Pressure Cooker Quotes

#1. I don't want to talk too much about the nitty-gritty of writing. It's rather like a pressure cooker with a certain amount of pressure in it - the more you let out, the less you cook.

Vikram Seth

#2. If the film isn't suspenseful, i.e. the pressure cooker situation of what's going on in the movie, if that's not part of it, if the threat of violence and the temperature isn't always going up a notch every scene or so, then the movie is going to be boring. It's not going to work.

Quentin Tarantino

#3. Look what pressure(cooker) does to Rice. It makes the hard and tough rice go soft.

Gaurav Rao

#4. Acting is a sort of pressure cooker that allows the fizz to come out the top. God knows what I'd be like if I didn't have that.

Andy Serkis

#5. Being raised Catholic in a pressure-cooker household besieged by alcohol and bill collectors enforced and heightened a sense of sentry duty in me, the oldest of five children and the one most responsible for keeping everything from capsizing. Wild indulgence was for other people, the non-worriers.

James Wolcott

#6. I wanted the American public to know that not everyone in Iraq and Afghanistan were targets that needed to be neutralized, but rather people who were struggling to live in the pressure cooker environment of what we call asymmetric warfare.

Chelsea Manning

#7. Life is a pressure cooker and whether you remain serene or become stressed-out depends on how you handle that pressure.

Kevin Leman

#8. With the possible exception of grits, there's no food more Southern than greens, whose bitter smell while cooking down in salty fatback amid the jittery hiss of a pressure cooker is a Proustian madeleine for generations of black and white Southerners alike. The

Sela Ward

#9. Denial is the lid on our emotional pressure cooker: the longer we leave it on, the more pressure we build up. Sooner or later, that pressure is bound to pop the lid, and we have an emotional crisis.

Susan Forward

#10. The only thing that will stop a bad guy with a pressure cooker bomb is a good guy with a slightly larger pressure cooker bomb.

Dana Gould

#11. Chechnya is a pressure cooker of Islamist anger

Dennis Prager

#12. In the pressure cooker of a TV show, it's a little bit of a witches' brew. I completely think I'm capable of being crazy. I probably was crazy when I was doing 'The Simpsons'.

Sam Simon

#13. During my first Olympics in 1980, at the age of 23, I was physically in great condition but mentally too inexperienced to cope comfortably in the pressure cooker of an Olympic year.

Sebastian Coe

#14. Future strong is grace, kindness, and gratitude within a pressure cooker.

Bill Jensen

#15. Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.

Wavy Gravy

#16. The office is a romantic enabler because you're always around the person you have a crush on. There's no escape from, and maybe no desire to escape from, those pressure-cooker conditions. And there's an automatic series of things you have to talk about all the time.

Joshua Ferris

#17. In a stress pressure-cooker like America, I believe we will see more and more shooting massacres. Violence is in our cultural DNA.

Bryant McGill

#18. I was thinking ... "
"We know," Pedro said, "It was like sitting next to a pressure cooker

Davis Bunn

#19. I'm a beet freak. I put them in the pressure cooker.

Julia Child

#20. I wanted to look at the mentality that can breed that sort of intensity, that kind of cutthroat, pressure-cooker feeling, especially a form of music like jazz, that should be - or you'd think should be - all about liberation and improvisation and everything.

Damien Chazelle

#21. An institution theoretically devoted to providing comfort to those in need (the church) is in trouble because it has embraced the same pressure cooker we find everywhere else.

Tullian Tchividjian

#22. A city man is a home anywhere, for all big cities are much alike. But a country man has a place where he belongs, where he always returns, and where, when the time comes, he is willing to die.

Edward Abbey

#23. A man who offers to cook after he's seen you trying to freeze a dead dog has to be at least a little bit keen.

Rosen Trevithick

#24. Bio-Technology is expected to play a major role in improving productivity.

Tariq Anwar

#25. You're joking, Perce! You are actually joking, Percy ... I don't think I've heard you joke since you were-

J.K. Rowling

#26. If I cover my head with my hands, it means deny the ball to the opponent's ball handler.

Don Meyer

#27. Am I going to be this way for the rest of my life, always waiting for something bad to happen? Will I never truly be able to trust anyone? I worry that when I'm older, I'll be so afraid that people won't like me that I'll have trouble believing it when they actually do.

Jodee Blanco

#28. I am willing to walk with God

Lailah Gifty Akita

#29. The sky-like limpid eyes,
The circular infant's face,
The stiffness from spats to collar
Never relaxing into grace;
The heavy memories of Horeb, Sinai and the forty years,
Showed only when the daylight fell
Level across the face
Of Brennbaum "The Impeccable".

Ezra Pound