Dishes Quotes

Meat is a status dish in which the sizzle counts for more than the nutritional worth.

I suddenly feel a vague pity for all those writers who have to ply their trade from sleepy American suburbs, writing divorce scenes symbolized by the very slow washing of dishes.

Let's not forget how beautiful simply washing dishes can be.

One of Beethoven's favorite dishes was macaroni and cheese. The girl I marry must be able to make good macaroni and cheese..." "How did Beethoven feel about cold cereal?

You get to the point where you have to wash the dishes. That's the fun in life. Being behind the scenes and doing things for others; being an instrument of that cause. That is the secret teaching.

I don't do much cooking, but one of my favorite dishes to eat is my wife's macaroni and cheese.

There's always a nice tune [on radio] - helps you get the dishes done . I like to get the news from time to time - not too often. I don't feel deprived.

Leave the dishes unwashed and the demands on your time unanswered. Be ruthless and refuse to do what people ask of you.

Women's work is always toward wholeness.

There's one thing that I know about myself, I could wash dishes and be happy.

My hair was growin' too long, so I got me a fade And when my dishes got dirty, I got cascade And When the weather was hot, I got a spot in the shade.

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

My biggest challenge is cooking traditional French dishes, which usually require very specific techniques and methods. That’s just not my style... I cook from the soul.

Re-colonizing it and sort of reverse-colonizing it to the point that today the national dish of Great Britain is Chicken Tikka Masala.

My husband and I don't want Hollywood drama. I go to the market and do the dishes. I'm not treated differently because I work on TV.

When men do the dishes, it's called helping. When women do the dishes, it is called life.

And within the house ashes are being stuffed into my marriage, fury is lapping the walls, dishes crack on the shelves, a strangler needs my throat, the daughter has ceased to eat anything.

There are very sophisticated, very time-consuming dishes to prepare; always from scratch, and always in excess of what you could possibly need. You tend to kill your guests with kindness around here.

At the end of a dinner at my house, my kitchen sink is filled with dishes and there's nothing pretty about the garbage.

But as far as the fame goes, my parents make sure they keep me grounded, for sure. They make me wash dishes still.

Why are fish unsustainable? Because they're popular. What makes restaurants work? Popular dishes that people come back for.

Gammy used to say, 'Too much scrubbing takes the life right out of things.'

Playing Bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like... I do the dishes every night - other people volunteer but I like the way I do it.

Don't get bogged down with all the details of how it's going to come together. Just do the dishes. And watch the momentum build.

The human being is a skin-covered petrie dish.

Once, in Lisbon, I tried my best to work the phone book in a way that would assuage a longing [Alice and I] had for certain Chinese dishes . . . .

A watched supper dish never fills!

The hand that controls the supper dish rules the world!

Wit is better as a seasoning than as a whole dish by itself.

The man who never in his life Has washed the dishes with his wife Or polished up the silver plate - He still is largely celibate.

If the English had deep-dish pizza they could have kept their empire.

If there are too many cooks in the kitchen, the dish is not going to work out.

...Because what's the meaning of doing dishes if you're not driven by something beyond necessity.

you're just a side dish not the main course!

When I met my husband, I refused to invite him home for Passover because I was embarrassed my mother might serve all the catered dishes in the wrong order.

Making up characters and places and plots, unlike fixing your plumbing or doing dishes, is anything but practical or rational. I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right.

When a customer receives a dish, they get food and design at the same time.

Revenge is a dish best served unexpectedly and from a distance - like a thrown trifle.

A plate of food has to have balance. For example, a mild fish like skate mustnt be overwhelmed by the side dishes. They should have personality and color, but they also have to be subtle.

The first dish pleaseth all.

Revenge is a dish best served . . . At every meal.

I don't really have one dish. I'm a very improvisational cook. I sort of like to make things up as I go along. I'm quite creative in the kitchen.

My life will always have dirty dishes. If this sink can become a place of contemplation, let me learn constancy here.

I cannot go to sleep with dishes in the sink.

The planning is everything. Deciding which dishes you're going to prepare can turn into the make-or-break decision five days later, when you actually serve the meal.

I like cooking, but I think someone else ought to do the dishes.

A certain amount of housekeeping also goes on in my poems. I wash doorknobs, do dishes, mop floors, patch carpets, cook.

Pressure is an emotional paralysis. It's hard enough to do the dishes when you're feeling pressured, let alone make a movie.

The only things that are immortal in this world are government programs and cancer cells in petri dishes.

Women are silver dishes into which we put golden apples.