Best Stoves Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“They say that a good cook can ignite sparks by the way he kisses. The way I see, just because a guy can turn on the stove doesn't necessarily make him a good cook.”

Way Guy Turns Kissing Cooking Cooks Sparks Turn-on Ignite Stoves Good Cook

Author:Stefanie Powers

“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.”

Years Used Stars Pieces Picks Woods Bark Stoves Kindling

Author:Jerry Reed

“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.”

Shows Kids Used Stage Six Seven Get Up Stoves

Author:Jerry Reed

“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.”

Ifs Knows Should Hot Dry Tied Beaten Rope Corn Stoves Vat

Author:Denise Chavez

“When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally. I fried it and stewed it, and ate it crisp and sludgy, hot and cold. It was cheap and filling and was delicious in all manner of strange combinations. If any was left over, I ate it cold the next day on bread.”

Ifs Next Left Strange Cold Hot Bread Combination Cooks Strongest Allies Next Day Delicious Filling Crisps Stoves Hot And Cold Eggplant

Author:Laurie Colwin

“The people who survive avoid snowball scenarios in which bad trades cause them to become emotionally destabilized and make more bad trades. They are also able to feel the pain of losing. If you don't feel the pain of a loss, then you're in the same position as those unfortunate people who have no pain sensors. If they leave their hand on a hot stove, it will burn off. There is no way to survive in the world without pain. Similarly, in the markets, if the losses don't hurt, your financial survival is tenuous.”

People Ifs World Way Feels Hands Able Pain Causes Hurt Loss Position Survival Losing Hot Trade Financial Unfortunate Scenarios No Pain Stoves Without Pain Snowball Sensors

Author:William Eckhardt

“Any person of any philosophic persuasion who sits on a hot stove will verify without any intellectual argument whatsoever that he is in an undeniably low-quality situation: that the value of his predicament is negative. This low quality is not just a vague, woolly-headed, crypto-religious, metaphysical abstraction. It is an experience. It is not a judgment about an experience. It is not a description of experience. The value itself is an experience. As such it is completely predictable. It is verifiable by anyone who cares to do so.”

“An Ant on a hot stove-lid runs faster than an Ant on a cold one. Who wouldn't?”

Running Cold Hot Faster Ants Stoves Footnotes

Author:Will Cuppy

“Several years ago my dear wife went to the hospital. She left a note behind for the children: "Dear children, do not let Daddy touch the microwave" - followed by a comma, "or the stove, or the dishwasher, or the dryer." I'm embarrassed to add any more to that list.”

Years Children Left Behinds Wife Years Ago Add Notes Dear Lists Hospitals Embarrassed Daddy Stoves Microwaves Dishwashers Dryers

Author:Thomas S. Monson

“Consider, children ... the pain of touching the tip of your finger to your mother's stove, even for a fraction of a second. That is an experience which most of you have suffered. Now try to imagine that pain, not simply on a fingertip but spread over the whole surface of your body, and not for a mere second, but everlastingly. That, children, is hellfire.”

Trying Children Whole Body Pain Mother Hell Imagine Mere Fingers Spread Surface Your Body Touching Imagine That Fractions Fingertips Stoves

Book:The Rector of Justin

Source: The Rector of Justin

“Burning 2000 people took about 24 hours in the five stoves. Usually we could manage to cremate only about 1700 to 1800. We were thus always behind in our cremating because as you can see it was much easier to exterminate by gas than to cremate, which took so much more time and labor.”

People Hours Behinds Five Easier Labor Manage Burning Gas More Time Stoves

Author:Rudolf Hoss

“From my own experience I can say that a bad back makes you hike slower, stove-up knees keep you from wading confidently, tendinitis of the elbows buggers your casting, and a dose of giardia can send you dashing to the bushes fifteen times in an afternoon, but although none of this is fun, it's discernibly better than not fishing.”

I Can Fun My Own Sea Rivers Fishes Boat Knees Lakes Fishing Afternoon Fifteen Casting Dose Elbows Stoves Dashing

Book:No Shortage of Good Days

Source: No Shortage of Good Days

“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!”

Ifs Happens Mother Certain Turns Danger Blue Boxes Steam Stoves

Author:Paul Prudhomme

“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.”

Men Want Careers Hot Urges Weird Things Stoves

Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“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.”

Made Ultimate Fruit Holiday Cake Longevity Stoves Fruitcake

Author:Erma Bombeck

“There are some women who seem to be born without fear, just as there are people who are born without the ability to feel pain. The painless ones go around putting their hands on hot stoves, freezing their feet to the point of gangrene, scalding the lining of their throats with boiling coffee, because there is no warning anguish. Evolution does not favour them. So too perhaps with the fearless women, because there aren't very many of them around. ... Providence appears to protect such women, maybe out of astonishment.”

People Feels Doe Hands Seems Pain Fear Born Ability Feet Evolution Protect Hot Coffee Fearless Throat Warning Providence Anguish Favour Astonishment Freezing Boiling Stoves Painless

Book:Bluebeard's Egg

Source: Bluebeard's Egg

“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.”

