Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall Quotes

#1. I'm always up for music shows such as Jools Holland, but news more than anything, particularly Newsnight. And cookery: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Rick Stein - it's down to him that I cook fish so much - and the great food alchemist Heston Blumenthal.

Charles Hazlewood

#2. I'm a generous host, but I'm a difficult and interfering guest. When I go around to other people's houses and they're cooking, I'm always telling them what to do.

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

#3. When I work, I live in a fantasy world. It's great. I get to play different characters who inspire me.

Cary Elwes

#4. I refuse to eat a fried egg if the white is still runny or transparent. I really can't be doing it. I always have to flip it over.

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

#5. In a great play or a great film, there's a rehearsal period and they find this character. On TV, everything moves fast.

James Wolk

#6. I'm not great around the house, I'm pretty useless. I do little bits, but I never quite finish tidying up - I'll start, but I'll leave things unwashed in the sink. It has been known to irritate people somewhat.

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

#7. Some people do get nervous about cooking for me, others just get extremely irritated by my interfering.

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

#8. What's wrong with living in a dream world? You have to wake up.

Sue Monk Kidd

#9. Taxi drivers are the ones who pay me the most attention. They seem to be into River Cottage and have a dream of moving to the country, so I have chats with them.

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

#10. I've always wanted to be like the Hollywood Golden Age actors.

Julianne Hough

#11. Agree with everything, explain nothing, then do what is best for you.

Sherry Argov

#12. Imagine what you'd do if it absolutely didn't matter what people thought of you. Got it? Good. Never go back.

Martha N. Beck

#13. What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

Soren Kierkegaard

#14. I've written about a lot of different things, but the whole idea of writing for another character is unusual for pop music. Most of the repertory is love songs, and most of mine isn't. I don't know if that's a mental defect, or shyness, or what.

Randy Newman

#15. As we returned to Argentina, I started seriously to work towards a doctoral degree under the direction of Professor Stoppani, the Professor of Biochemistry at the Medical School.

Cesar Milstein

#16. I have a lot of time for vegetarians (though apparently not all of them have a lot of time for me), and that's because I respect anyone with principles about food.

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

#17. Heaven lieth at the feet of mothers.

Muhammad

#18. Since God wishes it - there is nothing to be done ... Why should you thus torment yourself? Get rid of whatever He shows you to be an obstacle to His love, for His only desire is that you should live stripped of all that is not Himself.

Margaret Mary Alacoque

#19. I don't have a favourite designer because I feel every designer offers something different and special, but I do really like Alexander Wang, Burberry, Stella McCartney and Balmain.

Jourdan Dunn

#20. Will had never wanted to fall in love. When it had happened to friends, it had always struck him as a peculiarly unpleasant-seeming experience, what with all the loss of sleep and weight, and the unhappiness when it was reciprocated, and the suspect, dippy happiness when it was working out.

Nick Hornby