Top 100 Delia's Quotes
#1. Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing
Jay McInerney
#2. It's not because I don't want to hurt Delia's feelings. It's because when she is bruised, I'm the one who aches.
Jodi Picoult
#3. I'm sorry to disturb you, madam,' said Nurse, 'but I thought I'd better speak to you. It's about Miss Delia's knickers' she continued, after a glance at the Vicar and a rapid decision that his cloth protected him. 'She really hasn't a pair fit to wear...
Angela Thirkell
#4. When I was in elementary school, I was a big fan of the zip-off pants that could be turned into shorts. The Delia's catalog used to be my bible.
Hayley Williams
#5. Perhaps that's a smile on Delia's face-but Delia's half skull turns every expression into a leer. She says, Your uncle had a talent, kid. He made families wherever he went.
Daryl Gregory
#6. I learned many interesting things from Delia: for example, that she and Gulya had both married alcoholics, but Delia's alcoholic had taken all her money, whereas Gulya had managed her alcoholic well and taken all his money.
Elif Batuman
#7. Memories are fallible and a timer can save a lot of hard work from going out of the window.
Delia Smith
#8. I love the Bronte sisters, but I feel a closer kinship to the Ephron sisters, Nora and Delia, if only because their work makes me laugh more than the Brontes. I also love the Mitford sisters with their secret language and their endless letters back and forth.
Kate Klise
#9. As complicated as joint custody is, it allows the delicious contradiction of having children and maintaining the intimacy of life-before-kid s.
Delia Ephron
#10. I'm screwed," Eric repeats, and shakes his head. "I have to go. Take care of her, okay?"
He gives Delia to me as if she were a jewel to be smuggled, a prayer to be whispered between heretics. A pawn. Eric is halfway across the parking lot by the time I answer. "I always do," I say.
Jodi Picoult
#11. The fact that I seem to prefer seals over any other animal brides is something I hadn't actually realized until this moment. Perhaps it's because there's a lot of very cool folklore about it.
Delia Sherman
#12. Clothes have special power. I'll always remember the raspberry colored v-necked silk sweater I was wearing on my husband and my first date. If I hadn't been wearing that sweater that night, would any of it have happened?
Delia Ephron
#13. I've never done any advertising because I feel I am in a position of trust, and that has been very liberating
Delia Smith
#14. That was a weird thought. My straight-up mother being bothered by faeries? Delia was even weirder. I could picture the scene. Faerie: Come away, human. Delia: Why? Faerie: Untold delights and youth forever. Delia: I'm holding out for a better offer. Ta.
Maggie Stiefvater
#15. I would figure out, later, how to explain to my boss that, for me, Delia will never be a story, but a happy ending.
Jodi Picoult
#16. Delia Smith needs to realise that when Nigella flirts with the camera she comes across as a slut. When Delia does it she comes across as an old slut.
Robert Clark
#17. Children are a house's enemy. They don't mean to be - they just can't help it. It's their enthusiasm, their energy, their naturally destructive tendencies.
Delia Ephron
#18. I sometimes think the chef end of cooking is not the real end of cooking. Cooking is all about homes and gardens, it doesn't happen in restaurants.
Delia Smith
#19. In our house, some of our favourite recipes just happen to be vegetarian, but I still enjoy meat and I believe very much in meat.
Delia Smith
#20. There are No real coincidences in life for those with faith strong enough to recognize coincidences for what they really are: intricate pieces of the providential design God created for each of our lives
Delia Parr
#21. What are you watching?" he asked them. "Shhhh," Maggie said. Delia said, "They're watching a good looking man working on a home improvement project without being nagged into it." "It's like our porn," Hannah said,
Pamela Grandstaff
#22. Shit," Delia said. "I mean, shoot. No, actually, I mean shit. I really do.
Sarah Dessen
#23. I cheated at school. I remember on one occasion I wrote some history dates in pen on my leg. So when there was a question like 'What year did that happen?', I'd lift my skirt up and have a look.
Delia Smith
#24. There is something fantastic about getting divorced. Everyone should do it to experience the extraordinary sense of freedom after being in marriage jail.
Delia Ephron
#25. Maybe the truth can't be buried. Or maybe it can't stay buried. Maybe the very nature of truth is that it will ultimately reveal itself.
Delia Ephron
#26. What was the good of dreaming of adventure if you turned your back on the first one that came your way?
Delia Sherman
#27. There are people who claim to be instinctive cooks, who never follow recipes or weigh anything at all. All I can say is they're not very fussy about what they eat. For me, cooking is an exact art and not some casual game.
Delia Smith
#28. Mam said I was growing up. I felt that I was dying.
Delia Sherman
#29. He turned to me. "Call me later?"
"Yes."
"Promise?"
"I promise," I said.
And then he leaned down and kissed me. And this time it wasn't Romeo kissing Juliet. It was Quinn kissing Delia. And that was even better.
