Frying Pan Quotes
29 quotes by 27 authors
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No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.
— William S. Burroughs
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I don't often get a chance to have a frying pan in the show.
— Tommy Emmanuel
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Timing is everything. Chemistry is something that you don't just throw in the frying pan and mix it up with another something, then throw it…
— Kevin Garnett
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The frying pan you should give to your enemy. Food should not be prepared in fat. Our bodies are adapted to a stone age diet…
— Denis Parsons Burkitt
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As mayor, I'm in the frying pan. I'm just sitting here on the griddle now, and I've got to really think, you know, do I…
— Anthony A. Williams
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In fact,I believe the reason why the Chinese failed to develop botany and zoology is that the Chinese scholar cannot stare coldly and unemotionally at…
— Lin Yutang
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Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil,…
— Thomas Carlyle
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It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your words and make them pop like chestnuts.
— Gustave Flaubert
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If you record the sound of bacon in a frying pan and play it back, it sounds like the pops and cracks on an old…
— Tom Waits
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Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Naturally, the workers are perfectly free; the manufacturer does not force them to take his materials and his cards, but he says to them..'If you…
— Friedrich Engels
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We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.
— Eric Hoffer
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The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers,…
— Garrison Keillor
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
— Tertullian
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Personally, I say, "Out of the frying pan and into the deadly pit filled with sharks who are wielding chainsaws with killer kittens stapled to…
— Brandon Sanderson
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...she waited until she and my grandfather Anthel were just home from their honeymoon, and then sat him down and told him this: "Honey, I…
— Haven Kimmel
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out of the frying pan and into the fire
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!†he said, and it became a proverb, though we now say ‘out of the frying-pan into the fire’…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different!
— Angela Carter
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It was all I could do to not knock him down right there in front of Asher and climb on him. If I stunned him…
— Cate Tiernan
Who Wrote These Frying Pan Quotes
27 authors contributed a total of 29 Frying Pan Quotes, led by these top contributors: