Quotes About A Kitchen

#1. It's amazing the relationships you forge in a kitchen. When you cooperate in an environment that's hot. Where there's a lot of knives. You're trusting your well-being with someone you've never before met or known.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

#2. Hallelujah"
"Your faith was strong but you needed proof.
You saw her bathing on the roof.
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you.
She tied you to a kitchen chair,
she broke your throne, and she cut your hair.
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah ...

Leonard Cohen

#3. Standing behind a kitchen counter telling people about what ingredients to put in a pot didn't feel right.

Trisha Yearwood

#4. A woman who was washing clothes in the river during the hottest time of the day ran screaming down the main street in an alarming state of commotion.
"It's coming," she finally explained. "Something frightful, like a kitchen dragging a village behind it.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#5. I was at the end of the studio system so when I walked into movies, I had a magnificent suite in which I had a living room and a kitchen and a complete makeup room. I had everything just for me. With the independents, you're kind of roughing it, literally.

Tippi Hedren

#6. I don't mind. I'm a kitchen eater from a long line of kitchen eaters." The

Stephen King

#7. Most successful businesses in the country were started on a kitchen table. As long as people have needs unmet or problems unsolved, there are business opportunities.

Brian Tracy

#8. The Cremulator" sounds like a cartoon villain or the name of a monster truck but is in fact the name of what is essentially a bone blender, roughly the size of a kitchen crockpot. I

Caitlin Doughty

#9. It's like a kitchen, acting. Put a chef in a kitchen and they will have different recipes. Whatever your recipe, what works for you won't work for another.

Carole Bouquet

#10. A good home must be made, not bought. In the end, it's not track lighting or a sun room that brings light into a kitchen.

Joyce Maynard

#11. When you look at a kitchen, you tend to see that the people who are doing really well are those who have worked with the same chef or stayed in one restaurant for a significant amount of time.

Daniel Humm

#12. You know, my parents had a restaurant. And I left home, actually, in 1949, when I was 13 years old, to go into apprenticeship. And actually when I left home, home was a restaurant - like I said, my mother was a chef. So I can't remember any time in my life, from age 5, 6, that I wasn't in a kitchen.

Jacques Pepin

#13. A person of high, rare mental gifts who is forced into a job which is merely useful is like a valuable vase decorated with the most beautiful painting and then used as a kitchen pot.

Irvin D. Yalom

#14. Oh, God, yes! You'd hate sharing a kitchen with me. I'm such a slut,' she said, almost proudly.

Barbara Pym

#15. A city where the Capitol Dome, perforated like a kitchen colander, is the symbol of how secrets are kept ...

Leslie Ford

#16. Our kitchen is a kitchen that makes food designed to be tasted with the five senses and it requires concentration to appreciate all that we want to express.

Ferran Adria

#17. I was pretty sure the only two rooms I needed in my house were a kitchen with a huge table and a library full of books. "It'll

April White

#18. The most important thing in a kitchen isn't how delectable the food is but how happy you are while you're there.

Kyung-ran Jo

#19. It's like walking on a 1970 blaze orange shag carpet in a kitchen.

Cody Lundin

#20. The balloon pops and I walk across a kitchen on a rainy day in February to check on eggs and bread and wine and sanity to check on glue to paste nice pictures on these walls.

Charles Bukowski

#21. I told Sam I could catch Beck. I'm going to build a pit trap using the pit Grace helpfully found by falling into it and bait it with Beck's favorite food, which he helpfully recorded in his journal while telling an anecdote about a kitchen fire.

Maggie Stiefvater

#22. Smoke.. makes a kitchen also oftentimes in the inward parts of men, soiling and infecting them, with an unctuous and oily kinde of Soote as hath been found in some great Tobacco takers, that after their death were opened.

King James I

#23. A kitchen without a knife is not a kitchen.

Masaharu Morimoto

#24. While it is necessary to eat and therefore it is pleasantest to eat food that looks handsome and tastes good, on the other hand there are things I would far rather do than spend time in a kitchen.

Jo Coudert

#25. There is nothing nicer than a kitchen really made for a cook. Things that are designed to be used always have an innate beauty.