Jennifer Sturman
#30. The thing I can't resist is a pork pie. That's my idea of a lovely treat.
Delia Smith
#31. Every time I complete a major project I reward myself with two full days of just reading and coffee! I do justify that it is my work!
Delia J. Colvin
#32. But quite honestly I can't help being a passionate football supporter. If that's my sin, I'm guilty.
Delia Smith
#33. A man doesn't recognize his own wife. Because she's happy.
Delia Ephron
#34. Okay, that's just bull." Aurelia snorted. "You can't be friends with someone you have the fuzzies for. Oh sure you can try, but sooner or later the fuzzy will get to you and before you know it, out with the self control and you both will be going at it like bunnies.
Delia Winters
#35. Hopefully people will be inspired to cook. It's my mission to persuade people not to be afraid of cooking.
Delia Smith
#36. Am I being too critical? That's what happens when you feel shitty about yourself. You turn into a bitch.
Delia Ephron
#37. He looked the way I felt around Delia: as if a second sun was growing underneath my breastbone, a secret I could barely conceal.
Jodi Picoult
#38. I think happy, companionate marriages between men and women who respect each other (as far as is consistent with being actual human beings) should be every bit as poetry-worthy as angst, bitterness, and shame.
Delia Sherman
#39. Remember, it's very simple to have an oven tested professionally, and it only takes about five minutes.
Delia Smith
#40. In that weekly ecstatic keeping of faith and bearing of witness, Delia fell in love with singing. Singing was something that might make sense of a person. Singing might make more sense of life than living had to start with.
Richard Powers
#41. I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world.
Delia Smith
#42. She has bitten into a crisp juicy apple and wondered if the bite and the thought were connected
one never knew what went together, and seemingly random acts could be cosmically related.
Delia Ephron
#43. His mama beat him with an ugly stick so hard, it gone straight on till his soul.
Delia Sherman
#44. A message to the best football supporters in the world. We need a 12th man here. Where are you? Where are you? Let's be having you. Come on!
Delia Smith
#45. I rubbed my face to keep from smiling, but something inside me eased. Dachshunds have that effect. "Merowp,
Delia James
#46. Clearing her throat, Peabody turned the cube on record. I owe Dallas, Lieutenant Meaniepants Eve, twenty dollars to be paid out of my hard-earned, under-appreciated detective's salary next payday. Peabody, Detective Churchmouse Delia.
J.D. Robb
#47. I had loved her as a mother, and though she had put forth her best effort to love me as a son, a difference existed after she learned the truth from Delia. Yet I did not hold her responsible; how could I blame her for an inability to love the part of me that I, too, loathed?
Kathleen Grissom
#48. Football is becoming all about money. I would like to be in a lift with Gordon Brown and say, 'Please do something about football.'
Delia Smith
#49. Some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic.
Sarah Dessen
#50. If you are a stepparent, rush right out and get yourself a dog. Because it's very nice to have someone in the house that loves you.
Delia Ephron
#51. The real love for somebody comes from getting to know them very well.
Delia Smith
#52. In the family I grew up in, being called boring was like being called an ax murderer.
Delia Ephron
#53. But the truth of the matter is that we've all got cracks in our spirits, and we have to remember they're only there because we need them ... Otherwise, how could God's grace filter in deep enough to give us the joy and peace we're all searching for in this world? It couldn't, plan and simple.
Delia Parr
#54. In life one rarely knows which remarks of the hundreds uttered in the course of a day will turn out to be auspicious. In fiction, foreshadowing is planted and flagged in some (hopefully or desperately) subtle way, drama demands it.
Delia Ephron
#55. In your standard-issue family, of which few remain, but on which our expectations are still based, there are parents and there are children. The way you know which are which, aside from certain size and age differences and despite any behavior similarities, is that the parents are the bossy ones.
Delia Ephron
#56. If you think about something else hard enough, you can mostly control your feelings.
Delia Ephron
#57. One quarter of what you buy will turn out to be mistakes.
Delia Ephron
#58. The Bible says love your neighbor, not have nasty diarrhea of the mouth about your neighbor.
Delia Steele
#59. I have one rule I live by: Only do what you can do. That neans you're never looking outside for what's popular; you're always looking inside for what's true.
Delia Ephron
#60. Food is for eating, and good food is to be enjoyed ... I think food is, actually, very beautiful in itself.
Delia Smith
#61. There is madness in every single being, is there not?
Delia Winters
#62. I think Antony Worrall Thompson is dreadful, just repulsive.
Delia Smith
#63. New Yorkers are born all over the country, and then they come to New York City and it hits them: Oh, that's who I am.
