105 Dough Quotes

Following is our list of dough quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about pizza dough.

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Famous Dough Quotes

Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. — Yiddish Proverbs

Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence. — O. Henry

Making steel may be compared to making a chappati. To make a good chappati, even a golden pin will not work unless the dough is good — J. R. D. Tata

Other daughters-in-law came, they make other cookies — Greek Proverbs

All food starting with p is comfort food: pasta, potato chips, pretzels, peanut butter, pastrami, Pizza, pastry. — Sara Paretsky

I owe it all to little chocolate donuts. - John Belushi

I owe it all to little chocolate donuts. — John Belushi

God gives us the ingredients for our daily bread, but he expects us to do the baking! — Chip Ingram

Everybody's eating all my - brownies, granola, anything you eat cooked, I can find you raw. — Carol Alt

Cake baking has to be, however innocently, one of the great culinary scams: it implies effort, it implies domestic prowess; but believe me, it's easy. — Nigella Lawson

God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou. - Omar Khayyam

A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou. — Omar Khayyam

I really don't think I need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon. - Ellen DeGeneres

I really don't think I need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon. — Ellen DeGeneres

No matter what the recipe, any baker can do wonders in the kitchen with some good ingredients and an upbeat attitude! — Buddy Valastro

The cookie is the critical part. It's a word I created for sex and you've got to give a man all three things. If you miss one out, he is going to find it somewhere else. — Steve Harvey

A piece of bread in your pocket is better than a feather in your hat. — Swedish Proverbs

Short Dough Quotes

  • Never let no one know how much dough you hold. — The Notorious B.I.G.
  • I'm from where the real hustlers pile dough, the home of Rich Rich Porter, Azie, Alpo. — Big L
  • I spent most of my dough on booze, broads and boats and the rest I wasted. — Elmore Leonard
  • Strugglin' and striving, that's how the dough come. — Tupac Shakur
  • The hardest thing in this world, is to live in it. — Joss Whedon
  • Raise your right palm: We do solemnly swear To stack more dough more calmly this year. — Daniel Dumile
  • Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around. — Anna Quindlen
  • I got sick of the dough, and thought I'd go on the loaf. — Curly Howard
  • It's ironic how I drop some 'DOUGH' (Doh) when I got them Homer Simpsons. — Wale
  • I bake all the time, but I don't like to eat the cookies when they're done. I just like the dough. — Sharon Stone

Dough Image Quotes

Kneading Dough Quotes

Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me. — G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg

Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

The role of the schoolmaster is to collect little plastic lumps of human dough from private households and shape them on the social kneading board. — Edward Alsworth Ross

I have noticed bakers with swelled hands, and painful, too; in fact the hands of all such workers become much thickened by the constant pressure of kneading the dough. — Bernardino Ramazzini

Bread takes the effort of kneading but also requires sitting quietly while the dough rises with a power all its own. — David Richo

Pizza Dough Quotes

Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk of clinking measuring spoons, the yeasty scent of rising dough, the painting of flavors onto a pizza before it slides into the oven. — Barbara Kingsolver

People doing rote assembly-line movements, or someone tossing dough over and over in a pizza parlour is boring. It’s boring to watch and boring to perform. But if you’re a bad pizza thrower who drops the dough or watches it stick to the ceiling, then we know something more about your character. — Mark Sutton

I love making pizza with cauliflower dough. Again, can't taste the difference once you add enough ingredients. — Masiela Lusha

I've been making pizza dough lately. And I'm pretty sure the calzone was invented when a pizza got stuck on the peel. — Richard Blais

Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around, and nearly every book represents what my son's third grade teacher refers to as a "teachable moment. — Anna Quindlen

Compared to a novel, a film is like an economy pizza where there are no olives, no ham, no anchovies, no mushrooms, and all you’ve got is the dough. — Louis de Bernieres

