Dish Quotes

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star. (Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin)
Revenge is a dish that tastes best when served cold. View quote
Mario Puzo
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. View quote
W. H. Auden
A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish, and seasoned with a little pepper or salt will be very good boiled on the fourth day, especially in w. View quote
Jonathan Swift
I like to cook, but mostly Greek. When I am confused or tired, I think about what I can cook. It takes you away from everything, as you are thinking only of your dish. View quote
Nana Mouskouri
Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players. View quote
Larry Bird
What all this posturing and fake glamor results in is a vast detachment and cynicism on the part of the artists. Since it's impossible to have respect for an audience that'll take just about anything you care to dish out, and the impassive demeanor is so central to the role, a general numbnose is all that can be expected. View quote
Lester Bangs
My life and work have been far from free of blemish, and so I think it would be unpardonable for a biographer not to dish up the dirt. View quote
William Styron
Outward, thanks to the knowledge of physical laws, man could subdue (or subjugate...) nature, but inwardly, he remained a slave to it. For, when all is said and done, at what is aiming all this display (or deployment) of activity, if not to realized outward profits, to provide material pleasure (or enjoyment). It is not the first time that men sell their birth right for a dish of lentils, and thus disown (or repudiate or deny) the best of thmeselves. View quote
African Spir
This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men. View quote
Izaak Walton
There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters. (Miguel de Cervantes)
The Chinese people have only family and clan solidarity; they do not have national spirit...they are just a heap of loose sand...Other men are the carving knife and serving dish; we are the fish and the meat. View quote
Sun Yat-sen
He looked at me as if I were a side dish he hadn't ordered. View quote
Ring Lardner
Fools take criticism and dish it back. The wise take it and turn it to their advantage. View quote
Michael Hyatt
Another old saying is that revenge is a dish best served cold. But it feels best served piping hot, straight out of the oven of outrage. My opinion? Take care of revenge right away. View quote
Mindy Kaling
Everyone knows revenge is a dish best served when you've had enough time to build up enough vitriol and fury. View quote
Sophie Kinsella
Revenge is a dish best served unexpectedly and from a distance - like a thrown trifle. View quote
Frances Hardinge
I only eat meat if I go to a nice restaurant and there is an exceptional dish, or if I'm at somebody's home for a dinner, I'll eat whatever is in front of me. Otherwise, I don't eat anything that walks around and has a face. View quote
Bryan Fuller
I train my chefs with a blindfold. I'll get my sous chef and myself to cook a dish. The young chef would have to sit down and eat it with a blindfold. If they can't identify the flavor, they shouldn't be cooking the dish. View quote
Gordon Ramsay
I love to have battles of the wits with people that can dish fast and dirty - and it leads to problems occasionally, 'cause I can sound mean without attempting to be mean. View quote
Alton Brown
I don't like to eat the same dish every day, so I read very different things. (Cornelia Funke)
I found great rewards in cooking a dish and feeding it to someone. It was a means of communicating. I was giving part of my talent or my gift and sharing it with somebody, making somebody happy. And it gave a lot back to me, and I wanted to do more and more. View quote
Lidia Bastianich
There is a dessert dish in Austria called Kaiserschmarrn - it's kind of like a sweet raisin pancake with eggs and sugar. It's definitely not something I can eat often, but if I've done well at a race, sometimes that's my celebration treat! View quote
Lindsey Vonn
I would try doing a dish 30 different ways. View quote
Heston Blumenthal
Not only is New York City the nation's melting pot, it is also the casserole, the chafing dish and the charcoal grill. View quote
John Lindsay