Microwaves Quotes

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  I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Food, Coffee

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• Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

  Milton Glaser

  Design, Cooking, Computer

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• We are a nation that shouts at a microwave oven to hurry up.

  Joan Ryan

  Ovens, Nations

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• When you cook it should be an act of love. To put a frozen bag in the microwave for your child is an act of hate.

  Raymond Blanc

  Children, Hate, Cooking

  "Celebrity Chef Dishes Microwave Mothers". www.telegraph.co.uk. October 02, 2001.

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• The popcorn button on the microwave is a miraculous invention. More miraculous than even the microwave itself.

  Gary Gulman

  Buttons, Popcorn, Invention

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• I don't have a microwave oven, but I do have a clock that occasionally cooks stuff.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Stuff

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• It is ludicrous to read the microwave direction on the boxes of food you buy, as each one will have a disclaimer: THIS WILL VARY WITH YOUR MICROWAVE. Loosely translated, this means, You're on your own, Bernice.

  Erma Bombeck

  Food, Mean, Boxes

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• They say you're not supposed to put metal in a microwave oven. They're right.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Ovens

  "When the Leaves Blow Away". Documentary, Comedy, 2006.

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• It's not the microwave that's the problem, it's what people put into them. I know people lead busy lives but they should try to sit their children down at the table once a week and cook them simple food.

  Raymond Blanc

  Children, Simple, People

  "Celebrity chef dishes microwave mothers" by Nicola Woolcock, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 02, 2001.

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• Men are like microwave ovens; they heat up immediately, but things start to boil over after about three minutes. Women are like conventional ovens; they take twenty minutes to heat up, but can go on cooking for hours.

  Mardy Grothe

  Men, Cooking, Twenties

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• To me when a mother puts food in a microwave for her children, it is an act of hate

  Raymond Blanc

  Mother, Children, Hate

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• The New Age? Its just the old age stuck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds.

  James Randi

  Age, Fifteen, Ovens

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• I don't cook - I can cook - but I'm not very good. I like being asked over for dinner, because she can't cook either. We would starve if it weren't for modern technology. I know how to work a microwave, but love home cooked meals.

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Home, Technology, Meals

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• The radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful. It would heat your pizza only to minus 271.3*C - not much good for defrosting the pizza, let alone cooking it.

  Stephen Hawking

  Powerful, Cooking, Bangs

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• The perfect gadget would somehow allow me to fly. Isn't that what everybody wants? It would also cook a damn good microwave pizza. So while in flight you had something to eat - an in-flight meal. Where would I go? Well, nowadays, it would probably just take me to work a lot quicker.

  John Krasinski

  Perfect, Meals, Gadgets

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• I have the life of Riley. I take my kids to school, do a bit of work in the afternoon, pick my kids up, microwave a meal, hang out with my kids, and work for a couple of hours.

  Sheena Easton

  Couple, School, Kids

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• Several years ago my dear wife went to the hospital. She left a note behind for the children: "Dear children, do not let Daddy touch the microwave" - followed by a comma, "or the stove, or the dishwasher, or the dryer." I'm embarrassed to add any more to that list.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Children, Years, Daddy

  "Abundantly Blessed". Thomas S. Monson's speech at the Sunday Afternoon Session of the 178th Annual General Conference at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah, www.lds.org. April 2008.

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• Knowledge, wisdom, and understanding don't come out of the microwave. You got to keep moving forward because the evil doesn't sleep.

  Chuck D

  Moving, Sleep, Evil

  Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, progressive.org. July 20, 2005.

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• Most schools have only a microwave or deep fryer, hardly the tools needed to feed our children real, fresh food.

  Mark Hyman, M.D.

  Children, Real, School

  Twitter post from Jan 27, 2017

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• What would demons," she said, "want with our microwave?

  Cassandra Clare

  Want, Demon, Said

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• Liberals want to burn the flag, but progressives just want to microwave it?

  Stephen Colbert

  Flags, Want

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• In this age of quick fixes and microwave mindsets, most of us want what we want, and we want it right now, whether it is instant download speed, instant riches, or an Oompa-Loompa, but just as you can't force the farm to produce a harvest, you can't force your seed of potential to grow until it is ripe and ready.

  Derek Rydall

  Age, Riches, Want

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• I foresee great refinements in the field of short-pulse microwave signaling, whereby several simultaneous programs may occupy the same channel, in sequence, with incredibly swift electronic communication... Short waves will be generally used in the kitchen for roasting and baking, almost instantaneously...

  Lee De Forest

  Communication, Kitchen, Fields

  "Dawn of the Electronic Age" by Lee De Forest, blog.modernmechanix.com. January 1952.

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• I remember when I couldn't afford to eat like this. It was ramen noodles and the San Francisco Treat [Rice-A-Roni]. Dessert? Get you a honey bun and put a slice of cheese on it. Put it in the microwave for 45 seconds and you had the gift of a lifetime.

  Rick Ross

  San Francisco, Buns, Honey

  "The Key to Miami Rapper Rick Ross's Heart Is Cheese". Interview with Ben Detrick, www.bonappetit.com. July 17, 2012.

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• If you try to pop the unpopped kernels in the microwave, you go back in time.

  Gary Gulman

  Trying, Pops, Go Back In Time

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