Top 100 Tom Kettle Quotes
#1. There was a lot of pot and kettle going on here.
Abigail Roux
#2. We were once friends with the whites but you nudged us out of the way by your intrigues, and now when we are in council you keep nudging each other.
Black Kettle
#4. She thinks I'm a drug dealer. (Chris)
'The most "illegal" thing the boy had ever done was to walk past a Salvation Army Santa Claus, once, without dropping money into the kettle.' (Wulf)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#5. Foul and magical fumes bubbled out of the kettle, like the flatulence of a dragon on a demon-only diet.
Christopher Moore
#6. Remember the steam kettle; though up to its neck in hot water it continues to sing.
Brownie Wise
#7. Well, if that wasn't the kettle talking smack about the pot, I don't know what was.
Meghan Ciana Doidge
#8. It's not going to make a very good story, in the annals of my time as sister queen." She quoted dryly, "'Then her consort jumped up and knocked the foreign queen unconscious with a kettle.
Martha Wells
#9. I don't really like sweets, so that's never been a problem. Instead I'll have Kettle potato chips, which are gluten-free.
Scott Michael Foster
#10. Zec back toward the living room. The kettle's whistle died away, like an air raid siren winding down. The house went quiet again. "It's over," Reacher said. "You lost." "It's never over," the Zec replied. Hoarse voice,
Lee Child
#11. We want to take good tidings home to our people, that they may sleep in peace.
Black Kettle
#12. I planned to spend mine in new music, said Beth, with a little sigh, which no one heard but the hearth brush and kettle-holder.
Louisa May Alcott
#13. I went into a shop and I said, "Can someone sell me a kettle." The bloke said "Kenwood" I said, "Where is he?"
Tim Vine
#14. While there are many varieties of grills, each with their own virtues to be sure, I prefer the standard Weber kettle grill. Don't be fooled into thinking that you need any fancy gadgets in order to take advantage of cooking over a live fire. Just a good set of tongs and you're set.
Barton Seaver
#15. We can share same dream, same vision but when it comes to navigate the dream is completely different kettle of fish.
Euginia Herlihy
#16. Fish never climb out of the kettle and shove a spear through your belly.
George R R Martin
#17. Whatever colour the pots, the kettle may indeed be black.
H.V.D. Dyson
#18. Actually, I'm not a gym rat. I'm not a gym person - I've never been. I've always been blessed to be thin. If I'm waiting for the kettle to boil, I'm doing 15 lunges.
Paige Butcher
#19. I said old Jesus probably would've puked if He could see it - all those fancy costumes and all. Sally said I was a sacrilegious atheist. I probably am. The thing Jesus really would've liked would be the guy who plays the kettle drums in the orchestra.
J.D. Salinger
#20. He was close to Reacher's own height and weight, but slack and swollen, in a shirt as big as a circus tent, above a belt buckled improbably low, under a belly the size of a kettle drum. His face was pale, and his hair was colorless.
Lee Child
#21. Rosalind exploded with a shriek worthy of a tea-kettle.
Emma Clifton
#22. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.
Alan W. Watts
#23. Quite deliberately my friend drops a kettle on the floor. I tap-dance in front of closed doors. One by one the household emerges, looking as though they'd like to kill us both; but it's Christmas, so they can't.
Truman Capote
#24. A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.
Sydney Smith
#25. I do a lot of mixed martial arts - it's like unlimited fighting. I do Brazilian jujutsu, beach volleyball. I don't like my routine to get stale, so I also lift kettle bells and push cars.
Victor Webster
#26. Water begins to boil in the kettle; it starts as a private, secluded sound, pure as rain, and grows to a steady, solipsistic bubbling.
Amit Chaudhuri
#27. The condition of mankind is, and always has been, so miserable and depraved that, if anyone were to say to the poet: "For God's sake stop singing and do something useful like putting on the kettle or fetching bandages," what just reason could he give for refusing?
