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Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. -- Edna Ferber
Roast something for the children that they might eat. -- Ashanti
Beef. Yes. Roast beef. It's the Swedish term for beef that is roasted. -- Daniel Handler
I had this idea of a restaurant called Roast where everything was roasted. It was dopey. -- Stephen Starr
2010 has been awesome. I got to write on the David Hasselhoff Roast this summer, and that's always been a dream. -- Anthony Jeselnik
Roast Beef, Medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. ... Roast Beef, Medium, is safe, and sane, and sure. -- Edna Ferber
[ Hosting Saturday Night Live ] paved the way for Parks And Rec and The Grinder, the Comedy Central Roast, and that whole side of my career. -- Rob Lowe
Anybody who thinks that getting a communication from a voter in your district is spam - that guy is pork. Roast pork unless he changes his point of view. -- Dick Morris
Classic Recipe for Roast Beef: 1 large Roast of beef 1 small Roast of beef Take the two roasts and put them in the oven. When the little one burns, the big one is done. -- Gracie Allen
What if the house catches fire?" "Roast marshmallows. And if it floods, you'll go down with the ship. If there's a tornado, I'll meet both you and this house in Oz, after my shift. Got it? -- Rachel Vincent
Fifteen birds in five firtrees, their feathers were fanned in a fiery breeze! But, funny little birds, they had no wings! O what shall we do with the funny little things? Roast 'em alive, or stew them in a pot; fry them, boil them and eat them hot? -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Mustard's no good without roast beef. -- Leonard Marx
The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg. -- Alexander Pope
And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish. -- Ben Elton
Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother. -- Maya Angelou
A hot dog at the game beats roast beef at the Ritz. -- Humphrey Bogart
As for those grapefruit and buttermilk diets, I'll take roast chicken and dumplings. -- Hattie McDaniel
Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time. -- Jules Renard
I've always said fashion is like roast chicken: You don't have to think about it to know it's delicious. -- Alber Elbaz
Classics can be phenomenal when done right. A simple roast chicken dish could be the best thing you ever eat. -- Joe Bastianich
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne. -- Samuel Johnson
Christmas was the one time of year when my brothers surfaced at home, when my parents and grandparents congregated to eat my mother's roast turkey. -- Amanda Lindhout
Singing songs like 'The Man I Love' or 'Porgy' is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck. -- Billie Holiday
I've actually tried to roast somebody that I don't like, and it doesn't go well. Either they're a bad sport or I'm not as funny as I could be. -- Jeff Ross
A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer. -- Garrison Keillor
My mom cooked pot roast with noodles and frozen vegetables. Or she'd make spaghetti or hot dogs, or heat up TV dinners. Before I started modeling at age 19, I was 5'8" and weighed 165 pounds. -- Carol Alt
There is nothing like roast chicken. It is helpful and agreeable, the perfect dish no matter what the circumstances. Elegant or homey, a dish for a dinner party or a family supper, it will not let you down. -- Laurie Colwin
I like to cook simple things, like vegetable egg-white omelets; roast chicken; sauteed chicken breast with curry powder; and Greek salad. Just things that are fresh and healthy and fast and easy, because I have such a crazy schedule. -- Sasha Cohen
I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from. -- Aarti Sequeira
When you cut that eggplant up and you roast it in the oven and you make the tomato sauce and you put it on top, your soul is in that food, and there's something about that that can never be made by a company that has three million employees. -- Mario Batali
George W. Bush was a silver spoon dolt with no record to speak of other than bankruptcy and selling tropical plants, and we let him sail into the White House, but Barack talks about religious fundamentalism and guns being prevalent in poor areas, and we roast him for weeks? -- Adam McKay
I had my first French meal and I never got over it. It was just marvelous. We had oysters and a lovely dry white wine. And then we had one of those lovely scalloped dishes and the lovely, creamery buttery sauce. Then we had a roast duck and I don't know what else. -- Julia Child
