Dessert Quotes - Page 8

• We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ice Cream, House, Dare

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.133, Рипол Классик

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• God bless my soul! No apple pie.

  Robert Oliver

  Food, Blessed, Apples

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• UML is not dessert topping and floor wax.

  Grady Booch

  Toppings

  Twitter post from Aug 4, 2016

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• Composing a concert is like composing a menu.... If you start with light pieces and play a 45-minute sonata after the interlude, it's like starting dinner with hors d'oeuvres and dessert and finishing with a Châteaubriand and vegetables.

  Arthur Rubinstein

  Light, Vegetables, Play

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• It takes a great deal of labor and love to make ice wine. When you have it with dessert, you miss the point of enjoying it on its own.

  Alpana Singh

  Wine, Ice, Missing

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• What goes on between a man and his missus is nobody's business; especially where desert toppin's involved.

  Tanya Huff

  Men, Desert, Goes On

  Tanya Huff (2011). “Nights of the Round Table: And Other Stories of Heroic Fantasy”, p.7, Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.

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• If Camels are the ship of the dessert, this one is the Titanic

  Karl Pilkington

  Camels, Ships, Ifs

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• Every Super Bowl, I do different food each quarter from each of the hometowns of the teams competing. So I’m always hoping for cities with a gastronomic soul—not so much Indianapolis or Denver, right? For halftime we have New York hot dogs from Papaya Dog. And at the end of the game I’ve chosen a dessert based on who I think is going to win.

  Mario Batali

  Dog, New York, Team

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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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• Clemenza's overriding responsibility is to his family. He takes a moment out of his routine madness to remember that he had promised his wife that he would bring dessert home. His instruction to his partner in crime is an entire moral manifesto in six little words: 'Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.

  Sarah Vowell

  Home, Responsibility, Gun

  "Take the Cannoli: Stories From the New World". Book by Sarah Vowell, 2000.

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• When oranges came in, a curious proceeding was gone through. Miss Jenkyns did not like to cut the fruit, for, as she observed, the juice all ran out nobody knew where, sucking [only I think she used some more recondite word] was in fact the only way of enjoying oranges; but then there was the unpleasant association with a ceremony frequently gone through by little babies; and so, after dessert, in orange season, Miss Jenkyns and Miss Matty used to rise up, possess themselves each of an orange in silence, and withdraw to the privacy of their own rooms to indulge in sucking oranges.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Baby, Cutting, Thinking

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.406, Delphi Classics

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• I don't eat four-legged animals, but I eat birds, I eat cheese, I eat dessert. I eat everything.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Animal, Bird, Four

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• Thy breath is like the steame of apple-pyes.

  Robert Greene

  Food, Apples, Cooking

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• Sexual touch is the dessert of married life!

  Laura M. Brotherson

  Married, Married Life

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• There are divisions between a culinary chef and a dessert chef, also called a pastry chef. There are specializations within the pastry chef field. Some pastry chefs specialize in baking breads, while others are master cake designers. Each field requires an exceptional level of creativity and attention to detail.

  Ron Ben-Israel

  Creativity, Cake, Details

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• I was in the Pritikin Center in Santa Monica once, trying to lose 30 or 40 pounds in a month. I'd work... on a treadmill and with the weights, but it was driving me nuts. So I escaped. Tom Arnold picked me up and we went to Le Dome and had tons of desserts.

  Chris Farley

  Nuts, Trying, Pounds

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I learned that the hardest party to pull off successfully is Saturday night dinner. This meal is expected to be elaborate: appetizers, first course, dinner, dessert, and coffee. People arrive at 7:30 or 8 p.m. and stay for hours - definitely past my bedtime - and they all go home exhausted.

  Ina Garten

  Party, Coffee, Home

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• My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Strength, Wedding, Common Sense

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• Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don't do any good, but they don't necessarily do any harm. It's touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I've got my just desserts.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Prayer, Mean, Thinking

  "Christopher Hitchens on his memoir, Hitch-22". "Hugh Hewitt Show", www.hughhewitt.com. July 13, 2010.

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• Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.

  George Will

  Apples, Pie, Cheesy

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• By the time dessert arrives I am usually so drunk, I can't remember what I'm serving.

  Ruby Wax

  Drunk, Remember, I Can

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• I have a flat tummy, but I'm not rock hard. If I'm going to be in a bikini, I'll train more and skip desserts for a couple of weeks. But usually, I work out to feel good.

  Nina Dobrev

  Couple, Rocks, Work Out

  "Nina Dobrev's Secrets to Getting Sexy" by Erin Bried, www.self.com. November 15, 2012.

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• Yeah the appetizer, that's the food we eat before we have our food...No no you're thinking of dessert, that's food we eat after we have our food.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Thinking, Yeah, Appetizers

  Jim Gaffigan (2014). “Food: A Love Story”, p.194, Crown Archetype

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• And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad, so I had one more for dessert

  Kris Kristofferson

  Beer, Breakfast

  Song: Sunday Morning Coming Down

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• The mighty hunter," I quipped as we snuck out the backdoor, escaping into the yard. "He can take down vicious rabids and rampaging boars, but one old lady can make him flee in terror.""One scary old lady," he corrected me, looking relieved to be out of the house. "You didn't hear what she told me when I got up - you're so cute I could put you in a pie. Tell me that's not the creepiest thing you've ever heard." His voice climbed a few octaves, turning shrill and breathy. "Today for dessert, we have apple pie, blueberry pie and Ezekiel pie.

  Julie Kagawa

  Cute, Escaping, Voice

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