Kitchen Quotes - Page 5

• I wish we could treat our bodies as the place we live from, rather than regard it as a place to be worked on, as though it were a disagreeable old kitchen in need of renovation and update.

  Susie Orbach

  Wish, Needs, Body

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• ...despite all this, it is still hard to admit that there is no one more English than the Indian, no one more Indian than the English. There are still young white men who are angry about that; who will roll out at closing time into the poorly lit streets with a kitchen knife wrapped in a tight fist. But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this is small fry, peanuts, compared to what the immigrant fears - dissolution, disappearance.

  Zadie Smith

  Men, White Man, Knives

  Zadie Smith (2003). “White Teeth”, p.272, Vintage

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• I love to travel and to be inspired by new things, so everything is always new. I've never done the same bathroom or the same kitchen a second time. It's challenging, and I like to be challenged.

  Kelly Wearstler

  Challenges, Done, Bathroom

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• I think that my love of cooking grew out of my love of reading about cooking. When I was a kid, we had a bookcase in the kitchen filled with cookbooks. I would eat all my meals reading about meals I could have been having.

  Samantha Bee

  Reading, Kids, Thinking

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• My temper manifests itself when I can't find something. I could swear that there is a plot against me to put kitchen utensils in the wrong drawers.

  Tom Conti

  Plot, Utensils, Drawers

  "This much I know: Tom Conti". Interview with Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2011.

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• My two sisters and I sang all the time. Whenever we cleaned the kitchen, we sang in three-part harmony.

  Kina Grannis

  Two, Three, Harmony

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• To help producers serve larger institutional customers like schools and hospitals, USDA has helped fund new regional infrastructure like cold storage warehouses, commercial kitchens and local slaughter facilities.

  Tom Vilsack

  School, Helping, Cold

  "A New Guide to Local and Regional Food" by Sec. Tom Vilsack, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 29, 2012.

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• I like to stand in my kitchen with the script on a counter that's about chest high. Usually I do something else at the same time - make a chicken or slice vegetables - and all day long I just read it over and over and over.

  Christopher Walken

  Vegetables, Long, Scripts

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• There's no hypocrisy in Hell's Kitchen.

  Ethel Waters

  Hypocrisy, Hell

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• We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.

  Ethel Waters

  Mom, Tin Cans, Bigs

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• For me, relationships are the real action movies. Bombs are exploding every day and the kitchen is Ground Zero.

  Michelle Williams

  Zero, Real, Bombs

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• For my own children, I do want for them to look back and remember that it was me in the kitchen, that I was doing the packed lunches, that we were there on the school run, that we did take a bus. I want them to remember those things, because those are the things that I remember from my own childhood and that have been incredibly important to me.

  Kate Winslet

  Running, Children, School

  "Kate Winslet's Unusual Baby Name Revealed". Interview with Erin Hill, parade.com. December 23, 2013.

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• I read while the kids play. I can see them from the kitchen window. And I'm a fast reader.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Kids, Play, Window

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• I'm a terrible cook. I am not allowed to go in the kitchen anymore after I almost burned down the apartment in New York.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  New York, Terrible, Cooks

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. October 26, 2005.

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• I was like any new bride, who said, 'I'm going to cook for my man.' In fact, once I started a small kitchen fire in a pan. Smoke was pouring from the pan, and I got really scared. Right next to our stove is a small fire extinguisher. You know, easy access.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Men, Fire, Next

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• Look at something like cooking. Now, you would hear a lot about smart kitchens and augmented kitchens. And what do those smart kitchens actually do? They police what's happening inside the kitchen. They have cameras that distinguish ingredients one from each other and that tell you that shouldn't mix this ingredient with another ingredient.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Smart, Cooking, Police

  "Op-Ed: There's An App For Everything, And That's A Problem". Interview with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. March 4, 2013.

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• If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.

  Hanna Rosin

  Quilts, Men, Pipe

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• Gogol remembers having to do the same thing when he was younger, when his grandparents died...He remembers, back then, being bored by it, annoyed at having to observe a ritual no one else he knew followed, in honor of people he had seen only a few times in his life...Now, sitting together at the kitchen table at six-thirty every evening, his father's chair empty, this meatless meal is the only thing that seems to make sense.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Father, People, Grandparent

  "The Namesake". Book by Jhumpa Lahiri, 2003.

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• I drew laughing, high-breasted girls aquaplaning without a care in the world, as a result of being amply protected against such national evils as bleeding gums, facial blemishes, unsightly hairs, and faulty or inadequate life insurance. I drew housewives who, until they reached for the right soap flakes, laid themselves wide open to straggly hair, poor posture, unruly children, disaffected husbands, rough (but slender) hands, untidy (but enormous) kitchens.

  J. D. Salinger

  Girl, Children, Husband

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• On a sticky August evening two weeks before her due date, Ashima Ganguli stands in the kitchen of a Central Square apartment, combining Rice Krispies and Planters peanuts and chopped red onion in bowl.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Squares, August, Two

  FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from May 13, 2012

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• S and M is only the expression in the bedroom of an oppressive-submissive relation which can happen also in the kitchen or at the factory, can happen between people of any gender. There is obviously something titillating about these relationships, but it isn't the sexual components that makes them ugly, they're uglier elsewhere. Nothing sexual is depraved. Only cruelty is depraved, and that's another matter.

  Marilyn French

  Expression, People, Ugly

  Marilyn French (2011). “The Women's Room”, p.391, Simon and Schuster

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• I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.

  Dodie Smith

  Writing, Sitting, Kitchen Sinks

  Dodie Smith (2012). “I Capture the Castle”, Random House

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• My mother began to go crazy. Not in a 'Let's paint the kitchen red!' sort of way. But crazy in a 'gas oven, toothpaste sandwhich, I am God' sort of way.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Mother, Crazy, Red

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• Once upon a time there was a woman who was just like all women. And she married a man who was just like all men. And they had some children who were just like all children. And it rained all day. The woman had to skewer the hole in the kitchen sink, when it was blocked up. The man went to the pub every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. The other nights he mended his broken bicycle, did the pool coupons, and longed for money and power. The woman read love stories and longed for things to be different. The children fought and yelled and played and had scabs on their knees. In the end they all died.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Friday, Children, Sunday

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• You wake up one morning and there it is, sitting in an old plaid bathrobe in your kitchen, unpleasant and unshaved. You look at it, heart sinking. Madness is a rotten guest.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Morning, Heart, Looks

  Marya Hornbacher (2008). “Madness: A Bipolar Life”, p.266, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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