Kettle Quotes

65 quotes by 60 authors

Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation. The kettle is singing even as it pours you a drink, the cooking… — David Whyte
We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around… — Edie Falco
I need someone to fold the sheet, someone to take the other end of the sheet and walk towards me and fold once , then… — Roger Deakin
If you ask Zen people they will say; tea is not something that you pour with unawareness and drink like any other drink. It is… — Rajneesh
Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle. — Roland Barthes
Why does a three-year-old, and it's usually boys, want to drive the tractor or have machinery and be in control of it? I don't know.… — Michael Fassbender
It seems that I must bid the Muse to pack, / Choose Plato and Plotinus for a friend / Until imagination, ear and eye, /… — William Butler Yeats
The condition of mankind is, and always has been, so miserable and depraved that, if anyone were to say to the poet: "For God's sake… — Wystan Hugh Auden
I like to jump some rope and swing kettle bells to get my blood pumping. It makes my voice sound better, and it clears my… — Harry Connick, Jr.
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that… — Gustave Flaubert
There are a lot of ways to make people not like you, but one of the most powerful - if least fair - is to… — Jeffrey Kluger
I said old Jesus probably would've puked if He could see it - all those fancy costumes and all. Sally said I was a sacrilegious… — J D Salinger
After the trial, I watched as another female pathologist collected maggots from a spinal column found in the desert. There was a decomposed head, too,… — David Sedaris
We had a kettle; we let it leak: Our not repairing made it worse. We haven't had any tea for a week... The bottom is… — Rudyard Kipling
Foul and magical fumes bubbled out of the kettle, like the flatulence of a dragon on a demon-only diet. — Christopher Moore
Look who's calling the cauldron black." "Kettle. Itâ€™s a kettle. Get your metaphors right." "That wasnâ€™t a metaphor. It was a, you know..." He stared… — Richelle Mead
Patience is a virtue. (Tee) Excuse me, pot, could you not pick on the kettle? (Joe) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Flaubert was right when he said that our use of language is like a cracked kettle on which we bang out tunes for bears to… — Christopher Hitchens
She thinks Iâ€™m a drug dealer. (Chris) â€˜The most â€œillegalâ€ thing the boy had ever done was to walk past a Salvation Army Santa Claus,… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
The dark is generous, and it is patient, and it always wins. It always wins because it is everywhere. It is in the wood that… — Matthew Woodring Stover

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60 authors contributed a total of 65 Kettle Quotes, led by these top contributors: