(62 quotes found)
“The Internet is like a gold-rush; the only people making money are those who sell the pans.”
Will Hobbs
“The best sauce is cooked in an old pan”
African Proverb
“Some of my plays peter out and some pan out.”
James Matthew Barrie
“Ann, Ann! / Come! quick as you can! / There's a fish that talks / In the frying pan.”
Walter de La Mare
“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. The following lines (said to be from the pen of his Grace Bishop Potter) seem to imply that the usefulness of this utensil is not limited to this world; but as the consequences of its employment in this life reach over into the life to come, so also itself may be found on the other side, rewarding its devotees:Old Nick was summoned to the skies. Said Peter: "Your intentions Are good, but you lack enterprise Concerning new inventions."Now, broiling in an ancient plan Of torment, but I hear it Reported that the frying-pan Sears best the wicked spirit."Go get one --fill it up with fat -- Fry sinners brown and good in't.""I know a trick worth two o' that," Said Nick --"I'll cook their food in't."”
Ambrose Bierce
“I have to sort of get myself back out there and this is sort of out of the frying pan into the fire.”
Sarah McLachlan
“[The four days have turned into a longer storyline.] I think we all need to see how it pans out, ... No one's going, 'Where do I sign?' or 'We're done.' ”
Rick Springfield
“I won't forget when Peter Pancame to my house, took my handI said I was a boy, I'm glad he didn't check.”
Dar Williams
“Hopefully, things will pan out,”
Claudio Reyna
“I heard my name associated with the Peter Pan syndrome more than once. But really, what's so wrong with Peter Pan? Peter Pan flies. He is a metaphor for dreams and faith.”
Mark Burnett
