Cook Quotes - page 8

I think careful cooking is love, don't you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who's close to you is about as nice a valentine as you can give. (Julia Child)
I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here. View quote
Alice Walker
My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my mother as a cook and my father as a handyman and chauffeur. View quote
Paul Nurse
Cook me in your breakfast, and put me on your plate, 'cause you know i taste great. View quote
Devendra Banhart
I don't know why men like to barbecue so much. Maybe its the only thing they can cook. Or maybe they're just closet pyromaniacs. View quote
Cecelia Ahern
My mum is Brazilian and very proud. I'd love to do a Brazilian film. I've been brought up in the Brazilian culture. My mum brought me up on my own, I cook Brazilian food, I've never spoken a word of English to my mother. View quote
Kaya Scodelario
I'm very down-to-earth and approachable, and I can be one of the guys and watch sports... I like to cook - I'm like the girl next door. View quote
Marisa Miller
a woman's place is in the kitchen...sitting in a comfortable chair, with her feet up, drinking a glass of wine and watching her husband cook dinner. View quote
Elizabeth Gilbert
Man axalotl here below but I ask very little. Some fragments of Pamphylides, a Choctaw blood-mask, the prose of Scaliger the Elder, a painting by Fuseli, an occasional visit to the all-in wrestling, or to my meretrix; a cook who can produce a passable 'poulet à la Khmer,' a Pong vase. Simple tastes, you will agree, and it is my simple habit to indulge them! View quote
Cyril Connolly
I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
I loved the family and everything to do with them. I loved the environment and the cooking. I used to cook and go in my studio. I had to have methods of working. If I was in the middle of a work and the oven burned or the children called for me, I used to make an arrangement with music, records, or poetry, so that when I went back to the studio, I picked up where I left off. I enjoyed it, you see; it was part of me. (Barbara Hepworth)
Lord, you're Irish," said Will. "Can you make things that don't have potatoes in them? We had an Irish cook once when I was a boy. Potato pie, potato custard, potatoes with potato sauce... View quote
Cassandra Clare
I wonder if I could eat a child if I had the chance.' 'I doubt if I could cook one,' said Constance. View quote
Shirley Jackson
I'm now happily remarried to a good cook, which encourages me to be lazy. I like to think that I'm a new man, but perhaps I'm not. I offset it by doing the ironing, though. She has a small farm in the New Forest with a herd of cattle, so she serves up a steak and kidney pie made with her own beef. View quote
Vince Cable
Who bothers to cook TV dinners? I suck them frozen. View quote
Woody Allen
I don't believe you can ever really cook unless you love eating. View quote
Nigella Lawson
There are two Christmas traditions I've inherited from my mother. One is the feeling that Christmas isn't complete if you haven't got a ham as well as a turkey. It means that the leftovers are much better. And in a curious way, despite the fact that we're talking about Christmas and ham, it's a very Jewish thing to want to provide a huge spread. I always cook for eight, but make enough to feed 30... View quote
Nigella Lawson
Steve was a genius and a visionary, and I've never viewed that my role was to replace him," said Cook. "Steve was an original. I've never really felt the weight of trying to be Steve. It's not my goal in life. I am who I am. I am focused on that. On being a great CEO of Apple. View quote
Tim Cook
You love me. You ignore me. You save my life, then you cook my mother into soap. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires. View quote
Loretta Lynn
I'm not saying my wife's a bad cook, but she uses a smoke alarm as a timer. (Bob Monkhouse)
When you cook it should be an act of love. To put a frozen bag in the microwave for your child is an act of hate. View quote
Raymond Blanc
It's not the microwave that's the problem, it's what people put into them. I know people lead busy lives but they should try to sit their children down at the table once a week and cook them simple food. View quote
Raymond Blanc
When I ask the classes I teach, "How many of you can cook a better hamburger than McDonald's?” almost all the students raise their hands. I then ask, "So if most of you can cook a better hamburger, how come McDonald's makes more money than you?” The answer is obvious: McDonald's is excellent at business systems. The reason so many talented people are poor is because they focus on building a better hamburger and know little to nothing about business systems. View quote
Robert Kiyosaki
It's magic,” the chief cook concluded, in awe. ”No, not magic,” the ship's doctor replied. "It's much more. It's mathematics. View quote
David Brin