Scribners Kitchen Quotes & Sayings

My dad grew up with an avocado tree in his backyard. My entire family, my wife and daughters, they love avocado. I may well be allergic. It makes me physically sick. — Ted Cruz

Only in the gospel do you get the verdict before the performance. I love you. Now love me. I love you. Now you can love me. — Matt Papa

You can't make experimental work by copying past work. — Trey Parker

With any president it is difficult to predict how the world will be effected by his presence in the white house. — Diahann Carroll

- Now my father had a way, a little like that of Job's (in case there ever was such a man - if not, there's an end of the matter.
Though, by the bye, because your learned men find some difficulty in fixing the precise aera in which so great a man lived; - whether, for instance, before or after the patriarchs, &c. - to vote, therefore, that he never lived at all, is a little cruel, - 'tis not doing as they would be done by - happen that as it - My father, I say, had a way, when things went extremely wrong with him, especially upon the first sally of his impatience - of wondering why he was begot, - wishing himself dead; - sometimes worse: - — Laurence Sterne

Even though I don't have any larger spiritual or ideological system, there is some logic in concert with a huge number of beautiful, disconcerting, screwed-up variables that results in a certain visual pleasure in violent things. Like a broken egg yolk can be the most violent thing I've seen all day, if I'm in the right mood. But also tons of trash in the woods or a burned-up trailer park can also come across as especially violent. — Elizabeth Neel

Oh,' said the little girl, 'my head's on your heart; I can hear it going. What a big heart you've got, father dear. — Katherine Mansfield

Bravery comes one day at a time. — Courtney C. Stevens

For me, improvisation is about working with a partner. That is much easier to do in the interview, because you have a sounding board. — Stephen Colbert

Every freak has a mother. When I met Marilyn Manson I was struck by how nice he was. People are rarely as weird as you anticipate. Except for Courtney Love-who reminded me of that mad snake in The Jungle Book. — Boy George

In the early 19th century, they tried selling soap as healthy. No one bought it. They tried selling it as sexy, and everyone bought it. — Rose George