Frying Quotes

• We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.

  Eric Hoffer

  Freedom, Fire, Frying Pans

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• out of the frying pan and into the fire

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Fire, Frying Pans

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• Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

  Tertullian

  Fire, Frying Pans, Thai

  Tertullian (1956). “De Carne Christi Liber: Treatise on the Incarnation”

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• Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Fire, Frying Pans, Thai

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.97, Wordsworth Editions

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• When frying small fish, disturb them little.

  Confucius

  Littles, Fishes, Small Fish

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• People have been frying foods since Jesus was on this planet, and there is always going to be greasy, fried, salty, sugary food. It is up to the individual to walk in and say, 'I don't want those fries today.'

  Richard Simmons

  Jesus, People, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Timing is everything. Chemistry is something that you don't just throw in the frying pan and mix it up with another something, then throw it on top of something, then fry it up and put it in a tortilla and put in a microwave, heat it up and give it to you and expect it to taste good. You know? For those of you who can cook, y'all know what I'm talking about. If y'all can't cook, this doesn't concern you.

  Kevin Garnett

  Talking, Giving, Frying Pans

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• You can't make an egg without frying an egg

  Thom Yorke

  Eggs

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• Scotland had oil, but it's running out thanks to all that deep frying.

  Scott Capurro

  Running, Scotland, Oil

  10 funniest jokes from the Edinburgh festival fringe 2014, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2014.

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• History is an alternating series of frying pans and fires.

  Peter Esterhazy

  Fire, Frying Pans, Series

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• I don't often get a chance to have a frying pan in the show.

  Tommy Emmanuel

  Frying Pans, Chance, Performing

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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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• Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking. Center your country in the Tao and evil will have no power. Not that it isn't there, but you'll be able to step out of its way. Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself.

  Laozi

  Leadership, Country, Evil

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• The frying pan you should give to your enemy. Food should not be prepared in fat. Our bodies are adapted to a stone age diet of roots and vegetables.

  Denis Parsons Burkitt

  Science, Vegetables, Roots

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• As mayor, I'm in the frying pan. I'm just sitting here on the griddle now, and I've got to really think, you know, do I want to stay here on the griddle?

  Anthony A. Williams

  Thinking, Frying Pans, Sitting

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• In fact,I believe the reason why the Chinese failed to develop botany and zoology is that the Chinese scholar cannot stare coldly and unemotionally at a fish without immediately thinking of how it tastes in the mouth and wanting to eat it. The reason I don't trust Chinese surgeons is that I am afraid that when a Chinese surgeon cuts up my liver in search of a gall-stone, he may forget about the stone and put my liver in a frying pan.

  Lin Yutang

  Believe, Cutting, Thinking

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• The apologists for space science always seem over-impressed by engineering trivia and make far too much of non-stick frying pans and perfect ball-bearings. To my mind, the outstanding spin-off from space research is not new technology. The real bonus has been that for the first time in human history we have had a chance to look at the Earth from space, and the information gained from seeing from the outside our azure-green planet in all its global beauty has given rise to a whole new set of questions and answers.

  James Lovelock

  Real, Technology, Space

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• We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books – mine included – because it looked clear-cut, but it hasn’t happened. The climate is doing its usual tricks. There’s nothing much really happening yet. We were supposed to be halfway toward a frying world now. The world has not warmed up very much since the millennium. Twelve years is a reasonable time. The temperature has stayed almost constant, whereas it should have been rising - carbon dioxide is rising, no question about that.

  James Lovelock

  Book, Cutting, Should Have

  "Scientist cools on climate alarmism". www.theaustralian.com.au. April 26, 2012.

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• Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Sweet, Cooking, Devil

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.99

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• Was the Buffalo chicken wing invented
  when Teressa Bellissimo thought of splitting it in half and deep frying it and serving it with celery and blue-cheese dressing? Was it invented when John Young started using mambo sauce
  and thought of elevating wings into a specialty?

  Calvin Trillin

  Blue, Wings, Half

  Calvin Trillin (1984). “Third Helpings”, Viking Press

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• Sometimes I can be walking down the street, or riding a bus, and suddenly I see somebody who remind me of somebody I know back home, and I close my eyes and find myself thinking of the sea, or the taste of grafted mango, or the smell of saltfish frying, and then I come back to myself and open my eyes and realise where I am.

  Caryl Phillips

  Home, Eye, Thinking

  Caryl Phillips (2009). “In the Falling Snow”, Harvill Press

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• Bacon's the best, even the frying of bacon sounds like an applause.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Sound, Applause

  "Jim Gaffigan: King Baby", 2009.

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• Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking.

  Laozi

  Country, Government, Political

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• Frying pans! Who knew, right?

  Walt Disney

  Tangled, Frying Pans, Riders

  "Fictional character: Flynn Rider". "Tangled", www.imdb.com. 2010.

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• It was all I could do to not knock him down right there in front of Asher and climb on him. If I stunned him with a frying pan first, he might not struggle too much.

  Cate Tiernan

  Struggle, Frying Pans, Might

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