Dishes Quotes - Page 19

• 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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• Why are fish unsustainable? Because they're popular. What makes restaurants work? Popular dishes that people come back for.

  Barton Seaver

  People, Restaurants, Fishes

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• The house I grew up in had large plate-glass windows, which birds frequently crashed into headfirst. My father helped me assemble a bird hospital, consisting of a few shoe boxes, some old rags, and tiny dishes for water and food.

  Patti Davis

  Father, Shoes, Glasses

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• The process of writing a book is like the process of preparing a dinner. Serving dishes, choosing ingredients and so on.

  Brian Tracy

  Book, Writing, Dinner

  Source: productivemag.com

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• I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man: wine is not so noble a liquor; and think of dashing the hopes of a morningwith a cup of warm coffee, or of an evening with a dish of tea! Ah, how low I fall when I am tempted by them! Even music may be intoxicating. Such apparently slight causes destroyed Greece and Rome, and will destroy England and America.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Music, Wise, Drinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden”, p.183, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And within the house
  ashes are being stuffed into my marriage,
  fury is lapping the walls,
  dishes crack on the shelves,
  a strangler needs my throat,
  the daughter has ceased to eat anything.

  Anne Sexton

  Daughter, Wall, Divorce

  Anne Sexton (1976). “45 Mercy Street”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• For me to make lasagna would be a desecration of a great Italian dish. . . . I don't mess with sacred things.

  Mario Cuomo

  Italian, Would Be, Sacred Things

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• Rice and peas fit into that category of dishes where two ordinary foods, combined together, ignite a pleasure far beyond the capacity of either of its parts alone. Like rhubarb and strawberries, apple pie and cheese, roast pork and sage, the two tastes and textures meld together into the sort of subtle transcendental oneness that we once fantasized would be our experience when we finally found the ideal mate.

  John Thorne

  Two, Oneness, Apples

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• When I develop my recipes I always look for ways to create what I call the Big Taste. While I enjoy eating simple grilled foods, what interests me when I cook are dishes with a taste that is fully dimensional.

  Paula Wolfert

  Food, Simple, Looks

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• When people ask me how I develop recipes, I have to respond: "travelling, eating, watching, experimenting, and constantly asking myself: 'Do I want to eat this dish again?'" Will I yearn for it some evening when I'm hungry? Will I remember it in six months' time? In a year? Five years from now?

  Paula Wolfert

  Travel, Years, People

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• Having been in a relationship since I was 18, I'm very domestic, but I don't enjoy cooking for myself. I don't mind cooking for other people... But I don't like cleaning or washing dishes, although I don't mind doing laundry.

  Megan Fox

  People, Cooking, Mind

  Interview with Zach Galifianakis, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 22, 2010.

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• Four- and five-year-olds' play is permeated with the rankest sexism. No matter what their parents do and say, they play their momand pop roles in ultraconventional style. We've seen little girls whose mothers are doctors absolutely refuse to take the doctors' parts in their play, insisting that "only boys can be doctors," against all reason. Girls do more washing and drying of clothes, dishes, and babies than they've ever seen their own mothers do, and they turn their play husbands into TV-watching drones who do nothing but talk about money.

  Stella Chess

  Girl, Mother, Baby

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• The national dish of Scotland is something called haggis, the specific ingredients of which I won't go into other than to say that if you can visualize boiled, inside-out road kill, you're pretty close.

  David Grimes

  Country, Scotland, Ingredients

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• [Computer science] is not really about computers and it's not about computers in the same sense that physics is not really about particle accelerators, and biology is not about microscopes and Petri dishes... and geometry isn't really about using surveying instruments.

  Hal Abelson

  Computer, Physics, Biology

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• Most cooks would not, for example, prepare an important, elaborate, and difficult dish on the back-burner. Neither should we relegate the cultivation and preparation of happiness for a position where it is both hard to reach and difficult to infuse with new ingredients.

  Gina Barreca

  Preparation, Important, Example

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• Hollywood dishes out too much praise for small things I won't let it get me, but too much praise can turn a fellow's head if he doesn't watch his step.

  LeBron James

  Hollywood, Watches, Too Much

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• Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.

  Pliny the Elder

  Simple, Meat, Disease

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• A liberation struggle is like a struggle against dirt. No matter what type of bath you takein three weeks you'll smell like you've never seen a bathtub. What we don't understand about a liberation struggle is you never win it, any more than you "win" clean dishes. As soon as you eat on them, the dishes are dirty again.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Dirty, Struggle, Winning

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• I never do the dishes, because my husband has an affinity for it. And I'm also not allowed to touch the coffeemaker.

  Rachael Ray

  Husband, My Husband, Affinity

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• . . . if I had been a man, self-respect, family pressure and the public opinion of my class would have pushed me into a money-making profession; as a mere woman I could carve out a career of disinterested research.

  Beatrice Webb

  Men, Class, Careers

  Beatrice Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1979). “My Apprenticeship”, p.355, Cambridge University Press

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• He had a mania for washing and disinfecting himself. . . . For him the only danger came from the microbes that attacked the body. He had not studied the microbe of conscience which eats into the soul.

  Anais Nin

  Soul, Body, Danger

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• The house was immaculate, as always, not a stray hair anywhere, not a flake of dandruff or a crumpled towel. Even the roses on the dining-room table held their breath. A kind of airless cleanliness that always made me want to sneeze.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Hair, Rose, House

  Sandra Cisneros (2007). “Vintage Cisneros”, p.52, Vintage

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