W. H. Auden
#28. Flaubert was right when he said that our use of language is like a cracked kettle on which we bang out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we need to move the very stars to pity.
Christopher Hitchens
#29. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg apparently called President Obama directly to complain about NSA and how it spies on ordinary Americans. That's right, the guy who runs Facebook got mad at the NSA for spying on people. Talk about the pot unfriending the kettle!
Jimmy Fallon
#30. I never thought there was a path that would lead here, a fourth-floor flat with two bedrooms and a kettle and a grey-eyed vampire sitting on the couch, messing with his new phone.
Rainbow Rowell
#31. I wish I was at home in my nice hole by the fire, with the kettle just beginning to sing!
J.R.R. Tolkien
#32. The sound of the kettle boiling was in itself the sound of normality, of reason, the sound of a fight back against the sadness of things.
Alexander McCall Smith
#33. In the far reaches of the county, cottages were found with skeletons enlaced in the beds, the bones of the baby in the kettle.
Lauren Groff
#34. the clang of the band, letting loose, rang out like a brass kettle rolling downstairs,
Gustave Flaubert
#35. David knew we were meeting in the Kettle," said Genya," and he guessed about the master flue."
David frowned. "I don't guess.
Leigh Bardugo
#36. Patience is a virtue. (Tee) Excuse me, pot, could you not pick on the kettle? (Joe)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#37. I remember not having a hot water tank, so we had to use a kettle for hot showers. So, you know, we would put the kettle on and go have a shower, and then my mum would come bring three or four kettles in, just to heat them up. And it would take five, 10 minutes for every kettle to heat up.
Jason Day
#38. The household I grew up in ... was rather like an Ovaltine advert. There was a huge fire, a kettle on the fire, the oven with the bread being baked every day, and there was the radio; it was very magical to hear all these wonderful programmes.
Brian Blessed
#39. He [the cat] wound himself around her legs, purring the purr of ardent desire like a kettle coming to a boil and then bubbling very fast.
May Sarton
#40. In truth, this was a bad thing that Yan Chang had done, telling me my mother's story. Secrets are kept from children, a lid on top of the soup kettle, so they do not boil over with too much truth. After
Amy Tan
#42. That woman," Grimm said quietly, "drives me quite insane."
Kettle grunted. "Why'd you marry her, then?
Jim Butcher
#43. Just because it's the pot calling the kettle black, doesn't make the claim any less legitimate.
SonnyGoten
#44. Telling yourself you like the way you look is easy. Believing it is an entirely different kettle of whales.
Andrew Biss
#45. Bother burgling and everything to do with it! I wish I was at home In my nice hole by the fire, with the kettle just beginning to sing! It was not the last time that he wished that!
J.R.R. Tolkien
#46. For the birth of something new, there has to be a happening. Newton saw an apple fall; James Watt watched a kettle boil; Rontgen fogged some photographic plates. And these people knew enough to translate ordinary happenings into something new ...
Alexander Fleming
#47. Oh, dear me!" he lamented. "The raft has floated off and I suppose it's gone down that awful hole by now."
"Well, never mind. We're not on it," said Snufkin gaily. "What's a kettle here or there when you're out looking for a comet!
Tove Jansson
#48. But I was born in the image of God, a man, a creator, with power of life and death, a father, blessed with the gift of the seed of Adam, a sower of seed, to bring forth generations of new life.
This I was, and envying a kettle.
Richard Llewellyn
#49. Nothing is more powerful than allowing yourself to truly be affected by things. Whether it's a song, a stranger, a mountain, a tea kettle, an article, a sentence, a footstep -feel it all. Look around you. All of this is for you. Take it and have gratitude. Give it and feel love.
Zooey Deschanel
#50. Now Momma's done away with the old black kettle she used to cook in when I was just littleAnd the door ain't sprung on her electric rangeThat little old farm and home we had it ain't there no more and that's too badFolks are doing away with the simple things ...
Dolly Parton
#51. You need more sleep."
"Skillet, pan."
"What?"
"You know, the skillet says the pan's the same deal."
He thought a moment. "I believe that's the pot calling the kettle black."
"Whatever, kitchen stuff can't talk anyway.
J.D. Robb
#52. I once thought that I was the only man that persevered to be the friend of the white man, but since they have come and cleaned out our lodges, horses, and everything else, it is hard for to believe the white man any more.
Black Kettle
#53. A hardened and shameless tea-drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant; whose kettle has scarcely time to cool; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and, with tea, welcomes the morning.
Samuel Johnson
#54. We use blue on the handle of the Alessi kettle. Blue is cool, so you're supposed to think that it's not hot. And the bird is red: you're supposed to think to be careful to remove the bird.
Michael Graves
#55. the kettle boiled in its usual crescendo of rattling lid and rambunctious bubbles, condensation steaming up the window behind it.
Robert Galbraith
#56. Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.
Black Kettle
#57. If you're going to call the 'Kettle Black' Just make sure you are stainless steel
Andrea L'Artiste
#58. In a sooty kettle. In one corner, orange-colored sodas were stacked in wooden crates. I had never been in such a wretched hovel.
Jan-Philipp Sendker
#59. The steel kettle shone, a slow furl of steam at its spout, vaguely suggestive of genie and lamp. Oh, grant me a wish, just the one.
John Banville
#60. It's strictly constables, sergeants, and lunatics. We'll keep the kettle on for you.
Ben Aaronovitch
#61. Ella turned to the fireplace where a blackened kettle hung over what Granny Weatherwax always called an optimist's fire: two logs and hope.
Terry Pratchett
#62. Tony is waiting outside, his eyes crinkled into a smile. 'Come inside the house,' he says. He knows what I am feeling. And in I go, where the dogs lie flat on the kitchen floor, tails wagging, and the kettle is whistling, and the house is very warm.
Helen Macdonald
#63. We had a cistern for water. My grandmother churned butter and made lye soap. She and my mother did the washing in a wash kettle outdoors, using a fire to heat the water. That's the way they did the wash until the 1950s.
Bobbie Ann Mason
#64. Culture is simply the hospitality of the intellect. Your mind is open to new ideas and larger views; when they enter, you know how to receive them, and to entertain, to be entertained, and take what they have to offer without allowing them to dominate you.
Tom Kettle
#65. I'm pretty sure that wasn't there before," Nick grumbled.
Kelly laughed harder. "I'm pretty sure it was."
"Shut up."
"You're high."
"Oh, look at the pothead calling the kettle names," Nick said in a singsong voice as he settled onto the wide chaise beside Kelly.
Abigail Roux
#66. Turning away, sobbing, I hide behind my hair, the kettle and coffee forgotten. It's too hard to talk about it. I can't talk about it. It's no one's business but mine. The trauma breathes in my blood, it feasts on my life, it gives me cold sweats and nightmares still.
Poppet
#67. Nicholas shrugged. "Who knows what he's got locked away in his head. Considering the countless lies he's told, you can never really know." "That's like the pot calling the kettle black, isn't it?" He smirked. "Perhaps.
Jessica Sorensen
#68. Give a man a fish
and a kettle,
and he may never feel its HIS kettle of fish.
Teach a man to fish around for his OWN kettle,
and that's when you get
a tasty home-made fish soup
that everyone can enjoy!
Cameron Semmens
#69. In Mexico we have a trick - add a crystal of salt to the kettle and the tea tastes better, almost English. But after four pots, your kettle's broken.
Gael Garcia Bernal
#70. But the roaring of the fire,
And the warmth of fur,
And the boiling of the kettle
Were beautiful to her!
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#71. Contemplating Clodia I find scarcely a drop in my heart of that compassion which Epicurus enjoins us to extend toward the erring.
Thornton Wilder
#72. I'm kind of a big kettle. It takes time to get boiled, but then I'm always hot.
Haruki Murakami
#73. Truth is what every man sees lurking at the bottom of his own soul, like the oyster shell housewives put in the kitchen kettle to collect the lime from the water. By and by each man's iridescent oyster shell of Truth becomes coated with the lime of prejudice and hearsay.
Christopher Morley
#74. here I am, after having been a warrior and a prince, cook, steward and everything else, boiling kettle for de young gentlemen.
Frederick Marryat
#75. If you ask Zen people they will say; tea is not something that you pour with unawareness and drink like any other drink. It is not a drink, it is meditation; it is prayer. So they listen to the kettle creating a melody, and in that listening they become more silent, more alert.
Rajneesh
#76. Architects love to rethink a project - that's what we do. If something is successful, like a house or a kettle, in this case, it's a great compliment when someone wants another one.
Michael Graves
#77. They listened for a while to the perfect music of the wind and rain and night. To the fire and the simmering kettle.
Edward Abbey
#78. Oh, hey, kettle, I'm pot and wow, you're black." - Owen
Olivia Cunning
#79. Different vodkas have different effects. Some make you feel a little ... poly-lingual. Some make you feel like you want to talk back to someone who's giving you a hard time. Some make you feel like lifting kettle bells.
Bill Murray
#80. All we ask is that we have peace with the whites. We want to hold you by the hand. You are our father.
Black Kettle
#81. The tea-kettle is as much an English institution as aristocracy or the Prayer-Book ...
Catharine Beecher
#82. Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle.
Roland Barthes
#83. The cozy fire is bright and gay, The merry kettle boils away and hums a cheerful song. I sing the saucer and the cup; Pray, Mary, fill the teapot up, And do not make it strong
Barry Pain
#84. He couldn't be serious. He was not accusing Marc of wanting me dead! If that wasn't the pot calling the kettle black, I'd ... I'd ... pound the shit out of the pot myself!
Rachel Vincent
#85. But we want peace, I would move all my people down this way. I could then keep them all quietly near camp.
Black Kettle
#87. I hate to admit this but I don't even know how to make a cup of tea or coffee. I can boil a kettle for a pot noodle and I've been known to warm up some food in the microwave.
Michael Owen
#88. Some people think that going on a caravan holiday is a slightly more upscale version of camping. Let me assure you, it is much better than that. You know that you will have your creature comforts wherever you are. I never have to pack light, and I can put the kettle on in any location.
Margaret Beckett
#89. Secrets are kept from children, a lid on top of the soup kettle, so they do not boil over with too much truth.
Amy Tan
#90. We had a kettle; we let it leak: Our not repairing made it worse. We haven't had any tea for a week ... The bottom is out of the Universe.
Rudyard Kipling
#92. My flat's about half a mile away, and you know what I'd like most of all in the world? I'd like a cup of tea. Come on, let's go and put the kettle on.
Philip Pullman
#93. Not for the mighty world. O Lord, tonight, Nations and kingdoms in their fearful might
Let me be glad the kettle gently sings, Let me be grateful for little things.
Edna Jaques
#94. Careful, pot" Tod said. "Someone might notice your resemblance to the kettle.
Rachel Vincent
#95. It's like a kettle. If it's a kettle, you turn the kettle off, you know what I mean? I wish I could put a hole in my head and let the steam come out. The steam was getting so high and the pressure was just getting a little bit much for me.
Frank Bruno
#96. The devil steps up to the podium, clears his throat and taps out time with his baton: in come the monstrous iron kettle drums of artillery, joined by a woodwind section of whistling bullets and shrieking shells, the ever-crackling light percussion of rifle fire.
Matthew De Abaitua
#97. Ireland is a small but insuppressible island half an hour nearer the sunset than Great Britain.
Tom Kettle
#98. I like to jump some rope and swing kettle bells to get my blood pumping. It makes my voice sound better, and it clears my head.
Harry Connick Jr.
#99. Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.
Gustave Flaubert
#100. Your little kettle will rattle in the battle; just put it on fire. Spark your ambitions with action and thing will change. Be like a warrior!
Israelmore Ayivor
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