Ovens Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• Sometimes I still have American dreams. I mean literally. I see microwave ovens and exercise machines and grocery store shelves with 30 brands of shampoo, and I look at these things oddly, in my dream. I stand and think, "What is all this for? What is the hunger that drives this need?" I think it's fear. Codi, I hope you won't be hurt by this, but I don't think I'll ever be going back. I don't think I can.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Dream, Hurt, Mean

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• On the morning the last Lisbon daughter took her turn at suicide- it was Mary this time, and sleeping pills, like Therese- the two paramedics arrived at the house knowing exactly where the knife drawer was, and the gas oven, and the beam in the basement from which it was possible to tie a rope.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Daughter, Suicide, Morning

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.1, Macmillan

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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, Kitchen

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• The disgraced Usurer Yankel D took the baby girl home that evening... He made a bed of crumpled newspaper in a deep baking pan and gently tucked it in the oven, so that she wouldn't be disturbed by the noise of the small falls outside... When he pulled her out to feed her or just hold her, her body was tattooed with the newsprint... Sometimes he would rock her to sleep in his arms, and read her left to right, and know everything he needed to know about the world. If it wasn't written on her, it wasn't important to him.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Girl, Baby, Fall

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• Millions of American women, and some men, commit that outrage every summer day. They are turning a superb treat into mere provender. Shucked and boiled in water, sweet corn is edible and nutritious; roasted in the husk in the hottest possible oven for forty minutes, shucked at the table, and buttered and salted, nothing else, it is ambrosia. No chef’s ingenuity and imagination have ever created a finer dish. American women should themselves be boiled in water.

  Rex Stout

  Summer, Sweet, Men

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• I didn't know about the rest of the class, but when Bastille Day eventually rolled around, I planned to stay home and clean my oven.

  David Sedaris

  Home, Class, Clean

  David Sedaris (2009). “Holidays on Ice”, p.89, Hachette UK

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• People rewrite the play so much to make it palatable to the audience, to make something clear, that they just deaden it. Like it was left it in the oven too long.

  John Guare

  Play, Long, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The last time I had PMS a roast chicken popped out of the oven and danced the Macarena.Krebs had walked in just as the chicken started dancing. By then he was pretty much used to anything and only asked if the chicken shouldn’t be doing the Chicken Dance instead.

  Linda Wisdom

  Pms, Dancing, Lasts

  Linda Wisdom (2008). “50 Ways to Hex Your Lover”, p.118, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• In deference to American traditions, my family put our oven to rare use at Thanksgiving during my childhood, with odd roast-turkey experiments involving sticky-rice stuffing or newfangled basting techniques that we read about in magazines.

  Jennifer Lee

  Turkeys, Childhood, Technique

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• I can make a damn pork chop. My best dish is actually lasagna, which I do a couple times a year. My wife wishes I cooked a little bit more often, but I can put a frozen pizza in the oven and I make a good salad.

  Ed Harris

  Couple, Years, Wife

  "Ed Harris Talks SNOWPIERCER, Joining the Film, Being a Fan of Bong Joon Ho and His Unusual Shooting Style, Editing While Shooting, and Working with Chris Evans". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 25, 2014.

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• There is something wonderful about a death, how everything shuts down, and all the ways you thought you were vital are not even vaguely important. Your husband can feed the kids, he can work the new oven, he can find the sausages in the fridge, after all. And his important meeting was not important, not in the slightest.

  Anne Enright

  Death, Husband, Kids

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• The Jews talk about "never again."... You cannot say "Never again" to God because when he puts you in the oven, you're in one indeed!... "Never again" don't mean a damn thing when God get ready for you!

  Louis Farrakhan

  Mean, Damn, Jew

  "People Organized and Working for Economic Rebirth". Louis Farrakhan's Sermon at Madison Square Garden, October 7, 1985.

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• When I visited concentration camps, I was more interested in how people responded to the camps than in the actual places. I watched kids picnicking on the ovens and other people stricken with grief.

  Rachel Whiteread

  Grief, Kids, People

  2001 From an interview on www.guggenheim.org, 18 Apr.

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• Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven?

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational Love, Grief, Wine

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.48, Lulu.com

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• Decaf is like masturbating with an oven mitt!

  Robin Williams

  Coffee, Great Coffee

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• Basting is evil. Basting does nothing for the meat. Why? Skin. Skin is designed to keep stuff out of the bird, so basting just lets heat out of the oven. That means the turkey will take longer to cook... so don't touch that door!

  Alton Brown

  Mean, Doors, Turkeys

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• The most callous, stupid things were done just because regulations required them...It was not until 1983, for example, that U.S. federal agencies stated that substances known to be caustic irritants such as lye, ammonia, and oven cleaners, did not need to be tested on the eyes of conscious rabbits.

  Peter Singer

  Stupid, Eye, Animal

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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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• 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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• 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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