Boiled Quotes
121 quotes by 110 authors
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Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics.
— John Banville
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My mum and my husband are from Irish backgrounds, so we have a lot of potatoes. Chips, mashed, boiled, new potatoes, I love them all.…
— Jo Brand
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The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier…
— Julie Burchill
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I don't claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday…
— Jimmy Carter
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Why do they always put mud into coffee on board steamers? Why does the tea generally taste of boiled boots?
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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Remember, people will judge you by your actions not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold but so does a hard-boiled egg.
— Maya Angelou
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But some of us are beginning to pull well away, in our irritation, from...the exquisite tasters, the vintage snobs, the three-star Michelin gourmets. There is,…
— J. B. Priestley
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When boiled down to its essence, unforgiveness is hatred.
— John R. Rice
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In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled; even the effortlessly superior. But irony originates in the…
— Christopher Hitchens
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I have to have breakfast and breakfast has to be eggs, whether in omelet form, hard-boiled, or over-easy,
— Chrissy Teigen
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Really, all religious teachings can be boiled down to: “Just be cool. Don’t be an asshole.
— Nick Offerman
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It's a pragmatist's business, comedy. Start off with good intentions and references to the Pompidou Centre and you end up with boiled sweets and a…
— Mel Smith
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The Next Right Thing has humanity, humor, and insight to burn. Author Dan Barden takes the clay of the California hard-boiled novel and shapes it…
— George Pelecanos
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By nature, a storyteller is a plagiarist. Everything one comes across--each incident, book, novel, life episode, story, person, news clip--is a coffee bean that will…
— Rabih Alameddine
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I had a long talk with Bruce Springsteen on a rooftop during the Vote for Change tour (in 2004). And it boiled down to this:…
— Eddie Vedder
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The way I dress and carry myself, a lot of people find it intimidating. I think my whole career can be boiled down to the…
— Lorde
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Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages. Adding explanation to the descriptive…
— Akira Kurosawa
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I can make fried tofu, boiled tofu, stuffed tofu. Cutlets and other fancy stuff, that's for other directors.
— Yasujiro Ozu
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Those other lands were Christian, and they boiled with bigotry. The rulers themselves were more or less tolerant, for they depended upon Jews as their…
— Lewis Browne
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It matters not how simple the food - a chop, steak or a plain boiled or roast joint, but let it be of good quality…
— Alexis Soyer
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