page 11

• I've always been one of those people who romanticized cooking, but the few attempts I'd made in my life resulted in friends' contorted faces as they desperately tried to say something nice about the "dish" they were eating.

  Drew Barrymore

  Nice, People, Cooking

  "Drew Barrymore on her new gig, motherhood, and Adam Sandler". Interview with Lindzi Scharf, www.cnn.com. January 9, 2014.

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• The first dish pleaseth all.

  George Herbert

  Firsts

  George Herbert (1836). “The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].”, p.170

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• I am not an encore, not a pudding, I am the main dish.

  Joseph Roth

  Pudding, Encores

  Joseph Roth (2012). “Joseph Roth”, p.39, Granta Books

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• A woman is more than a powerful feeling or unforgettable taste, and a man should not try to eat from every dish. A good woman is a jewel from Allah for which a man must pay a heavy price. Be very careful.

  Sister Souljah

  Powerful, Men, Jewels

  Sister Souljah (2010). “Midnight: A Gangster Love Story”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• Everywhere the sky is blue. There are a multitude of cuisines and dishes. I think of them as the languages and dialects of food.

  Ferran Adria

  Thinking, Blue, Sky

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• I used to do volunteer work in poor areas of Cairo, and people would gather their money together to get a satellite dish. You'd see them huddling around and for the first time seeing issues being debated on TV that had never been talked about before. And that is the biggest promoter of democracy you could possibly have.

  Jehane Noujaim

  Issues, People, Volunteer

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• Do the dishes while you're cooking.

  Lela Rose

  Cooking

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• I was very impressed with the street food of Singapore. I was very impressed with the dishes that they did.

  Jose Andres

  Streets, Singapore, Impressed

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• Reading Claire Cooks novel is like eating some exotic dish about which you say, Wow, this is great! Whats in it? The ingredients here are: intelligence, humor, poignancy, revelation and, perhaps best of all, true originality. Ready to Fall seems to me to be ready to soar.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Fall, Reading, Exotic

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• Sometimes I get lazy and let the dishes stack up. But they don't stack too high. I've only got four dishes.

  Mark Fidrych

  Lazy, Four, Sometimes

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• After I saw a couple of pictures put out by my fellow comedy-directors, which seemed to have abandoned the fun in favor of the message, I wrote Sullivan's Travels to satisfy an urge to tell them that they were getting a little too deep-dish, to leave the preaching to the preachers.

  Preston Sturges

  Couple, Fun, Directors

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• A watched supper dish never fills!

  Charles M. Schulz

  Supper

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• I did enjoy cooking, I still do really enjoy cooking - I make a nice salmon dish, and Im a huge meat freak, so I love to bang a few steaks on the grill or pasta. Anything Italian, really.

  Luke Pasqualino

  Nice, Italian, Cooking

  "Discovery: Luke Pasqualino" by Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 12, 2012.

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• Sometimes the table was graced with immense apple-pies, or saucers full of preserved peaches and pears; but it was always sure to boast an enormous dish of balls of sweetened dough, fried in hog's fat, and called doughnuts, or olykoeks - a delicious kind of cake, at present scarce known in this city, except in genuine Dutch families.

  Washington Irving

  Food, Apples, Pie

  Washington Irving (1854). “The Works”

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• Cheerful looks make every dish a feast, and it is that which crowns a welcome.

  Philip Massinger

  Cheerful, Looks, Crowns

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• Messages about money are passed down from generation to generation, worn and chipped like the family dishes.

  Suze Orman

  Money, Generations, Messages

  Suze Orman (2006). “Suze Orman's Financial Guidebook: Put the 9 Steps to Work”, p.8, Crown Business

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• It is a fundamental fact that no cook, however creative and capable, can produce a dish of a quality any higher than that of its raw ingredients.

  Alice Waters

  Creative, Cooking, Quality

  Alice Waters (2011). “Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook”, p.24, Random House

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• There were twelve dishes of lamb cooked in different rich sauces, with a monster bowl of strange oddments, which I imagine also belonged to the private life of a sheep, floating in rich gravy.

  Rosita Forbes

  Food, Sheep, Monsters

  Rosita Forbes (1921). “The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara”

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• Beautiful soup! Who cares for fish, game or any other dish? Who would not give all else for two pennyworth of beautiful soup?

  Lewis Carroll

  Beautiful, Games, Two

  Lewis Carroll (2010). “Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass”, p.82, Bibliolis Books

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• I really feel sorry for people who think things like soap dishes or mirrors or Coke bottles are ugly, because they're surrounded by things like that all day long, and it must make them miserable.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Sorry, Thinking, Mirrors

  "Art Out of Anything: Rauschenberg in Retrospect" by Michael Kimmelman, www.nytimes.com. December 23, 2005.

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• My mom's chicken, with rice and gravy was my favorite dish as a kid, and it still is now. That's my favorite meal from her or from anybody. It's a family favorite.

  Serena Williams

  Mom, Kids, Meals

  Source: www.bonappetit.com

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• Outward, thanks to the knowledge of physical laws, man could subdue (or subjugate...) nature, but inwardly, he remained a slave to it. For, when all is said and done, at what is aiming all this display (or deployment) of activity, if not to realized outward profits, to provide material pleasure (or enjoyment). It is not the first time that men sell their birth right for a dish of lentils, and thus disown (or repudiate or deny) the best of thmeselves.

  African Spir

  Men, Law, Done

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 36), 1937.

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• I do a lot of recipe creation. Translation: cooking tempting dishes that must be eaten.

  Ruth Glick

  Cooking, Recipes, Creation

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• A plate of food has to have balance. For example, a mild fish like skate mustnt be overwhelmed by the side dishes. They should have personality and color, but they also have to be subtle.

  Geoffrey Zakarian

  Color, Should Have, Personality

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• A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than anything, fear.

  Oscar Isaac

  Personality, Ego, Neurosis

  "An epic interview with ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ star Oscar Isaac". Interview with Kristopher Tapley, uproxx.com. November 26, 2013.

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