Microwaves Quotes

I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.

Steven Wright

Funny, Food, Coffee

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Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

Milton Glaser

Design, Cooking, Computer

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When you cook it should be an act of love. To put a frozen bag in the microwave for your child is an act of hate.

Raymond Blanc

Children, Hate, Cooking

"Celebrity Chef Dishes Microwave Mothers". www.telegraph.co.uk. October 02, 2001.

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The popcorn button on the microwave is a miraculous invention. More miraculous than even the microwave itself.

Gary Gulman

Buttons, Popcorn, Invention

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We are a nation that shouts at a microwave oven to hurry up.

Joan Ryan

Ovens, Nations

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I don't have a microwave oven, but I do have a clock that occasionally cooks stuff.

Mitch Hedberg

Funny, Humor, Stuff

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It is ludicrous to read the microwave direction on the boxes of food you buy, as each one will have a disclaimer: THIS WILL VARY WITH YOUR MICROWAVE. Loosely translated, this means, You're on your own, Bernice.

Erma Bombeck

Food, Mean, Boxes

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It's not the microwave that's the problem, it's what people put into them. I know people lead busy lives but they should try to sit their children down at the table once a week and cook them simple food.

Raymond Blanc

Children, Simple, People

"Celebrity chef dishes microwave mothers" by Nicola Woolcock, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 02, 2001.

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Men are like microwave ovens; they heat up immediately, but things start to boil over after about three minutes. Women are like conventional ovens; they take twenty minutes to heat up, but can go on cooking for hours.

Mardy Grothe

Men, Cooking, Twenties

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They say you're not supposed to put metal in a microwave oven. They're right.

Steven Wright

Funny, Humor, Ovens

"When the Leaves Blow Away". Documentary, Comedy, 2006.

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The New Age? Its just the old age stuck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds.

James Randi

Age, Fifteen, Ovens

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The perfect gadget would somehow allow me to fly. Isn't that what everybody wants? It would also cook a damn good microwave pizza. So while in flight you had something to eat - an in-flight meal. Where would I go? Well, nowadays, it would probably just take me to work a lot quicker.

John Krasinski

Perfect, Meals, Gadgets

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To me when a mother puts food in a microwave for her children, it is an act of hate

Raymond Blanc

Mother, Children, Hate

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I have the life of Riley. I take my kids to school, do a bit of work in the afternoon, pick my kids up, microwave a meal, hang out with my kids, and work for a couple of hours.

Sheena Easton

Couple, School, Kids

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Several years ago my dear wife went to the hospital. She left a note behind for the children: "Dear children, do not let Daddy touch the microwave" - followed by a comma, "or the stove, or the dishwasher, or the dryer." I'm embarrassed to add any more to that list.

Thomas S. Monson

Children, Years, Daddy

"Abundantly Blessed". Thomas S. Monson's speech at the Sunday Afternoon Session of the 178th Annual General Conference at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah, www.lds.org. April 2008.

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Knowledge, wisdom, and understanding don't come out of the microwave. You got to keep moving forward because the evil doesn't sleep.

Chuck D

Moving, Sleep, Evil

Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, progressive.org. July 20, 2005.

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The radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful. It would heat your pizza only to minus 271.3*C - not much good for defrosting the pizza, let alone cooking it.

Stephen Hawking

Powerful, Cooking, Bangs

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Liberals want to burn the flag, but progressives just want to microwave it?

Stephen Colbert

Flags, Want

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I don't cook - I can cook - but I'm not very good. I like being asked over for dinner, because she can't cook either. We would starve if it weren't for modern technology. I know how to work a microwave, but love home cooked meals.

Mark Mothersbaugh

Home, Technology, Meals

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What would demons," she said, "want with our microwave?

Cassandra Clare

Want, Demon, Said

Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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Most schools have only a microwave or deep fryer, hardly the tools needed to feed our children real, fresh food.

Mark Hyman, M.D.

Children, Real, School

Twitter post from Jan 27, 2017

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I foresee great refinements in the field of short-pulse microwave signaling, whereby several simultaneous programs may occupy the same channel, in sequence, with incredibly swift electronic communication... Short waves will be generally used in the kitchen for roasting and baking, almost instantaneously...

Lee De Forest

Communication, Kitchen, Fields

"Dawn of the Electronic Age" by Lee De Forest, blog.modernmechanix.com. January 1952.

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In this age of quick fixes and microwave mindsets, most of us want what we want, and we want it right now, whether it is instant download speed, instant riches, or an Oompa-Loompa, but just as you can't force the farm to produce a harvest, you can't force your seed of potential to grow until it is ripe and ready.

Derek Rydall

Age, Riches, Want

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I guess now music is so saturated and so microwaved. It's, like, 15 minutes in the microwave and boom, you've got something. Nobody's putting passion or any thought behind it anymore.

Young Jeezy

Passion, Minutes, Music Is

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You can't work three hours a week and make $100,000. Get rich quick doesn't work. Crock pot mentality always defeats microwave mentality!

Dave Ramsey

Three, Defeat, Rich

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