Artist Fall Food Empty Cooking Hips Meat Shakes Remove Culinary Allowing Vegetables Handful Toss Stoves Sprinkles Aprons Parsley

Author:Bert Greene

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

Men Marriage Clear Wife Married Housework Stoves

Book:O Dreams, O Destinations

Source: O Dreams, O Destinations

“My home kitchen is airy, with a gas stove, a stainless-steel island table in the center and granite countertops. It's very modest but there's tons of counter space, so you can slap down three or four cutting boards.”

Home Three Space Four Cutting Tables Boards Islands Kitchen Gas Modest Steel Slap Stoves Airy Granite

Author:Grant Achatz

“whatever San Francisco is or is not, it is never dull. Life there is in a perpetual ferment. It is as though the city kettle had been set on the stove to boil half a century ago and had never been taken off. The steam is pouring out of the nose. The cover is dancing up and down. The very kettle is rocking and jumping. But by some miracle the destructive explosion never happens.”

“The desert feels Irish in a way - lonely and barren. If someone said, 'Think of a happy place for you,' I'd say a glacial plane near the South Pole, the wind howling, nobody in sight, a shack with a pot-belly stove and some tea.”

Ifs Thinking Way Feels Said Wind Lonely Sight South Tea Desert Planes Pot Belly Barren Stoves Shack Happy Place

Author:Donal Logue

“I almost feel like throwing Jimmy into the stove, as the priest in Kulenberg did.”

Feels Humor Religious Priests Throwing Jimmy Stoves

Author:Martin Luther

“Of all the ruinous and desolate places my uncle had ever beheld, this was the most so. It looked as if it had once been a large house of entertainment; but the roof had fallen in, in many places, and the stairs were steep, rugged, and broken. There was a huge fire-place in the room into which they walked, and the chimney was blackened with smoke; but no warm blaze lighted it up now. The white feathery dust of burnt wood was still strewed over the hearth, but the stove was cold, and all was dark and gloomy.”

Source: The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club

“If a bell failed to ring, if a stove smoked, if a wheel on a machine stuck, you knew at once where to look and did so with alacrity; you found the defect and knew how to cure it. But the thing within you, the secret mainspring that alone gave meaning to life, the thing within us that alone is living, alone is capable of feeling pleasure and pain, of craving happiness and experiencing it- that was unknown. You knew nothing about that, nothing at all, and if the mainspring failed there was no cure. Wasn't it insane?”

Source: Kingsor's Last Summer

“Books were to my family's house like beds and stoves, the most basic items, necessary for survival”

Book House Bed Survival My Family Items Stoves

Book:The Moonlight Sonata at the Mayo Clinic

Source: The Moonlight Sonata at the Mayo Clinic

“I'm into eating as little as possible... I never cook. Never use the stove or anything.”

Littles Use Eating Cooks Stoves

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Next-door a baker's apprentice with his wife, an employee in a printing-shop, she has inflammation of the ovaries. Wonder what those two get out of life? Well, first of all, they get each other, then last Sunday a vaudeville and a film, then this or that club meeting and a visit to his parents. Nothing else? Well now, don't drop dead, sir. Add to that nice weather, bad weather, country picnics, standing in front of the stove, eating breakfast and so on. And what more do you get, you, captain, general, jockey, whoever you are? Don't fool yourself.”

“Fences, unlike punishments, clearly mark out the perimeters of any specified territory. Young children learn where it is permissible to play, because their backyard fence plainly outlines the safe area. They learn about the invisible fence that surrounds the stove, and that Grandma has an invisible barrier around her cabinet of antique teacups.”

Source: Raising a Daughter: Parents and the Awakening of a Healthy Woman

“Adam Roberts is an original: smart, funny, talented, endlessly inquisitive, an A student and, happily for us, an A+ teacher. Everyone from beginner cooks to sure hands will learn something new on each page. And even if, like Adam's mom's, your stove stores shoes and handbags, you'll still be charmed by Secrets-it's a great read.”

Ifs Stills Hands Secret Teacher Students Mom Pages Smart Originals Shoes Stores Cooks Something New Adam Beginners Stoves Charmed Inquisitive Handbags

Author:Dorie Greenspan

“A cat that jumps on a hot stove will never jump on a hot stove again. Neither will it jump on a cold stove.”

Cold Cat Hot Stoves

Author:Mike Cameron

“I believe with all my heart in delivering on my contract with my readers. They've got plenty of other things to do, so I had better give them a reason to turn every one of these 550 pages. This is my promise: I solemnly swear I'll make you laugh out loud at least once, cry a little in private, and burn whatever you left on the stove.”

“When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.”

Ifs Littles Ideas Turns Literature Lows Alcohol Flames Stoves Funny Sarcastic

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“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.”

People Feels Trying Made Natural Talent Type Cooks Ingredients Pot Hospitality Stoves Making People Happy Natural Talent

Author:Paul Rankin

“Maybe we should be directing our anger elsewhere - like toward Wall Street. Why is it we never think of Big Business when we think of welfare recipients? Companies take more of our tax dollars, and in much more questionable ways, than do those who are trying to heat their apartments with a kerosene stove.”

