Boil Quotes

If there was ever a time to boil up some grits it is now. — Tayari Jones

As if the world were a pot on the boil and someone had taken its lid off and let the steam pour up wildly. — Margo Lanagan

Write, even if you have a twinge, a doubt, a fear, a block, a noisy neighbor, a sick cat, thirteen unpublished stories, and a painful boil. — Eric Maisel

Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood. — William Shakespeare

Physics is a good framework for thinking ... Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there. — Elon Musk

Must a kettle boil? — Virginia Woolf

I remember an old teacher of mine once saying that behind every dark cloud the sun was just waiting to boil you to death. — David Gemmell

If I'm on a bus and someone makes my blood boil, I'll pocket those emotions and put them in a song. — Jessie J.

That'll boil her ice cream. — P.T. Michelle

The world isn't that black-and-white, is it? It doesn't all boil down to with or against. Some of us just want to stay alive. — Victoria Schwab

Music really does just boil down to basically, essentially songwriting chords and melodies. — Flume

There are two key areas that boil down life. Our relationships with people and the relationships with ourselves. — Matthew Donnelly

I boil my tears in a twisted spoon
And dance like an angel on the point of a needle. — Etheridge Knight

Oh, come and stir my cauldron,
And if you do it right,
I'll boil you up some hot strong love
To keep you warm tonight. — J.K. Rowling

You ever read Thucydides? I'll boil him down for you into one easy moral: intergenerational civil war is a very bad thing. — Adrian McKinty

You have made Commerce a god that weighs on humanity like a twenty-four-pound boil on a man's back (117-118) — Walter Mosley

One square yard of the zero-point field contains enough energy to boil all the water in the world. — Ellyn Davis

There is enough energy in a single cubic meter of space to boil all the oceans in the world. — Richard P. Feynman

And as she'd watched him stagger away Swan had realized that forgiveness crippled evil, drew the poison from it like lancing a boil. — Robert McCammon

She seethed like water the second before it rolls to a boil. — Sarah Addison Allen

Conservation will ultimately boil down to rewarding the private landowner who conserves the public interest. — Aldo Leopold

Floating in this cosmic jacuzzi, we are all like frogs oblivious to the water starting to boil. No one flinches.
We all float face-down. — Brandon Boyd

There is a certain kind of small town that grows like a boil on the ass of every Army base in the world. — Neal Stephenson

It is thought that potato water is unhealthy; and therefore do not boil potatoes in soup, but boil elsewhere, and add them when nearly cooked. — Catharine Beecher

Big, sweeping life changes really boil down to small, everyday decisions. — Ali Vincent

A watched pot never boils. That's why I boil water, instead. — Nathanielle Sean Crawford

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

I can cook about two things. I can boil hot water for the only pasta I can make. — Drew Barrymore

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

We also have to stop the flow of precursor chemicals that meth cooks use to boil up this poison. — Greg Walden

Learning is just remembering slowly, like simmer coming to boil. — Shauna Singh Baldwin

An anguish of longing would boil up inside me; a hysterical thirst for contradictions and contrasts would appear, and I would embark on dissipations. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

There is something about the state putting the power to bully into the hands of subnormal, sadistic apes that makes my blood boil. — Gore Vidal

The police stopped me when I was out in my car. They told me it was a spot check. I admitted to two pimples and a boil. — Chic Murray

The blood that is once inflamed with wine is apt to boil with rage. — Joseph Hall

The best way to know what's in the soup, is to boil yourself in it. — Richard Preston

The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg. — Alexander Pope

Whatever the response to loss and tragedy, the experience seems to boil down to one journey
searching for Jesus. — W. Scott Lineberry

It does just boil down to music. — Joey Santiago

My dad liked to boil a squirrel head and suck the brains out the nose. Smaller than a chicken, bigger than a rat. — Beth Ditto

Boil 'em once or twice in hot water, and they'll come as fair as chicken and ham. — Rudyard Kipling

(When I'd asked Mrs. Barbour where the washing machine was, she'd looked at me as if I'd asked for lye and lard to boil up for soap.) — Donna Tartt

To this day she could make tap water boil just by kissing him. — Sarah Addison Allen

So many complaints boil down to the belly ache of the fragile, mortal, ignored ego in a vast and indifferent universe. — Alain De Botton

Take a quart of nature, boil it down to a pint, and the residue is art. — Austin O'Malley

I boil the strings so they stretch. — Eddie Van Halen

You're a crime fiction writer if...The injustices of this world boil your blood. You become a fucking supernova. So you write. — Verge Le Noir

