Quotes About Appliances

I have to admit that I'm one of those people that thinks the dishwasher is a miracle.

I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on.

Somewhere in Limbo, all the old devices and appliances and costumes are lined up, waiting their turn for reentry.

Winny and I lived in a house that ran on static electricity. If you wanted to run the blender, you had to rub balloons on your head. If you wanted to cook, you had to pull off a sweater real quick

Kitchen design experts recommend that there be at least four feet of space between each point of your work triangle (e.g., between your refrigerator and sink) but no more than nine feet across the furthest points (think about how inconvenient a ten-foot walk between your sink and stove would be!).

Segundo's best friend Silvio traded appliances for clothes, designer clothes—well, not really, but he thought they were—Chinese-made Armani suits and Italian silk shirts from Vietnam, all with designer labels occasionally misspelled. As in the "Versache" pants.

The home economics experts believed that modern household tools made this investment of time an element of woman's self-fulfillment rather than, as formerly, an act of self-sacrifice. Any woman who was dissatisfied with her domestic role now that she had such helpful appliances, they argued, suffered from "personal maladjustment.

Our kitchens are filled with ghosts. You may not see them, but you could not cook as you do without their ingenuity: the potters who first enabled us to boil and stew; the knife forgers; the resourceful engineers who designed the first refrigerators; the pioneers of gas and electric ovens; the scale makers; the inventors of eggbeaters and peelers.

I love my refrigerator.

Many people think children must have chips. I don't think any household should have a deep fat fryer.

And although it was hard to match his excitement over washers and dryers, the results really were pretty amazing: By the time I left office, those new appliance standards were on track to remove another 210 million metric tons of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere annually.

iPhone just synced perfectly with toaster. All is well.

The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.

I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life. Where country life is safe and enjoyable, where many of the conveniences and appliances of the town are joined to the large freedom and large benefits of the country, a high state of civilization prevails.

And autos are not the only product that could be made more energy efficient if we just put in place sensible requirements. This is also true of many appliances and even of entire buildings.

You have a system that washes, dries, folds, and puts clothes away? Forget your hydrogen scoop engine, we'd kill for something like that on Earth!

in the abstract art of cooking, ingredients trump appliances, passion supersedes expertise, creativity triumphs over technique, spontaneity inspires invention, and wine makes even the worst culinary disaster taste delicious.

Did you know that there are $4,000 washing machines? Seriously. If a washer is $4,000 I want it to get the laundry out of my room and bring it back folded after it made me coffee told me it likes my hair.

I am in love with my La Cornue custom-made stove - it's a dream to use and my favourite part of the kitchen.

Each mobile phone today – indeed, each washing machine – has more computing power than NASA could deploy on the Apollo programme.

People are so addicted to convenience that they have become trapped in a vicious circle: The more labor-saving appliances they acquire, the harder they need to work; the harder they work, the more labor-saving appliances they feel they need to acquire.

He knows you're interested in the refrigerator. People may browse in the Sporting Goods, Clothing, or Stereo Departments at Sears, but not in the Large Appliances Department. They examine refrigerators when and because they need them.

Yes, CEOs are under pressure from all sides, and executives have all sorts of people pushing and pulling at them. But too often, they begin to view and treat their teams, and especially their assistants, as appliances. And a good assistant knows that the last thing their boss wants to hear from them is a personal complaint about anything.

A food processor, or even one of those small bowls that fit on a stick blender, is a real treasure. No, that's not an overstatement.