Recipe Cookbook Quotes & Sayings

Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself. — Plotinus

I never believed I was going to have a baby until I heard her cry. — Liane Moriarty

I'm a ghetto man who made good. I never forgot where I came from and who put me on top - God and Jack The Rapper. — James Brown

In my 'Big Dinners' cookbook, I recreated my mother's recipe for crab dip. The creamy dressing for this dip, made with mayonnaise, tomato paste, a touch of honey, sliced chives, lemon juice and zest, horseradish and Tabasco, is reminiscent of Thousand Island dressing. — Tom Douglas

What I particularly liked was that, coming from California and not being involved in the New York scene, I developed my personal way, in my own way, at my own pace. — Herb Ritts

Our life is ... a time in which sadness and joy kiss each other at every moment. — Henri Nouwen

I buy a lot of cookbooks. Some of them you just kind of read, and you try one recipe, and it doesn't really work. So then you don't go back to it. The new Ina Garten cookbook, which is called 'Back to Basics,' I have not had a failure with. It is the most fantastic cookbook. I think I bought 20 copies of it for friends. — Nora Ephron

A cookbook is only as good as its poorest recipe. — Julia Child

So Artichoke was a restaurant borne out of impulse and recklessness. Four years on, it's also a testament to how an enterprise started on such a fucked up approach can actually succeed. — Bjorn Shen

My friend, stay positive! It is really good to always stay positive. You don't really give a damn to negative people, circumstances and things! You only learn lessons from them that can help you take precautions to always stay positive for positive footprints! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

It is important to view a recipe book as one that you use daily and what we in our family call "a living book" - a book that you use all the time, not just read once and discard on the shelf. It is in a sense a spell book, a book of magical enchantments, to be consulted, used and altered as needed. — The Silver Elves

Real contentment must come from within. You and I can not change or control the world around us, but we can change and control the world within us. — Warren W. Wiersbe

For me, whether it's in a book or on T.V., a recipe has to be simple. I have a short attention span, so to open a cookbook and see a recipe that goes on for three to four pages, well, I've lost interest. — Al Roker

What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds. — Steve Jobs

If I had one piece of advice for people - if they are cooking from the Alinea cookbook, the Betty Crocker cookbook or the back of the box - read through the entire recipe first before reaching for any ingredients, and then read again and execute the directions. — Grant Achatz

It comes every year and will go on forever. And along with Christmas belong the keepsakes and the customs. Those humble, everyday things a mother clings to, and ponders, like Mary in the secret spaces of her heart. — Marjorie Holmes

Americans treat history like a cookbook. Whenever they are uncertain what to do next, they turn to history and look up the proper recipe, invariably designated the lesson of history. — Russell Baker

Nobody knows everything that's hidden in the balance sheets of banks. In fact, they are completely impenetrable. — Jerome Kerviel

A friend is someone you can lean on. — Snoopy

I can't sit around and wait for the telephone to ring. — Tony Curtis

And at one point (cough) walking into a chicks knife (cough), he'd finally won.
'I'm king of the world, bitches. Come in here and bask in my glory.' His voice echoed through the foyer, expectant eager.
-Strider — Gena Showalter

But what little we did know, we brandished wildly like cavemen's clubs, slinging out stuff we felt tasted good. That was as intricate as our
game plan ever was - to make food that tasted good. — Bjorn Shen

I haven't been thinking at all, not really, I've just been following the steps. The recipe.
& this is like turning a page in the cookbook & finding the next one blank. — Stephen King

The key ingredient of politics is the idea that all of society's ills can be cured politically. It's like a cookbook where the recipe for everything is to fry it. The fruit cocktail is fried. — P. J. O'Rourke

I think I'll just go take a shower, I said.
It wasn't until Samuel stiffened that I remembered I'd just come out of the shower. So much for playing normal. — Patricia Briggs

The Pigtronix Envelope Phaser pedal is a definite 'must have' for your Funk recipe cookbook ... it adds definite Funkaliciousness to your WOO stew. — Bernie Worrell