Cooking Experiment Quotes & Sayings

I was brought up, and my sister too, with two people who were always saying, "What you do is really nowhere near as important as the things that are going on in the world, and if your work needs to reflect that, or you want it to, then you need to strive for a certain type of excellence." — Jake Gyllenhaal

It really bothers me when I see people doing my mother in drag. I mean, just imagine if you saw people doing that with your mother. — Chaz Bono

A writer of story books! What kind of business in life-what mode of glorifying God, or being serviceable to mankind in his day and generation-may that be? Why, the degenerate fellow might as well have been a fiddler! — Nathaniel Hawthorne

He always had some experiment or another on the go, usually involving boiling liquids and unpleasant smells. Always something bubbling in the cauldron or cooking in the small stone oven. One wall was hidden behind rows of metal cages, set one upon the other; containing animals and birds and reptiles and a few other things not so easily identified. Because you never knew when you'd need a subject to try something out on. And of course there were shelves and shelves of glass jars, holding herbs and insect parts, mandrake root and other disturbing things. Some of the things in the jars were still moving. Because alchemy's like that. — Simon R. Green

You should be willing to be eaten also. You are food body. — Joseph Campbell

We can be as honest as we are ignorant. If we are, when asked what is beyond the horizon of the known, we must say that we do not know. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Time past and time future allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time. — T. S. Eliot

I am one of those lucky marvels whose husband has banned them from the kitchen, the last and now permanent ban was during an Everton Three (door slamming on hand) when he'd lamented, in a crazed manner to no one in particular after my failed tomato soup experiment, 'She'd burn air, so she would,' accompanied by wild pacing around the tomato splattered linoleum. — Lily Graham

I loved a maid as red as autumn [ ... ] with sunset in her hair. — George R R Martin

Am I ever going to be able to play football again? What's going on with my career? I was just thinking things like that. You've got tears going down your eyes. You've got your trainers right there and my parents right there. I was just thinking, "Is this it?" I didn't know what a knee injury was. I'd never felt pain like that. — Rob Gronkowski