My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection. -- Hamish Bowles
The most appealing thing to me about food is combining and layering flavors, tastes, and textures. So the perfect sandwich has to be toasted. It has to have Emmenthal Swiss cheese and a combination of sweet and savory - some cranberry or fig thing happening - with different kinds of meats like Black Forest ham and roast beef. -- Kyle MacLachlan
At home in L.A., Sunday is lazy. It's the wife and me lying in bed with coffee, watching 'The Soup' or something funny on TiVo. The kid will occasionally join us. Eventually, breakfast is at a place down the street called Paty's. And we always have some kind of great dinner - my wife makes a great roast beef. -- Eric McCormack
Mustard's no good without roast beef. -- Leonard Marx
I'll slow roast ya, got no holster -- Drake
The chickens have come home to roast. -- Jane Ace
Anyone can make a good roast chicken. -- Thomas Keller
Whatever demon invented stiletto-heeled boots should roast in hell... -- Cherise Sinclair
Life as Hunter Thompson's mother was no weenie roast. -- William McKeen
And he, he himself...the Grinch...carved the roast-beast! -- Dr. Seuss
Occasionally a roast master needs to get out of Dodge. -- Jeff Ross
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast. -- Cesare Pavese
The handshake of the host affects the taste of the roast -- Benjamin Franklin
God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis. -- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
What's your name?" Donald." Hi, Donald, missed you at the wienie roast. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
You don't want roast beef and Yorkshire every night and twice on Sunday. -- Brian Clough
Ultimately, the roast turkey must be regarded as a monument to Boomer's love. -- Tom Robbins
It's not color, it's like pouring 40 tablespoons of sugar water over a roast. -- John Huston
Without my morning coffee I'm just like a dried up piece of roast goat. -- Johann Sebastian Bach
What do we get when the Donald exposes his enormous ass? A trump roast. -- Michael R. Burch
Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef. -- Tom Robbins
Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken. -- Alexandra Guarnaschelli
My mother cooked her last Christmas standing rib roast in 1987 and died a few weeks afterward. -- Michelle Huneven
I like to roast things from the inside out. I like to know what's going on. -- Jeff Ross
To him who is stinted of food a boiled turnip will relish like a roast fowl. -- Saadi
I want the roast to be like a party where everybody goes and has a good time. -- Jeff Ross
But what is worse, smelling the roast and not feasting, or not smelling the roast at all? -- Garth Stein
I had never done a roast, but I really wanted to, because it's so different from standup. -- Dane Cook
It needs only a good bottle of wine for a roast chicken to be transformed into a banquet. -- Gerald Asher
Yet smelt roast meat, beheld a huge fire shine, And cooks in motion with their clean arms bared. -- Lord Byron
Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in. -- Confucius
I'm completely obsessed with Sunday roast dinners. I think that it's the best thing to ever happen to life! -- Eve
I think that if you can roast a chicken, you can get whatever you want out of a woman. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
It is setting a high value upon our opinions to roast men and women alive on account of them. -- Michel de Montaigne
America is a such a melting pot, I'm not sure if roast chicken is the classic comfort food for everybody. -- Eric Ripert
I feel like something warm. Apple pie, with two slices of bread and roast beef, covered in a winter coat. -- Jarod Kintz
You could probably get through life without knowing how to roast a chicken, but the question is, would you want to? -- Nigella Lawson
May the strength of Ares and wisdom of Athena see you through. (Eros) And may Hades roast your hoary soul. (Julian) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
EXHORT, v.t. In religious affairs, to put the conscience of another upon the spit and roast it to a nut-brown discomfort. -- Ambrose Bierce
I love to roast vegetables - carrots, fennel, and so on. I also love to mash or puree pretty much any vegetable! -- April Bloomfield
The table was covered with food like roast chicken, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, roast turkey, roast liquorice and, the centrepiece, a roasted knight. -- Elias Zapple
You have to sit by the side of a river a very long time before a roast duck will fly into your mouth. -- Guy Kawasaki
