Cooks Quotes - Page 19

• Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Food, Cooking, Substance

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.47, University of Georgia Press

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• I don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make.... Usually one's cooking is better than one thinks it is. And if the food is truly vile...then the cook must simply grit her teeth and bear it with a smile.

  Julia Child

  Believe, Food, Thinking

  "My Life In France". Book by Julia Child, p. 71, 2006.

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• Of course I made many boo-boos. At first this broke my heart, but then I came to understand that learning how to fix one's mistakes, or live with them, was an important part of becoming a cook.

  Julia Child

  Mistake, Food, Heart

  Julia Child (2009). “My Life in France”, p.78, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• Half the cookbooks tell you how to cook the food and the other half tell you how to avoid eating it.

  Andy Rooney

  Food, Cooking, Half

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• A full Belly makes a dull Brain: The Muses starve in a Cook's Shop.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Food, Brain, Dull

  Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.285, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food.

  Craig Claiborne

  Art, Food, Home Cooking

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• It was so hot today that Burger King was singing, "if you want it your way, cook it yourself".

  Johnny Carson

  Funny, Kings, Singing

  The Tonight Show, Summer, 1977.

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• But what is work and what is not work? Is it work to dig, to carpenter, to plant trees, to fell trees, to ride, to fish, to hunt, to feed chickens, to play the piano, to take photographs, to build a house, to cook, to sew, to trim hats, to mend motor bicycles? All of these things are work to somebody, and all of them are play to somebody. There are in fact very few activities which cannot be classed either as work or play according as you choose to regard them.

  George Orwell

  Happiness, Work, Play

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1986). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: The road to Wigan Pier”

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• People invite me to dinner not because I can cook, but because I like to clean up. I get immediate gratification from windex. Yes, I do windows.

  Carol Burnett

  Women, People, Dinner

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• Cooking is not about being the best or most perfect cook, but rather it is about sharing the table with family and friends.

  Skye Gyngell

  Food, Perfect, Cooking

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• Nothing stimulates the practiced cook's imagination like an egg.

  Irma S. Rombauer

  Food, Eggs, Imagination

  IRMA S ROMBAUER (1964). “VOLUME 2 APPETIZERS DESSERTS AND BAKED GOODS JOY OF COOKING”

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• Worship is first and foremost a feasting on all that God is for us in Jesus... [One] in which God is the host, the cook, the waiter, and the meal itself.

  Sam Storms

  Jesus, Meals, Firsts

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• The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books - how not to eat what you've just learned how to cook.

  Andy Rooney

  Book, Loss, Dieting

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• Most beginning writers - and I was the same - are like chefs trying to cook great dishes that they've never tasted themselves. How can you make a great - or even an adequate - bouillabaisse if you've never had any? If you don't really understand why people read mysteries - or romances or literary novels or thrillers or whatever - then there's no way in the world you're going to write one that anyone wants to publish. This is the meaning of the well-known expression "Write what you know."

  Daniel Quinn

  Writing, Expression, People

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• Women's rights in essence is really a movement for freedom, a movement for equality, for the dignity of all women, for those who work outside the home and those who dedicate themselves with more altruism than any profession I know to being wives and mothers, cooks and chauffeurs, and child psychologists and loving human beings.

  William Ruckelshaus

  Mother, Children, Home

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• I idolized my mother. I didn't realize she was a lousy cook until I went into the army.

  Jackie Gayle

  Mother, Army, Realizing

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• The army from Asia introduced a foreign luxury to Rome; it was then the meals began to require more dishes and more expenditure . . . the cook, who had up to that time been employed as a slave of low price, become dear: what had been nothing but a metier was elevated to an art.

  Livy

  Art, Food, Army

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• There is another more subtle way in which the innocence of childhood is lost: when the child is infected with the desire to become somebody. Contemplate the crowds of people who are striving might and main to become, not what Nature intended them to be- musicians, cooks, mechanics, carpenters, gardeners, inventors- but "somebody": to become successful, famous, powerful; to become something that will bring not quiet and self-fulfillment, but self-glorification and self-expansion

  Anthony de Mello

  Children, Powerful, Ambition

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “The Way to Love: Meditations for Life”, p.73, Image

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• The ambition of every good cook must be to make something very good with the fewest possible ingredients.

  Urbain Dubois

  Food, Ambition, Cooking

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• I think I should learn French and be a better cook - basic, really good life stuff.

  Angelina Jolie

  Good Life, Thinking, Stuff

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• I loved my own Grandparents with all my heart. I learned important lessons from them about how to treat people, how to cook and how to work.....they showered us kids with love and left the parenting to Momma and Daddy. That's the beauty of being a grandparent - the hard work belongs to someone else. I guess I never really understood the depth of their love for me until I became a grandmother myself... it is unlike any other relationship.

  Paula Deen

  Hard Work, Heart, Kids

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• My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Thanksgiving, Mother

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• I'm no cook. When I want lemon on chicken, I spray it with Pledge.

  Joan Rivers

  Life, Want, Aging

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• Why should a woman cook? So her husband can say 'My wife makes a delicious cake' to some hooker?

  Joan Rivers

  Husband, Memorable, Cake

  "Finding The Summer Movies That Are (Well) Off The Beaten Path". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. May 31, 2010.

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• Enthusiasm is as good a thing in the Church as fire is in a cook stove.

  Billy Sunday

  Faith, Fire, Church

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