Kitchen Quotes

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. (Harry S. Truman)
For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe. View quote
Harriet Martineau
I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands. View quote
Zora Neale Hurston
Poisoning rarely happens in a well-managed kitchen. View quote
C. J. Cherryh
No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor. View quote
Betty Friedan
Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines. The Kitchen God's Wife. View quote
Amy Tan
Paranoia's the garlic in life's kitchen, right, you can never have too much. View quote
Thomas Pynchon
Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and eight times out of nine I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities. View quote
Charles Bukowski
Onions and bacon cooking up just makes your kitchen smell so good. In fact, one day I'm going to come up with a room deodorizer that smells like bacon and onions. It's a fabulous smell. View quote
Paula Deen
The best thing I have is the knife from Fatal Attraction. I hung it in my kitchen. It's my way of saying, Don't mess with me. View quote
Glenn Close
The kitchen is the heart of every home, for the most part. It evokes memories of your family history. (Debi Mazar)
I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. View quote
Langston Hughes
No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers. View quote
Laurie Colwin
My mother had always taught me to write about my feelings instead of sharing really personal things with others, so I spent many evenings writing in my diary, eating everything in the kitchen and waiting for Mr. Wrong to call. View quote
Cathy Guisewite
My grandfather was a chef for a Baron in Sicily before he came to America. I grew up with him. I used to do my homework at one end of the kitchen table while he cooked at the other end. View quote
Vincent Schiavelli
I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life. View quote
Geoffrey Rush
She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl. View quote
Harper Lee
She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
For those of you who tried, but didn't make it, Settle down - it's never what you think. The summit doesn't differ from the deep, dark valley, And the valley doesn't differ from the kitchen sink. View quote
Zooey Deschanel
[Writing songs] is no different than explaining to somebody what you dreamed last night: No one ever gives you crap for what you dreamed last night. "I was laying in my bed, and all of a sudden a stallion jumped on my bed and the next thing I know I was in Mars but it looked like my kitchen"... That's kind of what I do with my songs, write them in a dream-like manner. It's up to people to swallow it however they want. View quote
Jason Mraz
The science of life is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen. (Claude Bernard)
When I was writing The Shadow of the Glen I got more aid than any learning could have given me from a chink in the floor of the old Wicklow house where I was staying, that let me hear what was being said by the servent girls in the kitchen. View quote
John Millington Synge
The more you know, the more you can create. There's no end to imagination in the kitchen. View quote
Julia Child
She's always looking for poetry and passion and sensitivity, the whole Romantic kitchen. I live on a rather simpler diet.' 'Prose and pudding?''I don't expect attractive men necessarily to have attractive souls. View quote
John Fowles
My girl works at Hooters, in the kitchen. View quote
Mitch Hedberg