Roasting Quotes:

Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.

- Helen Rowland

source: Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.68, Lulu.com

topic: Wedding, Men, Roasting

I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream... I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people's tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting.

- Mark Twain

topic: Food, Taken, Winter, Old Jokes, Sizzling

Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.

- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

topic: Love, Sweet, Coffee, Morning Coffee, Mornings And Coffee

No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Sweet, Coffee, Offering, Morning Coffee, Mornings And Coffee

When you turn from one room to the next, when your animal senses no longer perceive the sounds of the dishwasher, the ticking clock, the smell of a chicken roasting - the kitchen and all its seemingly discrete bits dissolve into nothingness - or into waves of probability.

- Robert Lanza

source: "Robert Lanza doesn't seem to be kidding" by Adam Rogers, www.wired.com. March 8, 2007.

topic: Animal, Smell, Kitchen, Dishwashers, Discrete

Does anyone smell roasting meat?' said Razo, 'Oh, wait, it's just Geric's face.

- Shannon Hale

topic: Smell, Waiting, Faces, Roasting

I would rather suffer with coffee than be senseless.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

topic: Coffee, Suffering, Morning Coffee, Mornings And Coffee, Drinking Coffee

It's what you'd expect out of Baton Rouge: people tailgating with shrimp étouffée, everything from alligators roasting on a barbecue to dishes that you would get in the French Quarter. These people are serious and they are legit and they're ready to go.

- Erin Andrews

topic: Lsu, People, Shrimp, Baton Rouge, Legit

The man who boasts that he habitually tells the truth is simply a man with no respect for it. It is not a thing to be thrown about loosely, like small change; it is something to be cherished and hoarded and disbursed only when absolutely necessary. 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

source: 1922 Prejudices, 3rd series, ch.14.

topic: Lonely, Truth, Lying, Dump, Roasting

All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good thing to prevent needless suffering. So if that is true, how can meat be acceptable under any but the most extraordinary circumstances, such as perhaps roasting the bird who died flying into a window?

- Ingrid Newkirk

source: "Let’s Face It: There Is No Such Thing as Humane Meat" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. Februry 26, 2013.

topic: Believe, Animal, Bird, Roasting

I love roasting because you can give it love, get it in the oven and go and play with the kids or whatever you've got to do, and then hours later you've got a lovely dinner.

- Jamie Oliver

topic: Kids, Play, Giving, Roasting

Writing your own blog platform is like roasting your own coffee: it's impractical and you probably shouldn't do it, but for people who really, truly care about it, it's worthwhile to them for their own personal priorities that sound crazy to everyone else. Well, I write my own blog platform and I roast my own coffee.

- Marco Arment

topic: Crazy, Coffee, Writing, Roasting

Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.

- Alphonse Allais

topic: Coffee, Sleep, Beverages, Drank, Drinking Coffee

The smell of roasting meat together with that of burning fruit wood and dried herbs, as voluptuous as incense in a church, is enough to turn anyone into a budding gastronome

- Claudia Roden

source: Claudia Roden (1984). “Everything tastes better outdoors”, Random House Inc

topic: Smell, Church, Together, Voluptuous, Roasting

There is no difference between sitting around the pit watching dogs fight and sitting around a summer barbecue roasting the corpses of tortured animals or enjoying the dairy or eggs from tortured animals.

- Gary L. Francione

topic: Summer, Dog, Fighting, Dairy, Roasting

Having acquired an espresso machine as good as a solid e-61 and a very good grinder, your incremental dollars will be best spent on either buying truly badass coffee, or setting up a roasting setup yourself that with lots of effort will allow you to produce high end roasted coffee.

- Ken Fox

topic: Badass, Coffee, Espresso, Setups, Barista

Since that deluge of newspaper articles I have been so flooded with questions, invitations, suggestions, that I keep dreaming I am roasting in Hell, and the mailman is the devil eternally yelling at me, showering me with more bundles of letters at my head because I have not answered the old ones.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Dream, Yelling, Devil, Mailman, Keep Dreaming

I foresee great refinements in the field of short-pulse microwave signaling, whereby several simultaneous programs may occupy the same channel, in sequence, with incredibly swift electronic communication. [...] Short waves will be generally used in the kitchen for roasting and baking, almost instantaneously.

