Roast Chicken Quotes

• Business is never as healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets.

  Henry Ford

  Business, Inspiration, Insperational

  "My Life and Work".

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• Classics can be phenomenal when done right. A simple roast chicken dish could be the best thing you ever eat.

  Joe Bastianich

  Simple, Done, Being The Best

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• I've always said fashion is like roast chicken: You don't have to think about it to know it's delicious.

  Alber Elbaz

  Fashion, Thinking, Chickens

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• The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

  Samuel Johnson

  Love, Friendship, Food

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1825). “The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals”, p.175

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• Anyone can make a good roast chicken.

  Thomas Keller

  Chickens

  "Exclusive BMWBLOG Interview: Chef Thomas Keller". BMWBLOG Interview, www.bmwblog.com. October 5, 2010.

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• A man that can cook you a proper meal that is like a weekday meal - which I think cannot be better than in the form of a roast chicken - that's the greatest.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Men, Thinking, Meals

  "Elizabeth Gilbert Serves Up a New Classic". Interview with Michael Hainey, www.gq.com. May 24, 2012.

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• It needs only a good bottle of wine for a roast chicken to be transformed into a banquet.

  Gerald Asher

  Wine, Needs, Bottles

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• I can do basics, but I'm not a proper cook. I can do a roast. I can stick a chicken in the oven with vegetables.

  Lesley Nicol

  Vegetables, Sticks, Basics

  Interview with Margy Rochlin, www.laweekly.com. January 5, 2013.

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• Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.

  Alexandra Guarnaschelli

  Winter, Potatoes, Chickens

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• Everybody's talking about the new democratic world and whether high fashion is relevant. But without high there is no low. I don't like to intellectualize. I've always said fashion is like roast chicken: You don't have to think about it to know it's delicious.

  Alber Elbaz

  Fashion, Thinking, Talking

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• I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable.

  Todd Barry

  Thanksgiving, Chickens, Chicken Nuggets

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• As for those grapefruit and buttermilk diets, I'll take roast chicken and dumplings.

  Hattie McDaniel

  Food, Cooking, Culinary

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• What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander, but it is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the Guinea hen.

  Alice B. Toklas

  Food, Turkeys, Ducks

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• I was not so comfortable with my new authority that I could say 'We eat the chicken now!' but the magus had seen that I was considering it.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Enough Said, Thrones, Purses

  "A Conspiracy of Kings". Book by Megan Whalen Turner, 2010.

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• America is a such a melting pot, I'm not sure if roast chicken is the classic comfort food for everybody.

  Eric Ripert

  America, Comfort, Melting

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• I think that if you can roast a chicken, you can get whatever you want out of a woman. Maybe it's just me but I would suspect that a man trying to impress a woman would be more likely to bring out the steak - "I killed this for you, now I'm grilling it for you."... A man that can cook you a proper meal that is like a weekday meal - which I think cannot be better than in the form of a roast chicken - that's the greatest.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Men, Thinking, Trying

  "Elizabeth Gilbert Serves Up a New Classic". Interview with Michael Hainey, www.gq.com. May 24, 2012.

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• The last time I had PMS a roast chicken popped out of the oven and danced the Macarena.Krebs had walked in just as the chicken started dancing. By then he was pretty much used to anything and only asked if the chicken shouldn’t be doing the Chicken Dance instead.

  Linda Wisdom

  Pms, Dancing, Lasts

  Linda Wisdom (2008). “50 Ways to Hex Your Lover”, p.118, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• I like to cook simple things, like vegetable egg-white omelets; roast chicken; sauteed chicken breast with curry powder; and Greek salad. Just things that are fresh and healthy and fast and easy, because I have such a crazy schedule.

  Sasha Cohen

  Crazy, Simple, Vegetables

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• Valerie was crying, too. She was laughing and sniffling back sobs. “I’m going to marry my snuggy wuggums,” she said. Morelli paused, his fork halfway to the roast chicken platter. He slid his eyes to me and leaned close. “If you ever call me snuggy wuggums in public I’ll lock you in the cellar and chain you to the furnace.

  Janet Evanovich

  Eye, Laughing, Locks

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “Ten Big Ones: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.44, Macmillan

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