Stove Quotes Page 2

Cooking has always brought me a happiness that I didn't think was available.

I just fire up the stove, and things start to fade away.

The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he won't sit upon a cold stove lid, either.

A great cook is made from having a great sense of hospitality and trying to make people happy. Then there's natural talent. Perhaps you have a feel for ingredients, the pots, the pans and stoves, that type of thing.

At some point in your career, someone is going to tell you, "This stove is hot.

Do not touch this stove." And the weird thing is, you'll want to touch it. But resist that urge, man.

If you're Mejicana or Mejicano and don't know who Pedro Infante is, you should be tied to a hot stove with yucca rope and beaten with sharp dry corn husks as you stand in a vat of soggy fideos.

I used to get on a stove wood pile at 5-6 years old and I would have a piece of stove wood and kindling bark as a pick, and I was a star.

I was like any new bride, who said, 'I'm going to cook for my man.

' In fact, once I started a small kitchen fire in a pan. Smoke was pouring from the pan, and I got really scared. Right next to our stove is a small fire extinguisher. You know, easy access.

Here we grow the flax and grain; here we raise the meat they eat, and the wool to keep them warm; we cut trees to build their houses and firewood to heat their stoves.

If a cat sits on a hot stove once, it will never sit on a cold one either.

Approaching the stove, she would don a voluminous apron, toss some meat on a platter, empty a skillet of its perfectly cooked a point vegetables, sprinkle a handful of chopped parsley over all, and then, like a proficient striptease artist, remove the apron, allowing it to fall to the floor with a shake of her hips.

My mother would put me on a wooden box at the stove and tell me to call her if certain things would happen. Like if the steam turns blue, that is danger!

I can see you in the kitchen bending over a hot stove, and I can't see the stove

If you want to warm a church, put a stove in the pulpit.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there.

Time to plant tears, says the almanac.

The grandmother sings to the marvelous stove and the child draws another inscrutable house.

I'm taking my skills to different people's homes that have stoves for it.

When one married a man, it was clear to me, one married also the sink and the stove.

When I was a kid of six or seven, I used to get up on the stove woodpile for a stage and I'd put on the wildest show.

Every time you warm yourself in front of a hot coal stove, remember the coal miners in the cold dark corridors and pray for them!

the ultimate in longevity is the Christmas fruitcake.

It is a cake made during the holidays with fruits that make it heavier than the stove it is cooked in.

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.

Everything was curved to fit the walls: the stove, the sink and the cupboards, and all of it had been painted with flowers, insects and birds in bright primary colours.

Do you know what pain is, Cammie? It’s the body’s physical response to imminent harm. It is the mind’s way of telling us to move our hand off the stove or let go of the broken glass.

Sometimes I think I'll give up trying, and just go completely Russian and sit on a stove and moan all day.

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute.

But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

They gave me away as a prize once - a Win Tony Curtis For A Weekend competition.

The woman who won was disappointed. She'd hoped for second prize - a new stove.

I've really learned a lot, really learned a lot, love is like a stove, burns you when it's hot.

She was scrubbing furiously at a line of grease spots which led from the stove towards the door to the dining-room. That was where Henry had held the platter tilted as he carried the steak in yesterday. And yet if she had warned him once about that, she had a thousand times!

I got all my boyhood in vanilla winter waves around the kitchen stove.

I love anything hearty and I'm very vocal about my hatred for turkey.

I just, I will never understand people's love for turkey - and everyone will cry out, 'Well, you haven't made it the right way!' and it's like, no I have. I have deep-fried it, I've done the beer can turkey, I've done everything possible - I've had the fancy stuffing inside, I've had the Stove Top Stuffing inside - no! It's bad, any which way.

I'm into eating as little as possible, paying as little attention as possible.

I never cook. Never use the stove or anything.

I came from the old world of gastronomy.

Many years ago I walked into the kitchens of the Hotel St George and I feel very fortunate that I worked for chefs that were behind their stoves. I saw that world of gastronomy. I can sit here today and say that I saw the golden age of gastronomy. It's gone, it's gone. It's never going to have that anymore, once the accountants get involved the romance fades. That's the reality.

Turning pot handles the other way around on the stove, making sure you talk with your family and kids directly about fire safety and about kitchen safety, keeping your tree at least three feet from a heater or any kind of lights or flames, making sure that candles aren't left unattended. It's all things that we should know and we think about initially, but during the holidays, in the commotion it seems to get kind of lost.

If we were controlling the performance, we never would have had someone push a button to make the pellet stove come on during a climatic moment. And after the loud pellet stove moment, which is like a Todd Haynes's Safe interruption into the home and into the narrative - as if the home is a like a ghost surrounding the characters - her performance changes entirely.

My daughter lives in an apartment (hovel) in Brooklyn, so disgusting the roaches don't even bother hiking up the four flights of stairs to her door. Did I mention that she has a family of mice living under her stove? If she would promise to carry a weapon in her bag, I would never ask her to visit again. Best Mother's Day gift I could ask for!