Kitchen Sinks Quotes

• You can have fantasies about having control over the world, but I know I can barely control my kitchen sink. That is the grace I'm given. Because when one can control things, one is limited to one's own vision.

  Kiki Smith

  Grace, Kitchen, Vision

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• When one is able to overcome the romantic and emotional attitude, one discovers truth even in the kitchen sink.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Attitude, Emotional, Serenity

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “Meditation in Action”, p.86, Shambhala Publications

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• I made True Detective like it was going to be the only thing I ever made for television. So put in everything and the kitchen sink. Everything.

  Nic Pizzolatto

  Kitchen, Television, Detectives

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• The ideal kitchen-sink novel: Throw in everything but the kitchen sink. Then add the kitchen sink.

  Edward Abbey

  Kitchen, Add, Novel

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.35, RosettaBooks

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• When you've got a mountain to climb you may as well throw everything into the kitchen sink.

  David Pleat

  Football, Kitchen, Mountain

  "Live television is 'a high-wire act with no safety net'" by Jon Henley, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2011.

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• They could've thrown a kitchen sink into the box and one of the guys would've headed it.

  Paul Lambert

  Soccer, Football, Player

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• Haruhi: This story has everything but the kitchen sink in it.

  Bisco Hatori

  Kitchen, Stories

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• Life will throw everything but the kitchen sink in your path, and then it will throw the kitchen sink. It's your job to avoid the obstacles. If you let them stop you or distract you, you're not doing your job, and failing to do your job will cause regrets that paralyze you more than a bad back.

  Andre Agassi

  Life, Jobs, Regret

  Andre Agassi (2009). “Open”, p.7, Vintage

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• We do live, all of us, on many different levels, and for most artists the world of imagination is more real than the world of the kitchen sink.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Real, Artist, Imagination

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.55, Open Road Media

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• Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive.

  Alexander McQueen

  Kitchen, Looks, Couture

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You might be a redneck if you use a radiator hose to fix your kitchen sink.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Kitchen, Use

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• The most wasteful "brain drain" in America today is the drain in the kitchen sink.

  Elizabeth Gould Davis

  America, Brain, Kitchen

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• I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.

  Dodie Smith

  Writing, Kitchen, Sitting

  Dodie Smith (2012). “I Capture the Castle”, Random House

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• At the end of a dinner at my house, my kitchen sink is filled with dishes and there's nothing pretty about the garbage.

  Anthony Bourdain

  House, Kitchen, Dinner

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• So let me do the dishes in our kitchen sink, put you to bed when youve had too much to drink.
  Oh, it could be so nice to grow old with you, I wanna grow old with you.

  Adam Sandler

  Nice, Kitchen, Bed

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• The bigger the canvas, the better I do. I'm not so good at understated, kitchen-sink kinds of parts.

  Christopher Reeve

  Kitchen, Kind, Canvas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Whether it's a letter, song lyrics, part of a novel, or instructions on how to fix a kitchen sink, it's writing. You keep your craft honed, you acquire the discipline to finish things. You turn into a self-taskmaster.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Song, Writing, Self

  "Writing away again in Margaritaville". Interview with Tom Corcoran, bookpage.com. June, 1998.

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• Country to me is living life at its simplest: Learning to appreciate a sliced vine-ripe tomato with a dash of salt, served between two slices of good bread and eaten over the kitchen sink.

  Art Smith

  Country, Live Life, Two

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• For those of you who tried, but didn't make it, Settle down it's never what you think. The summit doesn't differ from the deep, dark valley, And the valley doesn't differ from the kitchen sink.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Dark, Thinking, Kitchen

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• For years now I have run a kitchen-sink punk salon in my house, called Salon du Gay. In the early days, people would pay for a riot grrrl bob or a passable bleach job with a mixtape, $3 or a selection of baked goods - whichever they could afford. More recently though, with Gossip doing well, I've performed these punk hair transformations for free.

  Beth Ditto

  Running, Jobs, Gay

  "What would Beth Ditto do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2008.

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• Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive. I find it grotesque when clothes hit you in the face and there's no room for fault. But I don't expect to turn things around all by myself. I'm not a saint.

  Alexander McQueen

  Clothes, Kitchen, Saint

  "Remembering Alexander McQueen". Interview with Karl Plewka, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 1997.

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• Once upon a time there was a woman who was just like all women. And she married a man who was just like all men. And they had some children who were just like all children. And it rained all day. The woman had to skewer the hole in the kitchen sink, when it was blocked up. The man went to the pub every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. The other nights he mended his broken bicycle, did the pool coupons, and longed for money and power. The woman read love stories and longed for things to be different. The children fought and yelled and played and had scabs on their knees. In the end they all died.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Friday, Children, Sunday

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• Mine was a patchwork God, sewn together from bits of rag and ribbon, Eastern and Western, pagan and Hebrew, everything but the kitchen sink and Jesus.

  Anne Lamott

  Jesus, Kitchen, Together

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.41, Anchor

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• I don't know if Britain ever really achieved that much glamour. We had post-war austerity rather than post-war prosperity, and our cultural products of the time include some pretty dour kitchen-sink dramas of the A Kind of Loving variety. (This kind of film seems disillusioned with the sixties before they've even really begun.)

  Quentin S. Crisp

  War, Drama, Kitchen

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• Can Ken Starr ignore the apparent breadth of the sympathetic response to the President's speech? Facially, it finally dawned on me that the person Ken Starr has reminded me of facially all this time was Heinrich Himmler, including the glasses. If he now pursues the President of the United States, who, however flawed his apology was, came out and invoked God, family, his daughter, a political conspiracy and everything but the kitchen sink, would not there be some sort of comparison to a persecutor as opposed to a prosecutor for Mr. Starr?

  Keith Olbermann

  Daughter, Apology, Glasses

  "Olbermann Compares Bush White House to Clinton's 'White House in Crisis'" by Brent Baker, www.newsbusters.org. October 21, 2005.

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