Quotes - Gabi James (Cape Town, 11, South Africa) Showing 1-30 of 85

#1

“If you knew how to cook, maybe I would eat," Jace muttered.

Isabelle froze, her spoon poised dangerously. "What did you say?"

Jace edged toward the fridge. "I said I'm going to look for a snack to eat."

That's what I thought you said." Isabelle turned her attention to the soup.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

tags: cooking, isabelle-lightwood, jace-wayland, mortal-instruments

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#2

“I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.”
― W.C. Fields

tags: cooking, drinking, food, humor, wine

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#3

“Alaska decided to go help Dolores with dinner. She said that it was sexist to leave the cooking to the women, but better to have good sexist food than crappy boy-prepared food.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

tags: cooking, gender-roles

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#4

“No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.”
― Laurie Colwin

tags: cooking, food

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#5

“There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.”
― Thomas Wolfe

tags: cooking, homemaking, wife

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#6

“Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.”
― Craig Claiborne

tags: cooking, food

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#7

“Until I discovered cooking, I was never really interested in anything.”
― Julia Child

tags: cooking

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#8

“I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and say to myself "well, that's not going to happen”
― Rita Rudner

tags: cooking

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#9

“Maybe the cat has fallen into the stew, or the lettuce has frozen, or the cake has collapsed. Eh bien, tant pis. 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, and learn from her mistakes.”
― Julia Child, My Life in France

tags: cooking, humor

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#10

“Oh, I adore to cook. It makes me feel so mindless in a worthwhile way.”
― Truman Capote, Summer Crossing

tags: cooking, humor

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#11

“Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation-- experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way”
― Paul Theroux, Sir Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents

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#12

“There is communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.”
― M.F.K. Fisher

tags: cooking, food

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#13

“I cook to inspire my husband to pay attention to me.”
― Sonia Rumzi, Simple Conversation: A Novel

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#14

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz

tags: chocolate, food, humor

26814 likes

#15

“Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.”
― Orson Welles

3065 likes

#16

“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.”
― Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

tags: family, food, thanksgiving

2521 likes

#17

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: food, love

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#18

“Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart.”
― Erma Bombeck

tags: carpe-diem, food, titanic

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#19

“There is no love sincerer than the love of food.”
― George Bernard Shaw, BBC Radio presents Man and superman

tags: food, gluttony, love

1291 likes

#20

“The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.”
― Julia Child

tags: dieting, diets, eating, food, joy-of-life, steak

845 likes

#21

“Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.”
― Mark Twain

626 likes

#22

“Don't wreck a sublime chocolate experience by feeling guilty.
Chocolate isn't like premarital sex. It will not make you pregnant.
And it always feels good.”
― Lora Brody

tags: chocolate, food, humor, sex

549 likes

#23

“What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.”
― A.A. Milne

tags: character, food, potatoes

662 likes

#24

“I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food”
― Erma Bombeck

tags: food, humor

503 likes

#25

“We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.”
― David Mamet, Boston Marriage

tags: dessert, eating, food, humor, pie, stress

672 likes

#26

“The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.”
― Julia Child

tags: cooking, food

560 likes

#27

“There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.”
― Robert Frost

tags: food, marriage

510 likes

#28

“How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?”
― Charles de Gaulle

tags: cheese, diversity, divisiveness, food, france, politics

505 likes

#29

“You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too. And you've got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Jailbird

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#30

“Anything is good if it's made of chocolate.”
― Jo Brand

tags: chocolate, food

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