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  • I don't really like sweets, so that's never been a problem. Instead I'll have Kettle potato chips, which are gluten-free. -- Scott Michael Foster
  • I have an affinity for the old Seattle coffee shops, places like the Green Onion and the Copper Kettle, the classic kind of coffee bar - little places that served breakfast, lunch and dinner and have pretty much disappeared. -- Tom Douglas
  • Kettle thingies. Yum. -- Lauren DeStefano
  • That woman, Grimm said quietly, drives me quite insane.Kettle grunted. Why'd you marry her, then? -- Jim Butcher
  • I love Dylan. I only met him once, about three years ago, back at the Kettle of Fish on MacDougal Street. That was before I went to England. I think both of us were pretty drunk at the time, so he probably doesn't remember it. -- Jimi Hendrix
  • I'm kind of a big kettle. It takes time to get boiled, but then I'm always hot. -- Haruki Murakami
  • I like to jump some rope and swing kettle bells to get my blood pumping. It makes my voice sound better, and it clears my head. -- Harry Connick, Jr.
  • Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity. -- Gustave Flaubert
  • 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. -- Florida Scott-Maxwell
  • Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. -- Gustave Flaubert
  • In Mexico we have a trick - add a crystal of salt to the kettle and the tea tastes better, almost English. But after four pots, your kettle's broken. -- Gael Garcia Bernal
  • I followed him at the time and thought he was hysterical. He was the first serial killer, a new kettle of fish, because we didn't have the detection techniques in those days. -- Matthew Bright
  • 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. -- Paige Butcher
  • I do a lot of mixed martial arts - it's like unlimited fighting. I do Brazilian jujutsu, beach volleyball. I don't like my routine to get stale, so I also lift kettle bells and push cars. -- Victor Webster
  • 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. -- Michael Fassbender
  • The household I grew up in... was rather like an Ovaltine advert. There was a huge fire, a kettle on the fire, the oven with the bread being baked every day, and there was the radio; it was very magical to hear all these wonderful programmes. -- Brian Blessed
  • While there are many varieties of grills, each with their own virtues to be sure, I prefer the standard Weber kettle grill. Don't be fooled into thinking that you need any fancy gadgets in order to take advantage of cooking over a live fire. Just a good set of tongs and you're set. -- Barton Seaver
  • Some people think that going on a caravan holiday is a slightly more upscale version of camping. Let me assure you, it is much better than that. You know that you will have your creature comforts wherever you are. I never have to pack light, and I can put the kettle on in any location. -- Margaret Beckett
  • There are a lot of ways to make people not like you, but one of the most powerful - if least fair - is to be really, really successful. Nobody resents the guy who just lost his job. But the guy whose Internet start-up made him a billionaire at 25? That's a whole different kettle of envy. -- Jeffrey Kluger
  • I was Lady Gaga way before her time. I had a wee kettle for a handbag. Didn't everyone, at some point? One of the teachers used to call me Dame Flora Robson because I had this big, long Victorian skirt. And I wore a Peruvian hat. It was the 1980s - people were wearing lots of lace. -- Ashley Jensen
  • We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments. -- Edie Falco
  • Polly put the kettle on, we'll all have tea. -- Charles Dickens
  • Like an electric tea-kettle, pornography comes to a boil very fast. -- Mason Cooley
  • Careful, pot" Tod said. "Someone might notice your resemblance to the kettle. -- Rachel Vincent
  • The tea-kettle is as much an English institution as aristocracy or the Prayer-Book ... -- Catharine Beecher
  • Come oh come ye tea-thirsty restless ones -- the kettle boils, bubbles and sings, musically. -- Rabindranath Tagore
  • Remember the steam kettle; though up to its neck in hot water it continues to sing. -- Brownie Wise
  • Patience is a virtue. (Tee) Excuse me, pot, could you not pick on the kettle? (Joe) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
  • The humour of Dostoievsky is the humour of a barloafer who ties a kettle to a dog's tail. -- W. Somerset Maugham
  • Foul and magical fumes bubbled out of the kettle, like the flatulence of a dragon on a demon-only diet. -- Christopher Moore
  • Telling yourself you like the way you look is easy. Believing it is an entirely different kettle of whales." -- Andrew Biss
  • I wish I was at home in my nice hole by the fire, with the kettle just beginning to sing! -- J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle. -- Roland Barthes
  • I went into a shop and I said, "Can someone sell me a kettle." The bloke said "Kenwood" I said, "Where is he?" -- Tim Vine
  • Secrets are kept from children, a lid on top of the soup kettle, so they do not boil over with too much truth. -- Amy Tan
  • When you look in the mirror and despair and none of your clothes seem appropriate, relax, put the kettle on. It might suit you. -- Simon Munnery
  • A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand. -- Sydney Smith
  • He [the cat] wound himself around her legs, purring the purr of ardent desire like a kettle coming to a boil and then bubbling very fast. -- May Sarton
  • You put the tea in the kettle and light it. Put your hand on the metal and feel it.. but do you even feel it anymore? -- Drake
  • [Wladimir] Klitschko is a different kettle of fish to Haye. He is a genuine man with an excellent team behind him and they are genuine fighting people. -- Tyson Fury
  • the tea-hour is the hour of peace ... strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle - a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat. -- Agnes Repplier
  • Not for the mighty world. O Lord, tonight, Nations and kingdoms in their fearful might--Let me be glad the kettle gently sings, Let me be grateful for little things. -- Edna Jaques
  • We had a kettle; we let it leak:Our not repairing made it worse.We haven't had any tea for a week...The bottom is out of the Universe." -- Rudyard Kipling
  • We had a kettle; we let it leak: Our not repairing made it worse. We haven't had any tea for a week... The bottom is out of the Universe. -- Rudyard Kipling
  • Fred and George turned to each other and said together, "Wow, we're identical!" "I dunno though, I think I'm still better looking," said Fred, examining his reflection in the kettle. -- J. K. Rowling
  • I respect your right to worship Satan, or to worship a tea kettle, or to be a NIMBY, or to be an asshole. There's no law against being an asshole. -- Chicken John
  • After some while Bilbo became impatient. "Well, what is it?" he said. "The answer's not a kettle boiling over, as you seem to think by the noise you are making. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
  • A politician's record is like a tin kettle to a dog's tale - it's a noisy appendage, wich makes the dog conspicuous and invites everybody to shy a brick at him. -- David Ross Locke
  • He's lying, Kay," Nash said, fists clenched at his sides. "Hellions can't lie, but we all know reapers can." "Careful, pot," Tod said. "Someone might notice your resemblance to the kettle. -- Rachel Vincent
  • If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black. -- Alan Watts
  • Architects love to rethink a project - that's what we do. If something is successful, like a house or a kettle, in this case, it's a great compliment when someone wants another one. -- Michael Graves
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