Simmering Quotes
20 quotes by 19 authors
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A dream is always simmering below the conventional surface of speech and reflection.
— George Santayana
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Soup simmering, music of idle gossip, yammering kids, domestic chaos - long adjusted to this rolling scene, you show them your lofty calm.
— Gottfried Keller
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Cooking is an act of love, a gift, a way of sharing with others the little secrets -- 'piccoli segreti' -- that are simmering on…
— Sophia Loren
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What people don't realize is that the so-called Seattle grunge scene grew out of several close-knit gourmet supper clubs - we would only pick up…
— Kurt Cobain
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The air is annoyingly potted with a multitude of minor vertical disturbances which sicken the passengers and keep us captives of our seat belts. We…
— Ernest K. Gann
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The passion has never left me. I live as two people - myself, Dan Fante, and Bruno Dante or Mickey Di Salvo, or whoever I…
— Dan Fante
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This afternoon, burn down the house. Tomorrow, pour critical water upon the simmering coals. Time enough to think and cut and rewrite tomorrow. But today-explode-f…
— Ray Bradbury
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The universe is simmering down, like a giant stew left to cook for four billion years. Sooner or later we won’t be able to tell…
— Arthur Bloch
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Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking and full of simmering controversies - and…
— Nicholson Baker
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I think there's a tendency for actors like myself, and I don't mean to generalize myself, but I've played 'men's men,' if you will, characters…
— Idris Elba
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I don’t expect you will really understand the beauty of the softly simmering cauldron with its shimmering fumes, the delicate power of liquids that creep…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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She would not shed a tear, she would not waste the rest of her years simmering in the maggot broth of memory.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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The first building she reached appeared to be an old barn. Only one young guard stood before its bolted door, staring at her with wide…
— Shannon Hale
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Once, I was a master at recycling leftovers. Now I cultivate the art of simmering memories.
— Jean-Dominique Bauby
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Any happiness, no matter how brief, seemed better than the long, simmering torture of waking up day after day, knowing I could never have him.
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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You are here to learn the subtle science and exact art of potion-making. As there is little foolish wand-waving here, many of you will hardly…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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I mean, to me, freaking out is different. More of a running away, not telling anyone what's wrong, slowly simmering until you burst kind of…
— Sarah Dessen
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Turn the preparing of food into a communal affair by enlisting others to help with the chopping, grating, stirring, simmering, tasting and seasoning. When the…
— Carl Honore
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As I said last week in the wake of the grand jury decision, I think Ferguson laid bare a problem that is not unique to…
— Barack Obama
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Life is an act of endless creativity. With all its simmering tragedy and occasional catastrophe, a human life is an amazing thing to contemplate and…
— Greg Graffin
Who Wrote These Simmering Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 20 Simmering Quotes as follows: