Frying Quotes

• We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.

  Eric Hoffer

  Freedom, Fire, Frying Pans

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• out of the frying pan and into the fire

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Fire, Frying Pans

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• Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

  Tertullian

  Fire, Frying Pans, Thai

  Tertullian (1956). “De Carne Christi Liber: Treatise on the Incarnation”

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• Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Fire, Frying Pans, Thai

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.97, Wordsworth Editions

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• When frying small fish, disturb them little.

  Confucius

  Littles, Fishes, Small Fish

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• Timing is everything. Chemistry is something that you don't just throw in the frying pan and mix it up with another something, then throw it on top of something, then fry it up and put it in a tortilla and put in a microwave, heat it up and give it to you and expect it to taste good. You know? For those of you who can cook, y'all know what I'm talking about. If y'all can't cook, this doesn't concern you.

  Kevin Garnett

  Talking, Giving, Frying Pans

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• Frying chicken always makes me feel a little better about life.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Littles, Chickens, Feels

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.237, Penguin

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• Simi. Return to me. (Acheron) 'Return to me, Simi.’ Don’t go frying the goddess. Don’t go frying Thanatos. I am not a yo-yo, akri. I am a Simi. I hate it when you get me all excited about going to kill something and then tell me no. I don’t like that. It boring. You don’t ever let me have any fun anymore. (Simi)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Fun, Hate, Return

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• Salvador Dalí seduced many ladies, particularly American ladies, but these seductions usually consisted of stripping them naked in his apartment, frying a couple of eggs, putting them on the woman's shoulders and, without a word, showing them the door.

  Luis Bunuel

  Couple, Doors, Eggs

  "My Last Sigh". Book by Luis Bunuel, 1983.

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• Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!” he said, and it became a proverb, though we now say ‘out of the frying-pan into the fire’ in the same sort of uncomfortable situations.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Fire, Escaping, Uncomfortable Situations

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• ... to die on a kitchen floor at 7 o'clock in the morning while other people are frying eggs is not so rough unless it happens to you.

  Charles Bukowski

  Death, Morning, Eggs

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• The effort only shifted me from the frying-pan into the fire.

  Lucian

  Fire, Effort, Frying Pans

  Lucian of Samosata (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lucian (Illustrated)”, p.473, Delphi Classics

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• Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire; or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Military, War, Blessing

  "El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Nobleman Sir Quixote of La Mancha)". Book by Miguel de Cervantes (Part I, Book III, Chapter 4), 1612.

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• Violence stinks no matter which side of it you're on. But now and then there's nothing left to do but hit the other person over the head with a frying pan.

  Tom Robbins

  Frying Pans, Matter, Violence

  "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues". Book by Tom Robbins, 1976.

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• Naturally, the workers are perfectly free; the manufacturer does not force them to take his materials and his cards, but he says to them..'If you don't like to be frizzled in my frying- pan, you can take a walk into the fire.

  Friedrich Engels

  Fire, Doe, Frying Pans

  The Condition of theWorking Class in England in 1844 ch. 7 (1892)

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• Now that healthcare is guaranteed, I'm frying everything I eat. Fried food and cigarettes.

  Craig Ferguson

  Healthcare, Cigarette, Fried Food

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• It will be seen in the frying of the eggs.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Eggs, Results

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1856). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.210

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• ...Humans were the only creatures in the world that ate their food cooked. You'd never find a Gorilla frying up some bananas for dinner or a lion charcoal-broiling a zebra steak. Cats don't often run to the oven with a mouse or bird they've captured, and a dog wouldn't naturally prepare its rabbit dinner in a stew.

  Dick Gregory

  Running, Dog, Zebras

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• If you record the sound of bacon in a frying pan and play it back, it sounds like the pops and cracks on an old 33 1/3 recording. Almost exactly like that. You could substitute it for that sound.

  Tom Waits

  Play, Sound, Cracks

  Interview with Amanda Petrusich, pitchfork.com. November 27, 2006.

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• My days are spent wrangling children, chipping dried manure from boots, washing jeans, and frying calf nuts.

  Ree Drummond

  Children, Nuts, Jeans

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• I like to abide by the seasons and let the natural flavor in food speak for itself. I use quick cooking techniques of high heat with very little fat, such as quick saute or wok stir-frying.

  Cat Cora

  Cooking, Technique, Use

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• The odor of frying bacon, sausage links, and ham tiptoed on little pig feet all the way to the north end of the second floor. Inevitably, the odor made her simultaneously ravenous and nauseated. She hated the sensation. It reminded her of pregnancy. Every Sunday morning, Leigh-Cheri awoke to a pan of fried fear.

  Tom Robbins

  Morning, Fear, Pregnancy

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.21, Bantam

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• People have been frying foods since Jesus was on this planet, and there is always going to be greasy, fried, salty, sugary food. It is up to the individual to walk in and say, 'I don't want those fries today.'

  Richard Simmons

  Jesus, People, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We can do little things for God; I turn the cake that is frying on the pan for love of him, and that done, if there is nothing else to call me, I prostrate myself in worship before him, who has given me grace to work; afterwards I rise happier than a king.

  Brother Lawrence

  Kings, Cake, Grace

  Brother Lawrence (2006). “The Practice of the Presence of God, and the Spiritual Maxims”, p.61, Cosimo, Inc.

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• My wants are simple. I have no desire to latch onto a monster symbol of fate and power and prove my manhood in titanic piscine war. But sometimes I do like a couple of cooperative fish of frying size.

  John Steinbeck

  Couple, War, Fate

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