Julia Child

#26. When I'm doing kitchen planning as well as bathroom design, I try to walk through the day with the homeowner. If we're talking about a kitchen, it will be: So, we are walking in with the groceries. When we are taking them out of the car, where will they go? What is the distance to fridge, to pantry?

Candice Olson

#27. Everything in life is a checklist, whether it's building a birdhouse or building a kitchen. If you don't have a checklist, you're much more likely to forget something.

Brian Tracy

#28. He sat on a kitchen chair and lifted her onto his lap so her legs straddled his, and then he slipped his hands under her skirt and cupped her backside to drag her closer. Oh f**k. Good news and bad news.
The good news was no underwear.
The bad news was no underwear.

Barbara Elsborg

#29. In Berkeley, we built the garden and a kitchen classroom. We've been working on it for 12 years. We've learned a lot from it. If kids grow it and cook it, they eat it.

Alice Waters

#30. Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven

Charles Petzold

#31. That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities-that sense of a family being like a kitchen midden: layer upon layer of the things daily life is made of. The edifice that lovers build is by comparison delicate and one-dimensional.

Laurie Colwin

#32. The type of renovation I do most often is opening a kitchen to the family room.

Candice Olson

#33. To die on a kitchen floor at 7 o'clock in the morning while other people are frying eggs is not so rough unless it happens to you.

Charles Bukowski

#34. Give me the provisions and whole apparatus of a kitchen, and I would starve.

Michel De Montaigne

#35. We have dominated and overruled nature, and from now on the earth is ours, a kitchen garden until we learn to make our own chlorophyll and float it out in the sun inside plastic mebranes. We will build Scarsdale on Mount Everest.

Lewis Thomas

#36. Would Crazy Horse have spent this much to remodel a kitchen?

Ian Frazier

#37. I have been in a youth hostel ... You are put in a kitchen with seventeen venture scouts with behavioural difficulties and made to wash swedes.

Victoria Wood

#38. I have a terrible, terrible fear of knives. I only buy food that I don't need to cut ... I haven't cut my food in years! Like, I won't even touch a plastic knife or anything sharp. And if I'm in a kitchen and somebody picks up a knife, I leave.

Christian Serratos

#39. I think the most effective way to run a kitchen is to teach, not to just yell.

Tom Colicchio

#40. By the time I was 30, nobody would work with me. I was friendless, I was hopeless, I was suicidal, lost my family - I mean, it was bad. Bottomed out, didn't know what I was going to do. I actually thought I was going to be a chef - go to work in a kitchen someplace.

Glenn Beck

#41. There are a million studies that say the money you put into a kitchen and bath update you get back. That's one of those places you can't go wrong. It can be as simple as updating counters and a backsplash.

Candice Olson

#42. You know, what I like about 'The Family Tree' is it's a kitchen sink movie; you can't think of anything that it doesn't either throw into the story for conflict or poke fun at or attack, even, so I like it.

Dermot Mulroney

#43. I learned to cook in self-defense. My wife doesn't know what a kitchen is. In the first month of our marriage, she broiled lamb chops 26 nights in a row. Then I took over. I used to mind her not caring about food, but no more - as long as I can eat what I want.

Alan King

#44. A safety net of small white lies can be the bedrock of a successful marriage. You wouldn't believe how cheaply I can do a kitchen renovation.

Anna Quindlen

#45. When I was in a kitchen I could no longer feel the pressure of the world on my shoulders; for me cooking has always been a high form of play, and teaching someone how to make a meal memorable was a combination of thrill and gift that I never tired of giving.

Pat Conroy

#46. He may have been a kitchen servant to the rest of the world, but to me, he was the world.

Brittany Comeaux

#47. My mum doesn't enjoy sometimes listening to me tell staff off, and I say to my mum, it's a kitchen, not a hair-dressing salon.

Gordon Ramsay

#48. Woman is shut up in a kitchen or in a boudoir, and astonishment is expressed that her horizon is limited. Her wings are clipped, and it is found deplorable that she cannot fly. Let but the future be opened to her, and she will no longer be compelled to linger in the present.

Simone De Beauvoir

#49. The other is how I could have loved Cristine so fiercely, who was such a world champion bitch, who even came after me once with a kitchen knife.

