Top 54 Simmer Quotes
#1. War doesn't start with an explosion ... .It bears far more subtlety. A simmer beneath the surface, as if bringing broth to a boil.
Kristina McMorris
#2. Solitude, a time for memories, a time to dream, a time for passions to simmer quietly in the dark recesses of the mind, eager to fly yet merely reflections in the minds eye...
Virginia Alison
#3. Things don't weigh me down any more. I confront things, and I move on. I don't dwell on things; I don't let things simmer under the surface. I am where it starts and where it ends. I have the power in my life to be happy.
Ricki-Lee Coulter
#4. He doesn't anger easily. This is good. (Takeshi)
Yes, I'm more of a simmer slowly until it boils over and ruins everything kind of man. (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#5. The gain isn't counted to the recluse and inactive that, having nothing to measure themselves by and never being tested by failure, they simmer and soak perpetually in conscious complacency.
Alice James
#6. If I'm not good enough because I'm a waitress, don't settle for me, don't sink down to my level. You don't deserve anything I have to offer. Let that shit hurt for a hot minute, simmer in it then leave me the fuck alone.
Christine Zolendz
#7. He was the quintessential bad boy, complete with a ruthlessness that appeared to simmer dangerously close to the surface. Couple that with his devil-may-care swagger and panty-dropping smile, it was a small wonder she hadn't fainted from the sheer emotional overload.
B.B. Cruz
#8. Not the bee upon the blossom,
In the pride o' sunny noon;
Not the little sporting fairy,
All beneath the simmer moon;
Not the poet, in the moment
Fancy lightens in his e'e,
Kens the pleasure, feels the rapture,
That thy presence gi'es to me.
Robert Burns
#9. Technologies simmer along before they are feasible. That simmer can be short or long, but then they get traction. And from there to being huge is a couple of decades.
Klaus Lackner
#10. I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.
Alice James
#11. Soup is a lot like a family. Each ingredient enhances the others; each batch has its own characteristics; and it needs time to simmer to reach full flavor.
Marge Kennedy
#12. The wretched bodies of the condemned shall simmer and blaze in those living fires.
Cyprian
#13. My native tense is future conditional, a low simmer of unspecified worry being the usual condition.
Michael Pollan
#14. Simmer down, let me hear the sound of them feet.
Buddy Bolden
#15. I'm always calculating what I want to do, who I want to be, what I want to accomplish. I don't need to worry about that - that's always there on a slow simmer. The muscle I have to work on is being more present.
Chris Pine
#16. Omelets are about technique. Now, different people make it different ways, but, if you're a chef in Europe, an omelet has to be cooked on the outside, with just a simmer of color, and the inside has to be soft. It should be cooked like a steak - medium rare.
Wolfgang Puck
#17. I have a corn creamer that I love. It extracts pulp and juice from kernels, and I simmer that down into a creamed corn that has an almost mashed potato-like consistency. I add butter and hit it with chopped fresh chives at the end for an accent of color.
Nick Offerman
#18. Oh Lord please don't burn us don't kill or toast your flock. Don't put us on the barbecue or simmer us in stock. Don't bake or baste or boil us or stir-fry us in a wok.
Graham Chapman
#19. You will soon find that I am a bit obsessive about my work. And that is a little sad, one often feels strangely restricted, not finding time to simmer, although one actually has many interests.
Arne Jacobsen
#20. My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual.
Phyllis Diller
#21. Southern gentleman," he said aside to him in Arabic. "Do you wish for me to continue this for you?"
Caine's temper shifted to a low simmer in his chest. "Your way takes too long."
"Ma'aleyk, and your way hurts my ears," he argued.
V.S. Carnes
#22. Ignoring a problem does not make it go away. In fact, it can simmer away beneath the surface and lead to poor mood and energy levels, and can also cause your moods to become unstable.
Liz Miller
#23. Most revolutions start small and simmer under the surface gathering strength, adding to an ideology, gaining favourable opinion- first as a
credible alternative and then as the majority view
Gyan Nagpal
#24. I feel claimed and bonded to him like animals do. I feel like I've already been caught and trapped and he's merely priming me, leaving me to simmer in my juices, anxiously waiting for the moment when he takes his first bite of me.
