Kitchen Quotes - Page 32

• I like to cook Puerto Rican food. That's what I grew up on: rice, beans, meat, some Italian-American food. I know my way around the kitchen.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Italian, Meat, Way

  "Jennifer Lopez: Still Wild at Heart". Interview with Veronica Chambers, www.glamour.com. August 2, 2010.

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• There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun.

  Alison Lurie

  Sweet, War, Smell

  Alison Lurie (2012). “The War Between the Tates: A Novel”, p.35, Open Road Media

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• The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Home, People, Soul

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.11, Routledge

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• If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.

  Barry McCaffrey

  Children, War, Fighting

  "A Mission Gone Wrong" by Mattathias Schwartz, www.newyorker.com. January 06, 2014.

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• If I'm teaching girls that do love to make cookies and do love fashion - that they can use math as a part of that - you think that's me saying, come on girls you belong in the kitchen, you belong shopping? Or, do you think it's me showing them how math is part of all their life, even the part they thought it had nothing to do with?

  Danica McKellar

  Girl, Fashion, Teaching

  "Math Book Helps Girls Embrace Their Inner Mathematician". Interview with Aaron Rowe, www.wired.com. August 2, 2007.

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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, Saint, Looks

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

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• I've never cooked. I can't do much more in the kitchen than make a cup of tea and some toast.

  Ethel Merman

  Tea, Cups, I Can

  Ethel Merman, George Eells (1979). “Merman: an autobiography”, Berkley Pub Group

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• I am in love with my La Cornue custom-made stove - it's a dream to use and my favourite part of the kitchen.

  Kylie Minogue

  Dream, Use, Favourite

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• The movie theater is never going away. If that was a case why are there still restaurants? People still have kitchens in their home!

  Michael Moore

  Home, People, Going Away

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• A kitchen without a knife is not a kitchen.

  Masaharu Morimoto

  Knives, Kitchen Knives

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• I would literally climb out of the cradle while my parents slept, go and crawl off. I did this a couple of times apparently. I'd cross the road and into someone's house, wake them up banging pots and pans in the kitchen.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Couple, House, Parent

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• I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book; I sent it to a publisher and I got some kind of prize, so it was like a dream - I was surprised to find it happening.

  Haruki Murakami

  Dream, Book, Writing

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• There's only a couple times when fame is ever helpful. Sometimes you can get into a restaurant where the kitchen is just closing. Sometimes you can avoid a traffic violation. But the only time it really matters is in the emergency room with your kids. That's when you want to be noticed, because it's very easy to get forgotten in an ER.

  Bill Murray

  Couple, Kids, Want

  "Bill Murray: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. May 23, 2012.

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• True health care reform cannot happen in Washington. It has to happen in our kitchens, in our homes, in our communities. All health care is personal.

  Mehmet Oz

  Home, Community, Reform

  "Behind the Scenes in the O.R. With Dr. Oz" by Katie Escherich, abcnews.go.com. August 25, 2009.

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• There's a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Thinking, Chef, Staff

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• The pressure on young chefs today is far greater than ever before in terms of social skills, marketing skills, cooking skills, personality and, more importantly, delivering on the plate. So you need to be strong. Physically fit. So my chefs get weighed every time they come into the kitchen.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Strong, Skills, Personality

  "Star Chef on Passion, Pressure and Perfection" by Sarah Rosenberg and Katie Escherich, abcnews.go.com. June 19, 2008.

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• I never asked my mother where babies came from but I remember clearly the day she volunteered the information....my mother called me to set the table for dinner. She sat me down in the kitchen, and under the classic caveat of 'loving each other very, very much,' explained that when a man and a woman hug tightly, the man plants a seed in the woman. The seed grows into a baby. Then she sent me to the pantry to get placemats. As a direct result of this conversation, I wouldn't hug my father for two months.

  Sloane Crosley

  Mother, Baby, Sex

  "I Was Told There'd Be Cake". Book by Sloane Crosley, books.google.ru. 2008.

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• I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. Tomorrow, I'll be at the table When company comes. Nobody'll dare Say to me, "Eat in the kitchen," Then. Besides, They'll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed-- I, too, am America.

  Langston Hughes

  Beautiful, Strong, Brother

  "I, Too" l. 1 (1925)

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• Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation-- experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way

  Paul Theroux

  Creative, Cooking, Way

  Paul Theroux (2014). “Sir Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents”, p.180, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am no theologian. I would not be surprised, however, if Heaven proved to be a cozy kitchen, where delicious treats appeared in the oven and in the refrigerator whenever you wanted them, and where the cupboards were full of good books.

  Dean Koontz

  Book, Heaven, Cozy

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.891, Bantam

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• I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and say to myself "well, that's not going to happen

  Rita Rudner

  Hilarious, Cooking, Fiction

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• Good kitchens are not about size; they are about ergonomics and light.

  Nigel Slater

  Light, Size

  "Not Roquette Science". www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2005.

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• If he wants breakfast in bed, tell him to sleep in the kitchen.

  Kathy Lette

  Sleep, Bed, Breakfast

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• The measuring and mixing always smoothed out her thinking processes - nothing was as calming as creaming butter - and when the kitchen was warm from the oven overheating and the smell of baking chocolate, she took final stock of where she'd been and where she was going. Everything was fine.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Thinking, Smell, Chocolate

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• Everybody is a story. When I was a child, people sat around kitchen tables and told their stories. We don't do that so much anymore. Sitting around the table telling stories is not just a way of passing time. It is the way the wisdom gets passed along. The stuff that helps us to live a life worth remembering.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Children, People, Community

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.22, Penguin

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