Cooks Quotes - Page 33

• My husband is a musician. He cooks and he's a chef but he also, he makes basement recordings. So many people in my life make basement recordings, so I feel very lucky, I'm surrounded by very creative people.

  Dana Spiotta

  Husband, People, Creative

  "In 'Arabia,' Writing Life As You Wish You'd Lived It". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 22, 2011.

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• My parents traveled a lot, so my grandparents practically raised me. My grandmother and I really bonded in the kitchen. She's this amazing southern cook, and I would always help her - whether it was cracking eggs or stirring the green beans. It takes me back there.

  Hillary Scott

  Grandmother, Eggs, Grandparent

  "Lady Antebellum Celebrate 'Sweeter Times' on New Album". Interview with Beville Darden, theboot.com. January 26, 2010.

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• I really like to cook and have dinner parties and I like to clean, it really clears my head and it makes me feel good to keep my home as a comfortable place.

  Jenny Slate

  Party, Home, Feel Good

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

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• I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.

  Olivia Thirlby

  Dad, Cooking, Style

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

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• I love to cook and really enjoy cleaning my house. People always tease me about getting a maid. My girlfriend tells me that they are only $40 and will do everything. But that is my time to unwind, put my hair in a ponytail, throw on sweats, and be myself.

  Amy Weber

  Girlfriend, Hair, Sweat

  "Amy Weber bikini babe". Interview with AskMen, www.askmen.com.

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• The most used piece of kit in my kitchen is my saucepan. I use it every morning to cook my porridge in. The least used piece of equipment? I'd say a food mixer. I've never used it, I don't really know what they're for.

  David Walliams

  Morning, Kitchen, Use

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a rather crude cook.

  Dominic West

  Crude

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

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• The process of making music is more interesting to me than the end result. If I was a cook, I'd be more interested in cooking food than eating food.

  Ryan Adams

  Interesting, Cooking, Eating

  Interview with Amanda Petrusich, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2004.

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• I'm not a cook. I don't think I ever will be.

  Chris Messina

  Thinking

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• Sorry, I'm not much of a cook.

  Isaiah Mustafa

  Sorry

  "Old Spice Pitchman on Breakout Role in Tyler Perry Picture". Interview with Kam Williams, lasentinel.net. April 22, 2011.

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• You don't have to be a chef or even a particularly good cook to experience proper kitchen alchemy: the moment when ingredients combine to form something more delectable than the sum of their parts.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Kitchen, Ingredients, Chef

  "Magic Moments in Life" By Erin Morgenstern, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.

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• All the women in my family were superb cooks.

  Randy Wayne White

  My Family, Superb

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• Nobody who cooks does it with full hair and makeup in front of a TV camera.

  Trisha Yearwood

  Makeup, Hair, Cameras

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• The whole dream of having your own place is great, but the reality is having to cook and clean yourself and do the washing and make sure there's milk in the fridge. But you have to grow up some time.

  Michelle Ryan

  Dream, Growing Up, Reality

  "Michelle Ryan - Is this the end of her Hollywood dream?". www.mirror.co.uk. March 2, 2008.

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• 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.

  Kaya Scodelario

  Mother, Culture, Proud

  "Discovery: Kaya Scodelario" by Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 14, 2011.

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• I actually struggled through teaching myself to cook because I'm completely ignorant in the kitchen. So I did really macho things like trying to make my own curry. Really hardcore stuff.

  Simon Helberg

  Teaching, Kitchen, Ignorant

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

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• You priests. You're all the same. You think fasting helps you think about God, when anyone who can cook would tell you that fasting just makes you think about food.

  Joanne Harris

  Thinking, Make You Think, Fasting

  Joanne Harris (2012). “Peaches for Monsieur le Curé (Chocolat 3)”, p.447, Random House

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• I'll tell you something about tough things. They just about kill you, but if you decide to keep working at them, you'll find the way through. On the Food Network they have these shows where cooks have to put a meal together with all these weird ingredients. That's a lot like my life-dealing with things you wouldn't think ever go together. But a good cook can make the best meal out of the craziest combinations.

  Joan Bauer

  Thinking, Together, Way

  Joan Bauer (2011). “Close to Famous”, p.141, Penguin

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• I'm a really good dinner party guest. I am always so appreciative, impressed that anyone has even managed to turn on the oven and cook for me.

  Lucy Punch

  Party, Guests, Dinner

  "Q & A With Lucy Punch: Woody Allen's New Film, Eating Geographically and Why Offal Is Off-Limits". Interview with Margy Rochlin, www.laweekly.com. September 20, 2010.

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• I usually like to throw on some flip flops and go to a really nice lunch in Venice, or Santa Monica, or stay in and cook dinner.

  Ben Savage

  Nice, Lunch, Santa

  "Paging Your Inner-Tween: We're Chatting With Ben Savage (AKA Cory Matthews!)". Interview with Rosemary Brennan, www.glamour.com. October 18, 2011.

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• Designers are by nature more inquisitive, more connected. They dig a little deeper in terms of insights. They turn those insights into innovation. That connection to the consumer is absolutely critical in driving innovation. It’s critical that design isn’t subjugated to the back room as a short order cook for marketing or for merchandising or sales. It has to be up front.

  Mark Parker

  Order, Design, Innovation

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• I ride horseback - arthritic knees permitting - or listen to opera. Sometimes I cook. I used to do needlework, but it's hard on my hands now, so I only do it occasionally, but I like it. And, of course, I read.

  Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

  Hands, Opera, Knees

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• When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally. I fried it and stewed it, and ate it crisp and sludgy, hot and cold. It was cheap and filling and was delicious in all manner of strange combinations. If any was left over, I ate it cold the next day on bread.

  Laurie Colwin

  Hot And Cold, Eggplant, Next Day

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• 'Why do you think it is...', I asked Dr. Cook ... 'that brain surgery, above all else-even rocket science-gets singled out as the most challenging of human feats, the one demanding the utmost of human intelligence?' [Dr. Cook answered,] 'No margin for error.'

  Michael J. Fox

  Science, Thinking, Errors

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• The cook cares not a bit for toil, toil, if the fowl be plump and fat

  Horace

  Caring, Toil, Fowl

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