Delia Ephron
#64. The path God chooses for each of us to follow isn't always an easy one, but we all have to decide whether or not we're willing to trust in His wisdom and embrace His will
Delia Parr
#65. including Professor Oak and Delia Ketchum who is Ash's mother. Meanwhile, Ash and his friends meet and become friends with a trainer named Lisa. They come into Greenfield in the process and agree to join in to rescue
Luvero
#66. There are three reasons why this book came into being. First, throughout the 33 years I've been writing recipes - although I'm not vegetarian myself - I have greatly enjoyed creating vegetarian recipes, and cooking and serving them at home.
Delia Smith
#67. I don't get insomnia, but I do get the odd night when I can't unwind.
Delia Smith
#68. Many fairy tales and ballads present us with animals who are nobler, truer, and kinder than the greedy human beings who desire to possess them. I guess I tend to read these stories as very early (and possibly unconscious) feminist texts.
Delia Sherman
#69. I've always loved stories of animals and birds that can appear to be human, just by taking off their skins or their feathers.
Delia Sherman
#70. In 35 years of being in the media, I've had all this mud flung at me many, many times. It's not the first time. It's nothing unusual. I've been through it all before and the best way to deal with it is not to read them.
Delia Smith
#71. The truth of the matter is that we've all got cracks in our spirits, and we have to remember they're only there because we need them ... Otherwise, how could God's grace filter in deep enough to give us the joy and peace we're all searching for in this world. It couldn't, plain and simple.
Delia Parr
#72. I love it that I'm standing alone, it doesn't bother me, actually I prefer it, actually I don't give a shit. I am a superior being in an alien world. No, in a world of red-faced aliens. That thought tickled her, but only for a minute. Mainly she longed to feel that she wasn't invisible.
Delia Ephron
#73. Silver lining; if we die, I won't have to take the SATs in January
Delia Winters
#74. You know why I like to talk to you, Delia? You never interrupt with your experiences. Not jiggling your foot till you get a chance to jump in with your life history.
Anne Tyler
#75. In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.
Delia Ephron
#76. Heart: Because you're hurt. Because even though I'm broken, I still exist.
Delia Foster
#77. I love the idea of species fluidity, I guess, the sense of the maiden inherent in the swan or seal, the youth inherent in the bear or deer. After all, human beings are animals.
Delia Sherman
#78. I don't actually get recognised. I only have my hair done and make-up put on when I am on TV. The rest of the time, I go out without make-up on, so people don't recognise me.
Delia Smith
#79. Delia realised you should see plenty of people you love, because the meaningful conversations don't happen in the first twenty four hours together, or forty-eight, or even the first few days. They came at moments like this.
Mhairi McFarlane
#80. Again from a distance, Sukie was once again struck by her mother's chic and how different things can seem from far away, how there's more than one truth, the faraway truth and the truth close up.
Delia Ephron
#81. He's like a cookie; rough around the edges, soft on the inside. He's such a surprising guy.
Delia Delaney
#82. I do believe you can be attracted by somebody at first sight. We have all done it.
Delia Smith
#83. My agent, Debbie, saying, 'Don't get involved in advertising.' She gets so many calls a day about me promoting a product, but I am really pleased I have never gone down that route. I don't want somebody else to make a saucepan with my name on it.
Delia Smith
#84. A hen's egg is, quite simply, a work of art, a masterpiece of design and construction with, it has to be said, brilliant packaging!
Delia Smith
#85. I will not allow a Delia Smith cookbook in my house! It's all so precise with Delia, and it makes cooking seem so inaccessible.
Theresa May
#86. Good kitchen equipment is expensive, but most items last a lifetime and will pay for themselves over and over again.
Delia Smith
#88. Wanting to be liked can get in the way of truth.
Delia Ephron
#89. I found in my whole career the best thing that can happen to you is that you hear what people want.
Delia Smith
#90. A cake is a very good test of an oven: if it browns too much on one side and not on the other, it's not your fault - you need to have your oven checked.
Delia Smith
#91. Why didn't you tell me?" Delia says, stung.
"Why don't any of us tell you anything?" I respond. "We love you.
Jodi Picoult
#92. Writing is how I understand everything that happens. Writing is the only way I know to move on.
Delia Ephron
#93. Poetry, for me, conveys the essence of narrative rather than its particulars.
Delia Sherman
#94. It consists entirely of people who are not related by blood, many of whom can't stand each other.
Delia Ephron
#95. Delia was an overbearing cake with condescending frosting, and frankly, I was on a diet.
Maggie Stiefvater
#96. Your basic extended family today includes your ex-husband or -wife, your ex's new mate, your new mate, possibly your new mate's ex and any new mate that your new mate's ex has acquired.
Delia Ephron
#97. Abel was arrested. So was the guy with me. Help me get Delia out of the trunk."
His expression borders on horror.
"Well, you knew you'd have to let her out eventually when you put her in there, didn't you?
Rysa Walker
#99. Someone will always tell you what you want to hear.
Delia Ephron
#100. A measuring jug is also vital when cooking rice, as this is always measured by volume rather than by weight.
Delia Smith
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