Frying Quotes - Page 3

• Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire; or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Military, War, Blessing

  "El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Nobleman Sir Quixote of La Mancha)". Book by Miguel de Cervantes (Part I, Book III, Chapter 4), 1612.

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• Priest is a fisherman and Holy Book is a fishook. We either refuse to be a fish or we burn in the frying pan of irrationality!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Book, Frying Pans, Holy

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• It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your words and make them pop like chestnuts.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Men, Frying Pans, Chestnuts

  Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, p.152, Harvard University Press

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• Marie clasped her hands together and looked vulnerable. Payne flinched. “The only time you don’t tell me something is when you think it’s dangerous, because being a fragile, sheltered noblewoman, I might faint at the thought of experiencing physical harm like a common person.” She sighed, and seemingly from nowhere, produced an enormous cast-iron frying pan easily one hundred centimeters in diameter. “And then,” she said sadly, “I have to damage one of the good pans by smacking it against your thick, common skull until you tell me—

  Phil Foglio

  Thinking, Hands, Iron

  Phil Foglio, Kaja Foglio (2012). “Agatha H. and the Clockwork Princess: A Girl Genius Novel”, p.218, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I hate pork rinds. I couldn’t imagine how anybody would ever get the idea of taking skin from a pig and frying it and then trying to sell it to people. And then people actually buy it to eat it. That is the true sign of the decline of the human race.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Hate, Race, Pigs

  "Q&A – Joel Kinnaman (Stephen Holder)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com.

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• [Crisco] ain't just for frying. You ever get a sticky something stuck in your hair,like gum?...That's right, Crisco. Spread this on a baby's bottom, you won't even know what diaper rash is...shoot, I seen ladies rub it under they eyes and on they husband's scaly feet...Clean the goo from a price tag, take the squeak out a door hinge. Lights get cut off, stick a wick in it and burn it like a candle....And after all that, it'll still fry your chicken.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Baby, Husband, Eye

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• Would Grandmother scold him? Would she say, “Frank! Thank the gods, you've come. I'm surrounded by monsters.” More likely she'd scold him, or mistake them for intruders and chase them off with a frying pan.

  Rick Riordan

  Mistake, Grandmother, Monsters

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• It’s lovely,” I said, taking an involuntary half step back. “Really, though. I don’t like to handle other people’s cookware.” “That’s the best you can manage? That’s your bright, bold lie?” “Look, lady, I don’t know about you, but I’ve never had somebody corner me on a dark street and try to hand me a frying pan before,” I snapped.

  Mira Grant

  Lying, Dark, Hands

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• You should hit him in the face with frying pans more often," Said Rhys "he seems to like it

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Faces, Frying Pans, Should

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• He did not go much further, but sat down on the cold floor and gave himself up to complete miserableness, for a long while. He thought of himself frying bacon and eggs in his own kitchen at home - for he could feel inside that it was high time for some meal or other; but that only made him miserabler.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Home, Eggs, Long

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Frying chicken always makes me feel a little better about life.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Littles, Chickens, Feels

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.237, Penguin

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• Simi. Return to me. (Acheron) 'Return to me, Simi.’ Don’t go frying the goddess. Don’t go frying Thanatos. I am not a yo-yo, akri. I am a Simi. I hate it when you get me all excited about going to kill something and then tell me no. I don’t like that. It boring. You don’t ever let me have any fun anymore. (Simi)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Fun, Hate, Return

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• Salvador Dalí seduced many ladies, particularly American ladies, but these seductions usually consisted of stripping them naked in his apartment, frying a couple of eggs, putting them on the woman's shoulders and, without a word, showing them the door.

  Luis Bunuel

  Couple, Doors, Eggs

  "My Last Sigh". Book by Luis Bunuel, 1983.

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• Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!” he said, and it became a proverb, though we now say ‘out of the frying-pan into the fire’ in the same sort of uncomfortable situations.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Fire, Escaping, Uncomfortable Situations

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My days are spent wrangling children, chipping dried manure from boots, washing jeans, and frying calf nuts.

  Ree Drummond

  Children, Nuts, Jeans

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• If you record the sound of bacon in a frying pan and play it back, it sounds like the pops and cracks on an old 33 1/3 recording. Almost exactly like that. You could substitute it for that sound.

  Tom Waits

  Play, Sound, Cracks

  Interview with Amanda Petrusich, pitchfork.com. November 27, 2006.

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• Now that healthcare is guaranteed, I'm frying everything I eat. Fried food and cigarettes.

  Craig Ferguson

  Healthcare, Cigarette, Fried Food

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• We can do little things for God; I turn the cake that is frying on the pan for love of him, and that done, if there is nothing else to call me, I prostrate myself in worship before him, who has given me grace to work; afterwards I rise happier than a king.

  Brother Lawrence

  Kings, Cake, Grace

  Brother Lawrence (2006). “The Practice of the Presence of God, and the Spiritual Maxims”, p.61, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It will be seen in the frying of the eggs.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Eggs, Results

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1856). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.210

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• Naturally, the workers are perfectly free; the manufacturer does not force them to take his materials and his cards, but he says to them..'If you don't like to be frizzled in my frying- pan, you can take a walk into the fire.

  Friedrich Engels

  Fire, Doe, Frying Pans

  The Condition of theWorking Class in England in 1844 ch. 7 (1892)

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• Violence stinks no matter which side of it you're on. But now and then there's nothing left to do but hit the other person over the head with a frying pan.

  Tom Robbins

  Frying Pans, Matter, Violence

  "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues". Book by Tom Robbins, 1976.

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• The effort only shifted me from the frying-pan into the fire.

  Lucian

  Fire, Effort, Frying Pans

  Lucian of Samosata (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lucian (Illustrated)”, p.473, Delphi Classics

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• ... to die on a kitchen floor at 7 o'clock in the morning while other people are frying eggs is not so rough unless it happens to you.

  Charles Bukowski

  Death, Morning, Eggs

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• The odor of frying bacon, sausage links, and ham tiptoed on little pig feet all the way to the north end of the second floor. Inevitably, the odor made her simultaneously ravenous and nauseated. She hated the sensation. It reminded her of pregnancy. Every Sunday morning, Leigh-Cheri awoke to a pan of fried fear.

  Tom Robbins

  Morning, Fear, Pregnancy

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.21, Bantam

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• I like to abide by the seasons and let the natural flavor in food speak for itself. I use quick cooking techniques of high heat with very little fat, such as quick saute or wok stir-frying.

  Cat Cora

  Cooking, Technique, Use

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