Kitchen Quotes
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If I'm on holiday, I travel light, but if it is a work trip, I take everything but the kitchen sink.
Marie Helvin
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Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.
Charles Bukowski
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It's a Cyprus of misery and soup kitchens and a state which cannot meet basic obligations. It can only cause me grief.
Nicos Anastasiades
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I was one of those people raised by a woman who was what I call a prisoner of war. She was captured, she didn't want to be there, she was unhappy, she was banging away in the kitchen, the way that a prisoner would bang on her jail cell, you know, really unhappy. She had to cook for nine people with really little money, so she really just got burned out. So I didn't know that you could actually cook and it would be calming, pleasurable.
Sandra Cisneros
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You're going to need a stronger stomach if you're going to be back in the kitchen seeing how the sausage is made.
Bert Cooper
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You can have fantasies about having control over the world, but I know I can barely control my kitchen sink. That is the grace I'm given. Because when one can control things, one is limited to one's own vision.
Kiki Smith
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When I'm in the kitchen, I don't want anybody else in the kitchen. I have a system - and the system, it's another form of insanity that has grabbed me.
Christian Slater
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The cherry orchard is now mine!... I bought the estate on which my grandfather and father were slaves, where they were not even permitted in the kitchen.
Anton Chekhov
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Since war often enters homes through the "kitchen door," we need to understand women's attempts to keep life going in the face of shortage of food, closing of schools and reduced freedoms.
Zainab Salbi
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Every individual taste, every natural appetite, was bridled by caution. The people asleep in those houses, I thought, tried to live like the mice in their own kitchens; to make no noise, to
leave no trace, to slip over the surface of things in the dark.
Willa Cather
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It's just that little box in the middle of Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Most of the time I go I don't even leave that apartment. I have just enough: a little bed, a little kitchen with two pots. I make some tea and I look out the window or just lay down.
Erykah Badu
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No, books. She would have maybe twenty going at a time, lying all over our house--on the kitchen table, by her bed, the bathroom, our car, her bags, a little stack at the edge of each stair. And she'd use anything she could find for a bookmark. My missing sock, an apple core, her reading glasses, another book, a fork.
Kami Garcia
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If you come to The Kitchen and get a pork chop with polenta, which is our kind of food - simple - there is only one way it should taste at The Kitchen.
Kimbal Musk
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I write stuff down. I have a chalkboard in the kitchen where I will scrawl stuff down if I have a faint outline of an idea. And I'll go into my office or whatever. But that goes from format to format.
John Darnielle
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The difference of the English and Irish character is nowhere more plainly discerned than in their respective kitchens. With the former, this apartment is probably the cleanest, and certainly the most orderly, in the house.... An Irish kitchenis usually a temple dedicated to the goddess of disorder; and, too often, joined with her, is the potent deity of dirt.
Anthony Trollope
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For me, relationships are the real action movies. Bombs are exploding every day and the kitchen is Ground Zero.
Michelle Williams
Destiny's Child
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Her washing ended with the day, Yet lived she at its close,And passed the long, long night away In darning ragged hose.But when the sun in all its state Illumed the Eastern skies,She passed about the kitchen grate And went to making pies.
Phoebe Cary
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When one is able to overcome the romantic and emotional attitude, one discovers truth even in the kitchen sink.
Chogyam Trungpa
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Take her to the kitchen,” came the order. “If she lies, throw her in the cauldron." “He was jesting about the cauldron, wasn’t he? You cannot have a cauldron big enough for a person?” Bard halted, sighed, looked at her with those wide, liquid eyes.“We,” he said, “have knives.
Nalini Singh
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If it's present in the life of the character, I'll write about it. Kitchen, bedroom, church, I'll follow a character wherever they go.
Kevin Canty
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The wisest advice I ever received regarding the kitchen came from my mother: 'Do the dishes while you're cooking.'
Lela Rose
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I am the worst cook. I make a mess making a bowl of cereal... like, I'm just such a klutz in the kitchen.
Lyndsy Fonseca