In for the boil, might as well steam. — Gail Carriger

There was a Young Lady of Poole, Whose soup was excessively cool; So she put it to boil, by the aid of some oil, That ingenious Young Lady of Poole. — Edward Lear

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

Water begins to boil in the kettle; it starts as a private, secluded sound, pure as rain, and grows to a steady, solipsistic bubbling. — Amit Chaudhuri

The testing of good and bad is in order that the gold may boil and bring the scum to the top. — Rumi

I finally found out how priests get holy water. They boil the hell out of it. — Joan Rivers

Doesn't it always boil down to pain? — Francisco X Stork

Over the long run, many of Perry's stances boil down to following the money. — Gail Collins

If you can boil it, steam it or braise it.. you can pressure cook it! — Laura Pazzaglia

Like an electric tea-kettle, pornography comes to a boil very fast. — Mason Cooley

Degree is much: the whole Atlantic might be lukewarm and never boil us a potato. — George Iles

I can tell you love him. (Syn) Yeah, like a boil in my nether regions. (Kiara) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

exclaimed with ponder. Half nodded with comprehensive seriousness. "In direction of boil." "How did I understand — Philip Wilson

Discipline yourself to boil down your story/new business/philanthropic enterprise to a single page. — Steven Pressfield

We boil at different degrees. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you feel compelled to give a New Year's Eve party, don't invite people to arrive too early or they'll go off the boil before midnight. — Jilly Cooper

The temperatures rising in the slow-moving air like the heat of angered flesh as capillaries squeezed, the blood in them rising to a boil. — Hugh Howey

War doesn't start with an explosion ... .It bears far more subtlety. A simmer beneath the surface, as if bringing broth to a boil. — Kristina McMorris

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

Hateful, racist and ignorant remarks. When I hear people criticize without knowing the context, it makes me boil inside. — Kristen Stewart

Your trading needs to boil down to rules, money management, and that is it. — Michael Covel

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. — Devon Werkheiser

She went downstairs to boil some pasta. Puttanesca. She couldn't resist the dig. — Lauren Groff

When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines. — Mason Cooley

It takes emotion to bring knowledge to a boil. — Chip Heath

I want to learn how to boil milk. I somehow manage to over-boil and waste it consistently. — Nimrat Kaur

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

Anger is just fear, brought to the boil. — Caitlin Moran

That which doesn't boil need not be stirred;
That which isn't shared never occurred. — Theron Arnold

I set the water to its hottest setting, wishing it was labeled, boil the hell out of any living organism. — K.A. Tucker

When at last we have to die it will be time enough to get cold.
While we are on fire let us seethe and boil. — Rabindranath Tagore

Some perfect wife I am. I've been married four times, divorced four times, have no children, and can't boil an egg. — Myrna Loy

If the speaker won't boil it down, the audience must sweat it out. — Raymond Duncan

Leaders identify, articulate, and summarize concepts that motivate others. Most important, they boil concepts down to an understandable idea. — Laurie Beth Jones

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

Women fear that men will have their way and then slither away. Men fear that women will come back and boil their bunnies. — Maureen Dowd

All other areas of my life, I'm hopeless. I can't even be certain how to boil an egg. — Ian McKellen

If you'd take your head home and boil it for a turnip it might be useful. I can't say. But it might. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

I don't want to give a cool appraisal of Jeremy Irons. I just want to boil him in oil. — Lynn Barber

I would argue that in any habitable zone that doesn't boil or freeze, intelligent life is going to emerge because intelligence is convergent. — Simon Conway Morris

It made my blood boil so hot, my brain stopped working right. — Neal Shusterman

Let the anger and betrayal boil over and you'll feel stronger. You'll be stronger. — Brenda Rothert

All of management's efforts for Kaizen boil down to two words: customer satisfaction. — Masaaki Imai

I mean the terrorists are - are like a pimple, like a boil. They'll go away. — Pat Robertson

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

Balsamic vinaigrette, Tabasco, and giblets. Then let it boil. — Alex Rodriguez

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

Who could have predicted what would happen in the time it takes to boil an egg? — Timothee De Fombelle

Basically all the religions,sciences and powers of the world boil down to a simple truth. The Best Story Teller will win in the end! — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Well, what brand of water do you drink?"
"Just what was in the faucet, sir," says Delphi humbly. "I--I did try to boil it--"
"Good God. — James Tiptree Jr.

Nuclear power is one hell of a way to boil water — Albert Einstein

Staph lives on skin. That's the reason why many infections start as a boil. — Anthony Fauci

Eroticism bubbles beneath the surface of every vampire story, but Anne Rice is a writer to make the pot boil. — Janet Maslin