Pasta Quotes - Page 3

• I might use milk if I was using a touch of milk to make like a lasagna or a baked pasta. But cream? That is totally not the way they do it in Italy, and it's not a very good thing. It's kind of a blanket for flavor.

  Mario Batali

  Might Use, Milk, Flavor

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• Those places I don't understand, just doing bad food. It takes some doing. Making good pasta is so much easier than making bad stuff. It actually takes quite an effort to make poor linguine pomodora.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Effort, Stuff, Poor

  "Regrets? He's had a few ..." by Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2006.

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• Eve was still frowning at the pasta like she suspected it was going to do something clever, like try to escape from the pot.

  Rachel Caine

  Clever, Trying, Frowning

  Rachel Caine (2007). “The Dead Girls' Dance: The Morganville Vampires”, p.38, Penguin

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• I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.

  Samantha Bond

  Dying, Goes On, Nervous

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• Want me to warm up the sauce?” “Do we do that? I mean, it’s in a jar, right? Can’t you just dump it over the pasta?” “Well, you can, but it tastes better if you warm it up.” “Oh.” Eve sighed. “This is complicated. No wonder I never cook.

  Rachel Caine

  Mean, Want, Jars

  Rachel Caine (2007). “The Dead Girls' Dance: The Morganville Vampires”, p.37, Penguin

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• My sisters like cooking at my place. It has a bit more room, and the food tastes a little bit better. A big pot of spaghetti and sauce, some warm French bread - works all the time. I think I've been eating pasta for 26 years.

  Tom Brady

  Sports, Thinking, Years

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I love Saturday nights with my best friend and a big bowl of pasta, wanting a good scare, something that will say, 'Listen, your life is not as bad as this. Your life can be so much worse'.

  Vera Farmiga

  Friendship, Night, My Best Friend

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• I can't eat spaghetti. There's too many of them.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Noodles

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• Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.

  Dave Barry

  Book, Drinking, Beer

  Dave Barry (2012). “The Greatest Invention in the History of Mankind Is Beer: And Other Manly Insights from Dave Barry”, p.112, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• America has been conditioned to think of pasta as the never-ending pasta bowl and Olive Garden.

  Joe Bastianich

  Garden, Thinking, America

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• The New York Times reports that Moammar Gadhafi spent his last days hovering between defiance and delusion, surviving on rice and pasta. In other words, Gadhafi spent his last days as a sophomore in college. That's what I did.

  Conan O'Brien

  New York, College, Hovering

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• I was one of those fortunate individuals who grew up in a large, passionate, demonstrative Italian family where we were taught to love as naturally as we breathed and ate giant bowls of pasta!

  Leo Buscaglia

  Passion, Italian, Giants

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• I do love Italian food. Any kind of pasta or pizza. My new pig out food is Indian food. I eat Indian food like three times a week. It's so good.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Food, Italian, Pigs

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• I'm sort of a carb-oholic. I love pasta, and I know it's really simple, but I love pasta with olive oil and crushed red pepper and maybe some Parmesan. I don't really eat cheese anymore, but that would be my favorite. I love a tri colore salad - it's my favorite.

  Judy Greer

  Simple, Oil, Would Be

  "Judy Greer Wants a 13 Going on 30 Sequel - or to Just Do Another Rom Com With Jennifer Garner". Interview with Alyse Whitney, www.glamour.com. February 11, 2016.

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• Give us this day our daily mask.

  Tom Stoppard

  Bible, Prayer, Bread Of Life

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead”, p.31, Faber & Faber

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• With Fellini, the fear dropped out of my work because it was such a happy experience... hanging out with Fellini, having pasta on the set with Fellini, and going out with Fellini!

  Terence Stamp

  Experience, Going Out, Hanging Out

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• I eat a little bit of everything and not a lot of anything. Everything in moderation. I know that's really hard for people to understand, but I grew up in an Italian family where we didn't overdo anything. We ate pasta, yes, but not a lot of it.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Italian, People, Littles

  "Giada De Laurentiis' slim-cooking secrets". Interview, www.foxnews.com. April 21, 2012.

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• I'm a big pasta guy, but I've cut it out to stay fast and lean.

  Russell Wilson

  Cutting, Guy, Bigs

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• At the weekend, one of the paparazzi left their lunch box filled with half-eaten pasta salad on my doorstep: it was like a little warning, you know? 'We have been here.'

  Katherine Jenkins

  Weekend, Lunch, Half

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If I'm in Rome for only 48 hours, I would consider it a sin against God to not eat cacio e pepe, the most uniquely Roman of pastas, in some crummy little joint where Romans eat. I'd much rather do that than go to the Vatican. That's Rome to me.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Rome, Littles, Joints

  Interview with Joel Keller, www.avclub.com. November 21, 2011.

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• My kids and I make pasta three days a week now. It's not even so much about the eating of it; they just like the process. Benno is the stuffer, and Leo is the catcher. They've got their jobs down.

  Mario Batali

  Jobs, Kids, Three

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• I'm crazy about westerns. I need to do a western once in a while. It's like you know, eating bread, eating pasta, drinking wine. It's in my blood. I need it.

  Franco Nero

  Crazy, Drinking, Wine

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• If you can't pass the ball properly, a bowl of pasta's not going to make that much difference!

  Harry Redknapp

  Differences, Balls, Bowls

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• Normally I don't feel like having a belly full of pasta.

  Elizabeth Olsen

  Feels, Belly

  "Actress Elizabeth Olsen Travels with Sea Salt". Interview with Alyssa Shelasky, www.bonappetit.com. October 4, 2013.

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• Going round and around inside a dryer can be fatal, whereas pasta is rarely fatal. Unless Isabelle makes it.

  Cassandra Clare

  Humorous, Rounds, Dryers

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