Katy Evans
#26. Bad thoughts can be dangerous if left to simmer and weaken the heart slowly and invisibly. Like termites that destroy the beams of a house, secretly, in the dark until it's too late and everything collapses.
Massimo Marino
#27. Martha Stewart published her recipe for disaster
mix one part arrogance with two parts incompetence, simmer in the juices and then serve hot in the can.
Jay Leno
#28. Instead of thinking deeply, or letting an idea simmer in the back of the mind, our instinct now is to reach for the nearest sound bite.
Carl Honore
#29. Well ... " Enoch's voice broke into his thoughts. "What do you think?" "I want Taylor to have the pick of the litter." "In the long run, it wouldn't be a bad idea for her to have a dog. Until things simmer down, I want to hire you to guard my sister." "No need. I'm going to marry her.
Cathy Marie Hake
#30. It's important to be honest with and respectful of each other and deal with issues as they arrive, as opposed to letting them simmer.
Ivanka Trump
#31. Sky glowing dull pink. Simmer dim, as the Shetlanders called
Ian Rankin
#32. In lang, lang days o' simmer,
When the clear and cloudless sky
Refuses ae weep drap o' rain
To Nature parched and dry,
The genial night, wi' balmy breath,
Gars verdue, spring anew,
An' ilka blade o' grass
Keps its ain drap o' dew.
James Ballantine
#33. We suffered a setback and there were too many trades until Dave Taylor came along and Charlie Simmer.
Marcel Dionne
#34. He told Eureka the only heat to use when you loved a sauce is the softest simmer.
Lauren Kate
#35. My father was one of those men who sit in a room and you can feel it: the simmer, the sense of some unpredictable force that might, at any moment, break loose, and do something terrible. [Burnside, p. 27]
John Burnside
#36. Why don't we leave this pot on to simmer for a while?
Paige Tyler
#37. The great secret of an authentic tagine is to simmer the ingredients over a low heat, so that everything remains deliciously moist and tender.
Ghillie Basan
#38. I worry that if whatever pops into your head at any instant immediately goes online, you lose the crucial time for your thoughts to simmer and evolve and build up nuance, depth and empathy.
Paul Harding
#39. I love the way a list makes a big hodgepodge of things simmer down and behave.
Blue Balliett
#41. Now Simmer blinks on flowery braes,
And o'er the chrystal streamlets plays;
Come let us spend the lightsome days
In the birks of Aberfeldy.
Robert Burns
#42. And girls need cold anger. They need the cold simmer, the ceaseless grudge, the talent to avoid forgiveness, the side stepping of compromise. They need to know when they say something that they will never back down, ever, ever.
Gregory Maguire
#43. Reflective thinking is like the crock pot of the mind. It encourages your thoughts to simmer until they're done.
John C. Maxwell
#45. To develop the creative attitude, analyze and focus on the wanted SOLUTION; seek out and fill your mind with the FACTS; write down ideas, both sensible and seemingly wild; let the facts and ideas simmer in your mind; evaluate, recheck, settle on the creative ideas.
Bruce Lee
#46. The next day I woke up in a sullen simmer, as if sleep had catalyzed my depression into a general state of pissed-offedness.
Lisa Kleypas
#47. Love cannot grow between two people when dark secrets simmer beneath.
Amy Jarecki
#48. No matter what I write or speak about, it always has some connection to how our spiritual understanding impacts the world we live in. Whether I'm writing or teaching about nutrition, pilates, green living or meditation, all topics simmer down to self thought and intention.
Marianne Williamson
#49. A slow, wry smile teased Daemon's lips. "Simmer down, Kitten, before I have to get you a ball of yarn to play with."
Annoyance flared deep inside me. "Don't start with me, jerk-face.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#50. A story must simmer in its own juice for months or even years before it's ready to serve.
Edna Ferber
#52. Revenge is calmer, cold, and calculating. It has a plan. It's willing to wait. Sometimes it only has to simmer for a couple of days, sometimes weeks or months. The longer revenge cooks, the more potent it becomes. Unleashed at a toxic level, it can take the carrier with it.
Adrienne Wilder
#53. Whoa." Cayman threw up his hands. "Simmer down, crouching demon, hidden Warden. He's fine.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#54. A million words were going through my head and honestly I didn't say one of them. I wanted to let it sit, simmer, you know I wanted to soak it all in - the moment was amazing.
Stefano Langone