Quotes and Sayings About Kitchen
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It annoys the hell out of me when people say, This is the kitchen, and this is the bathroom. What am I, Helen Keller? I mean, it's pretty obvious when you're in a kitchen and when you're not.
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You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
I just never saw my mother in any other room but the kitchen. There were always pots going.
-- Alan King -
That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas.
-- Alan Rickman -
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Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen.
-- Alberto Manguel -
In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius.
-- Alex CoxSource : Interview with Maximilian Le Cain, sensesofcinema.com. January 2003.
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Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.
-- Alex KapranosSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive. I find it grotesque when clothes hit you in the face and there's no room for fault. But I don't expect to turn things around all by myself. I'm not a saint.
-- Alexander McQueen -
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Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there.
-- Alexander Pope -
It's amazing the relationships you forge in a kitchen. When you cooperate in an environment that's hot. Where there's a lot of knives. You're trusting your well-being with someone you've never before met or known.
-- Alexandra Guarnaschelli -
Pork - no animal is more used for nourishment and none more indispensable in the kitchen; employed either fresh or salt, all is useful, even to its bristles and its blood; it is the superfluous riches of the farmer, and helps to pay the rent of the cottager.
-- Alexis SoyerSource : Alexis Soyer (1851). “The Modern Housewife: Or, Ménagère. Comprising Nearly One Thousand Receipts, for the Economic and Judicious Preparation of Every Meal of the Day, and Those for the Nursery and Sick Room; and Minute Directions for Family Management in All Its Branches. Illustrated with Engravings Including the Modern Housewife's Unique Kitchen, and Magic Stove”, p.198
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Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
-- Alfred Hitchcock -
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People’s lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, and unfathomable – deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum.
-- Alice Munro -
The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's history. Yes, there's artistry. Yes, to all of that. But what happened there, what actually happens to the food is all science.
-- Alton Brown -
Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes it's based on history, on habits that come out of a time when kitchens were fueled by charcoal.
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Now my wife may think she's locked me out of the kitchen but MacGyver's not my patron saint for nothing.
-- Alton Brown -
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The only unitasker allowed in my kitchen is a fire extinguisher.
-- Alton Brown -
Adam Roberts is the affable and infectiously curious friend we all wish we had with us in the kitchen—the one who prods us with questions, entertains us with amusing tales, and makes us feel better when our cake flops.
-- Amanda Hesser -
I'm not the neatest person in the kitchen by any means.
-- Amy Brenneman -
Among the faithful, in the great kitchens of the world, Escoffier is to Careme what the New Testament is to the Old.
-- Andre Simon -
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A man who loves good food has a way of making it gravitate toward his kitchen.
-- Angelo Pellegrini -
For me, a kitchen is like science fiction. I only go there to open the refrigerator and take something out.
-- Ann-Margret -
Guests stay where you've put them, and carry on doing whatever you suggested they do, until you suggest they stop and do something else. If you leave them drinking a cup of tea and looking through your holiday slides, they're supposed to sit tight till you ask them to come and string beans in your kitchen.
-- Anne Fine -
Mine was a patchwork God, sewn together from bits of rag and ribbon, Eastern and Western, pagan and Hebrew, everything but the kitchen sink and Jesus.
-- Anne Lamott -
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I was raised by a single psychologist mother and we spent every evening sitting at the kitchen table and dissecting our emotions and speculating about the inner life of everyone we knew.
-- Annie Baker -
You know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
I have a greater appreciation for kitchen appliances, having played one.
-- Anthony Daniels -
Cookbooks, it should be stressed, do not belong in the kitchen at all. We keep them there for the sake of appearances; occasionally, we smear their pages together with vibrant green glazes or crimson compotes, in order to delude ourselves, and any passing browsers, that we are practicing cooks; but in all honesty, a cookbook is something you read in the living room, or in the bathroom, or in bed.
-- Anthony LaneSource : Anthony Lane (2009). “Nobody's Perfect: Writings from The New Yorker”, p.651, Vintage
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For thousands of years, much of humankind has believed that only special places are infused with the sacred and that you must get away from the everyday in order to find it. Not so, everything is infused with the holy--from chairs to clothing to kitchen stoves.
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I was more of the kind of babysitter that liked holding the baby, sort of playing Mom, and then putting the baby to bed and watching TV while eating everything in their kitchen.
-- Ari GraynorSource : "Shades of Graynor". Interview with Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 8, 2011.