Dishes Quotes - Page 15

• Draw things that have some meaning to you. An apple, what does it mean? The object drawn doesn't matter so much. It's what you feel about it, what it means to you. A masterpiece could be made of a dish of turnips.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Mean, Apples, Doe

  Sherwood Anderson (1953). “Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout”

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• Let us consider what we call vicious luxury. No gratification, however sensual, can of itself be esteemed vicious. A gratification is only vicious when it engrosses all a man's expense, and leaves no ability for such acts of duty and generosity as are required by his situation and fortune. The same care and toil that raise a dish of peas at Christmas would give bread to a whole family during six months.

  David Hume

  Men, Luxury, Generosity

  David Hume, Stephen Copley, Andrew Edgar (2008). “Selected Essays”, p.176, Oxford University Press

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• A square egg in a dish of lentils won't make a marrow bend with the wind, nor will it make rhubarb grow up the milkmaid's leg.

  Les Dawson

  Growing Up, Squares, Wind

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• I'm like the most expensive, exotic item on a gourmet menu. People can wonder about the sensuous delights of the dish, but they can't afford such an expensive luxury

  Anna Kournikova

  Luxury, People, Gourmet

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• Possibly I want to bring my acting into the cooking, blending the two together. What I love is cooking for other people and seeing them enjoy what I have created for them. And same thing goes for acting. I have even tried to make some Chinese dishes before. It's very difficult. That's probably why eating at authentic Chinese restaurants is part of my journey here.

  Jeremy Miller

  Journey, Love Is, Two

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• Ingratitude is a nail which, driven into the tree of courtesy, causes it to wither; it is a broken channel, by which the foundations of the affections are undermined; and a lump of soot, which, falling into the dish of friendship, destroys its scent and flavor.

  Giambattista Basile

  Fall, Broken, Tree

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• Some people pretend to like capers, but the truth is that any dish that tastes good with capers in it tastes even better with capers not in it.

  Nora Ephron

  Food, People, Taste

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Nov 26, 2015

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• It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humoredly, and spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Silence, Covering, Sauce

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• Valentine's Day money-saving tips: Break up on February 13th, get back together on the 15th. In place of bubble bath, use lavender-scented dish-washing liquid. Forget rose petals. Sprinkle the bed with sliced beets!

  David Letterman

  Valentine, Rose, Together

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• The slime that accumulates on the underside of a soap bar when it sits in the dish too long.

  Rich Hall

  Humorous, Long, Bars

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• I realize that people won't even download the entire album and might just download a song or two and put it in a playlist for a workout or in the background while people do dishes. That's fine and I can't dictate how people listen to my music, but I structure records the way I listen to records.

  Mikal Cronin

  Song, Workout, Two

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I can make a damn pork chop. My best dish is actually lasagna, which I do a couple times a year. My wife wishes I cooked a little bit more often, but I can put a frozen pizza in the oven and I make a good salad.

  Ed Harris

  Couple, Years, Wife

  "Ed Harris Talks SNOWPIERCER, Joining the Film, Being a Fan of Bong Joon Ho and His Unusual Shooting Style, Editing While Shooting, and Working with Chris Evans". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 25, 2014.

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• The only things that are immortal in this world are government programs and cancer cells in petri dishes.

  Jim Babka

  Cancer, Government, Cells

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• The women who do the most work get the least money, and the women who have the most money do the least work.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Work, Inequality

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution: From the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and a respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, well-known for her stories The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland”, p.14, e-artnow

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• I was collecting Barbies. I know... embarrassing. I sold them all on eBay, and traded them for vintage dishes. So I've collected two things.

  Kristin Bauer van Straten

  Two, Ebay, Vintage

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• One day he [Wagner] was batting against a young pitcher who had just come into the league. The catcher was a kid, too . The pitcher threw Honus a curve ball, and he swung at it and missed and fell down. Looked helpless as a robin. I was kind of surprised, but the guy sitting next to me poked me in the ribs and said, 'Watch this next one.' Those kids figured they had the old man's weakness, you see, and served him up the same dish - as he knew they would. Well, Honus hit a line drive so hard the fence in left field went back and forth for five minutes.

  Burleigh Grimes

  Kids, Men, Curves

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• It was in France that I first learned about food. And that even the
  selection of a perfect pear, a ripe piece of Brie, the freshest butter,
  the highest quality cream were as important as how the dish you
  were going to be served was actually cooked.

  Robert Carrier

  Perfect, Quality, Important

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• Wit is better as a seasoning than as a whole dish by itself.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Wit, Whole, Seasoning

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.209

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• I have yet to discover a dish that will not come alive in the presence of champagne.

  Anistatia R. Miller

  Alive, Champagne

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• Better a dish of husks to the accompaniment of a muted lute than to be satiated with stewed shark's fin and rich spiced wine of which the cost is frequently mentioned by the provider.

  Ernest Bramah

  Wine, Sharks, Cost

  Ernest Bramah (1963). “The Celestial Omnibus”

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• My favorite dish is cleaning out the fridge on Sunday night and improvising a great medley.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Sunday, Night, Cleaning

  Interview with Andy Warhol, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 5, 2014.

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• We all have to be dishes on a plate eventually, with the way we are marketed, but I have no intention of being a cheap Chinese all-you-can-eat buffet.

  Mika

  Chinese, Buffets, Way

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• A Child will make two Dishes at an Entertainment for Friends; and when the Family dines alone, the fore or hind Quarter will makea reasonable Dish; and seasoned with a little Pepper or Salt, will be very good Boiled on the fourth Day, especially in Winter.

  Jonathan Swift

  Children, Winter, Two

  1729 A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Ireland from being a Burden to their Parents or Country.

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• My life and work have been far from free of blemish, and so I think it would be unpardonable for a biographer not to dish up the dirt.

  William Styron

  Thinking, Would Be, Dirt

  "A Conversation with William Styron". Interview with Sheldon Hackney, www.neh.gov. May/June 1997.

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• We're all like the little sailor. From the harbors we hear the strains of accordions and the murky soapy noises of the docks, from the mountains we receive the dish of silence that the shepherds eat, but we don't hear more than our own distances. And what distances without end and without doors and without mountains!

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Distance, Doors, Silence

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