Religious bigotry is a dull fire - hot enough to roast an ox, but with no lambent, luminous flame shooting up from it. -- Sara Coleridge
I ate healthily, but there was no snacking, no drinking, no bread, no sugar, no smoking. Afterwards I had a pork belly roast. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
I like eating pepperoni. I heat it up in the microwave and then I let it roast and then I eat it with cheese. -- Willow Smith
I will make Maggie safe. If the world burns because of that then so be it. Me and the kid will roast some marshmallows. -- Jim Butcher
Everything good in there, T? Niko quipped. You need backup or anything? Bag of marshmallows to roast over that little campfire you just started? -- Tina St. John
I can do basics, but I'm not a proper cook. I can do a roast. I can stick a chicken in the oven with vegetables. -- Lesley Nicol
For there is surely nothing more beautiful in this world than the sight of a lone man facing single-handedly a half a ton of angry pot roast! -- Tom Lehrer
In the 'Mad Men' era, the archetypal dad came home; put down his briefcase; received pipe, Manhattan, roast beef, potatoes, key-lime pie; and was - apparently - content. -- Sandra Tsing Loh
Ah, that is a perfume in which I delight; when they roast coffee near my house, I hasten to open the door to take in all the aroma. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
When I had my Comedy Central roast, David [Spade] was my first choice to be roastmaster, because I adore him. He's funny as hell, and nobody is meaner. -- Rob Lowe
At the beginning of the week, I roast a ton of vegetables so I can use them for the next few days. I also plan out meals in advance. -- Gail Simmons
Mom and Dad had a lot to answer for, she decided. She couldn't even be rude to evil vampires who'd caged her boyfriend and were preparing to roast him alive. -- Rachel Caine
I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else. -- Nikos Kazantzakis
My wife and I use a lot of garlic and rosemary with roast lamb. It has to be New Zealand lamb. The domestic variety is too gamy, in my experience. -- Alfred Molina
As soon as a roast is announced, I get everybody - family, friends, waitresses, cab drivers - giving me jokes about the person getting roasted. I'm the mouthpiece for the masses. -- Jeff Ross
My faith does not lead me to think the Lord will provide us with roast pig, bread already buttered, etc. He will provide us with the ability to raise the grain. -- Brigham Young
A roast is like a get-together where people come down and talk about you and dog you out, the way you came up, the knucklehead things that you did, stuff like that. -- Bootsy Collins
The parrot holds its food for prim consumption as daintily as any debutante, [with] a predilection for pot roast, hashed-brown potatoes, duck skin, butter, hoisin sauce, sesame seed oil, bananas and human thumb. -- Alexander Theroux
When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, 'tain't any laughing matter! -- Sinclair Lewis
He will spit you and roast you with rosemary, and we will all sample your flesh tonight. Tomorrow you will be shat out into the snow. Your diplomacy is bold and edgy, sir. -- Kevin Hearne
Of course I love cooking Eastern European food because I'm a Jew, but I also love making roast chicken. I love making Hungarian goulash. There are a lot of egg noodles in my cooking. -- Judy Gold
A man that can cook you a proper meal that is like a weekday meal - which I think cannot be better than in the form of a roast chicken - that's the greatest. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
For less than the cost of a Big Mac, fries and a Coke, you can buy a loaf of fresh bread and some good cheese or roast beef, which you will enjoy much more. -- Steve Albini
I don't do camps. Camps are for kids. I don't sleep in tents or roast marshmallows. I certainly don't tell ghost stories or own a sleeping bag. But I do work hard every single day. -- Chael Sonnen
When Van Truex defined the difference between designing and decorating, he used the analogy of preparing a roast of beef. Design, he said, is the preparation and cooking; decorating is the final seasoning, the savoring. -- Albert Hadley
In deference to American traditions, my family put our oven to rare use at Thanksgiving during my childhood, with odd roast-turkey experiments involving sticky-rice stuffing or newfangled basting techniques that we read about in magazines. -- Jennifer Lee
It may not be possible to get rare roast beef but if you're willing to settle for well done, ask them to hold the sweetened library paste that passes for gravy. -- Marian Burros

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