Dishes Quotes - Page 13

• We cannot get grace from gadgets. In the Bakelite house of the future, the dishes may not break, but the heart can. Even a man with ten shower baths may find life flat, stale and unprofitable.

  J. B. Priestley

  Heart, Men, House

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• There is a dessert dish in Austria called Kaiserschmarrn - it's kind of like a sweet raisin pancake with eggs and sugar. It's definitely not something I can eat often, but if I've done well at a race, sometimes that's my celebration treat!

  Lindsey Vonn

  Sweet, Race, Eggs

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• The human being is a skin-covered petrie dish.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Skins, Covered, Humans

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• A woman is a dish for the gods, if the devil dress her not.

  William Shakespeare

  Women, Devil, Dresses

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 5, sc. 2, l. [274]

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• Like vichyssoise, revenge is a dish best served cold.

  Stephen Fry

  Revenge, Animated Series, Kill Bill

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• Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.

  Andre Gide

  People, Age, Woe

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.101, Routledge

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• I'm really trying to respond to the foods that are in the stores and just pulling the things that are the very best and cook what looks beautiful and is seasonal. That's the way to go. I love going to the grocery store and the market. None of it's drudgery for me. Washing dishes is the drudgery.

  Ted Allen

  Beautiful, Trying, Looks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is no one who has cooked but has discovered that each particular dish depends for its rightness upon some little point which he is never told. It is not only so of cooking: it is so of splicing a rope; of painting a surface of wood; of mixing mortar; of almost anything you like to name among the immemorial human arts.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Art, Names, Cooking

  Hilaire Belloc (1955). “One thing and another”

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• I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of course. If two countries fight that do not supply the Americans with some precious commodity, then the education of the public does not take place. But when the dictator falls, when the oil is threatened, then you turn on the television and they tell you where the country is, what the language is, how to pronounce the names of the leaders, what the religion is all about, and maybe you can cut out recipes in the newspaper of Persian dishes.

  Don DeLillo

  Country, Fall, Cutting

  Don DeLillo (2012). “The Names”, p.58, Vintage

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• I dish the dirt out and I can take it. But why should my mother and children have to take it?

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Mother, Children, Dirt

  "Jeremy Clarkson lifts 'pointless' injunction against ex-wife" by Josh Halliday, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2011.

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• Dinner was meat - not hunks of meat, as in Australia, but pathetic scraps of meat, as in Britain - which the girls upstairs transformed into edible dishes by heating it in secret ways and adding bits of stuff to it.

  Clive James

  Funny, Girl, Humorous

  Clive James (2013). “The Complete Unreliable Memoirs”, p.286, Pan Macmillan

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• In Italy, for the same price as a typical British hamburger meal including sweet, a builder's labourer could eat like a king - rather better in fact, because pasta dishes gain from being kept simple.

  Clive James

  Funny, Sweet, Kings

  Clive James (2012). “Always Unreliable: Memoirs”, p.308, Pan Macmillan

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• I like cooking, but I think someone else ought to do the dishes.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Thinking, Cooking, Ought

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• If a dish doesn't turn out right, change the name and don't bat an eyelid. A fallen souffle is only a risen omelette. It depends on the self-confidence with which you present it.

  Lionel Blue

  Confidence, Names, Self

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• And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.

  Ben Elton

  Signatures, Pudding, Beef

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• I just go at my own pace and I like control of the TV and I like to decide when I take a shower and wash the dishes and stuff like that. So I don't know who would want to live with me to be honest!

  Leighton Meester

  Pace, Want, Stuff

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• If you really love stuffing, wait until the turkey comes out of the oven, add some of the pan drippings to the stuffing, and bake it in a dish. That's called dressing, and that's not evil - stuffing is, though.

  Alton Brown

  Turkeys, Evil, Waiting

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• Gravy is the simplest, tastiest, most memory-laden dish I know how to make: a little flour, salt and pepper, crispy bits of whatever meat anchored the meal, a couple of cups of water or milk and slow stirring to break up lumps.

  Dorothy Allison

  Couple, Memories, Water

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• Over the years, I've had a lot of different jobs - newspaper boy, dish washer, naval flight officer, Amtrak board member, Governor and chairman of the National Governors Association - just to name a few. But my most cherished job - and frankly my most important job for that matter - is being a father.

  Thomas Carper

  Jobs, Father, Boys

  "Showing a Father’s Love by Protecting Our Children’s Health" by Tom Carper, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2012.

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• Everybody in my band is married, pretty much, and have lives at home, and I don't want them to be away from their families so long that they just start to feel psychotic. You have to go home and stand around in your bathrobe doing your dishes to feel like a normal person sometimes.

  Neko Case

  Home, Long, Band

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• The best relationships are when you both want to make each other happy - you buy the groceries, I do the dishes.

  Lyndsy Fonseca

  Best Relationship, Want, Groceries

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

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• First and foremost I am a chef, whether behind the stove at one of my Northern California restaurants or for the past 15 years in front of the camera on my Food Network cooking shows. Creating new dishes and flavor combinations that bring cooks and our restaurant guests pleasure is my job and I love it.

  Tyler Florence

  Jobs, Past, California

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• Broken bottles, broken plates, broken switches, broken gates. Broken dishes, broken parts, streets are filled with broken hearts.

  Bob Dylan

  Heart, Reality, Broken

  Song: Everything is Broken, Album: Oh Mercy, 1989

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• Haven't got a girl, but I can wish. So I'll take me down to Main Street and that's where I'll select my imaginary dish.

  Dean Martin

  Girl, Wish, Select

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• Meat is a status dish in which the sizzle counts for more than the nutritional worth.

  Magnus Pyke

  Food, Meat

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