Dish Quotes - page 5

We were in Philadelphia when Manager Pat shifted me from third to short, and right off the bat, I knew I had found my dish. Footwork was more a part of the new position than it had been at third. I suddenly felt I had sprouted wings. A world of new possibilities opened for me. (Bobby Wallace)
The idea behind a dish - the delight and the surprise - makes a difference. Great literature surprises and delights, and provokes us. It isn't just 'Here's the facts - boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl.' It's how you tell it. View quote
Nathan Myhrvold
A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than anything, fear. View quote
Oscar Isaac
I may be the only person in the world who has my own embryonic cells growing in a petri dish. View quote
Peter Nygard
I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized. View quote
Patrice Leconte
Everybody remembers Robbie Williams said I had a face like a satellite dish. View quote
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Most cooks try to learn by making dishes. Doesnt mean you can cook. It means you can make that dish. When you can cook is when you can go to a farmers market, buy a bunch of stuff, then go home and make something without looking at a recipe. Now youre cooking. View quote
Tom Colicchio
One of the smartest things you can do on 'Chopped' is to take one of those ingredients and make a pickle out of it, because almost every dish benefits from that. I'm feeling like those intuitions are becoming more natural. View quote
Ted Allen
Your idea of that dish has evolved, and if you're a cook, you can start thinking in different ways about it, maybe even a different way than I think about it. View quote
Thomas Keller
I tell everybody the same thing: You have to make every dish so when you taste it, you should remember it when you go home. View quote
Wolfgang Puck
When I was 27, if I didn't put 15 things in one dish I wasn't happy. (Wolfgang Puck)
The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day. View quote
Norman Douglas
I eat everything, that's a problem. I don't have discipline. My favorite dish is the Caribbean. Meat, rice, lots of grains. But I do like to do exercises. Lately, I've been having capoeira classes and lots of cardiovascular exercises, such as jogging and cycling. View quote
Ricky Martin
I just love Chinese food. My favourite dish is number 27. View quote
Clement Attlee
I am myself an uncompromising anti-Jingoe, a peace-at-almost-any-price man. Chamberlain is the only Unionist public man whom I have ever thoroughly distrusted. Excepting Napoleon, I believe that England's true greatness has had no such dangerous enemy since Lord North. When a radical, he delighted to dish his colleagues even more than to flout his opponents. He is now engaged in dishing his new colleagues and flouting his old friends. View quote
Alfred Marshall
It seems to me that election season is just a Petri dish for anger and cynicism. View quote
Max Lucado
My favorite Dominican dish to indulge in is anything with crab. View quote
Pharrell Williams
A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it. View quote
Fergie
Last night I fell asleep in a satellite dish. My dreams were broadcast all over the world. View quote
Steven Wright
I dish the dirt out and I can take it. But why should my mother and children have to take it? View quote
Jeremy Clarkson
It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers, and I grew up in a very funny, conversational house and didn't have television. This small family farm was a bubble world that didn't have much to do with reality. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
At midday the daily food of all Spaniards was the puchero or cocido, as the dish is really called which the foreigners call pot-pourri or olla podrida. View quote
George Santayana
You're a little honey and you're quite a dish. Saturday night we're goin' fishin' to fish. View quote
Tex Atchison
The hardest part of anything is making a dish consistently great - you order it seven years later, if it's still on the menu, and it's still as good as what you remember. View quote
Mario Batali
Gravy is the simplest, tastiest, most memory-laden dish I know how to make: a little flour, salt and pepper, crispy bits of whatever meat anchored the meal, a couple of cups of water or milk and slow stirring to break up lumps. View quote
Dorothy Allison