Roast Quotes
125 Roast quotes by 111 unique authors
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It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up…
— George Eliot
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A good roast of sun, it slows you, lets you relax–and out here if there's anything wrong, you can see it coming with bags of…
— A.L. Kennedy
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A human body in no way resembles those that were born for ravenousness; it hath no hawk's bill, no sharp talon, no roughness of teeth,…
— Plutarch
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Everybody's talking about the new democratic world and whether high fashion is relevant. But without high there is no low. I don't like to intellectualize.…
— Alber Elbaz
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Here's a toast to the roast that good fellowship lends, with the sparkle of beer and wine; May its sentiment always be deeper, my friends,…
— Ogden Nash
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That's the old ecological tale that explains humans' inability to fully appreciate global warming. To wit: if you drop a frog in a pan of…
— Clive Thompson
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When Van Truex defined the difference between designing and decorating, he used the analogy of preparing a roast of beef. Design, he said, is the…
— Albert Hadley
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It needs only a good bottle of wine for a roast chicken to be transformed into a banquet.
— Gerald Asher
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It is setting a high value upon our opinions to roast men and women alive on account of them.
— Michel de Montaigne
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We nourish the bodies of our children and friends and employees, but how seldom do we nourish their selfesteem? We provide them with roast beef…
— Dale Carnegie
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Life as Hunter Thompson's mother was no weenie roast.
— William McKeen
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Beer drinkers have been duped by mass marketing into the belief that it makes sense to drink only one brand of beer. In truth, brand…
— Stephen Beaumont
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EXHORT, v.t. In religious affairs, to put the conscience of another upon the spit and roast it to a nut-brown discomfort.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.
— Alexandra Guarnaschelli
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It may not be possible to get rare roast beef but if you're willing to settle for well done, ask them to hold the sweetened…
— Marian Burros
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Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in…
— Diane Ackerman
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The handshake of the host affects the taste of the roast
— Benjamin Franklin
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A roast is like a get-together where people come down and talk about you and dog you out, the way you came up, the knucklehead…
— Bootsy Collins
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In deference to American traditions, my family put our oven to rare use at Thanksgiving during my childhood, with odd roast-turkey experiments involving sticky-rice stuffing…
— Jennifer Lee
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Classics can be phenomenal when done right. A simple roast chicken dish could be the best thing you ever eat.
— Joe Bastianich
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Christmas was the one time of year when my brothers surfaced at home, when my parents and grandparents congregated to eat my mother's roast turkey.
— Amanda Lindhout
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A miscalculation is not negligence, nor prudence a crime. I am a scientist. I base my action or inaction upon probability and evidence. There is…
— Rick Yancey
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To him who is stinted of food a boiled turnip will relish like a roast fowl.
— Saadi
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If you want to get a pet for your child, I suggest a chicken so that when they get bored of it after a couple…
— Jo Brand
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I've actually tried to roast somebody that I don't like, and it doesn't go well. Either they're a bad sport or I'm not as funny…
— Jeff Ross
Who Wrote These Roast Quotes
111 authors contributed a total of 125 Roast Quotes, led by these top contributors: