Boiled Quotes
121 quotes by 110 authors
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The church has been preoccupied with the question, 'What happens to your soul after you die?' AS IF THE REASON FOR JESUS COMING CAN BE…
— Brian D. McLaren
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Sassafras wood boiled down to a kind of tea, and tempered with an infusion of milk and sugar hath to some a delicacy beyond the…
— Charles Lamb
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I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called.
— James M. Cain
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Ruthless man: you begin by slaying the animal and then you devour it, as if to slay it twice. It is not enough. You turn…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Boiled down to its core, the truth is always a simple, solid thing
— David Simon
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Where life is colorful and varied, religion can be austere or unimportant. Where life is appallingly monotonous, religion must be emotional, dramatic and intense. Without…
— C. Northcote Parkinson
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Let me be boiled to death with melancholy.
— William Shakespeare
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I like less the story that a frog if put in cold water will not bestir itself if that water is heated up slowly and…
— Charles Handy
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I separated the joints, the arm joints, the leg joints, and had to do two boilings. I think I used four boxes of Soilex for…
— Jeffrey Dahmer
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Even that was all consumed after two days, and the patients had to try to choke down fresh fish, just boiled in water, without salt,…
— Nellie Bly
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Like Tom Dorrance said, ‘It boiled down to one thing: observe, remember, and compare.’ Do something, observe what you did, remember what you did, compare…
— Buck Brannaman
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CEREMONY OF FLIES hits the road like a nitrous-fueled GTO...and then pulls the ultimate stunt of getting better. What starts as a deceptively simple hard-boiled…
— Lisa Morton
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Linde's Danger to Self is a warm, candid and appealing account of being an emergency room psychiatrist. Linde captures the non-conformist, hard-boiled style of the…
— Tanya Luhrmann
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What is literature, really? Boiled down to a single sentence, I'd say it's this: an endless conversation about what it means to be human. And…
— Nicole Krauss
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A sentence boiled in her, but she could not yet see it clearly.
— John Irving
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You forget what it was like. You'd swear on your life you never will, but year by year it falls away. How your temperature ran…
— Tana French
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Undoubtedly the stories about them [hard-boiled detectives] had a fantastic element. Such things happened, but not so rapidly, nor to so close-knit a group of…
— Raymond Chandler
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I'm a terribly irresponsible eater - I love soft-boiled eggs and chocolate. I never met a chocolate I could not eat.
— Danielle Steel
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Writing for children is murder. A chapter has to be boiled down to a paragraph. Every word has to count.
— Dr. Seuss
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And if we’re talking about hard-boiled detectives, too, what could be more hardboiled than the worldview of Ligotti or Cioran? They make the grittiest of…
— Nic Pizzolatto
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