Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yael Naim

As always, I wrote songs. Some people cook or play sports. This is what I love to do. Sometimes I can't express myself that well in talk, so I write songs.

Yotam Ottolenghi

New-season lamb shoulder, cooked pink, is the perfect platform for a mixture of fresh and cooked herbs.

Timothy Noah

To cut the federal budget without cutting entitlements is like giving up chocolate-chip cookies and then deciding it's OK to eat the ones that don't have any nuts.

Yotam Ottolenghi

When I cook a meal, I like to serve things one by one and keep them separate. I get that from my father - he's such a purist. Some people even put their desserts on the main plate. It's just wrong.

Yotam Ottolenghi

My father always cooks more polenta than he needs for a meal. The excess he spreads on an oiled surface and chills. Next day, he cuts out chunks, fries them in olive oil and serves with salad.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Food that's served at the table in a paper parcel always creates a remarkable culinary moment when opened, because the package is full of aromatic steam from the lightly cooked ingredients inside.

Clotilde Hesme

I love quinoa. It's great, it cooks like rice and is better than caviar.

Donatella Versace

I like to eat. Definitely. I love sitting around a table with my friends. But I don't know how to cook anything.

Ruth Reichl

We in the media have been guilty about not doing a better job of making people understand how really simple cooking is. We've made everyone feel like they have to be a chef.

Resi Stiegler

Julia's sister is cooking for her in the RV. We'll run over there and steal snacks sometimes.

Carol Clarke

I love cooking and I have really enjoyed my job.

Jiang Baoguo

I have always been interested in food preparation. When I was a child, I would watch my mother cooking and learned to cook myself.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I have been cooking with preserved lemon for years, using it left, right and centre, but I am still far from reaching my limit.

Cybill Shepherd

I would very much like to go on her talk show. Maybe not a cooking show. She's got all the hot grease and stuff.

Jacqueline Obradors

I find cooking very sensual. I love getting in there with my hands instead of utensils. With all of the textures and everything, it's very erotic. Also the time it takes to prepare, and the anticipation and the buildup, you know. Then finally, you get to eat.

Mary Green

I can't do all that cooking myself, ... At least I'm sure to get one meal a day this way.

David Myers

My travels and everything that I do where travel has inspired and influenced not only the cooking that I do but also the restaurants that I create.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Johnny Depp

That would really send my popularity to the depths.

Mia Wasikowska

Popularity is very inconsistent. Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not. It usually just comes in waves.

Ricki-Lee Coulter

I'd been listening to some old '70s disco, soul stuff, and I thought, 'Let's go into the studio and do something different. Let's do something that's super unashamedly pop and fun and danceable.' 'Trouble' is what we did. It's something that wrote itself.

Seth Shostak

Typically, only about 2 percent of the American populace tunes in to PBS's 'Nova' series - the most successful science show on the tube. 'Survivor' and 'X Factor' get twice the ratings.

Michael Budman

White is very popular in Italy, and the U.S. wore it in '56.

James Shuler

I thought I was going to pop it. No one was going to take that away from me.

David Dreier

We know it may not be the single most popular thing, but it's the right thing to do.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

PLEBISCITE, n. A popular vote to ascertain the will of the sovereign.

Baruch Spinoza

Popular religion may be summed up as a respect for Ecclesiastes

Gail Carson Levine

I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.

Alice Walker

My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.

William Gibson

In 1981, I was a futurist - or at least I was a guy who put on a futurist hat occasionally - and I wrote about the 21st century.

James Frey

I think most of what they wrote was pretty accurate, absolutely.

Joseph Biden

He said he was 35 when he wrote that.

Jennifer McMahon

I wrote my first short story in third grade.

Randy Alcorn

I wrote my first novel, 'Deadline,' in 1994 as an experiment.

Carlos Fuentes

I wrote it to show that not all mother-in-laws are bad.

John Prine

I wrote it just to get my father's attention,