Cooking Sushi Quotes & Sayings

People in pain can be very self-destructive. And sometimes they pull in the people who are close to them, often without realizing. — Sara Barnard

It's pretty hard being a tennis player and Mother Theresa at the same time and that's just the way it is. — Maria Sharapova

Why you wanna treat Mama like she ain't got sense? — Hunter Murphy

The oak was, of course, a great stealer of the surrounding pasture - its only value to provide shade for the livestock - but it was a magnificent tree. It had been there at least as long as Luxtons had owned the land. To have removed it would have been unthinkable (as well as a forbidding practical task). It simply went with the farm. No one taking in that view for the first time could have failed to see that the tree was the immovable, natural companion of the farmhouse, or, to put it another way, that so long as the tree stood, so must the farmhouse. And no mere idle visitor - especially if they came from a city and saw that tree on a summer's day - could have avoided the simpler thought that it was a perfect spot for a picnic. — Graham Swift

Having it all is just too much hassle. I'm not every-woman. I'm a working woman. And I'm not entirely sure I see the oint of being as dexterous in the kitchen as I am at my desk. If Mr. Y is perfectly satisfied with pre-packaged sushi every night, then far be it from me to raise his hopes with all sorts of homey behavior. The secret, I have discovered, is to manage expectations. If he doesn't expect it, then he's hardly going to be disappointed to discover he may never again eat a home-cooked meal. Or indeed, ever eat again. — Amy Mowafi

When shall we break into the jail, then?" John asked.
"Midnight. The guard changes then, and you'll fair certain look less conspicuous in that crowd."
"So you think I look like a guard? I'll take that nicely." He took a drink of his beer, his eyes shining at me over the brim.
I flicked my eyes over him. "Brutish and stupid? Yes, you look quite like a guard. — A.C. Gaughen

In my generation, there was no sushi school, no cooking school, so people have to learn from working. — Nobu Matsuhisa

Ambition characterizes and distinguishes national officeholders from other kinds of human beings. — Tom Cotton

She was not the still quiet type. Aphrodites never are. — Lenora Henson

I love big shrimp, like Japanese botan shrimp and the meaty ones from Santa Barbara, Calif. In classic Japanese cooking, shrimp like these would be dropped into a broth or boiled as served with sushi. But I think boiling dilutes their great flavor, and they are better when stir-fried. — Nobu Matsuhisa

If I were alive in Rubens's time, I'd be celebrated as a model. Kate Moss would be used as a paint brush. — Dawn French

Sushi is something very exclusive. It is not like a McDonald's, not like a hot dog, not like a French fry. It's very high-class cooking in Japan. — Nobu Matsuhisa

I guess sometimes you've got the hope-fors so much it makes you imagine all sorts of things. — Ron Rash

Have you ever felt really close to someone? So close that you can't understand why you and the other person have two separate bodies, two separate skins? — Nancy Garden