Dishes Quotes - Page 10

• I'm trying to learn how to listen to people and how not to think that this is all I am. It's not going to change the fact that at home I'm going to put away the clean dishes, and I'm going to have to be nice to my siblings. It encourages me, but it doesn't define me.

  Bethany Dillon

  Sibling, Nice, Home

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• I was born and raised during Depression Years when we were on County relief and we all went out and we hustled. we worked. I worked in a restaurant, I washed dishes.

  Liberace

  Years, Relief, Born

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• One of the biggest dishes in Sicily is couscous, and there's always been a North African influence on Italian culture, culinary culture there.

  Jonas Carpignano

  Italian, Culture, Influence

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Women are foils to men in South Korea. It is hard for women to take a lead role even in NGOs for political resistance. Men think women should do trivial things on the margins. They think women should be merely a seasoning for a dish. I feel anger and sorrow seeing this.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Men, Thinking, Korea

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• One thing inspired me the most from the time I spent in Charleston was how much heritage and history are connected to influencing how I cook. Each dish tugged my heart in a different spot that after I finished cooking, I was really emotional and felt fulfilled at the same time.

  Shirley Chung

  Heart, Emotional, Cooking

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• If it smells like fish its a dish. If it smells like cologne leave it alone.

  Andrew Dice Clay

  Smell, Fishes, Cologne

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• I have a cousin Ernie who buys stuff. He's got a big snowblower that's actually the biggest snowblower you can buy, with a remote control, so he doesn't even have to go outside. He's got the microwave and a satellite dish, it's all in one. He cooks and watches at the same time.

  Louie Anderson

  Cousin, Watches, Stuff

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• Directing is like cooking, it's like cuisine. You cannot make a great dish with bad ingredients. I have great actors, and I'm putting them together. That's all I'm doing.

  Louis Leterrier

  Cooking, Together, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• When you talk about avant-garde cuisine, the surprise factor is really important. For example, I love looking at blogs and the photos, but I'm not that keen on other people taking photos of my dishes.

  Ferran Adria

  People, Important, Avant Garde

  "Ferran Adrià Discusses His Future". Interview with Sara Bonisteel, www.epicurious.com.

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• A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.

  Fergie

  Trying, Costa Rica, Wow

  "Fergie: The Superstar". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. November 1, 2010.

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• Corrupted by wealth and power, your government is like a restaurant with only one dish. They've got a set of Republican waiters on one side and a set of Democratic waiters on the other side. But no matter which set of waiters brings you the dish, the legislative grub is all prepared in the same Wall Street kitchen.

  Huey Long

  Wall, Government, Long

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• I find that vegetables like butternut squash, which I feel unexcited about as a side dish, I'm thrilled to eat in a soup.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Vegetables, Squash, Side Dishes

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• In life, one is entitled to a side dish of either coleslaw or potato salad, and the choice must be made in terror, with the knowledge that not only is our time on earth limited but most kitchens close at ten.

  Woody Allen

  Choices, Kitchen, Earth

  Woody Allen (2007). “Mere Anarchy”, Random House Incorporated

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• ... if one does not have wild dreams of achievement, there is no spur even to get the dishes washed. One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.

  May Sarton

  Dream, Hero, Thinking

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.72, Open Road Media

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• Working- and Middle-class families sat down at the dinner table every night - the shared meal was the touchstone of good manners. Indeed, that dinner table was the one time when we were all together, every day: parents, grandparents, children, siblings. Rudeness between siblings, or a failure to observe the etiquette of passing dishes to one another, accompanied by "please" and "thank you," was the training ground of behavior, the place where manners began.

  Larry McMurtry

  Children, Sibling, Night

  Larry McMurtry (1999). “Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections at Sixty and Beyond”

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• I only eat meat, if I go to a nice restaurant and there is an exceptional dish, or if I'm at somebody's home for a dinner, I'll eat whatever is in front of me. Otherwise, I don't eat anything that walks around and has a face.

  Bryan Fuller

  Nice, Home, Meat

  Source: collider.com

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• You don't lose your temper and throw the cat out the door. You don't lose your temper and throw a dish at the dog and make him thing he's going to die.

  Ernest Angley

  Dog, Cat, Doors

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• There is no truer saying than "Revenge is a dish best eaten cold." It is so much sweeter for the waiting, and my only regret is that I cannot broadcast my triumph to the world.

  Minette Walters

  Revenge, Regret, Waiting

  Minette Walters (2011). “The Scold's Bridle”, p.71, Pan Macmillan

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• At Babbo, each dish grew out of a conversation, trying to put something forth that was new and different. It was a combination of culinary adventurism and the dining-room experience with respect for the classic but with an eye toward innovation. And it was about eating locally, whether produce or fish or meat.

  Joe Bastianich

  Eye, Innovation, Trying

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• I work for a company that makes deceptively shallow serving dishes for Chinese restaurants.

  Woody Allen

  Work, Chinese, Shallow

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• I think for a chef, to have a signature dish is a tough question to answer. On one, you don't want to be associated necessarily with just one thing that you think you might do well. On the other side, you've got to commit to owning up to certain things.

  Chuck Hughes

  Thinking, Tough Questions, Signatures

  Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

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• An exhaustive study of police records shows that no woman has ever shot her husband while he was doing the dishes.

  Earl Wilson

  Husband, Women, Police

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• No dish changes quite so much from season to season as soup. Summer's soups come chilled, in pastel colors strewn with herbs. If hot they are sheer insubstantial broths afloat with seafood. In winter they turn steaming and thick to serve with slabs of rustic, crusty bread.

  Florence Fabricant

  Summer, Food, Winter

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• Most cooks try to learn by making dishes. Doesnt mean you can cook. It means you can make that dish. When you can cook is when you can go to a farmers market, buy a bunch of stuff, then go home and make something without looking at a recipe. Now youre cooking.

  Tom Colicchio

  Home, Mean, Cooking

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• You emptied the top rack of the dishwasher but not the bottom, so the clean dishes have gotten all mixed up with the dirty ones - and now you want to have sex?

  Lorrie Moore

  Sex, Dirty, Want

  Lorrie Moore (2009). “A Gate at the Stairs”, p.202, Faber & Faber

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