Nigela The Cook Quotes & Sayings

The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. Whilst we are waiting, we beguile the time with jokes, with sleep, with eating, and with crimes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I would make up silver lies studded with shards of perfect detail like mosaic splinters, sharp and everlasting, the kind of tiny faultless detail that would make them all sure that what I said was true. I would have alibis. I would bring in other people and teach them a story, and rehearse it so carefully and for so long that soon they'd all start to believe that what they said was actually true. — Eleanor Catton

I want to explore marriage without the usual Hallmark Card platitudes. Life is difficult, and I like movies that acknowledge that. — Harold Ramis

They made a science out of people?" she said. "What a crazy science that must be."
"Mr. Z — Kurt Vonnegut

Venice was a woman, la bella donna, elegant in her age, sensual in her watery curves, mysterious in her shadows. The first sight of her, rising over the Grand Canal with her colors tattered and faded like old ballgowns, called to the blood. The light, a white, washing sun, would sweep over her and lose itself like a wanderer in her sinuous veins, her secret turns. Here — Nora Roberts

I love white clouds and blue sky. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I will be the constant reminder in your life that you will never be alone anymore. And should your brain start playing tricks on you, you start forgetting who I am or where we live, I will still be there, every morning. Until all the grays of our hair have become so wise, they will feel they've learned all there is to life and decide it's time for us to go. — Nessie Q.

You can't solve a spiritual problem with a military or political solution. — Jonathan Cahn

In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection with the event itself. Every act of theirs, which appears to them an act of their own will, is in an historical sense involuntary and is related to the whole course of history and predestined from eternity. — Leo Tolstoy

I don't think the roles that I'm necessarily known for in this country are my best work, or even anywhere near it. I didn't think I was great in 'Arcadia.' I think it's a great part and a great play and had a lot of attention. — Rufus Sewell

If anything, hearing another poet is a sacred experience I enter, but I can honestly say this does not influence my own work. — Grace Cavalieri

If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets. — Maynard James Keenan