Charcoal Quotes

• Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes it's based on history, on habits that come out of a time when kitchens were fueled by charcoal.

  Alton Brown

  Kitchen, Facts, Sometimes

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• A colourist makes his presence known even in a simple charcoal drawing.

  Henri Matisse

  Simple, Drawing, Known

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1973). “Matisse on art”

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• The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.

  Bill Vaughan

  Home, World, Wonderful

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• I love using gas grills because they are easier to heat and it's much easier to control the flames with a gas grill than with a charcoal fire. Grilling is not just about lighting a fire.

  Bobby Flay

  Fire, Flames, Grilling

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• Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is black charcoal crushing white paper.

  Gunter Grass

  Crush, Art, Passion

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• Eating coals of fire has always been one of the sensational feats of the Fire Kings, as it is quite generally known that charcoal burns with an extremely intense heat.

  Harry Houdini

  Kings, Fire, Coal

  Harry Houdini (2015). “Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: Human Understanding”, p.39, 谷月社

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• The sand stones had fragments of charcoal on some surfaces but found no recognisable fossils.

  George Mercer Dawson

  Stones, Fossils, Sand

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• To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and quick lime. Distill this over a charcoal fire, and the liquid which results can be burned on the face without harm.

  Harry Houdini

  Fire, Flames, Together

  Harry Houdini (2015). “Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: Human Understanding”, p.41, 谷月社

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• I have a Kenwood charcoal grill. In our house, if anybody is cooking, it's me. I love making burgers. I love making pork tenderloin. Lamb chops I do on the grill a lot. But you just can't beat brats.

  Nick Offerman

  House, Cooking, Pork

  "Ron Swanson of Parks & Rec vs. Nick Offerman: The Food Interview". Interview with Elina Shatkin, www.laweekly.com. November 22, 2011.

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• Charcoal or gas. Both give excellent results, so choose the one that best suits your style of cooking.

  Bobby Flay

  Giving, Cooking, Style

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• I prefer lump charcoal over briquettes but I do use both for different reasons and different recipes and sometimes I combine them both when I really want the woodsy aroma from the lump charcoal and long, even heat from the briquettes.

  Bobby Flay

  Long, Different, Use

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• Blaise Pascal used to mark with charcoal the walls of his playroom, seeking a means of making a circle perfectly round and a triangle whose sides and angle were all equal. He discovered these things for himself and then began to seek the relationship which existed between them. He did not know any mathematical terms and so he made up his own. Using these names he made axioms and finally developed perfect demonstrations, until he had come to the thirty-second proposition of Euclid.

  Catharine Cox Miles

  Fun, Wall, Mean

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• If a piece of burning charcoal be placed on a man’s head, see how he struggles to throw it off. Similar will be the struggle for freedom of those who really understand that they are slaves of nature.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Struggle, Men, Burning

  Swami Vivekananda (1995). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

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• Can the plural possessive express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Art, Feelings, Breathe

  Laurie Halse Anderson (1999). “Speak”, Puffin

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• I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Letting Go, Flower, Learning

  Georgia O'Keeffe, Richard Marshall, Yvonne Scott, Achille Bonito Oliva, Vancouver Art Gallery (2007). “Georgia O'Keeffe: nature and abstraction”, Skira - Berenice

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• Sometimes when she is able to spend the night with him they are wakened by the three minarets of the city beginning their prayers before dawn. He walks with her through the indigo markets that lie between South Cairo and her home. The beautiful songs of faith enter the air like arrows, one minaret answering another, as if passing on a rumor of the two of them as they walk through the cold morning air, the smell of charcoal and hemp already making the air profound. Sinners in a holy city.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Beautiful, Song, Morning

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• There are some forty-five thousand items in the average American supermarket and more than a quarter of them now contain corn. This goes for the nonfood items as well: Everything from the
  toothpaste and cosmetics to the disposable diapers, trash bags, cleansers, charcoal briquettes, matches, and batteries, right down to the shine on the cover of the magazine that catches your
  eye by the checkout: corn.

  Michael Pollan

  Eye, Shine On, Average

  Michael Pollan (2006). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals”, p.31, Penguin

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• A pencil in my hand, its secret life / is charcoal, the wood already burnt, / a sacrifice.

  Marianne Boruch

  Sacrifice, Hands, Secret

  Marianne Boruch (2016). “Cadaver, Speak”, p.13, Copper Canyon Press

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• The miracle is not to walk on water, or in the air, or on burning charcoal. The miracle is to walk on earth. You breathe in, you become aware of the fact that you are alive. You are alive and you are walking on this beautiful planet. The greatest of of all miracles is to be alive.

  Nhat Hanh

  Beautiful, Yoga, Air

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• Violence up close has a smell. Like copper blood and charcoal burning.

  Jodi Picoult

  Blood, Smell, Burning

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• Not only is New York City the nation's melting pot, it is also the casserole, the chafing dish and the charcoal grill.

  John Lindsay

  New York, Cities, Melting

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• A man in twenty-four hours converts as much as seven ounces of carbon into carbonic acid; a milch cow will convert seventy ounces, and a horse seventy-nine ounces, solely by the act of respiration. That is, the horse in twenty-four hours burns seventy-nine ounces of charcoal, or carbon, in his organs of respiration to supply his natural warmth in that time ..., not in a free state, but in a state of combination.

  Michael Faraday

  Horse, Men, Twenties

  Michael Faraday, Hermann L. F. Von Helmholtz (2010). “Scientific Papers: Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy, Geology”, p.175, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The sun shines equally on diamond and charcoal, but the former has developed qualities that enable it to reflect the sunlight brilliantly, while the latter is unable to reflect the sunlight. Emulate the diamond in your dealings with people. Brightly reflect the light of God's love.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Love, Light, People

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• I am six years old and instead of celebrating with birthday cakes, I chew on a piece of charcoal.

  Loung Ung

  Years, Cake, Six Year Olds

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• Did you ever have something to say and feel as if the whole side of the wall wouldn't be big enough to say it on, and then sit down on the floor and try to get it onto a sheet of charcoal paper?

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Wall, Trying, Paper

  Roxana Robinson, Georgia O'Keeffe (1989). “Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life”, p.127, UPNE

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