Peter Heller

#50. Lift your heart and let it rest upon Jesus and you are instantly in a sanctuary though it be a Pullman berth or a factory or a kitchen. You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him (pp. 94-95).

A.W. Tozer

#51. What happens if one day we're standing in a kitchen, dishwasher empty, oven and air full, you're washing and I'm drying, and the ring slips down the drain and flushes out to sea?

Darnell Lamont Walker

#52. When designing a kitchen, always keep in mind the social aspect.

Michael Mina

#53. A kitchen without an ironing board? Are you kidding? It's un-American. It's like Simon without Garfunkel.

Erma Bombeck

#54. Rose had a kitchen that was so completely alphabetized, you'd find the allspice next to the ant poison. She was a fine one to talk about the Leary men.

Anne Tyler

#55. Design is more of a kitchen than a knife, and more of a lab than a beaker.

Arman

#56. Just about anyone can make a good product, but it's the people that count. In the end, it's the employees who will take it from a kitchen-table idea to the next level. There are a lot of important things in business, but the people portion comes first.

Hamdi Ulukaya

#57. Those who are so eager for women and girls to go back to the kitchen might think again about just what it is we might be up to in there. You can plan a lot of damage from a kitchen. It's also where the knives are kept.

Laurie Penny

#58. Now there was the rustling of skirts, and it kicked up her smell, that distinctive blend of vanilla and violets, lavender and roses - an entire moving garden with a kitchen thrown in for good measure, and God save the allergic.

Meredith Duran

#59. Our expertise is preparing foods in tough environments. We have a kitchen where we grill and roast and make smelly stuff happen, and then bring it to the site and warm it in a way that makes it taste just-cooked.

David Castle

#60. The Momofuku Culinary Lab started as a space where we could focus on creating and innovating. I didn't want us to worry about working on projects in a restaurant; there are just too many distractions in service and running a kitchen to be able to focus on creating your dishes.

David Chang

#61. Chocolate is a kitchen witch's secret weapon. It makes friends easily, soothes troubled spirits, and is conducive to romance. When nothing else works, go with chocolate.
- Sadie Trevalyn's Book of Kitchen Witchery

Alyssa Goodnight

#62. Lips half-willing in a doorway. Lips half-singing at a window. Eyes half-dreaming in the walls. Feet half-dancing in a kitchen. Even the clocks half-yawn the hours And the farmers make half-answers.

Carl Sandburg

#63. I can jump on to a kitchen worktop from standing, like Tigger. It was something my dad could do, and I copied it from him.

Tom Riley

#64. Family fun is as necessary to modern living as a kitchen refrigerator.

Walt Disney

#65. They had kilts on instead of pants, but you just didn't see six feet-plus of immortal warrior panicking about anything often, but panicking in a kitchen with pots in their hands and the oven open while they peered inside in a puzzled manner was a very special and endearing type of panic.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#66. Who needs one more chef in one more building with four walls and a kitchen?

Jose Andres

#67. You switches a mean fanny round in a kitchen.

Zora Neale Hurston

#68. Our cellar home had a kitchen and a combination bedroom and half bath, which meant we had a sink next to the bed. We had no refrigerator, no shower or tub, and no privacy. My parents shared the bedroom with my sister and me.

Lou Holtz

#69. Footsteps out of the room. The side and rattle of a kitchen drawer. Lounds had covered many murders committed in kitchens where things are handy. Police reporting can change forever your view of kitchens ...

Thomas Harris

#70. A Kitchen Prayer Thank God for dirty dishes, They have a tale to tell; While others may go hungry We're eating very well. With home, health, and happiness, I shouldn't want to fuss; By the stack of evidence, God's been very good to us! ~ Anonymous ~

Darlene Schacht

#71. Then she sat down on a kitchen stool with the mysterious letter in her hand. Who are you? She had no idea. She was Sophie Amundsen, of course, but who was that?

Jostein Gaarder

#72. Food is a passion because I basically grew up in a kitchen. My mother was a gourmet chef and I'm the youngest of five kids. We would always congregate in the kitchen.

Laura Prepon

#73. If a woman stands in a kitchen rubbing her eyes and pouring coffee with no one there to see her, does she exist? I

Marya Hornbacher

#74. It was a kitchen to be useful in.

