By nature, a storyteller is a plagiarist. Everything one comes across--each incident, book, novel, life episode, story, person, news clip--is a coffee bean that will be crushed, ground up, mixed with a touch of cardamom, sometimes a tiny pinch of salt, boiled thrice with sugar, and served as a piping-hot tale.
So much interviewing these days is about the presenter - I?m a clever boy, I?m going to be smart with people; or it?s a trivial - how do you like your eggs boiled?
Hindsight is common and bland as boiled potatoes.
Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is abridged,adapted, adulterated, shredded, and boiled down, it is mind-easing and mind-inspiring to sit down privately with a congenial book.
Like Tom Dorrance said, ‘It boiled down to one thing: observe, remember, and compare. ’ Do something, observe what you did, remember what you did, compare it to what you were doing before, and adjust.
Let me be boiled to death with melancholy.
And the Hippos were boiled in their tanks!
Roasted chicken, boiled chicken, smoked chicken, fried chicken, I love them all!
I can make fried tofu, boiled tofu, stuffed tofu. Cutlets and other fancy stuff, that's for other directors.
Your onions should be thoroughly boiled.
the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.
Do you know the most important trait a man can have? It is not executive ability; it is not a great mentality; it is not kindliness, nor courage, nor a sense of humor, though each of these is of tremendous importance. In my opinion, it is the ability to make friends, which, boiled down, means the ability to see the best in man.
Boiled down to its core, the truth is always a simple, solid thing
Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.
Time was the only variable in every equation of power and oppression--how long before the pot boiled over.
Peter was, simply, what a person would look like if you boiled down the most raw emotions and filtered them of any social contract. If you hurt, cry. If you rage, strike out. If you hope, get ready for a disappointment.
Well," said Apollo with a brave smile. "You were right, my dear. You had everything under control! Let's go see if we boiled anyone important, shall we?
every idiot who goes about with a 'Merry Christmas' on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.
Really, all religious teachings can be boiled down to: “Just be cool. Don’t be an asshole.
When boiled down to its essence, unforgiveness is hatred.
