Overcooked Quotes

#1. With sushi, it is all about balance. Sometimes they cut the fish too thick, sometimes too thin. Often the rice is overcooked or undercooked. Not enough rice vinegar or too much.

Nobu Matsuhisa

#2. He gave a halfhearted hope Ichiro could walk on his own steam, but a few fumbling tries to get him up onto his feet only showed Bobby how Ichi's legs could double as overcooked noodles.

Rhys Ford

#3. I like thick or middle (spaghetti). Thin for me is always overcooked by the time I'm eating it.

Mario Batali

#4. Granted, I'd waited a long time to hear those words. Would've sold a kidney-maybe two-to have heard them at one point. Now, though ... they didn't have the same impact. They were, in fact, an overcooked noodle in the pasta salad of love.

Kristan Higgins

#5. Toxic relationships are like a good pasta that has been overcooked.

Asa Don Brown

#6. There is no happy medium to our food; it is either overcooked or undercooked, or it has too much salt or not enough, or there is not enough oil in the fried vegetables or there is so much that you almost fear that America will invade.

Petina Gappah

#7. It's never about the screwup - it's always about the recovery. That's the thing about it ... if it comes out a little rare you call it carpaccio. It comes out a little overcooked, you shred it up and put in on a sandwich.

Tyler Florence

#8. For battle, the new boy looked like an overcooked sausage

George R R Martin

#9. Learn to use an axe, and respect it and you can't help but love it. But abuse one and it will wear your hands raw and open your foot like an overcooked sausage.

Richard Proenneke

#10. The quoting of an aphorism, like the angry barking of a dog or the smell of overcooked broccoli, rarely indicates that something helpful is about to happen.

Lemony Snicket

#11. People in trailers were canned and labeled much like the apple juice down at the plant, stamped with ingredients for all the world to see: chicken fried steak, overcooked vegetables, no working knowledge of any major Italian movie directors
the list went on and on.

David Sedaris

#12. Pot barley takes longer to cook than pearl, but an overnight soak in water will speed things along. It's a robust grain that, if overcooked, won't collapse but will become more tender.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#13. You have to find some way to not become a cynical or negative person, a person who keeps walking around and opening your eyes in the outside world but inside you close down, a person who stops expecting tomorrow to be better than today.

Richard Rohr

#14. For the true artist, there is no trivial thing.

Marty Rubin

#15. If this was another bit of his ta'veren tugging at the Pattern, it was a bit he could have done without. The

Robert Jordan

#16. While the fool is enjoying the little he has, I will hunt for more. The way to hunt for more is to utilize your odd moments ... the man who is always killing time is really killing his own chances in life.

Arthur Brisbane

#17. Don't waste your death on a half assed life

Nikki Sixx

#18. With so much money riding on reported numbers, human nature is to manipulate them. And with so many doing it, you get Serpico effects, where everyone rationalizes that it's okay because everyone else is doing it. It is always thus.

Charlie Munger

#19. The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.

Friedrich Nietzsche