Dishes Quotes

• I was washing dishes at the Greyhound bus station at the time and I said, 'Awap bop a lup bop a wop bam boom, take 'em out!'

  

  Little Richard
  • Time
  • Station
  • Greyhound

• Call me tacky, but I love the union of sweet and sour, even in some now-unloved Oriental dishes incorporating pineapple and ketchup.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Union
  • Dishes
  • Unloved

• I used to wash up the dishes as C3PO. And it's very hard to put cups away when this joint doesn't bend! Mum was very tolerant.

  

  Darren Hayes Savage Garden
  • Up
  • Mum
  • Cups

• The monotony of provincial life attracts the attention of people to the kitchen. You do not dine as luxuriously in the provinces as in Paris, but you dine better, because the dishes serve you are the result of mediation and study.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • People
  • Study
  • Provinces

• My mom's chicken, with rice and gravy was my favorite dish as a kid, and it still is now. That's my favorite meal from her or from anybody. It's a family favorite.

  

  Serena Williams
  • Mom
  • Favorite
  • Chickens

• You can’t take the heat, get ya ass out the kitchen Matter fact, take ya ass back in there and wash the dishes.

  

  Royce da 5'9" Bad Meets Evil'
  • Kitchen
  • Ass
  • Dishes

• I am a poor mendicant. My earthly possessions consist of six spinning wheels, prison dishes, a can of goat's milk, six homespun loincloths and towels and my reputation, which cannot be worth much.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Reputation
  • Wheels
  • Mendicant

• Plan ahead! Prepare dishes ahead of time if you can. Keep it simple. Most importantly, have fun and enjoy your guests.

  

  Alyssa Milano
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Simple

• He does an entire meal, (including) dessert side dishes.

  

  Lynn Swann
  • Meal
  • Dishes
  • Dessert

• My life and work have been far from free of blemish, and so I think it would be unpardonable for a biographer not to dish up the dirt.

  

  William Styron
  • Thinking
  • Dirt
  • Dishes

• As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the correct time to order chocolate dishes any month whose name contains the letter A, E, or U is the proper time for chocolate.

  

  Sandra Ann Lauer Enigma
  • Time
  • Memory
  • Chocolate

• Like vichyssoise, revenge is a dish best served cold.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Cold
  • Revenge
  • Dishes

• From Blue Valentine I kept my wedding ring. I actually kept it on for a while. After the shooting had stopped, I was still wearing it – I couldn’t quite take it off – and now I keep it above the kitchen sink where I do dishes, as a little memento.

  

  Michelle Williams Destiny's Child
  • Blue
  • Kitchen
  • Rings

• He that revels in a well-chosen library, has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavour.

  

  William Godwin
  • Library
  • Chosen
  • Admirable

• Why couldn't I be more like other girls my age? Take Mrs. Brown's niece. She spent every waking hour sizing up this beau or that, stitching tea towels and petticoats and putting aside a little each month for a set of Spode Buttercup dishes.

  

  Kirby Larson
  • Up
  • Why
  • She

• All the vitamins needed seem to be found in plebian dishes.

  

  William Feather
  • Food
  • Found
  • Needed

• The process of writing a book is like the process of preparing a dinner. Serving dishes, choosing ingredients and so on.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Dinner

• How unhappy are you that your dishwasher has replaced washing dishes by hand, your washing machine has displaced washing clothes by hand or your vacuum cleaner has replaced hand cleaning? My guess is this ‘job displacement’ has been very welcome, as will the ‘job displacement’ that will occur over the next 10 years. This is a good thing. Everyone wants more jobs and less work.

  

  Hal Varian
  • Clothes
  • Cleaning
  • Welcome

• To the goggling unbeliever Texans say, as people always say about their mangier dishes, 'But it's just like chicken, only tenderer.' Rattlesnake is, in fact, just like chicken - only tougher.

  

  Alistair Cooke
  • People
  • Dishes
  • Texans

• I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • Dishes
  • Banner
  • Pate

• Texas does not, like any other region, simply have indigenous dishes. It proclaims them. It congratulates you, on your arrival, at having escaped from the slop pails of the other 49 states.

  

  Alistair Cooke
  • Texas
  • Region
  • Dishes

• Really, I don't know what I'd do with myself if I retire. Wash dishes?

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Knows
  • Ifs
  • Retiring

• For a quart of ale is a dish for a king.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Drinking
  • Kings
  • Ale

• This Bouillabaisse a noble dish is - A sort of soup or broth, or brew, Or hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes, That Greenwich never could outdo; Green herbs, red peppers, mussels, saffron, Soles, onions, garlic, roach, and dace; All these you eat at Terre's tavern, In that one dish of Bouillabaisse.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Green
  • Cooking
  • Fishes

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