Top 18 Pestle Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Pestle

#1. Young women in Cameroon have their breasts "ironed" - beaten or massaged by a wooden pestle or a heated coconut shell - to make them less sexually tempting.

Steven D. Levitt

#2. Like herbs in a pestle, life steadily ground out the essence of those who did not have access to comforts.

Sandra Byrd

#3. A molcajete is a stone mortar and pestle from Mexico. They're great for grinding spices and making salsa and guacamole because they give everything a nice coarse and rustic feel. I've never collected anything, but I think I might start collecting these because each one is decorated differently.

Bobby Flay

#4. Everyone makes pesto in a food processor. But the texture is better with a mortar and pestle, and it's just as fast.

Mario Batali

#5. I love any excuse to work with a mortar and pestle.

Alain Ducasse

#6. The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true!

Danny Kaye

#7. Hild fetched a lump of grey salt for Mildburh and mortar and pestle to crush it in. She loved the gritty crunch and thump under her hand. It sounded like a cat eating a bird.

Nicola Griffith

#8. The rice grain suffers under the blow of the pestle. But admire its whiteness once the order is over. So it is with men and the world we live in. To be a man one must suffer the blows of misfortune.

Ho Chi Minh

#9. My husband Chris, the thing he likes most about me is that I'm very positive and easily very happy.

Elsa Pataky

#10. This whole speech, extremely silly, tactless and probably politically dangerous, made Pavel Iosifovich shake with rage, but, strange as it might seem, it could be seen from the eyes of the crowd of customers that had gathered that it had aroused sympathy in very many people!

Mikhail Bulgakov

#11. All minds pulse in a unique way, just as every lighthouse in the world has a unique signature. Some minds pulse consistently, some erratically. Some are lukewarm, some are hot. Some flare out, some are very nearly not there. Some stay on the fringe, like quasars.

David Mitchell