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  • The effort only shifted me from the frying-pan into the fire.

    Lucian of Samosata (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lucian (Illustrated)”, p.473, Delphi Classics
  • Marie clasped her hands together and looked vulnerable. Payne flinched. “The only time you don’t tell me something is when you think it’s dangerous, because being a fragile, sheltered noblewoman, I might faint at the thought of experiencing physical harm like a common person.” She sighed, and seemingly from nowhere, produced an enormous cast-iron frying pan easily one hundred centimeters in diameter. “And then,” she said sadly, “I have to damage one of the good pans by smacking it against your thick, common skull until you tell me—

    Thinking   Hands   Iron  
    Phil Foglio, Kaja Foglio (2012). “Agatha H. and the Clockwork Princess: A Girl Genius Novel”, p.218, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • FRYING-PAN, n. One part of the penal apparatus employed in that punitive institution, a woman's kitchen. The frying-pan was invented by Calvin, and by him used in cooking span-long infants that had died without baptism; and observing one day the horrible torment of a tramp who had incautiously pulled a fried babe from the waste-dump and devoured it, it occurred to the great divine to rob death of its terrors by introducing the frying-pan into every household in Geneva. Thence it spread to all corners of the world, and has been of invaluable assistance in the propagation of his sombre faith.

    Long   Baptism   Cooking  
    Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.91, University of Georgia Press
  • Personally, I say, "Out of the frying pan and into the deadly pit filled with sharks who are wielding chainsaws with killer kittens stapled to them." However, that one's having a rough time catching on.

    Brandon Sanderson (2016). “The Scrivener's Bones: Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians”, p.23, Macmillan
  • When people abuse these freedoms to enrich themselves at the expense of others, then the public will demand the government to step in. That is how government grows, and how freedom is diminished.... When financial meltdowns occur, the public's outrage drives government to take over part of the private sector. When the government does so, it replaces irresponsible executives with unaccountable bureaucrats. That takes us out of the frying pan and into the fire.

  • You can't make an egg without frying an egg

    Eggs   Frying  
  • It’s lovely,” I said, taking an involuntary half step back. “Really, though. I don’t like to handle other people’s cookware.” “That’s the best you can manage? That’s your bright, bold lie?” “Look, lady, I don’t know about you, but I’ve never had somebody corner me on a dark street and try to hand me a frying pan before,” I snapped.

    Lying   Dark   Hands  
  • Scotland had oil, but it's running out thanks to all that deep frying.

    Running   Scotland   Oil  
    10 funniest jokes from the Edinburgh festival fringe 2014, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2014.
  • Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect!

    Sweet   Cooking   Devil  
    Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.99
  • ...Humans were the only creatures in the world that ate their food cooked. You'd never find a Gorilla frying up some bananas for dinner or a lion charcoal-broiling a zebra steak. Cats don't often run to the oven with a mouse or bird they've captured, and a dog wouldn't naturally prepare its rabbit dinner in a stew.

    Running   Dog   Zebras  
  • Would Grandmother scold him? Would she say, “Frank! Thank the gods, you've come. I'm surrounded by monsters.” More likely she'd scold him, or mistake them for intruders and chase them off with a frying pan.

  • Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking. Center your country in the Tao and evil will have no power. Not that it isn't there, but you'll be able to step out of its way. Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself.

  • My days are spent wrangling children, chipping dried manure from boots, washing jeans, and frying calf nuts.

    Children   Nuts   Jeans  
  • It was a frying-pan-to-the-face moment for me where I had to get humble and really cherish it. I was really sad when [Numbers] was over. I'll just say that. Really sad.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.

    Fire   Frying Pans   Thai  
    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.97, Wordsworth Editions
  • Sometimes I can be walking down the street, or riding a bus, and suddenly I see somebody who remind me of somebody I know back home, and I close my eyes and find myself thinking of the sea, or the taste of grafted mango, or the smell of saltfish frying, and then I come back to myself and open my eyes and realise where I am.

    Home   Eye   Thinking  
    Caryl Phillips (2009). “In the Falling Snow”, Harvill Press
  • The scent of frying astronomers long ago ceased to ascend to Yahweh.

  • Something is unfolding, being revealed to me. I see that there's a whole world of of girls and their doings that has been unknown to me, and that I can be part of without making any effort at all. I don't have to keep up with anyone, run as fast, aim as well, make loud explosive noises, decode messages, die on cue. I don't have to think about whether I do these things well, as well as a boy. All I have to do is sit on the floor and cut frying pans our of the Eaton's Catalogue with embroidery scissors, and say I've done it badly.

    Girl   Running   Cutting  
  • I don't often get a chance to have a frying pan in the show.

  • The climate is doing its usual tricks. There's nothing much really happening yet. We were supposed to be halfway toward a frying world now.

    Climate   Usual   World  
  • People have been frying foods since Jesus was on this planet, and there is always going to be greasy, fried, salty, sugary food. It is up to the individual to walk in and say, 'I don't want those fries today.'

    Jesus   People   Want  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • I hate pork rinds. I couldn’t imagine how anybody would ever get the idea of taking skin from a pig and frying it and then trying to sell it to people. And then people actually buy it to eat it. That is the true sign of the decline of the human race.

    Hate   Race   Pigs  
    "Q&A – Joel Kinnaman (Stephen Holder)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com.
  • ...she waited until she and my grandfather Anthel were just home from their honeymoon, and then sat him down and told him this: "Honey, I know you like to take a drink, and that's all right, but be forewarned that I ain't your maid and I ain't your punching bag, and if you ever raise your hand to me you'd best kill me. Because otherwise I'll wait until you're asleep; sew you into the bed; and beat you to death with a frying pan." Until he died, I am told, my grandfather was a gentle man.

    Home   Men   Hands  
  • Frying pans! Who knew, right?

    "Fictional character: Flynn Rider". "Tangled", www.imdb.com. 2010.
  • ... to die on a kitchen floor at 7 o'clock in the morning while other people are frying eggs is not so rough unless it happens to you.

    Death   Morning   Eggs  
    Charles Bukowski (2009). “Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame”, p.23, Harper Collins
  • When frying small fish, disturb them little.

    Littles   Fishes   Frying  
  • History is an alternating series of frying pans and fires.

  • He did not go much further, but sat down on the cold floor and gave himself up to complete miserableness, for a long while. He thought of himself frying bacon and eggs in his own kitchen at home - for he could feel inside that it was high time for some meal or other; but that only made him miserabler.

    Home   Eggs   Long  
    J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Just-poached vegetables show off their natural attributes, and taste fresh and light in a way you never get with roasting or frying.

    Vegetables   Light   Way  
    "The new vegetarian" by Yotam Ottolenghi, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2008.
  • I went from having the healthy hair that you have as a kid, to completely destroying it and frying it, and then actually having really healthy thick hair that I was proud of again. I just put an emphasis on what shampoo and conditioner I use.

    Kids   Hair   Healthy  
    Source: www.popsugar.com
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