Cook Quotes - page 2

This is my invariable advice to people: Learn how to cook- try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless, and above all have fun! (Julia Child)
To be a good cook you have to have a love of the good, a love of hard work, and a love of creating. View quote
Julia Child
...no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing. View quote
Julia Child
I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller. View quote
Michael Palin
Whoever tells a lie is not pure of heart, and such a person can not cook a clean soup. View quote
Ludwig van Beethoven
My grandmother was the greatest cook in the world. She could just go in there, the whole kitchen would look like a tornado hit it and then she'd come out with the best food. Then she'd sit at the table and she wouldn't eat! View quote
Edie Brickell
I think sometimes that people assume because I'm on television I'm an expert, but I think the whole point of what I do is that I'm not and I don't have any training. My approach isn't about a fancy ingredient or style. I cook what I love to eat. View quote
Nigella Lawson
Anyway everyboy (sorry) knows that what women have done that is really important is not to constitute a great, cheap labor force that you can zip in when you're at war and zip out again afterwards but to Be Mothers, to form the coming generation, to give birth to them, to nurse them, to mop floors for them, to love them, cook for them, clean for them, change their diapers, pick up after them, and mainly sacrifice themselves for them. This is the most important job in the world. That's why they don't pay you for it. View quote
Joanna Russ
The strength of the Democratic Party of Cook County is not something that just happened. View quote
Richard J. Daley
Maybe the memory does play tricks. Increasingly, I'm thinking, 'What was their name? I knew that name yesterday.' I think that's what happens. At some point, I'll forget that I ever worked with Peter Cook, I suppose, and Alan Bennett and Jonathan Miller. View quote
Dudley Moore
It was so hot today I saw a robin dipping his worm in Nestea. It was so hot today I saw a pigeon walking in the shadow of Orson Welles. It was so hot today that Burger King was singing, "if you want it your way, cook it yourself." (Johnny Carson)
The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go she went. View quote
Saki
There are only two kinds of books which you can write and be pretty sure you're going to make a living - cook books and detective stories. View quote
Rex Stout
Oh, I am a cook and a captain bold And the mate of the Nancy brig, And a bo'sun tight and a midshipmite And the crew of the captain's gig. View quote
W. S. Gilbert
I don't belong to any club or group. I don't fish, cook, dance, endorse books, sign books, co-sign declarations, eat oysters, get drunk, go to church, go to analysts, or take part in demonstrations. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
If you're twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go. View quote
Anthony Bourdain
He makes his cook his merit, And the world visits his dinners and not him. View quote
Molière
Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers. View quote
William Shakespeare
British women can't cook. View quote
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
She [Comedy] it is who proposes the correcting of pretentiousness, of inflation, of dulness, and of the vestiges of rawness and grossness to be found among us. She is the ultimate civilizer, the polisher, a sweet cook. View quote
George Meredith
I lead a simple life. I feed the fish. I walk the dogs. I cook dinner. Occasionally I take a meeting. (Macaulay Culkin)
Strength is taking charge of your own destiny and not waiting on others to do so. You don't have to swear and drink and beat people up and slay monsters. You're allowed to cry and take care of children and cook and get your heart broken and dress up and date and get pregnant. But when decisions have to be made, a strong character makes them and doesn't wait for someone else. View quote
Mur Lafferty
Over the holidays is when I have the most occasions to cook and bake. View quote
Nina Dobrev
You know, nobody can ever cook as good as your mama. View quote
Paula Deen
Growing up, I had a very busy social life. It wasn't until I was a sophomore in high school that I asked Mama if I could come into the kitchen and have her teach me how to cook something. View quote
Paula Deen