Holly Black

#75. Then a door opened into a kitchen nine feet long, situated between the large store-rooms. There electricity, better than gas itself, did all the cooking.

Jules Verne

#76. I call all chefs 'cooks.' They're all cooks. That's what we do, we cook. You're a chef when you're running a kitchen.

Tom Colicchio

#77. Tenzin said, "More popcorn, my boy."
Giovanni ripped the plastic bag open and held the paper bag. "This is ridiculous. I'm not a kitchen appliance.

Elizabeth Hunter

#78. For me, a kitchen is like science fiction. I only go there to open the refrigerator and take something out.

Ann-Margret

#79. After that, anytime she caught me near a kitchen she'd start in on me. So I have an automatic sphincter clench any time I reach for a pan. (Devyn)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#80. I know from personal experience, if a chef yelled at me in a kitchen, the first thing I'd want to do is hit them with a pot.

Tom Colicchio

#81. Your son went into your kitchen and took a kitchen knife ...

Judy Sheindlin

#82. Whether it's a letter, song lyrics, part of a novel, or instructions on how to fix a kitchen sink, it's writing. You keep your craft honed, you acquire the discipline to finish things. You turn into a self-taskmaster.

Jimmy Buffett

#83. Here is a kitchen improvement, in return for Peacock. For roasting or basting a chicken, render down your fat or butter with cider: about a third cider. Let it come together slowly, till the smell of cider and the smell of fat are as one. This will enliven even a frozen chicken.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

#84. Somehow or other, I always end up in a kitchen feeding a crowd.

Laurie Colwin

#85. A kitchen is a good place to be, almost always the best place in the house.

Michael Ruhlman

#86. In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius.

Alex Cox

#87. The place I like best in this world is the kitchen. No matter where it is, no matter what kind, if it's a kitchen, if it's a place where they make food, it's fine with me. Ideally it should be well broken in. Lots of tea towels, dry and immaculate. Where tile catching the light (ting! Ting!)

Banana Yoshimoto

#88. It is odd how all men develop the notion, as they grow older, that their mothers were wonderful cooks. I have yet to meet a man who will admit that his mother was a kitchen assassin and nearly poisoned him.

Robertson Davies

#89. My plans are not to open a restaurant, but what I would like to do is open a kitchen somewhere in D.C. proper and have a chef's table where people can come and taste my food without having to have a catered event.

Carla Hall

#90. You don't need to explain. This is your house too-you can go where you want," I reply. I smile as best as I can. "Except my room, of course."
"Why, you'll stab me with a kitchen knife if I do?" she jokes as I set the knife down onto Oma March's bedside table.
"Maybe," I answer.

Jackson Pearce

#91. Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands; the real art is in getting them clean again, and therein lies the whole morality of our epoch.

Honore De Balzac

#92. Considering it was my father's house, I thought it was very much my beeswax, but I wasn't about to argue with a stranger hiding in a kitchen, pelting me with footwear.

Caitlin Kittredge

#93. It annoys the hell out of me when people say, This is the kitchen, and this is the bathroom. What am I, Helen Keller? I mean, it's pretty obvious when you're in a kitchen and when you're not.

A.M. Homes

#94. It is said that true tricstkers can make trouble between two pans in a kitchen.

George Webbe Dasent

#95. The real proof that I have tried to love and that people have tried to love me back was never going to fit in a kitchen drawer.

Sloane Crosley

#96. There was another restaurant, rustic and small, with red checkered cloths on the tables, and a kitchen you could see into from the dining area, and they all were there together.

Scott Cawthon

#97. When I'm dead worn out, in a reverie, I often think that when it comes time to die, I want to breathe my last in a kitchen. Whether it's cold and I'm all alone, or somebody's there and it's warm, I'll stare death fearlessly in the eye. If it's a kitchen, I'll think, 'How good.

Banana Yoshimoto

#98. I had a holiday job in a kitchen, but I think we'll draw a polite veil over that. There was nothing joyous or creative about it. And none of this helped my studies.

Fergus Henderson

#99. They could've thrown a kitchen sink into the box and one of the guys would've headed it.

Paul Lambert

#100. If you ask me, that's reason enough to keep a kitchen at the center of a family's life, as a place to understand favorite foods as processes, not just products.

Barbara Kingsolver