Elizabeth Robins Pennell famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Banish (the onion) from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it. Its presence lends color and enchantment to the most modest dish; its absence reduces the rarest delicacy to hopeless insipidity, and dinner to despair.
-- Elizabeth Robins Pennell -
Banish the onion from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it.
-- Elizabeth Robins Pennell
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The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color. In short, the power of a certain kind of dream is such that death need not indicate finality at all but rather signify a metaphysical and metaphorical leap forward.
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Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same.
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Love overcomes hate. Love has no color. Love has no orientation. All is love.
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Writing music is like tasting the sky. It keeps me dreaming in color.
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There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown.
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My final, considered judgment is that the hardy bulb [garlic] blesses and ennobles everything it touches - with the possible exception of ice cream and pie.
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I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
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Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.
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Now my wife may think she's locked me out of the kitchen but MacGyver's not my patron saint for nothing.
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The only unitasker allowed in my kitchen is a fire extinguisher.
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