Stoves Quotes - Page 2

• When one married a man, it was clear to me, one married also the sink and the stove.

  Phyllis Bentley

  Marriage, Men, Wife

  Phyllis Eleanor Bentley (1962). “"O Dreams, O Destinations": An Autobiography”, London : Gollancz

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• An Ant on a hot stove-lid runs faster than an Ant on a cold one. Who wouldn't?

  Will Cuppy

  Running, Hot, Ants

  "Insects for Everybody". "How to Attract the Wombat". Book by Will Cuppy, 1949.

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• Kids only learn that the stove is hot when they put their finger on and they burn it. This, unfortunately, is the limitation of our precious brain.

  Hasso Plattner

  Kids, Brain, Hot

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• Every time I go near the stove, the dog howls.

  Phyllis Diller

  Funny, Dog, Howl

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• Count Olaf certainly does sound evil. Imagine forcing children to stand near a stove!

  Daniel Handler

  Children, Evil, Sound

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• From my own experience I can say that a bad back makes you hike slower, stove-up knees keep you from wading confidently, tendinitis of the elbows buggers your casting, and a dose of giardia can send you dashing to the bushes fifteen times in an afternoon, but although none of this is fun, it's discernibly better than not fishing.

  John Gierach

  Fun, Lakes, Sea

  John Gierach (2012). “No Shortage of Good Days”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• Consider, children ... the pain of touching the tip of your finger to your mother's stove, even for a fraction of a second. That is an experience which most of you have suffered. Now try to imagine that pain, not simply on a fingertip but spread over the whole surface of your body, and not for a mere second, but everlastingly. That, children, is hellfire.

  Louis Auchincloss

  Mother, Pain, Children

  Louis Auchincloss (1965). “The Rector of Justin”

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• Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. . . . Read it a hundred times; it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went.

  Robert Frost

  Ice, Poetry, Forever

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.133, Harvard University Press

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• The people who survive avoid snowball scenarios in which bad trades cause them to become emotionally destabilized and make more bad trades. They are also able to feel the pain of losing. If you don't feel the pain of a loss, then you're in the same position as those unfortunate people who have no pain sensors. If they leave their hand on a hot stove, it will burn off. There is no way to survive in the world without pain. Similarly, in the markets, if the losses don't hurt, your financial survival is tenuous.

  William Eckhardt

  Hurt, Pain, Loss

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• I've really learned a lot, really learned a lot, love is like a stove, burns you when it's hot

  Roy Orbison

  Love, Hot, Love Is

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• Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or carriage, the black iron frame of the hearth, the black cooking pots and pans and stoves. Was it a mourning? Was it protective coloration? Was it mere depression of the senses? No matter what the original color of the paleotechnic milieu might be it was soon reduced by reason of the soot and cinders that accompanied its activities, to its characteristic tones, grey, dirty-brown, black.

  Lewis Mumford

  Dirty, Heart, Science

  Lewis Mumford, Langdon Winner (2010). “Technics and Civilization”, p.163, University of Chicago Press

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• One evening when I had my wood-burning stove going I realized I hadn't thought of dessert.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Funny, Dumb, Burning

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• We lit the stove a few days ago and the entire room is filled with smoke. I prefer central heating, and I'm probably not the only one.

  Anne Frank

  One Day, Rooms, Filled

  Anne Frank (2011). “The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition”, p.42, Bantam

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• I'd never buy my girl a watch... she's already got a clock over the stove.

  Charles Barkley

  Girl, Watches, Clock

  "Charles Barkley gives the 'American Race' some real traction" by Lorraine Ali, www.latimes.com. May 4, 2017.

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• Cold morning on Aztec Peak Fire Lookout. First, build fire in old stove. Second, start coffee. Then, heat up last night's pork chops and spinach for breakfast. Why not? And why the hell not?

  Edward Abbey

  Morning, Coffee, Night

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.16, RosettaBooks

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• I used to get on a stove wood pile at 5-6 years old and I would have a piece of stove wood and kindling bark as a pick, and I was a star.

  Jerry Reed

  Stars, Years, Pieces

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• I'm into eating as little as possible, paying as little attention as possible. I never cook. Never use the stove or anything.

  Noam Chomsky

  Attention, Use, Littles

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Death smells like homemade applesauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling scent of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.

  Rachel Corrie

  Smell, Apples, Sauce

  "Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie".

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• When I was a kid of six or seven, I used to get up on the stove woodpile for a stage and I'd put on the wildest show.

  Jerry Reed

  Kids, Six, Seven

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• Any person of any philosophic persuasion who sits on a hot stove will verify without any intellectual argument whatsoever that he is in an undeniably low-quality situation: that the value of his predicament is negative. This low quality is not just a vague, woolly-headed, crypto-religious, metaphysical abstraction. It is an experience. It is not a judgment about an experience. It is not a description of experience. The value itself is an experience. As such it is completely predictable. It is verifiable by anyone who cares to do so.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Religious, Intellectual, Quality

  "Lila : An Inquiry Into Morals". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1991.

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• If you're Mejicana or Mejicano and don't know who Pedro Infante is, you should be tied to a hot stove with yucca rope and beaten with sharp dry corn husks as you stand in a vat of soggy fideos.

  Denise Chavez

  Dry, Corn, Vat

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• I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword - two jackets, one that's driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Hate, Men, Thinking

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• They say that a good cook can ignite sparks by the way he kisses. The way I see, just because a guy can turn on the stove doesn't necessarily make him a good cook.

  Stefanie Powers

  Kissing, Guy, Cooking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I bent my head over a stove in my early 20s and picked it up in my 30s.

  Alexandra Guarnaschelli

  Bent, Early 20s

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• When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally. I fried it and stewed it, and ate it crisp and sludgy, hot and cold. It was cheap and filling and was delicious in all manner of strange combinations. If any was left over, I ate it cold the next day on bread.

  Laurie Colwin

  Hot And Cold, Eggplant, Next Day

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