Thinking Way Should Trying Bigs Business Company Streets Wall Taxes Dollars Welfare Heat Elsewhere Apartment Big Business Questionable Stoves Tax Dollars Welfare Recipients

Author:Michael Moore

“Well I would say that, you know, I agree in part with that it [The Starter Wife] is fantasy and it is a romp in that, you know, the comedy stems from shining a light on the sort of more extreme aspects of the Hollywood culture. So, you know, anytime you turn up the gas, so to speak, on the stove and make things more extreme it becomes funny. But I do think that, you know, the other half of the show is absolutely relatable and that's been an important goal of ours.”

Thinking Knows Wells Important Shows Light Turns Culture Speak Goal Half Fantasy Comedy Aspect Hollywood Agree Shining Extremes Gas Stem Relatable Other Half Stoves

Author:Debra Messing

“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!”

Remember Dark Fronts Cold Praying Hot Warm Coal Corridors Miners Stoves Coal Miners

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Sometimes if you want to know for sure whether the stove is hot, the only way to find out is to touch it.”

Ifs Knows Way Want Sometimes Hot Stoves

Book:The Essential Jack Reacher, Volume 2, 6-Book Bundle: 61 Hours, Worth Dying For, The Affair, A Wanted Man, Never Go Back, Personal

Source: The Essential Jack Reacher, Volume 2, 6-Book Bundle: 61 Hours, Worth Dying For, The Affair, A Wanted Man, Never Go Back, Personal

“For something warm, try adding cinnamon sticks and nutmeg to apple cider simmering on the stove. You'll get the added benefit of making your home smell amazing.”

Trying Home Benefits Sticks Warm Smell Apples Stoves Cinnamon Cider Apple Cider

Author:Clinton Kelly

“Yes, I heard my people singing!-in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft and Sunday morning pews-and my soul was filled with their harmonies.”

People Soul Morning Heard Air Sweet Summer Singing Harmony Filled My Soul Sunday Coal Choir Porch Stoves Sunday Morning Parlor Lilac

Book:Here I Stand

Source: Here I Stand

“Some summers my father would take us down to visit our grandmother in Louisville, who was an ex-slave, Susan Jones, and she had a shotgun shack they call it, and no electricity, a well in the back, a coal stove, kerosene lamps.”

Wells Father Summer Slave Grandmother Electricity Coal Exes Lamps Stoves Shack Shotguns Louisville

Author:Quincy Jones

“Across the curve of the earth, there are women getting up before dawn, in the blackness before the point of light, in the twilight before sunrise; there are women rising earlier than men and children to break the ice, to start the stove, to put up the pap, the coffee, the rice, to iron the pants, to braid the hair, to pull the day's water up from the well, to boil water for tea, to wash the children for school, to pull the vegetables and start the walk to market, to run to catch the bus for the work that is paid. I don't know when most women sleep.”

“Don't take the attitude of waiting for people to be nice to you - be nice to them. Don't sit in front of a cold stove waiting for the heat. Put in the fuel. Act first.”

People Firsts Waiting Attitude Nice Fronts Cold Heat Fuel Being Nice Stoves

Author:Earl Nightingale

“With time environmental issues got much more complicated. It is pretty easy, if you know what you are doing, to stop a company from pouring poison into a lake where kids swim. It is much harder to address all the myriad greenhouse gases emitted by different sources - from petrochemical refineries to hundreds of millions of peasants cutting down trees for their incredibly inefficient cook stoves.”

“I can remember sitting in a cabin outside of Denver writing that with a can of soup on the stove.”

Writing I Can Remember Sitting Soup Cabins Stoves Denver

Author:Gordon Lightfoot

“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!”

Ifs Mother Asks Four Doors Promise Weapons Daughter Flight Bother Bags My Daughter Hiking Disgusting Apartment Mice Mothers Day Stairs Brooklyn Stoves Best Mother Roaches

Author:Kate Siegel

“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.”

Ifs Moments Character Home Safe Performances Ghost Narrative Loud Buttons Interruptions Stoves

Author:Robert Greene

“It was my first day working at Tour d'Argent, a famous restaurant in Paris, in 1982, and they were celebrating their 400th anniversary. I am in the fish station and after many mistakes, including cutting myself after 30 seconds in that kitchen, the chef said, "Make a Hollandaise sauce with 32 yolks." It takes me forever to separate the yolks from the whites, and I put them in a bowl and try to go close to the stove, but the stove is way too hot for me.”

Way Trying Firsts Said Mistake Forever Cutting Hot Including Fishes Celebrate Paris Kitchen Restaurants Stations Take Me Seconds Bowls Chef Sauce Stoves Cutting Myself

Author:Eric Ripert

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

Ifs Cold Cat Hot Stoves

Author:Paul Wolfowitz

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

People Different Home Skills Different Peoples Stoves

Author:Snoop Dogg

“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.”

Thinking Knows Way Should Kind Light Seems Kids Three Lost Left Fire Tree Feet All Things Safety Handle Flames Our Family Kitchen Holiday Pot Candle Stoves

Author:Charlie Barnett

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