Top 70 Boil Quotes

I wouldn’t exactly call it ‘cooking’ but I can make noodles. That means I can boil water, put the pasta in and wait until it’s done.

My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is for the old who live alone.

Growing up in Ireland, when my family received important news, good or bad, we would boil water and make tea. It was the first thing I did when my father died in 1984. This ritual allowed me a moment to take in the enormity of what had happened.

A successful shrimp boil requires layering ingredients into the pot so that everything is done cooking at once. A carefully timed choreography dictates the order in which ingredients are added to ensure no one has to eat raw potatoes or chewy shrimp.

We Need To Talk About Kevin,’ as an adaptation, was pretty major. It’s a long book, and it’s in letters, so it was a real editing experience to boil that down and make it cinematic. I learned a lot doing that film.

We’d boil this whisky because we thought that would make it stronger. So we thought we were getting drunk, but in fact there’d be no alcohol left in it.

Actually, I’m not a gym rat. I’m not a gym person – I’ve never been. I’ve always been blessed to be thin. If I’m waiting for the kettle to boil, I’m doing 15 lunges.

The cars haven’t advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it’s still a gas combustion engine.

If the speaker won’t boil it down, the audience must sweat it out.

I always go back to how people behave. If you watch how people actually behave in a situation, it’s very simple and honest and contained. You don’t need to use as much expression, as much feeling. Some characters will boil over, and that’s another thing, but a lot of times I think you can just do very, very little.

I credit my grandmother for teaching me to love and respect food. She taught me how to waste nothing, to make sure I used every bit of the chicken and boil the bones till no flavor could be extracted from them.

I wouldn’t want to be a part of something that has gone off the boil a bit and isn’t as good as the last series. I have confidence enough in my own ability to go on and do something else.

I started school in the autumn term of 1949 when there was a tomato glut. We had tomatoes in every form known to God, man or beast – and they were all equally detestable. When you pushed them with your fork, a warmish liquid spurted forth. It was rather like sort of bursting a boil.

When you boil war down or all conflict down to two people, it’s a great advert for humanity sometimes. People can find connections with each other, regardless of the bigger picture.

I live in New Orleans, because it’s the strangest city in the United States. It has the highest murder rate in the country, the highest incarceration rate, and often we have to boil our drinking water, but there’s nowhere else remotely like it.

With ‘Survivor’ – I didn’t get any sleep, there was no food, we had to boil our water… plus, it was physically taxing during the day. That’s what made it more difficult than three-a-day practices.

It does just boil down to music.

Design impacts me in everything I do. Because, as I say, everything I own is designed. So the building I live in, the objects I choose to boil water in for example, even drinking vessels.

We boil at different degrees.

Watching cold fusion is like watching water boil in slow motion. First, sufficient deuterium has to penetrate the palladium electrode. This can take a few weeks. Then, if excess heat is generated during the next month or two, accurate temperature readings require extreme precautions to exclude environmental effects.

Christ managed to boil down an awful lot of commandments to a few very simple rules for living. It’s when you go backwards through the ‘begats’ and the Garden of Eden, and you start thinking, ‘Hang on, that’s a big punishment for eating one lousy apple… There’s a human-rights issue.’

The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.

When people say, ‘You don’t have a family’ it makes my blood boil. I thought, ‘Yes I do, I have my dad, my mum, my brothers and nieces.’

I think you have to know someone to truly dislike them, don’t you? That said, I’d shove most politicians into a cauldron and boil them up.

When you really boil it down, what comedy does is you expect one thing, and you get a totally different thing that’s humorous, and we all laugh. That’s generally how, just mechanically – super-distilled – comedy works.

The grief of losing my father has come in waves over the years, as it does with most people. His love and devotion as a father provided my closest, most intimate relationship. Dad, and our time together, is in my bones. While reflecting on him, the memories themselves seem to boil down into certain ‘essences of Dad.’

My all-time favorite way to use for instant dashi is to simply boil potatoes in it, simmering the water all the way down until Im left with a finger-licking salty dashi crust all around them.

People can be a bit flagrant when they’re having an affair. Most of the time, there’s an element of it where they want to be discovered because they’re in crisis. They need the boil to be burst, in some way, for a resolution.

The most attractive habitats for synthetic sentience might be the vicinities of exceptional sources of energy – for example black holes, or even the neighbourhoods of large stars, which routinely boil off the energy of ten thousand suns. These are the destinations they may seek.

There’s something about supposed experts making millions of dollars to bark tired sports cliches that makes our blood boil. And it should.

Soup is really easy to make: you can take basil, celery, acorn squash and boil them and then put them in the blender with sea salt. It’s delicious and only takes about 15 minutes. You can make it the night before. It’s kind of like making baby puree, and there are a ton of super easy recipes.

I’ve learned to start from a really sound argument, boil down the essence of what you’re trying to say, then build your humor around that, rather than starting with, ‘This sounds funny,’ and going from there.

Staph lives on skin. That’s the reason why many infections start as a boil.

You can always boil down the life of a musician to touring, playing, and writing.

Why does a three-year-old, and it’s usually boys, want to drive the tractor or have machinery and be in control of it? I don’t know. Why wouldn’t you ask to boil a kettle or something? Maybe you would, I dunno.

We each have our own style but yeah, when you boil it down like there are certain things that human beings just are predisposed to laugh at and we’re just kind of all putting our own spin on it.

Some writers like to boil down headlines of liberal newspapers into fiction, so they say there shouldn’t be communal riots, everybody should love each other, there shouldn’t be boundaries or fundamentalism. But I think literature is more than that; these are political views which most of us hold anyway.

Issues such as transparency often boil down to which side of – pick a number – 40 you’re on. Under 40, and transparency is generally considered a good thing for society. Over 40, and one generally chooses privacy over transparency. On every side of this issue, hypocrisy abounds.

Into this pour the purified juice: and put it into a pan of water come almost to a boil and continue nearly in the state of boiling until the juice is found to be the consistency of a thick syrup when cold. It is then when cold, to be corked up in a bottle for use.

Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on earth?

I think cookery shows have become so sophisticated, and everyone’s so marvellous at it, but there are people like me who aren’t into the cooking malarkey, who still don’t know how to boil an egg for three minutes.

My dining and entertainment philosophy – I can boil it down to ‘the three C’s – I like my food like my fashion: casual, classic, and with a touch of couture.

When you boil it down, most movies are message movies. And I think careers are made in message movies.

Learn to cook brown rice with a little salt and butter or olive oil. Learn to boil noodles properly or saute onions right. Once you get those basics down, you’ll be all good and feel more confident.

August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I’ve been listening to in the late spring and summer.

It was Comey who wrecked the FBI and allowed this witches brew of biased managers to simmer and boil over when things didn’t go as he planned.

I’m looking for someone who works as hard as I do. Who loves their work as much as I do, so at the end of the night we have something real to talk about, something exciting that makes our blood flow and boil.

There comes a time in our careers that you get that one guy. That guy that just makes your blood boil. That really pulls the savage out of you.

Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that ‘all people are really interested in’ are a few moments of madness in the Oval Office gets him, the importance of the presidency, and the significance of his life, all wrong.