Dough Baking Quotes

If you were a Colombian, you would have your version of an empanada. If you are an Argentinean, you might find a dough that's baked and has a butter sheen on it. And then in Ecuador, you'll find more crispy-fried empanadas. So, yeah, every culture has their own version of empanadas. — Jose Garces

In a cookie factory, different cookies are baked in the shape of animals, cars, people, and airplanes. They all have different names and forms, but they are all made from the same dough, and they all taste the same. — Stephen Mitchell

College-bred is a four-year loaf, using dad's dough, Coming out half-baked, with a lot of crust. — Unknown

Throughout human history, countries rise and fall. But not America-we continue to rise and rise, like dough, until Jesus bakes us in the fiery Afterscape of the Rapture. — Stephen Colbert

I want a girl who looks good when she wakes up in the morning. We could take her face and dip it in dough and she'll make some nice-face cookies. Some girls wake up, man, you could put their face in dough and you'll get a gorilla cookie, for real! — Flavor Flav

I have a bad sweet tooth. I'm pretty good when I have to eat well for work, but otherwise, I could eat a whole roll of raw cookie dough. — Jeremy Renner

I cannot keep myself away from ice cream. I have two flavors that are my favorite: chocolate chip cookie dough and vanilla swiss almond. I can eat a whole pint of ice cream in one sitting, no problem! — Brandi Chastain

It was as though the darkness was a sheet of raw cookie dough and someone had just taken a cookie cutter and made a child-sized shape out of it. — Lauren Oliver

If there is no happy ending. Make one out of cookie dough. — Cooper Edens

Don't expect too much from yourself. What I like to do when I have a day off is make various cookie doughs and freeze them. Then I always have that on hand if I need it. — Giada De Laurentiis

Imagine my delight and awe when I discovered such a thing was a real genre - contemporary fantasy or urban fantasy. It was like having my birthday twice in one week and cookie dough for breakfast. — Maggie Stiefvater

I have been a joy to live with all spring: Upbeat, warm and tender, uncomplicated, and loving. I am no trouble at all. You could press me into dough and make sugar cookies out of me, I've been so sweet. — Adriana Trigiani

The FDA is now warning people not to eat raw cookie dough this holiday season. Is that how fat we're getting in this country? Our ovens are too slow now? — Jay Leno

When people tell me they are going to go scrapbooking, I say, 'Why don't you make it yourself.' It's like chocolate-chip cookies. People buy the cookie-dough roll and slice it, and then they lay it on a cookie sheet. That's not making chocolate-chip cookies. — Amy Sedaris

Doughnut Quotes

Everyone has addictions and my problem is that I have 5,000 of them. If it's not drinking, it's gambling; if it's not gambling, it's eating anything from burgers, doughnuts to M&Ms. The only addiction I don't suffer from is chasing women. — John Daly

There is no fountain of youth, What you put into your body is what you get out of it. You would not feed your dog a coffee and doughnut for breakfast followed by a cigarette. You will kill the damn dog. — Jack LaLanne

Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole! — Mclandburgh Wilson

Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole! — Oscar Wilde

The perfect diet has one hard rule: Eat real food, not food-like substances. Can you find a doughnut in nature? Nope. Can you find an apple in nature? Yes. — Dan Buettner

It's simple. Eat well, exercise and get lots of sleep but make sure you indulge occasionally. At my age , I think , what the hell , and eat a Krispy Kreme doughnut ! — Michelle Pfeiffer

I would say there are some foods that I strongly recommend that you do not eat. No. 1 on that list, I believe, is doughnuts. Comfort food. Zero value. Don't eat them. — Jocko Willink

New mysteries. New day. Fresh doughnuts. — David Lynch

Discretion, like the hole in a doughnut, does not exist except as an area left open by a surrounding belt of restriction. It is therefore a relative concept. It always makes sense to ask, "Discretion under which standards?" or "Discretion as to which authority? — Ronald Dworkin

I’ve worked in construction, in a factory sewing clothes. I also sold flowers and doughnuts - just odd jobs to try to make 10 pesos, which is equivalent to 20 cents. — Manny Pacquiao

