Kitchen Quotes - Page 22

• Adam Roberts is the affable and infectiously curious friend we all wish we had with us in the kitchen—the one who prods us with questions, entertains us with amusing tales, and makes us feel better when our cake flops.

  Amanda Hesser

  Feel Better, Cake, Wish

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• It is odd how all men develop the notion, as they grow older, that their mothers were wonderful cooks. I have yet to meet a man who will admit that his mother was a kitchen assassin and nearly poisoned him.

  Robertson Davies

  Mother, Food, Men

  Robertson Davies (1986). “The papers of Samuel Marchbanks”, Viking, 1986

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• I often write into recipes techniques that I learned in the restaurant kitchen. There are ways of organizing your prep and so on that are immensely useful. Those are woven into all the recipes I do.

  Sally Schneider

  Writing, Technique, Woven

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• It's kind of cheesy, but my mama, who you all have seen on the show, says to cook for your man. She's Southern, so when he comes home, be pullin' a pie out of the oven. That's always been her advice, and you know what? It works. Your man wants to see you in the kitchen, puttin' some love into some food; it works for Eric, that's for sure.

  Jessie James Decker

  Home, Men, Pie

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• I had to have a large kitchen because I look to cook

  Traci Bingham

  Looks, Cooks

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• Cookbooks, it should be stressed, do not belong in the kitchen at all. We keep them there for the sake of appearances; occasionally, we smear their pages together with vibrant green glazes or crimson compotes, in order to delude ourselves, and any passing browsers, that we are practicing cooks; but in all honesty, a cookbook is something you read in the living room, or in the bathroom, or in bed.

  Anthony Lane

  Honesty, Order, Together

  Anthony Lane (2009). “Nobody's Perfect: Writings from The New Yorker”, p.651, Vintage

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• You can’t bake a cake without getting the kitchen messy. Halfway through surgery it looks like there’s been a murder in the operating room. If you send a rocket to the moon, about ninety percent of the time it’s off course—it ‘fails’ its way to the moon by continually making mistakes and correcting them.

  Price Pritchett

  Mistake, Moon, Cake

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• I spent the morning smashing fliesI killed one fly against the doorjamb. Another I stalked into the kitchen...A third fly wavered by the kitchen window. When I swatted, a wild ferocious swing, a whole trembling crowd shot from the window like pebbles from a blunderbuss, then settled back. My heart pounded. I felt flushed with disgust and irritation. Why must I always have such obstacles to my writing?

  Bonnie Friedman

  Morning, Writing, Heart

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• In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius.

  Alex Cox

  Cameras, Genius, Steps

  Interview with Maximilian Le Cain, sensesofcinema.com. January 2003.

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• Once you have tasted the nectar of Silence, then whether your eyes are open or closed does not matter. Once you have tasted the nectar of that dimension, then it does not matter whether you are sitting in a room or working in an office or the kitchen or talking to people. The quality of aloneness, the quality of motionlessness, the quality of thoughtfreeness does not get affected by physical or verbal movement.

  Vimala Thakar

  Eye, Talking, People

  Vimala Thakar (2016). “Glimpses of Raja Yoga: An Introduction to Patanjali's Yoga Sutras”, p.18, Shambhala Publications

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• But we disposable women have to be realistic in this life, you know. Else we get itchy and discontented and start contemplating the kitchen knife and wondering whether it wouldn't look nicer between someone's shoulder-blades.

  Jude Morgan

  Knives, Looks, Wonder

  Jude Morgan (2011). “The Taste of Sorrow”, p.108, Hachette UK

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• Pie can't compete with cake. Put candles in a cake, it's a birthday cake. Put candles in a pie, someone's drunk in the kitchen.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Humor, Cake

  "Jim Gaffigan: Beyond the Pale", www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• Cooking allows you to have travels, adventures and journeys without going anywhere. The running joke between my partner and me is that I'm not really concerned about how long it takes, or how much I destroy the kitchen, because I just have such a good time doing it.

  Ted Allen

  Running, Adventure, Journey

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

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• To me, the kitchen is a place of adventure and entirely fun, not drudgery. I can't think of anything better to do with family and friends than to be together to create something.

  Ted Allen

  Fun, Adventure, Thinking

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

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• Show me a woman who is prouder of her clean kitchen than of her collection of lingerie and I'll show you a woman with enlarged pores.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Lingerie, Clean, Show Me

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• For thousands of years, much of humankind has believed that only special places are infused with the sacred and that you must get away from the everyday in order to find it. Not so, everything is infused with the holy--from chairs to clothing to kitchen stoves.

  Anthony Lawlor

  Order, Years, Everyday

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• Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women, kitchen of love, bedroom of grief, bathroom of apathy. Sometimes, the men, they come with keys, and sometimes the men, they come with hammers.

  Warsan Shire

  Mother, Grief, Love Is

  Warsan Shire, “The House”

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• If they don't board and live by themselves, even in their second year they've got no lounge or kitchen table and it's a pretty lonely existence when you get home to an empty house. Homesickness is a key issue for kids who are drafted interstate, whether they are going to Melbourne or coming to Perth or going to Brisbane. All the kids we've drafted this year will all go through periods of homesickness, which can lead to worse things.

  Trevor Nisbett

  Lonely, Home, Kids

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• I realized I didn't want to be a photographer. I gave it up, but I still worked that job in the restaurant and I found myself constantly hanging out in the kitchen.

  Sally Schneider

  Photography, Jobs, Want

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• Give up, renounce the world. Now we are like dogs strayed into a kitchen and eating a piece of meat, looking round in fear lest at any moment some one may come and drive them out. Instead of that, be a king and know you own the world. This never comes until you give it up and it ceases to bind. Give up mentally, if you do not physically. Give up from the heart of your hearts

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dog, Kings, Giving Up

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.23, Advaita Ashrama

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• Wolfe scowled at her. I could see he was torn with conflicting emotions. A female in his kitchen was an outrage. A woman criticizing his or Fritz's cooking was an insult. But corned beef hash was one of life's toughest problems, never yet solved by anyone.

  Rex Stout

  Cooking, Female, Beef

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• You have a teenager who desperately wants to separate...If you don't have a career, these New Domesticity types are likely to find themselves standing in the kitchen with all these domestic skills and no outlet for them, no way to earn a living.... [A]t that point your kids are not thanking you for having made the hand-pureed baby food and for giving them homemade cookies. They don't feel you've done them a big favor; they say, "Why didn't she ever grow up and take responsibility for her own life?"

  Emily Matchar

  Baby, Growing Up, Teenager

  Emily Matchar (2015). “Homeward Bound: Why Women Are Embracing the New Domesticity”, p.242, Simon and Schuster

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• As soon as I was old enough to peer over the worktops, I remember being fascinated by what went on in the kitchen. It just seemed such a cool place, everyone working together to make this lovely stuff and having a laugh doing it.

  Jamie Oliver

  Laughing, Lovely, Working Together

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• Now my wife may think she's locked me out of the kitchen but MacGyver's not my patron saint for nothing.

  Alton Brown

  Thinking, Wife, Saint

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• My mom said the two most important kitchen utensils are attached to your arms... you cannot mix up meatballs with a wooden spoon, get in there, get your fingers dirty!

  Rachael Ray

  Mom, Dirty, Two

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