Kitchenese Quotes

#1. I wanted to write in Kitchenese, the secret language of cooks, instantly recognizable to anyone who has ever dunked french fries for a summer job or suffered under the despotic rule of a tyrannical chef or boobish owner.

Anthony Bourdain

#2. Where the 'charging' (of karma) stops, there lies the symptoms (signs) of attaining moksha.

Dada Bhagwan

#3. And he paused, aware at last of the gathering weight of the silence. Fourteen images stared at him, without any of them offering a word in response.
Bakst said sharply, "You have talked of freedom. You have it!"
Then, uncertainly, he said, "Isn't that what you want?

Isaac Asimov

#4. I am fevered with the sunset, I am fretful with the bay, For the wander-thirst is on me And my soul is in Cathay.

Richard Hovey

#5. No one knows your inner battle. No one knows the challenge you face. No one knows the sacrifice it takes to do what you do. But you're not alone.

Richie Norton

#6. We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?

Margaret Atwood

#7. Who gathers the withered rose?

William Faulkner

#8. Will the real Slim Shady, please stand up?!

Tito Sotto

#9. Man's First Mistake: The Wheel

Laurence J. Peter

#10. We all possess, like it or not, the people we know, and are possessed by them in turn.

William Boyd