Dough Quotes - Page 2

• Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Suicide, Nature, Suicidal

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook B 37, 1799.

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• Remember that it's never a crime in the face of humanity and enlightenment to distribute the works of the great humanists among the merchants and moneychangers of this godforsaken country... You better slip me the dough.

  John Dos Passos

  Country, Book, Humanity

  John Dos Passos (2013). “The 42nd Parallel”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Hillary Clinton has made a lot of dough out of being a politician. I gave up dough to be a politician. I'm sure that Ronald Reagan gave up dough to be a politician.

  Clint Eastwood

  Politician, Clinton, Made

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I eat only white foods: eggs, sugar, grated bones, the fat of dead animals; veal, salt, coconut, chicken cooked in white water; fruit mold, rice, turnips; camphorated sausage, dough, cheese (white), cotton salad, and certain fish (skinless).

  Erik Satie

  Animal, Eggs, White

  "Erik Satie". Book by Rollo H. Myers, New York: Dover, p.135, 1968.

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• [There's a] point where you have to leave the dough alone. It's silly to anthropomorphize bread, but I love the fact that it needs to sit quietly, to retreat from touch and noise and drama, in order to evolve. I have to admit, I often feel that way myself.

  Jodi Picoult

  Drama, Silly, Order

  Randy Susan Meyers, M. J. Rose, Ronlyn Domingue, Sarah Pekkanen, Jodi Picoult (2013). “Atria Book Club Bites: A Free Sampling of Ten Books Guaranteed to Feed Your Discussion”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• If you were a Colombian, you would have your version of an empanada. If you are an Argentinean, you might find a dough that's baked and has a butter sheen on it. And then in Ecuador, you'll find more crispy-fried empanadas. So, yeah, every culture has their own version of empanadas.

  Jose Garces

  Ecuador, Culture, Might

  "Chef Jose Garces Follows His 'Latin Road Home'". "Talk of the Nation" with Lynn Neary, www.npr.org. October 4, 2012.

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• I love my squirrel and dumplings, but you can make it with chicken and dumplings. I love making the dumplings. I think I just like to roll out dough.

  Kay Robertson

  Thinking, Squirrels, Love Making

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• I left home the day after I graduated from high school because I knew we weren't going to make any dough to pay the rent in music.

  Gregg Allman

  Home, School, Pay

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• The name 'Boss' started with people that worked for me... It was not meant like Boss, capital B, it was meant like 'Boss, where's my dough this week?' And it was sort of just a term among friends. I never really liked it.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Names, People, Boss

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• MTV made a huge impact. Heavy rotation took you from selling 1m albums to 20m albums, and that meant a lot of dough.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Impact, Mtv, Albums

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• I bake all the time, but I don't like to eat the cookies when they're done. I just like the dough.

  Sharon Stone

  Cookies, Done

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

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• A man without ambition is worse than dough that has no yeast in it to raise it.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Ambition, Men, Yeast

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• I'm from where the real hustlers pile dough, the home of Rich Rich Porter, Azie, Alpo.

  Big L

  Real, Home, Rich

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• The FDA is now warning people not to eat raw cookie dough this holiday season. Is that how fat we're getting in this country? Our ovens are too slow now?

  Jay Leno

  Country, Holiday, Fda

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• The Big L was cold crazy, A top-notch crook snatchin' pocket books from old ladies I told him, "Give up the dough, before you get smoked! Oh you broke? ( *shots* ) Now you're dead broke" My name is L and I'm from a part of town where clowns, Get beat down and all you hear is gunshot sounds 'Cause at nighttime niggas try to tax, they're sneakier than alley cats, that's why I carry gats

  Big L

  Giving Up, Crazy, Book

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• The role of the schoolmaster is to collect little plastic lumps of human dough from private households and shape them on the social kneading board.

  Edward Alsworth Ross

  School, Boards, Roles

  Edward Alsworth Ross (2009). “Social Control: A Survey of the Foundations of Order”, p.168, Transaction Publishers

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• Figure our what it is you don't do very well, and then don't do it. I'm not beating myself up about doing everything perfectly. The litmus test I always use for myself is: "Okay, if you won 20 million tomorrow in the lottery would you still being doing the same thing you are doing now with your life, Dough? The answer is "yes". I'm always very conscious of that.

  Douglas Coupland

  Use, Answers, Tests

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• My cake is dough, but I'll in among the rest, Out of hope of all but my share of the feast.

  William Shakespeare

  Cake, Eating, Share

  William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Edward Capell, George Steevens (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.508

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• I do wanna get married. It just sounds great. You get to go grocery shopping together, rent videos, and the kissing and the hugging and the kissing and the hugging under the cozy covers. Mmmm! But sometimes I worry that I don't wanna get married as much as I want to get dipped in a vat of warm, rising bread dough. That might feel pretty good, too.

  Maria Bamford

  Relationship, Kissing, Shopping

  "Comedy Central Presents (Maria Bamford)". TV Series, July 2, 2001.

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• Ye gods! But you're not standing around holding it by the hand all this time. No. [...] [T]he dough takes care of itself. [...] While you cannot speed up the process, you can slow it down at any point by setting the dough in a cooler place [...] then continue where you left off, when you are ready to do so. In other words, you are the boss of that dough.

  Julia Child

  Hands, Boss, Care

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• I have noticed bakers with swelled hands, and painful, too; in fact the hands of all such workers become much thickened by the constant pressure of kneading the dough.

  Bernardino Ramazzini

  Health, Hands, Pressure

  Bernardino Ramazzini (1964). “Diseases of Workers”

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• Since you are not a prophet, follow the way taught by prophets.
  Since you are not a king, be a loyal subject to The King.
  Since you are not a captain, do not take the helm of the ship.
  Since you do not possess every skill, have partners in your business.
  Be as pliant as dough in the hands of others, that you may rise well.

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Kings, Islamic

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• My velvet Elvis means the world to me. Although he may not be worth much dough, he means more to me than some old Rembrandt or Van Gogh.

  Al Yankovic

  Mean, Velvet, World

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• I've been making pizza dough lately. And I'm pretty sure the calzone was invented when a pizza got stuck on the peel.

  Richard Blais

  Stuck, Pizza

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• I have been a joy to live with all spring: Upbeat, warm and tender, uncomplicated, and loving. I am no trouble at all. You could press me into dough and make sugar cookies out of me, I've been so sweet.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Sweet, Spring, Joy

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