- Lee De Forest

source: "Dawn of the Electronic Age" by Lee De Forest, blog.modernmechanix.com. January 1952.

topic: Communication, Kitchen, Pulse, Electronic Communication, Microwaves

Midsummer Night was roasting hot. The shore, of red granite, glowed with the heat; the dark blood of the earth seemed to be rising from below. There was a sharp, unbearable smell of birds, of cod, of green decaying seaweed. Through the mist the huge ruddy sun loomed nearer and nearer. And in the sea, dark blood welled up to meet it - in bloated, rearing, huge white waves. Night. The mouth of the bay between two cliffs was like a window. A window shutting out curious eyes with a white shade-white woolly fog. And all that you could see was that behind it something red was happening. (The North)

- Yevgeny Zamyatin

topic: Eye, Dark, Night, Roasting, Granite

For instance, take this sample: he has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights, the one ecstasy that stands first and foremost in the heart of every individual of his race - and of ours - sexual intercourse!It is as if a lost and perishing person in a roasting desert should be told by a rescuer he might choose and have all longed-for things but one, and he should elect to leave out water!

- Mark Twain

source: "Letters from the Earth" (1940)

topic: Heart, Race, Water, Perishing, Roasting

Suave molecules of Mocha stir up your blood, without causing excess heat; the organ of thought receives from it a feeling of sympathy; work becomes easier and you will sit down without distress to your principal repast which will restore your body and afford you a calm, delicious night.

- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

topic: Coffee, Night, Blood, Suave, Mocha

Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

topic: Coffee, Communication, Memorable, Language And Communication, Languages Communication

The human head is of the same approximate size and weight as a roaster chicken. I have never before had occasion to make the comparison, for never before today have I seen a head in a roasting pan.

- Mary Roach

source: Mary Roach (2012). “Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers”, p.14, Penguin UK

topic: Weight, Today, Size, Cadavers, Roasting

I walk up and down the rows. The heads look like rubber halloween masks. They also look like human heads, but my brain has no precedent for human heads on tables or in roasting pans or anywhere other than on top of a human bodies, and so I think it has chosen to interpret the sight in a more comforting manner. - Here we are at the rubber mask factory. Look at the nice men and woman working on the masks.

- Mary Roach

topic: Nice, Halloween, Men, Roasting, Nice Man

I don't know what rituals my kids will carry into adulthood, whether they'll grow up attached to homemade pizza on Friday nights, or the scent of peppers roasting over a fire, or what. I do know that flavors work their own ways under the skin, into the heart of longing. Where my kids are concerned I find myself hoping for the simplest things: that if someday they crave orchards where their kids can climb into the branches and steal apples, the world will have trees enough with arms to receive them.

- Barbara Kingsolver

topic: Friday, Growing Up, Kids, Orchard, Roasting

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

topic: Coffee, Struggle, Moving, Drinking Coffee, Roasting

Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.

- Jonathan Swift

source: 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

topic: Coffee, Philosophical, Graves, Morning Coffee, Mornings And Coffee

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

- John William Van Druten

source: Quoted in Think, Feb 1963.

topic: Coffee, Food, Thinking, Morning Coffee, Mornings And Coffee

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

- Johann Sebastian Bach

topic: Morning, Coffee, Pieces, Morning Coffee, Mornings And Coffee

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

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: Reading, Thinking, Play, Roasting

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

topic: Art, Fall, Winter, Performance Art, Cider

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

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

topic: Mother, Eye, Men, Whitney, Roasting

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

topic: Turkeys, Cups, Liquid, Roasting

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

topic: Art, Pride, Thinking, Repression, Poachers

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

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

topic: Vegetables, Light, Way, Frying, Roasting

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

- Barbara Kingsolver

topic: Spring, Garden, June, Roasting

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

topic: Smell, Kitchen, Together, Cider, Peacock

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

topic: Turkeys, Inspire, Soul, Roasting

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

- David Letterman

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

topic: Coffee, Espresso, Personality, Morning Coffee, Mornings And Coffee

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

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: Roasting