Dishes Quotes - Page 6

• Modesty is a bright dish-cover, which makes us fancy there is something very nice underneath it.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Nice, Fancy, Modesty

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• History doesn't pass the dishes again.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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• The monotony of provincial life attracts the attention of people to the kitchen. You do not dine as luxuriously in the provinces as in Paris, but you dine better, because the dishes serve you are the result of mediation and study.

  Honore de Balzac

  Paris, People, Kitchen

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• If your doctor does not think it good for you to sleep, to drink wine, or to eat of a particular dish, do not worry; I will find you another who will not agree with him.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Food, Wine, Sleep

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• We ought to know about our culinary past. Food and identity is terribly important ... I don't mean we should go out and eat historic dishes, but we should know what makes us different ... self-confident nations have that sense of where they come from.

  Tom Jaine

  Mean, Past, Self

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• However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.

  Martial

  Eating, Stills, Greater

  Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.598

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• Greens are a dish that most Southerners would walk a mile for.

  Edna Lewis

  Miles, Walks, Southerner

  Edna Lewis (2013). “In Pursuit of Flavor”, p.33, Knopf

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• No matter what you do for a living you should get paid for your work, whether you're washing dishes or recording songs.

  Bif Naked

  Song, Matter, Washing Dishes

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• Valentine's Day money-saving tips: Break up on February 13th, get back together on the 15th. In place of bubble bath, use lavender-scented dish-washing liquid. Forget rose petals. Sprinkle the bed with sliced beets!

  David Letterman

  Valentine, Rose, Together

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• Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.

  Randall Munroe

  Writing, Office, House

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• The slime that accumulates on the underside of a soap bar when it sits in the dish too long.

  Rich Hall

  Humorous, Long, Bars

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• The wisest advice I ever received regarding the kitchen came from my mother: 'Do the dishes while you're cooking.

  Lela Rose

  Mother, Advice, Cooking

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• The thought processes that go through my head when I'm playing a game compared to the thought processes in real life are very, very different. And they're more interesting to me than what you think about when you're doing the dishes, cleaning the yard, watching TV, driving or watching a movie.

  John Romero

  Real, Thinking, Games

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• I realize that people won't even download the entire album and might just download a song or two and put it in a playlist for a workout or in the background while people do dishes. That's fine and I can't dictate how people listen to my music, but I structure records the way I listen to records.

  Mikal Cronin

  Song, Workout, Two

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I can make a damn pork chop. My best dish is actually lasagna, which I do a couple times a year. My wife wishes I cooked a little bit more often, but I can put a frozen pizza in the oven and I make a good salad.

  Ed Harris

  Couple, Years, Wife

  "Ed Harris Talks SNOWPIERCER, Joining the Film, Being a Fan of Bong Joon Ho and His Unusual Shooting Style, Editing While Shooting, and Working with Chris Evans". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 25, 2014.

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• The only things that are immortal in this world are government programs and cancer cells in petri dishes.

  Jim Babka

  Cancer, Government, Cells

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• I was collecting Barbies. I know... embarrassing. I sold them all on eBay, and traded them for vintage dishes. So I've collected two things.

  Kristin Bauer van Straten

  Two, Ebay, Vintage

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humoredly, and spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Silence, Covering, Sauce

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• Ingratitude is a nail which, driven into the tree of courtesy, causes it to wither; it is a broken channel, by which the foundations of the affections are undermined; and a lump of soot, which, falling into the dish of friendship, destroys its scent and flavor.

  Giambattista Basile

  Fall, Broken, Tree

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• Revenge is a dish best served . . . At every meal.

  Grumpy Cat

  Revenge, Meals

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• Un-dish-cover the fish, or dishcover the riddle.

  Lewis Carroll

  Riddle, Fishes

  'Through the Looking-Glass' (1872) ch. 9

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• Gastronomers of the year 1825, who find sateity in the lap of abundance, and dream of some newly-made dishes, you will not enjoy the discoveries which science has in store for the year 1900, such as foods drawn from the mineral kingdom, liqueurs produced by the pressure of a hundred atmospheres; you will never see the importations which travelers yet unborn will bring to you from that half of the globe which has still to be discovered or explored. How I pity you!

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Dream, Food, Years

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2010). “A Handbook of Gastronomy”, p.393, Lulu.com

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• For whom he means to make an often guest, One dish shall serve; and welcome make the rest.

  Joseph Hall

  Mean, Guests, Welcome

  Joseph Hall (1839). “The Works of Joseph Hall: Miscellaneous works; Poetical works: Appendix; indices, etc”, p.195

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• The space between the dish and the pitcher, that I paint also.

  Georges Braque

  Space, Paint, Pitcher

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• Draw things that have some meaning to you. An apple, what does it mean? The object drawn doesn't matter so much. It's what you feel about it, what it means to you. A masterpiece could be made of a dish of turnips.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Mean, Apples, Doe

  Sherwood Anderson (1953). “Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout”

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