Roasting Quotes - Page 2

• As soon as coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move…similes arise, the paper is covered. Coffee is your ally and writing ceases to be a struggle.

  Honore de Balzac

  Coffee, Struggle, Moving

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• Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.

  Jonathan Swift

  Coffee, Philosophical, Espresso

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1843). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author”, p.55

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• I think if I were a woman I'd wear coffee as a perfume.

  John William Van Druten

  Food, Coffee, Thinking

  Quoted in Think, Feb 1963.

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• The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable chunk of it there is a brave truth-seeker's grave upon some lonely ash-dump and a soul roasting in hell.

  H. L. Mencken

  Lonely, Truth, Honesty

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.15, Vintage

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• Without my morning coffee I'm just like a dried up piece of roast goat.

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Morning, Coffee, Personality

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• I don't think it's unfair to have writers. I think if you're going to do a roast on television, as if you were doing a play or you were reading a script of a movie, you would have the best possible material. And those are the people who score, the people who are willing to listen to the roasting experts and then come out there and own that material.

  Jeff Ross

  Reading, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Use what you have, use what the world gives you. Use the first day of fall: bright flame before winter's deadness; harvest; orange, gold, amber; cool nights and the smell of fire. Our tree-lined streets are set ablaze, our kitchens filled with the smells of nostalgia: apples bubbling into sauce, roasting squash, cinnamon, nutmeg, cider, warmth itself. The leaves as they spark into wild color just before they die are the world's oldest performance art, and everything we see is celebrating one last violently hued hurrah before the black and white silence of winter.

  Shauna Niequist

  Art, Fall, Winter

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• Jeff Ross has been roasting people since Whitney Cummings was nothing but a glint in the eye of the man who raped her mother.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Mother, Eye, Men

  "Comedy Central Roast of Donald Trump". www.imdb.com. 2011.

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• Don't assume you're always going to be understood. I wrote in a column that one should put a cup of liquid in the cavity of a turkey when roasting it. Someone wrote me that 'the turkey tasted great, but the plastic cup melted.

  Heloise

  Turkeys, Cups, Liquid

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• What other developed democracy has such a ridiculous and squalid history of intolerance? From the imprisonment and roasting of heretics, witches and poachers, to the censorship of literature, art and television: from St Alban through Wilde, Joyce and Lawrence I think we can point with pride to as grim a catalogue of intemperate, bigoted repression as any nation on earth.

  Stephen Fry

  Art, Pride, Thinking

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• Just-poached vegetables show off their natural attributes, and taste fresh and light in a way you never get with roasting or frying.

  Yotam Ottolenghi

  Vegetables, Light, Way

  "The new vegetarian" by Yotam Ottolenghi, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2008.

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• This will be Great Mam's last spring. Her last June apples. Her last fresh roasting ears from the garden.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Spring, Garden, June

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Homeland”, p.8, Faber & Faber

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• Here is a kitchen improvement, in return for Peacock. For roasting or basting a chicken, render down your fat or butter with cider: about a third cider. Let it come together slowly, till the smell of cider and the smell of fat are as one. This will enliven even a frozen chicken.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Food, Smell, Cooking

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, David Garnett, Richard Garnett (1994). “Sylvia and David: the Townsend Warner/Garnett letters”, Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd

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• A cook she certainly was, in the very bone and centre of her soul. Not a....turkey....in the barn-yard but looked grave when they saw her approaching, and seemed evidently to be reflecting on their latter end; and certain it was that she was always meditating on trussing, stuffing and roasting, to a degree that was calculated to inspire terror in any reflecting fowl living.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Turkeys, Inspire, Soul

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• Way too much coffee. But if it weren't for the coffee, I'd have no identifiable personality whatsoever.

  David Letterman

  Coffee, Espresso, Personality

  "Letterman Lets His Guard Down" by Bill Zehme, Esquire, December 1994.

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• You know, sometimes I worry, you know, is comedy and my type of comedy going to get stale? Is it going to be so offensive that it becomes uninteresting or so niche that I don't have an audience anymore? But it keeps getting bigger and bigger and bigger, where roasting now is a movement. These roasts are on in India, in Mexico.

  Jeff Ross

  Worry, India, Mexico

  Source: www.npr.org

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