Ted Allen
Chef
"Two words to improve any dish. Ba, Con"
Dishes quotes
Dishes
83 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Edna Lewis
Chef, Author
"Greens are a dish that most Southerners would walk a mile for."
Pharrell Williams
Musician, Producer
"My favorite Dominican dish to indulge in is anything with crab."
Coco Jones
Singer, Actress
"I like to cook Shrimp Alfredo. It's also my favorite dish to eat!"
Joseph Roth
Novelist
"I am not an encore, not a pudding, I am the main dish."
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"You're only as good as your last dish."
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"Dogs will eat till they die. Cats will leave food in the dish, incomprehensible to a dog."
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"I have an impressionable palate. A well-worded menu or beautifully presented dish excites me. I get a great deal of pleasure just thinking about food."
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"A cherefull looke makes a dish a feast."
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"I've always held the song in high regard because songs have got me through so many sinks of dishes and so many humiliating courting events."
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"Un-dish-cover the fish, or dishcover the riddle."
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"When you find the right components in your life, the right people, that gel with you, then you feel as though you're invincible. It may be a fallacy, but you at least feel as though you can take all that life has to dish out."
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"Women's work is always toward wholeness."
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"Many dishes bring many diseases."
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"Why are fish unsustainable? Because they're popular. What makes restaurants work? Popular dishes that people come back for."
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"The waiter approached. 'Would you like to see the menu?' he said. 'Or would you like to meet the Dish of the Day?' 'Huh?' said Ford. 'Huh?' said Arthur. 'Huh?' said Trillian. 'That’s cool,' said Zaphod. 'We'll meet the meat."
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"A table full of welcome makes scarce one dainty dish."
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"The first dish pleaseth all."
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"A dish around which I see too many people doesn't tempt me."
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"There was such a thing as women's work and it consisted chiefly, Hilary sometimes thought, in being able to stand constant interruption and keep your temper. . . ."
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