Stoves Quotes

• So often the pain of our life is no more than a reminder to take our hand off the stove.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Pain, Hands, Life Is

  FaceBook post by Richard Paul Evans from May 04, 2011

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• Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.

  Robert Frost

  Art, Philosophy, Writing

  Collected Poems (1939) "Figure a Poem Makes"

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• Every morning the cuisinier must start again at zero, with nothing on the stove. That is what real cuisine is all about.

  Fernand Point

  Morning, Zero, Real

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• Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.46, St. Martin's Press

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• Cooking has always brought me a happiness that I didn't think was available. I just fire up the stove, and things start to fade away.

  Paula Deen

  Thinking, Fire, Cooking

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• A photographer went to a socialite party in New York. As he entered the front door, the host said 'I love your pictures - they're wonderful; you must have a fantastic camera.' He said nothing until dinner was finished, then: 'That was a wonderful dinner; you must have a terrific stove.

  Sam Haskins

  Photography, New York, Party

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• I'm taking my skills to different people's homes that have stoves for it.

  Snoop Dogg

  Home, Skills, People

  Source: www.usmagazine.com

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• A grill is just a source of heat. Just like a stove, it is very user-friendly.

  Bobby Flay

  Friendly, Grilling, Heat

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• Don't take the attitude of waiting for people to be nice to you - be nice to them. Don't sit in front of a cold stove waiting for the heat. Put in the fuel. Act first.

  Earl Nightingale

  Attitude, Nice, People

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• At some point in your career, someone is going to tell you, "This stove is hot. Do not touch this stove." And the weird thing is, you'll want to touch it. But resist that urge, man.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Men, Careers, Hot

  "Leonardo DiCaprio Gives Life Advice". www.avclub.com. April 14, 2009.

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• I'm actually a very shy person, which is why I always chose to be in the kitchen. You can make people happy and entertain them, without really being there. You can make a very short appearance and then say, 'I've got something on the stove, gotta go!

  Giada De Laurentiis

  People, Kitchen, Shy

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• We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Wisdom Experience, Knowledge Experience

  Following the Equator ch. 11, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• A child can be taught not to do certain things, such as touch a hot stove, pull lamps off of tables, and wake Mommy before noon.

  Joan Rivers

  Children, Memorable, Hot

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• Think of two people, living together day after day, year after year, in this small space, standing elbow to elbow cooking at the same small stove, squeezing past each other on the narrow stairs, shaving in front of the same small bathroom mirror, constantly jogging, jostling, bumping against each other’s bodies by mistake or on purpose, sensually, aggressively, awkwardly, impatiently, in rage or in love – think what deep though invisible tracks they must leave, everywhere, behind them!

  Christopher Isherwood

  Mistake, Past, Thinking

  Christopher Isherwood, Don Bachardy, James P. White (1989). “Where Joy Resides: An Isherwood Reader”, Vintage

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• If a cat sits on a hot stove once, it will never sit on a cold one either.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  Cat, Hot, Cold

  "Bush Advisor Wolfowitz Says He'll Likely Vote for Clinton". Interview with Gordon Repinski, www.spiegel.de. August 26, 2016.

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• I almost feel like throwing Jimmy into the stove, as the priest in Kulenberg did.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Humor, Priests

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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, Kitchen, Use

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• My wrist deserve a shout out, 'I'm like what up wrist?' My stove deserve a shout out, 'I'm like what up stove?'

  2 Chainz

  Wrists, Shout Out, Deserve

  Song: Fork, 2013

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• Time to plant tears, says the almanac. The grandmother sings to the marvelous stove and the child draws another inscrutable house.

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Children, Grandmother, House

  Elizabeth Bishop, “Sestina”

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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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• I just . . . knew, the way you know how to breathe or to pull your hand back from a hot stove.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Hands, Hot, Way

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• Sometimes I think I'll give up trying, and just go completely Russian and sit on a stove and moan all day.

  Dorothy Parker

  Giving Up, Thinking, Trying

  Dorothy Parker (1970). “A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by "Constant Reader"”

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• My home kitchen is airy, with a gas stove, a stainless-steel island table in the center and granite countertops. It's very modest but there's tons of counter space, so you can slap down three or four cutting boards.

  Grant Achatz

  Home, Cutting, Islands

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• Even the stove and the refrigerator looked human, I mean good human - they seemed to have arms and voices and they said, hang around, kid, it's good here, it can be very good here.

  Charles Bukowski

  Mean, Kids, Voice

  Charles Bukowski (2013). “The Most Beautiful Woman in Town”, p.211, City Lights Books

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• When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Flames, Ideas, Funny Sarcastic

  "Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein and Company". Book by James R. Mellow, 1974.

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