Stoves Quotes - Page 2

• When one married a man, it was clear to me, one married also the sink and the stove.

  Phyllis Bentley

  Marriage, Men, Wife

  Phyllis Eleanor Bentley (1962). “"O Dreams, O Destinations": An Autobiography”, London : Gollancz

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• An Ant on a hot stove-lid runs faster than an Ant on a cold one. Who wouldn't?

  Will Cuppy

  Running, Hot, Ants

  "Insects for Everybody". "How to Attract the Wombat". Book by Will Cuppy, 1949.

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• Kids only learn that the stove is hot when they put their finger on and they burn it. This, unfortunately, is the limitation of our precious brain.

  Hasso Plattner

  Kids, Brain, Hot

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• Every time I go near the stove, the dog howls.

  Phyllis Diller

  Funny, Dog, Howl

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• Count Olaf certainly does sound evil. Imagine forcing children to stand near a stove!

  Daniel Handler

  Children, Evil, Sound

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• From my own experience I can say that a bad back makes you hike slower, stove-up knees keep you from wading confidently, tendinitis of the elbows buggers your casting, and a dose of giardia can send you dashing to the bushes fifteen times in an afternoon, but although none of this is fun, it's discernibly better than not fishing.

  John Gierach

  Fun, Lakes, Sea

  John Gierach (2012). “No Shortage of Good Days”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. . . . Read it a hundred times; it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went.

  Robert Frost

  Ice, Poetry, Forever

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.133, Harvard University Press

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• Consider, children ... the pain of touching the tip of your finger to your mother's stove, even for a fraction of a second. That is an experience which most of you have suffered. Now try to imagine that pain, not simply on a fingertip but spread over the whole surface of your body, and not for a mere second, but everlastingly. That, children, is hellfire.

  Louis Auchincloss

  Mother, Pain, Children

  Louis Auchincloss (1965). “The Rector of Justin”

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• The people who survive avoid snowball scenarios in which bad trades cause them to become emotionally destabilized and make more bad trades. They are also able to feel the pain of losing. If you don't feel the pain of a loss, then you're in the same position as those unfortunate people who have no pain sensors. If they leave their hand on a hot stove, it will burn off. There is no way to survive in the world without pain. Similarly, in the markets, if the losses don't hurt, your financial survival is tenuous.

  William Eckhardt

  Hurt, Pain, Loss

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• Approaching the stove, she would don a voluminous apron, toss some meat on a platter, empty a skillet of its perfectly cooked a point vegetables, sprinkle a handful of chopped parsley over all, and then, like a proficient striptease artist, remove the apron, allowing it to fall to the floor with a shake of her hips.

  Bert Greene

  Food, Fall, Artist

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• First and foremost I am a chef, whether behind the stove at one of my Northern California restaurants or for the past 15 years in front of the camera on my Food Network cooking shows. Creating new dishes and flavor combinations that bring cooks and our restaurant guests pleasure is my job and I love it.

  Tyler Florence

  Jobs, Past, California

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• [T]he cold warms me—after a different fashion from that of the kitchen stove.

  John Burroughs

  Fashion, Weather, Kitchen

  John Burroughs (2012). “In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs”, p.17, tredition

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• I'm into eating as little as possible, paying as little attention as possible. I never cook. Never use the stove or anything.

  Noam Chomsky

  Attention, Use, Littles

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Death smells like homemade applesauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling scent of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.

  Rachel Corrie

  Smell, Apples, Sauce

  "Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie".

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• I can still memory - taste the fresh buttermilk pancakes and hot buttermilk biscuits - both made with lard! - that were cooked on the top, or in the oven, of that ancient iron stove.

  Vernon L. Smith

  Memories, Iron, Hot

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• Store spices in a cool, dark place, not above your stove. Humidity, light and heat will cause herbs and spices to lose their flavor.

  Rick Tramonto

  Dark, Light, Spices

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• I bent my head over a stove in my early 20s and picked it up in my 30s.

  Alexandra Guarnaschelli

  Bent, Early 20s

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• If you want to warm a church, put a stove in the pulpit.

  J. C. Ryle

  Church, Want, Pulpit

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• I can see you in the kitchen bending over a hot stove, and I can't see the stove

  Groucho Marx

  Inspiration, Kitchen, Hot

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• If we want to cook food we need to leave the stove on continuously and not keep turning it on and off. If the heat is continuous, no matter whether it is high or low our food will eventually be cooked. Similarly, if we continuously apply effort, even if it is only a small effort, it is certain that we shall eventually experience the fruits of our practice.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Inspiring, Practice, Effort

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (1990). “Joyful Path of Good Fortune: The Complete Buddhist Path to Enlightenment”, p.149, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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• There are some women who seem to be born without fear, just as there are people who are born without the ability to feel pain. The painless ones go around putting their hands on hot stoves, freezing their feet to the point of gangrene, scalding the lining of their throats with boiling coffee, because there is no warning anguish. Evolution does not favour them. So too perhaps with the fearless women, because there aren't very many of them around. ... Providence appears to protect such women, maybe out of astonishment.

  Margaret Atwood

  Pain, Fear, Coffee

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Bluebeard's Egg”, p.112, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• the ultimate in longevity is the Christmas fruitcake. It is a cake made during the holidays with fruits that make it heavier than the stove it is cooked in.

  Erma Bombeck

  Holiday, Cake, Fruit

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• The desert feels Irish in a way - lonely and barren. If someone said, 'Think of a happy place for you,' I'd say a glacial plane near the South Pole, the wind howling, nobody in sight, a shack with a pot-belly stove and some tea.

  Donal Logue

  Lonely, Thinking, Sight

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• My mother would put me on a wooden box at the stove and tell me to call her if certain things would happen. Like if the steam turns blue, that is danger!

  Paul Prudhomme

  Mother, Blue, Danger

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• A writing cook and a cooking writer must be bold at the desk as well as the stove.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Writing, Cooking, Desks

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