Dishes Quotes - Page 3

• Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol.

  Harry Houdini

  Alcohol, Burning, Cotton

  Harry Houdini (2015). “Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: Human Understanding”, p.39, 谷月社

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• These songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I'm washing the dishes, driving to the store and walking down the aisles. The ones that you sing when you're driving in the car and as a singer you always go back to them.

  Al Jarreau

  Song, Car, Old Friends

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• He looked at me as if I were a side dish he hadn't ordered.

  Ring Lardner

  Side Dishes, Sides, Ifs

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• I couldn't get that same feeling during the day, with my hands in dirty dish water and the hard sun showing up the dirtiness on the roof tops. And after a time, even at night, the feeling of God didn't last.

  Frances Farmer

  Dirty, Night, Hands

  "God Dies". Essay by Frances Farmer, 1931.

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• I may find something that looks interesting and then go on to alter the recipe by adding spices, things of my own. I also look for time-saving recipes, dishes that can be prepared ahead and stored.

  Paul Lynde

  Interesting, Looks, Spices

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• Really, I don't know what I'd do with myself if I retire. Wash dishes?

  Loretta Lynn

  Retiring, Knows, Ifs

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• You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Couple, Years, Issues

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.44, Random House

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• Too many simple green salads suffer from a lack of imagination.

  James Beard

  Simple, Imagination, Suffering

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• To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Food, Cooking, Cheese

  Anthony Bourdain (2011). “Tony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw”, p.65, A&C Black

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• A cherefull looke makes a dish a feast.

  George Herbert

  Cheerfulness

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.317

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• If you have ever slept in a covered casserole dish on the highest peak of a mountain range, then you know that it is an uncomfortable place to lay one's head, even if you find a dish towel inside it that can serve as a blanket.

  Daniel Handler

  Mountain Ranges, Towels, Casseroles

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• When the idea of 'Chopped' surfaced, it was originally meant to be taped at some guy's mansion with him and his crazy Chihuahua. A stuffy fellow in a tuxedo was to host, and the losing chef's dish was then fed to the dog! I am not kidding, I saw it! I think it is genius! Twisted, but genius!

  Ted Allen

  Dog, Crazy, Thinking

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

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• The hardest part of anything is making a dish consistently great - you order it seven years later, if it's still on the menu, and it's still as good as what you remember.

  Mario Batali

  Order, Years, Remember

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• A wish is a dish that's a lot like a fish: Once it's been eaten it's harder to throw back. - Mr. Rakshasas

  P.B. Kerr

  Wish, Fishes, Harder

  P.B. Kerr (2010). “Children of the Lamp #6: The Five Fakirs of Faizabad”, p.8, Scholastic Inc.

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• I love inventive food, but I want the classic dishes to taste like how I remember them. I get a little bummed out when there is too much fancy stuff going on and it doesn't resemble the original dish at all.

  Drew Barrymore

  Want, Littles, Fancy

  “Drew Barrymore's Big "Cheat" Food (and the Dish She Always Keeps in the Fridge)” by Lexie Petronis, www.glamour.com. July 31, 2012.

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• One of Beethoven's favorite dishes was macaroni and cheese. The girl I marry must be able to make good macaroni and cheese..." "How did Beethoven feel about cold cereal?

  Charles M. Schulz

  Girl, Cereal, Able

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• I'll give my jewels for a set of beads, My gorgeous palace for a hermitage, My gay apparel for an almsman's gown, My figured goblets for a dish of wood, My scepter for a palmer's walking staff My subjects for a pair of carved saints and my large kingdom for a little grave.

  William Shakespeare

  Gay, Jewels, Giving

  'Richard II' (1595) act 3, sc. 3, l. 143

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• Lucy was using my blanket to dry the dishes. We now have very secure dishes!

  Charles M. Schulz

  Dry, Blanket, Secure

  "Fictional character: Linus van Pelt". "Peanuts" comic strip by Charles M. Schulz, February 20, 1964.

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• Every night it's the same... I have supper in my red dish and drinking water in my yellow dish... Tonight I think I'll have my supper in the yellow dish and my drinking water in the red dish. Life is too short not to live it up a little!

  Charles M. Schulz

  Drinking, Life Is Too Short, Thinking

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• The hand that controls the supper dish rules the world!

  Charles M. Schulz

  Hands, World, Supper

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• What are you thinking?" he asks. I know Gage hates it when I cry - he is completely undone by the sight of tears - so I blink hard against the sting. "I'm thinking how thankful I am for everything," I say, "even the bad stuff. Every sleepless night, every second of being lonely, every time the car broke down, every wad of gum on my shoe, every late bill and losing lottery ticket and bruise and broken dish and piece of burnt toast." His voice is soft. "Why, darlin'?" "Because it all led me here to you.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Lonely, Hate, Night

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Sugar Daddy: A Novel”, p.415, Macmillan

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• Last comes the class of persons, of nervous organization and enfeebled vigour, whose sensual appetite craves highly seasoned dishes, men of a hectic, over-stimulated constitution. Their eyes almost invariably hanker after that most irritating and morbid of colours, with its artificial splendours and feverish acrid gleams,-orange.

  Joris-Karl Huysmans

  Eye, Men, Class

  Joris-Karl Huysmans (2015). “Against the Grain: (À rebours)”, p.14, BoD – Books on Demand

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• I said, "I'll take the T-bone steak." A soft voice mooed, "Oh wow." And I looked up and realized The waitress was a cow. I cried, "Mistake--forget the the steak. I'll take the chicken then." I heard a cluck--'twas just my luck The busboy was a hen. I said, "Okay no, fowl today. I'll have the seafood dish." Then I saw through the kitchen door The cook--he was a fish. I screamed, "Is there anyone workin' here Who's an onion or a beet? No? Your're sure? Okay then friends, A salad's what I'll eat." They looked at me. "Oh,no," they said, "The owner is a cabbage head.

  Shel Silverstein

  Mistake, Voice, Doors

  Shel Silverstein, “Strange Restaurant”

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• The waiter approached. 'Would you like to see the menu?' he said. 'Or would you like to meet the Dish of the Day?' 'Huh?' said Ford. 'Huh?' said Arthur. 'Huh?' said Trillian. 'That’s cool,' said Zaphod. 'We'll meet the meat.

  Douglas Adams

  Meat, Arthur, Menus

  Douglas Adams (2008). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.111, Del Rey

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• You can either set brick as a laborer or as an artist. You can make the work a chore, or you can have a good time. You can do it the way you used to clear the dinner dishes when you were thirteen, or you can do it as a Japanese person would perform a tea ceremony, with a level of concentration and care in which you can lose yourself, and so in which you can find yourself.

  Anne Lamott

  Artist, Finding Yourself, Tea

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.236, Anchor

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