Ovens Quotes

• If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour.

  Jose Marti

  Life Lesson, Bread Of Life, Doors

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• I tried to commit suicide by sticking my head in the oven, but there was a cake in it.

  Lesley Boone

  Suicide, Suicidal, Cake

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• Baking happens with ingredients that last for months and come to life inside a warm oven. Baking is slow and leisurely.

  Regina Brett

  Lasts, Baking, Months

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• A cake is a very good test of an oven: if it browns too much on one side and not on the other, it's not your fault - you need to have your oven checked.

  Delia Smith

  Cake, Tea, Needs

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

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Food, Coffee

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• I'm more like an oven than a microwave.

  Erykah Badu

  Microwaves

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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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• The kitchen oven is reliable, but it's made us lazy.

  Jamie Oliver

  Kitchen, Lazy, Made

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

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• There is no such thing as a self-cleaning oven.

  Wes Smith

  Self, Cleaning, Revelations

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• Women are like ovens. We need 5 to 15 minutes to heat up.

  Sandra Bullock

  Needs, Heat, Minutes

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• Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn't even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out of removing burned-on cheese from the grill of the toaster oven.

  Erma Bombeck

  Religious, Toasters, Next

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

  Joan Ryan

  Microwaves, Nations

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• How terrible to be alcoholic. You just want to quietly soothe and maybe poison yourself, but you end up poisoning those around you as well, like trying to commit suicide with a gas oven and unwittingly murdering your neighbors.

  Jonathan Ames

  Suicide, Trying, Poison

  Jonathan Ames (2015). “Wake Up, Sir!”, p.36, Pushkin Press

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• The first time I hung out with [David Blaine], he took me to this condemned building, and it had a pizza oven and he crawled into the pizza oven and turned the heat on to 400 degrees or something like that, and he stayed in it for I guess a half hour. He came out, and except for one or two second-degree burns, he was unscathed. You meet a lot of musicians and filmmakers and actors, but it's rare to meet someone who can step inside a pizza oven and take the heat. I was intrigued by that.

  Harmony Korine

  Two, Musician, Degrees

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• Mr. Greer timed all our speeches with an oven timer. Things were nothing at Tribeca Alternative, considered one of Manhattan's finest prep schools, if not high tech.

  Meg Cabot

  School, Alternatives, Manhattan

  Meg Cabot (2010). “Airhead Book 2: Being Nikki”, p.142, Scholastic Inc.

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• Should I warm the oven and bake you a batch of hero cookies? - Zephyra

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hero, Cookies, Should

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “One Silent Night”, p.37, Hachette UK

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• I want you to know that I fought you fairly. Equal to equal. I could have used my powers against you, but I didn’t. (Stryker) Should I warm to oven and bake you a batch of hero-cookies? (Zephyra)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hero, Cookies, Want

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• Germans grew reluctant to stay in communal ski lodges, fearing they might talk in their sleep. They postponed surgeries because of the lip-loosening effects of anesthetic. Dreams reflected the ambient anxiety. One German dreamed that an SA man came to his home and opened the door to his oven, which then repeated every negative remark the household had made against the government.

  Erik Larson

  Dream, Fear, Sleep

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• Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Book, Burning, Graves

  Geraldine Brooks (2008). “People of the Book: A Novel”, p.373, Penguin

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• What is the difference between burning and gassing people in ovens and doing it to a whole nation out in the open?

  Norodom Sihanouk

  Differences, People, Burning

  My War with the CIA: Cambodia's Fight for Survival ch. 18 (1973)

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• I am a bit of a gourmet chef. I love cooking mostly Thai food. And a lot of times on movies, you have these trailers that have these little ovens and kitchenettes. A lot of actors never use them, but I would cook lunch just about every day.

  Will Ferrell

  Lunch, Cooking, Gourmet

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• I bought a house, it's a two bedroom house, but I think it's up to me to decide how many bedrooms there are. This bedroom has an oven in it. This bedroom has a lot of people sitting around watching TV. This bedroom is over in that other guy's house.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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• Anger warms the invention, but overheats the oven.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Anger, Invention

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.2, Courier Corporation

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• All elongated objects, such as sticks, tree-trunks and umbrellas(the opening of these last being comparable to an erection) may stand for the male organ...Boxes, cases, chests, cupboards, and ovens represent the uterus...Rooms in dreams are usually women...Many landscapes in dreams, especially any containing breidges or wooded hills, may clearly be recognized as descriptions of the genitals.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, Tree, Uterus

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• That was close,"he said, helping himself to coffee. Yeah, you almost opened the door to Morelli." I wasn't talking about Morelli. I was talking about us." That too," I said. Ranger sliced a bagel and looked for the toaster. It's broken,"I told him. He truned the boiler on and slid the bagel into the oven. That's surprisingly domestic for a man of mystery," I said to him. He looked at me over the rim of his coffee mug. "I like things hot.

  Janet Evanovich

  Coffee, Men, Doors

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