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, into the fire.

  Tertullian

  Fire, Frying Pans, Thai

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

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• out of the frying pan and into the fire

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Fire, Frying Pans

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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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• 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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• 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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• It was all I could do to not knock him down right there in front of Asher and climb on him. If I stunned him with a frying pan first, he might not struggle too much.

  Cate Tiernan

  Struggle, Frying Pans, Might

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• You can't make an egg without frying an egg

  Thom Yorke

  Eggs

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• Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking. Center your country in the Tao and evil will have no power. Not that it isn't there, but you'll be able to step out of its way. Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself.

  Laozi

  Leadership, Country, Evil

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• The frying pan you should give to your enemy. Food should not be prepared in fat. Our bodies are adapted to a stone age diet of roots and vegetables.

  Denis Parsons Burkitt

  Science, Vegetables, Roots

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• Frying pans! Who knew, right?

  Walt Disney

  Tangled, Frying Pans, Riders

  "Fictional character: Flynn Rider". "Tangled", www.imdb.com. 2010.

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• Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking.

  Laozi

  Country, Government, Political

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• Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different!

  Angela Carter

  Men, Fire, Different

  Angela Carter (1984). “Nights at the circus”, Vintage

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• No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.

  William S. Burroughs

  Death, Frying Pans, Picks

  William S. Burroughs, Claude Pélieu (1971). “Jack Kerouac”

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• The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.

  Garrison Keillor

  Daughter, Fathers Day, Running

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• The climate is doing its usual tricks. There's nothing much really happening yet. We were supposed to be halfway toward a frying world now.

  James Lovelock

  Climate, Usual, World

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• Personally, I say, "Out of the frying pan and into the deadly pit filled with sharks who are wielding chainsaws with killer kittens stapled to them." However, that one's having a rough time catching on.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Catching On, Sharks, Frying Pans

  Brandon Sanderson (2016). “The Scrivener's Bones: Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians”, p.23, Macmillan

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• ...she waited until she and my grandfather Anthel were just home from their honeymoon, and then sat him down and told him this: "Honey, I know you like to take a drink, and that's all right, but be forewarned that I ain't your maid and I ain't your punching bag, and if you ever raise your hand to me you'd best kill me. Because otherwise I'll wait until you're asleep; sew you into the bed; and beat you to death with a frying pan." Until he died, I am told, my grandfather was a gentle man.

  Haven Kimmel

  Home, Men, Hands

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• Eventually scientists will discover something that explains ghosts, just like they discovered electricity, which explained lightning, and it might be something about people's brains, or something about the earth's magnetic field, or it might be some new force altogether. And then ghosts won't be mysteries. They will be like electricity and rainbows and nonstick frying pans.

  Mark Haddon

  People, Rainbow, Brain

  "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time". Book by Mark Haddon, May, 2003.

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• Something is unfolding, being revealed to me. I see that there's a whole world of of girls and their doings that has been unknown to me, and that I can be part of without making any effort at all. I don't have to keep up with anyone, run as fast, aim as well, make loud explosive noises, decode messages, die on cue. I don't have to think about whether I do these things well, as well as a boy. All I have to do is sit on the floor and cut frying pans our of the Eaton's Catalogue with embroidery scissors, and say I've done it badly.

  Margaret Atwood

  Girl, Running, Cutting

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• I don't often get a chance to have a frying pan in the show.

  Tommy Emmanuel

  Frying Pans, Chance, Performing

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• History is an alternating series of frying pans and fires.

  Peter Esterhazy

  Fire, Frying Pans, Series

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• Scotland had oil, but it's running out thanks to all that deep frying.

  Scott Capurro

  Running, Scotland, Oil

  10 funniest jokes from the Edinburgh festival fringe 2014, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2014.

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• Holy is the dish and drain, the soap and sink, and the cup and plate and the warm wool socks, and the cold white tile, showerheads and good dry towelsand frying eggs sound like psalms, with bits of salt measured in my palm. It's all a part of a sacrament, as holy as a day is spent.

  Carrie Newcomer

  Faith, Inspiration, Eggs

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