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More Dough Quotes

If you have a lot of what people want and can't get, then you can supply the demand and shovel in the dough. — Lucky Luciano

I eat only white foods: eggs, sugar, grated bones, the fat of dead animals; veal, salt, coconut, chicken cooked in white water; fruit mold, rice, turnips; camphorated sausage, dough, cheese (white), cotton salad, and certain fish (skinless). — Erik Satie

Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough — Charlie Chaplin

Yes, I’ve made a great deal of dough from my fiction, but I never set a single word down on paper with the thought of being paid for it...I have written because it fulfilled me. ... I did it for the pure joy of the things. And if you can do it for joy, you can do it forever. — Stephen King

I do wanna get married. It just sounds great. You get to go grocery shopping together, rent videos, and the kissing and the hugging and the kissing and the hugging under the cozy covers. Mmmm! But sometimes I worry that I don't wanna get married as much as I want to get dipped in a vat of warm, rising bread dough. That might feel pretty good, too. — Maria Bamford

Crackers, toasted or hard bread may be added a short time before the soup is wanted; but do not put in those libels on civilized cookery, called DUMPLINGS! One might about as well eat, with the hope of digesting, a brick from the ruins of Babylon, as one of the hard, heavy masses of boiled dough which usually pass under this name. — Sarah Josepha Hale

Since you are not a prophet, follow the way taught by prophets. Since you are not a king, be a loyal subject to The King. Since you are not a captain, do not take the helm of the ship. Since you do not possess every skill, have partners in your business. Be as pliant as dough in the hands of others, that you may rise well. — Rumi

Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough. — E. W. Howe

Sometimes I worry I don't want to get married as much as I'd like to be dipped in a vat of warm, rising bread dough. — Maria Bamford

All families had their special Christmas food. Ours was called Dutch Bread, made from a dough halfway between bread and cake, stuffed with citron and every sort of nut from the farm - hazel, black walnut, hickory, butternut. — Paul Engle

There are some parents who have really done it right and told their kid, 'You know, we have this dough, none of this is for you. You have to get your own. — Robert Downey, Jr.

You owe dough? You ain't give up that cheese? Hey... Sooner or later, you'll Pay, Pal (no eBay). — Joell Ortiz

They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd be sure to have some dough to support my family. — Francis Ford Coppola

I'd have to go for Donald Trump ... you know, 'cause Hillary Clinton is declared that she's gonna follow in Barack Obama's footsteps. There's been just too much funny business on both sides of the aisle. She's made a lot of dough out of being a politician. — Clint Eastwood

If it was all about me, I'd do a whole lot of pop records, make a whole lot of money, just rake in the dough. But it's never been all about me. It's all about being a voice for the voiceless. People who can't speak for themselves, who don't have a mic, don't have a say. — Ice Cube

At the dinner table when I was very little, I would hear people bickering... To escape the bickering, I started modelling the soft bread with my fingers. With the dough of the French bread %u2013 sometimes it was still warm %u2013 I would make little figures. And I would line them up on the table and this was really my first sculpture. — Louise Bourgeois

If women are breadwinners and men bring home the bacon, why do people complain about having no dough? I'm confused. Also hungry. — Stephen Colbert

I see my large nose, like half an avocado. I broke it falling downstairs when I was six, and it now resembles a large blob of play-dough. — Arthur Smith

Enthusiasm is the yeast that raises the dough. — Paul J. Meyer

The Bible says forgive your debtors; the world says "sue them for their dough." — Billy Sunday

Life is not about making dough or how many movies you can make in a year. It's about finding someone that you can share things with. — Freddie Prinze, Jr.

I am bit sending messages with my feet. All I ever wanted was not to come up empty. I did it for the dough and the old applause. — Fred Astaire

I will never say never, but I will say never to doing the more typical romantic comedies. You know, unless I'm getting audited and I'm on the street and I desperately need some dough and that's the only thing that I'm getting. — Christian Bale

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