Kitchen Quotes - Page 27

• If God does not enter your kitchen, there is something wrong with your kitchen. If you can't take God into your recreation, there is something wrong with your play. We all believe in the God of the heroic. What we need most these days is the God of the humdrum, the commonplace, the everyday.

  Peter Marshall

  Believe, Play, Everyday

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• If you really want to define civilization it should be a culture that doesn't destroy its environment. If you burn down the kitchen one day and expect to eat the next, it is not even intelligent, let alone civilized.

  Sting

  Intelligent, Civilization, Society

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• I was a little, uh, incorrigible as a kid, so the kitchen was a good place to give me structure and balance. It taught me hard work, but then I grew to love it.

  Aaron Sanchez

  Kids, Hard Work, Giving

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• My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was by far my biggest influence and inspiration - and toughest critic.

  Aaron Sanchez

  Mom, Country, Mother

  "Aaron Sanchez, Chef Of The Week (RECIPE)". Interview with Cindy Y. Rodriguez, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2011.

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• Truth is what every man sees lurking at the bottom of his own soul, like the oyster shell housewives put in the kitchen kettle to collect the lime from the water. By and by each man's iridescent oyster shell of Truth becomes coated with the lime of prejudice and hearsay.

  Christopher Morley

  Men, Oysters, Water

  Christopher Morley (1919). “Mince Pie: Adventures on the Sunny Side of Grub Street”

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• Management is a far more homely business than its would be scientists suggest, more closely allied to cookery than any other human activity. Like cooking, it rests on a degree of organisation and on adequate resources. But just as no two chefs run their kitchens the same way, so no two managements are the same.

  Robert Heller

  Running, Two, Cooking

  "The Naked Manager". Book by Robert Heller, p. 12, 1972.

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• Now is the time when men work quietly in the fields and women weep softly in the kitchen; the legislature is in session and no man's property is safe.

  Daniel Webster

  Men, Political, Safe

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• I think I've never left my house to take a plane without writing my will. There must be about 30 wills in my drawers, everywhere, in the kitchen. Everywhere, I have wills because I write wills more easily than I write love letters.

  Sophie Calle

  Writing, Thinking, House

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I try not to "perform." I try to come on stage and be myself, to sing the way I would in a room by myself, to interact with the audience the way I would relate to them if we were in my kitchen drinking tea and making up silly songs. Maybe the way to get past the fear of being ourselves is simply to try it more often.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Song, Drinking, Silly

  "Sing Your Prayers: An Interview With Bobby McFerrin". Omega Institute Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 11, 2012.

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• You can lie at a banquet but you have to be honest in the kitchen.

  William Stafford

  Lying, Honest, Banquets

  William Stafford, Paul Merchant, Vincent Wixon (1998). “Crossing unmarked snow: further views on the writer's vocation”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• What women will say to other women grumbling in their kitchens and complaining and gossiping or what they make clear in their masochism is often the last thing they will say aloud - a man may overhear. Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long.

  Doris Lessing

  Men, Long, Coward

  Doris Lessing (2012). “The Golden Notebook”, p.9, HarperCollins UK

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• Even under the best of circumstances men are hard creatures to trap. Women who flatter themselves into thinking they've trapped one are like people who believe they can get rid of the cockroaches in their kitchen. They're in for a big surprise late one night when they turn on the light.

  Harry Shearer

  Believe, Night, Men

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• Learn to ignore everything anyone (including myself) has ever told you about wine protocol. Sometimes win drinking, like spontaneous sex on the kitchen table, is far more satisfying when you toss out all the rules.

  Bob Blumer

  Sex, Drinking, Wine

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• My cranky cardiologist says I'm destined to die in the kitchen.

  Drew Carey

  Cardiologist, Cranky, Dies

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• I really am just trying to tell stories. But stories are often grounded in larger events and themes. They don't have to be - there's a big literature of trailer-park, kitchen-table fiction that's just about goings-on in the lives of ordinary people - but my own tastes run toward stories that in addition to being good stories are set against a backdrop that is interesting to read and learn about.

  Neal Stephenson

  Running, People, Interesting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I do love improvisation, I love when I find an object in my studio or kitchen (look, a tea sample's tiny glass jar!) and instantly incorporate it in a project. It makes me feel creative on an every day basis.

  Signe Baumane

  Glasses, Creative, Tea

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• It's become absolutely horrible the way the people with the money decide they can fart in the kitchen.

  Steven Soderbergh

  People, Way, Fart

  "Steven Soderbergh on Quitting Hollywood, Getting the Best Out of J.Lo, and His Love of Girls" by Mary Kaye Schilling, www.vulture.com. January 27, 2013.

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• I think country music is a champion of women. That stuff coming out of Nashville now wants to see a woman looking good in the kitchen whipping up some biscuits.

  Ketch Secor

  Country, Thinking, Nashville

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Academia, Tables, Parliament

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• You can't go into the chef's office of any serious kitchen and not see a copy of Larousse. A must-have for professional and home cooks alike.

  David Chang

  Home, Office, Serious

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• Larousse Gastronomique is a veritable dictionary of cooking terms for the French kitchen. If a chef were allowed only one book, this would have to be it.

  Mario Batali

  Book, Cooking, Chef

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• I practice self-control and staying active. Running round the kitchen keeps me moving.

  Lorena Garcia

  Running, Moving, Self

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• I fancy it must be the quantity of animal food eaten by the English which renders their character insusceptible to civilization. I suspect it is in their kitchens and not in their churches that the reformation must be worked.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Character, Animal, Civilization

  Bernard Mayo, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “Jefferson Himself: The Personal Narrative of a Many-Sided American”, p.121, University of Virginia Press

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• I have a terrible, terrible fear of knives. I only buy food that I don't need to cut... I haven't cut my food in years! Like, I won't even touch a plastic knife or anything sharp. And if I'm in a kitchen and somebody picks up a knife, I leave.

  Christian Serratos

  Cutting, Years, Knives

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

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• Fortunately, I knew the cardinal rule of getting on with one's fellow cooks. It applies in any kitchen and can be summed up in two short words: bust ass.

  Jacques Pepin

  Two, Ass, Cardinals

  Jacques Pepin (2004). “The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen”, p.154, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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