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Quotes About Kitchen

I love being in the kitchen with my daughter right next to me on her step stool. It's sweet; we're connecting.
~ Tiffani Thiessen
I find it is imperative to switch my footwear at least once throughout the day to avoid fatigue, bouncing around the office in Superfeet-clad sneakers, then slipping into clogs whenever I am in the kitchen.
~ Chris Morocco
Dad cooks milk shakes. In the blender.
~ Rebecca Stead
Shouts outdoors announced that the younger boys were home. They tore inside and pounded into the kitchen, then pulled to a halt to gape at her. Alex intervened. 'Ah. Here, Kateri, are the inhabitants of this house known collectively as the barbarian horde. As the Chinese treated the Mongolians, so we share the same territory, and attempt to control, educate, and eventually civilize them.
~ Regina Doman
Wolfe scowled at her. I could see he was torn with conflicting emotions. A female in his kitchen was an outrage. A woman criticizing his or Fritz's cooking was an insult. But corned beef hash was one of life's toughest problems, never yet solved by anyone.
~ Rex Stout
Wolfe scowled at her. I could see he was torn with conflicting emotions. A female in his kitchen was an outrage. A woman criticizing his or Fritz's cooking was an insult. But corned beef hash was one of life's toughest problems, never yet solved by anyone. To tone down the corned flavor and yet preserve its unique quality, to remove the curse of its dryness without making it greasy—the theories and experiments had gone on for years.
~ Rex Stout
On this occasion it was a tea party. Cook had been baking all morning: scones and sponge cakes and shortbreads so that the kitchen was full of wonderful aromas. And all afternoon she had been making little tea sandwiches—cucumber, egg and cress, smoked salmon.
~ Rhys Bowen
room. The other cooks broke into chuckles. "Blasted cheek," Mr Angelo
~ Rhys Bowen
The kitchen went so quiet that I could hear the grease dropping from the chickens on the spit. Not a sound else was to be heard except the littler sounds of the new paint finding homes in the cracks, and the table getting comfortable on the new tiles, and the chair resting itself, and my breath coming slow and steady and making
~ Richard Llewellyn
Blue lightning flashed in the kitchen, and for a split second you could see every calendar on the wall in there. Than an almighty explosion like the crack of doom. She'd rolled a cherry bomb across the floor, and it went off right under the eight feet of the Cowgill brothers, the three big bruisers and Ernie.
~ Richard Peck
He looks out the many-paned kitchen window. Through the Hoel Chestnut, the sky is so stupid with blue that it looks like it was slathered on by a primary-schooler with finger paints.
~ Richard Powers
My mother has always been the sort of woman whose emotional state can be intuited from the volume at which she rattles kitchen utensils.
~ Richard Russo
She twisted from him and ran, nude, to the opposite wall. When he came at her this time §he screamed again and ran into the kitchen. She flicked on the light and stood nude amid the white refrigerator, the white gas stove, the gleaming sink, the white-topped table.
~ Richard Wright
THAT AWKWARD moment when you lock eyes with two friends hanging in cages in a giant's kitchen. And one of them recognizes you and begins to shout your name, but you do not want your name shouted. Blitzen staggered to his feet, gripped the bars of his cage, and yelled, "MAG—" "—NIFICENT!" I bellowed over him. "What beautiful specimens!
~ Rick Riordan
He liked Vermeer, all those cool interiors spoke of an ordinariness he could relate to, a moment in time captured forever, because life wasn't about legions of Madonnas and water lilies, it was about the commonplace of details—the woman pouring milk from a jug, the boy sitting at the kitchen table, eating a chicken pie.
~ Kate Atkinson
And now you have a small map of the princess's heart (hatred, sorrow, kindness, empathy), the heart that she carried down inside her as she went down the golden stairs and through the kitchen and, finally, just as the sky outside the castle began to lighten, down into the dark dungeon with the rat and the serving girl.
~ Kate DiCamillo
Frank thought how mysterious the world was, how unexplainable and sometimes frightening. But to sit in the kitchen and read to someone he loved and to push back the darkness with a story--that was a wonderful thing.
~ Kate DiCamillo
congregations of owls seemed to be below, along with a hollow that was called a kitchen, from
~ Kathryn Lasky
One can't work/by limelight.//A bowlful/right at/one's elbow//produces no/more than/a baleful/glow against/the kitchen table.//The fruit purveyor's/whole unstable/pyramid//doesn't equal/what daylight did.
~ Kay Ryan
Looking back now, it feels like we spent ages in that steamed-up kitchen after breakfast, or huddled around half-dead fires in the small hours, lost in conversation about our plans for the future.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
The Island was in the center of the kitchen, and perhaps to emphasize its fixed-down nature, had pale brown tiles that mimicked the bricks of a building.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
As Simon went to see if Andrew was up, I wandered into the kitchen, where Derek was eyeing a rusty can of beans. That hungry? I said. I will be soon. He prowled the kitchen, flipping open cupboards. So you don't want me asking Andrew about that kid? I said. You trust him, though, right? Sure. He took down a box of crackers and turned it over, looking for a 'best before' date. *** Is he drinking the ketchup yet? Simon swung into the kitchen. Ten minutes, bro. Andrew's on his way—
~ Kelley Armstrong
The Bungalow 4 counselor was a twenty-year-old college student named Eric who had terrible acne and wrote poems about the local girls who worked in the kitchen and how their breasts looked lonely but also beautiful, like melted ice cream.
~ Kelly Link
All three philistines took their perfect coffee and had it sacrificed on the altar of cream and sugar. I didn't say anything but inside I was dying as I ordered the café abominations and smiling I handed them out as the intelligent kitchen delivered them up. I didn't even make one for myself planning to drink one after they left so the taint of their heresy had no chance of affecting my pure caffeinated potion of greatness.
~ David Pendleton