Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Pollan

Cooking (from scratch) is the single most important thing we could do as a family to improve our health and general well-being.

Tom Hiddleston

At Christmas, individuals are apportioned their roles in the family script - you're either the funny one or the sensitive one; or you either do the cooking or the washing up. And those roles aren't easy to change.

John Milton

Smiles from reason flow, To brute deny'd, and are of love the food.

John Smith

Your aim's as bad as your cooking sweetheart... and that's saying something!

Nigella Lawson

(In cooking), there is always room for careful tinkering.

Nigella Lawson

Then again, they're not scripted and I feel it's virtually impossible to be anything but yourself when you're in front of the cameras and cooking so there is a measure of truth in what you see.

Nigella Lawson

Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on.

Nora Roberts

Are you telling me you're cooking me dinner?- Regan Its the quickest way, without physical contact, to get a woman into bed. The kitchen through there?

Maurice de Vlaminck

Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.

Peter De Vries

Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Food imaginatively and lovingly prepared, and eaten in good company, warms the being with something more than the mere intake of calories. I cannot conceive of cooking for friends or family, under reasonable conditions, as being a chore.

Mark Ruffalo

Electrify your life! With heating and cooling, cooking and travel, and you will be doing a lot to help the future of this planet. There is no need to burn anything anymore.

Michael Strahan

If you're not the one cooking, stay out of the way and compliment the chef.

Jim Leyland

I just didn't like the way we went about our business. You get some cookies and guys try to hit home runs, and they pop the (expletive) thing up all day long.

David Morse

I'm very involved in the family's daily life. I drive the kids to school. I do father-son overnights. I do all the cooking when I'm home.

Leslie White

We have garlic days, and onion days. You know what they're cooking.

Hedda Sterne

For me, cooking is an extension of love.

You've got everything all cut up and prepared for you. All you have to do is put it together here and cook it when you get home. What I really love is that I have all of this food when I leave here, and I don't have to spend any time in the grocery store to get it.

The format is me, in the kitchen, cooking something.

Richard Gordon

The funds will be used to purchase tents, blankets, cooking utensils, mosquito nets, temporary shelter materials, hygiene articles, water purification tablets and medicines.

Leon Bridges

The first time I heard Sam Cooke was in the 'Malcom X' film. I was with my father, and that's the first time I heard his song. I remember my father telling me the story of Sam Cooke.

James Blake

All I think about is the fact that I need to do everything I can to win each game, because it's not, you know, a social game. It's not a country-club game where we're going to go have tea and cookies afterwards. We're doing this for a living, trying to win. That's my goal. It's not to embarrass anyone, it's to go out and win.

The food is cooked and flash-frozen. We don't need all those preservatives.

James Beard

The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it.

Johnny Weir

I'm going to be a happy housewife. I'm going to be washing boxers and cooking and doing all those sorts of housewife duties. I just want to be happy and proud of every single day.

Louis Leterrier

Directing is like cooking, it's like cuisine. You cannot make a great dish with bad ingredients. I have great actors, and I'm putting them together. That's all I'm doing.

Rachael Ray

The magazine, the daytime show, we've always tried to write affordable, accessible. Those are key words for us, and I do mean us, a huge staff of people at the magazine who love to cook affordable, friendly food that helps families eat better for less.

These are great books, especially for people who don't cook a lot. They are really simple meals.

This is not about money. This is about the judicial system gone awry. This is about two jurors being pressured, being told they'd be kicked off the jury. Elly Cook is 79 years old and she doesn't give a damn about money right now. She's donating the money to feed the children.

This is quite the toxic jambalaya that is being cooked down there.

Ellen Swallow Richards

You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try.

Sylvia Plath

I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a dayspare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote.

Sophie Kinsella

I can't cook. I don't have the right brain for it, somehow. I can't walk into a room and tidy it up. I get distracted. I pick up one thing and I start looking at it. And my cooking is truly heinous.