Dishes Quotes - Page 15

• Breathtakingly real and utterly compelling, Immoral dishes up page-turning psychological suspense while treating us lucky readers to some of the most literate and stylish writing you'll find anywhere today.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Real, Writing, Pages Turning

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• Tasting a dish should be memorable If nothing remains in the memory of a single guest, then I have made a mistake.

  Alain Ducasse

  Memories, Mistake, Memorable

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• When I was waiting tables, washing dishes, or mowing lawns for money, I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. I was on my own path, my own journey, an American journey where I could think for myself, decide for myself, define happiness for myself.

  Paul Ryan

  Journey, Thinking, Waiting

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• "Would you like to see the menu?" he said. "Or would you like to meet the Dish of the Day?" [...] "Good evening," it lowed and sat back heavily on its haunches, "I am the main Dish of the Day. May I interest you in parts of my body?"

  Douglas Adams

  Body, May, Evening

  "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Book 2)". Book by Douglas Adams, October 1980.

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• I'm kind of a low-key guy. The spotlight doesn't suit me. I'm more of a side dish--cole slaw or French fries or a Wham! backup singer.

  Haruki Murakami

  Keys, Guy, Spotlight

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from May 27, 2014

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• There's a Polar Bear In our Frigidaire-- He likes it 'cause it's cold in there. With his seat in the meat And his face in the fish And his big hairy paws In the buttery dish, He's nibbling the noodles, And munching the rice, He's slurping the soda, He's licking the ice. And he lets out a roar If you open the door. And it gives me a scare To know he's in there-- That Polary Bear In our Fridgitydaire.

  Shel Silverstein

  Doors, Ice, Giving

  Shel Silverstein, “Bear In There”

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• So I taught Sunday school and brought dishes to all manner of potlucks and tried to adjust the things I heard from the pulpit to my increasingly incongruent faith.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  School, Sunday, Taught

  Sue Monk Kidd (2016). “The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• That’s what religion does. It points a finger. It causes wars. It breaks apart countries. It’s a petri dish for stereotypes to grow in. Religion’s not about being holy...Just holier-than-thous.

  Jodi Picoult

  Country, War, Doe

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• Holy is the dish and drain, the soap and sink, and the cup and plate and the warm wool socks, and the cold white tile, showerheads and good dry towelsand frying eggs sound like psalms, with bits of salt measured in my palm. It's all a part of a sacrament, as holy as a day is spent.

  Carrie Newcomer

  Faith, Inspiration, Eggs

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• Dad took moving pictures of us children washing dishes, so that he could figure out how we could reduce our motions and thus hurry through the task. Irregular jobs, such as painting the back porch or removing a stump from the front lawn, were awarded on a low-bid basis. Each child who wanted extra pocket money submitted a sealed bid saying what he would do the job for. The lowest bidder got the contract.

  Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.

  Jobs, Children, Dad

  FRANK B. GILBRETH JR. (1948). “CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN”

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• I discovered the miracle that all things that sound are music, including the dishes and silverware in the dishwasher, as long as they fulfill the illusion of showing us where life is heading.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Long, Miracle, Sound

  FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Feb 12, 2017

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• My favorite dish is tandoori chicken.

  Shahrukh Khan

  My Favorite, Chickens

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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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• Jules says there are three things that make you a grown-up: an eight-piece set of matching dishes; gin, vodka and whiskey in the house; and making your bed every morning. I disagree with her. I think you're officially a grown-up when you've got another half. When you don't have to live in fear of other couples. When you don't have to feel you're not good enough.

  Jane Green

  Morning, Couple, Thinking

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• A lot of people say it's cathartic to cook, and I'm like, 'How is it cathartic washing all these dishes?'

  Sherri Shepherd

  Women, People, Cooks

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• If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they're talking.

  Orson Welles

  Talking, Diners, Restaurants

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• My favorite Dominican dish to indulge in is anything with crab.

  Pharrell Williams

  Indulge In, My Favorite, Crabs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Paper Matches My aunts washed dishes while the uncles squirted each other on the lawn with garden hoses. Why are we in here, I said, and they are out there? That’s the way it is, said Aunt Hetty, the shriveled-up one. I have the rages that small animals have, being small, being animal. Written on me was a message, “At Your Service,” like a book of paper matches. One by one we were taken out and struck. We come bearing supper, our heads on fire.

  Paulette Jiles

  Uncles, Book, Taken

  Paulette Jiles (1988). “Blackwater”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• The mind wants to live forever, or to learn a very good reason why not. The mind wants the world to return its love, or its awareness... The mind's sidekick, however, will settle for two eggs over easy. The dear, stupid body is easily satisfied as a spaniel. And, incredibly, the simple spaniel can lure the brawling mind to its dish. It is everlastingly funny that the proud, metaphysically ambitious mind will hush if you give it an egg.

  Annie Dillard

  Stupid, Simple, Eggs

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• If you have to dry the dishes (Such an awful boring chore) If you have to dry the dishes ('Stead of going to the store) If you have to dry the dishes And you drop one on the floor Maybe they won't let you Dry the dishes anymore

  Shel Silverstein

  Dry, Awful, Boring

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• I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing.

  Mark Twain

  Clothes, Arbitrary, Use

  Mark Twain (2002). “Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 6: 1874-1875”, p.660, Univ of California Press

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• Then there came a faraway, booming voice like a low, clear bell. It came from the center of the bowl and down the great sides to the ground and then bounced toward her eagerly. 'You see I am fate,' it shouted, 'and stronger than your puny plans; and I am how-things-turn-out and I am different from your little dreams, and I am the flight of time and the end of beauty and unfulfilled desire; all the accidents and imperceptions and the little minutes that shape the crucial hours are mine. I am the exception that proves no rules, the limits of your control, the condiment in the dish of life.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Dream, Fate, Voice

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• I, for my part, wonder of what sort of feeling, mind or reason that man was possessed who was first to pollute his mouth with gore, and to allow his lips to touch the flesh of a murdered being: who spread his table with the mangled forms of dead bodies, and claimed as daily food and dainty dishes what but now were beings endowed with movement, perception and with voice. …but for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh, we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that portion of life and time it had been born in to the world to enjoy.

  Plutarch

  Men, Light, Voice

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• Everyone knows revenge is a dish best served when you've had enough time to build up enough vitriol and fury.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Revenge, Enough Time, Had Enough

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• you're just a side dish not the main course!

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  Side Dishes, Sides, Main Course

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