I Cook Quotes

#1. I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing.

Dane Cook

#2. Like many women, I stay active juggling many aspects of a very full life! I'm a busy mom. I also love to travel, garden, cook and volunteer at my kids school.

Jane Clayson

#3. However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I've been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long time. It's just something I'm passionate about.

Ted Allen

#4. I spent time at my grandfather Dino's gourmet store where he brought in chefs from Naples to cook. I thought of them as rock stars.

Giada De Laurentiis

#5. My mother likes what I cook, but doesn't think it's French. My wife is Puerto Rican and Cuban, so I eat rice and beans. We have a place in Mexico, but people think I'm the quintessential French chef.

Jacques Pepin

#6. Eleanor Roosevelt never thought that she was attractive. She never thought that she was really sufficiently appealing. And I think her whole life was a response to her effort to get her mother to pay attention to her, to love her, and to love her as much as she loved her brothers.

Blanche Wiesen Cook

#7. I can't cook! It's genetic. My grandmother can't cook, my mother can't cook. I was raised to believe you eat because your body needs fuel for energy, so I eat super foods.

Jada Pinkett Smith

#8. I think my grandmother Woodrell was most responsible for my becoming a writer. She wasn't quite literate, but was very proud that she attended school as far as the third grade. She worked as a maid, housekeeper and cook.

Daniel Woodrell

#9. I have been invited to do something called 'Celebrity MasterChef' in England, which, of course, I can't do. It's complete nonsense. You have to be a decent cook to begin with. I'd be the joke one.

Lesley Nicol

#10. Your boyfriend's penis is not an awkward string of spaghetti that has to be scooped up and sucked down. The Emperor of China once asked Lao-tzu: How should I rule the kingdom? To which Lao-tzu replied: Rule the kingdom as you would cook a small fish. A really good blowjob is the same.

Chloe Thurlow

#11. 'Why do you think it is ... ', I asked Dr. Cook ... 'that brain surgery, above all else-even rocket science-gets singled out as the most challenging of human feats, the one demanding the utmost of human intelligence?' [Dr. Cook answered,] 'No margin for error.'

Michael J. Fox

#12. It's very meditative to watch Food Network shows. I mean, you might be taking notes, but you're probably not. It's meditative to watch someone cook, just like it is to watch your mother cook, or anyone cook.

Thu Tran

#13. Cheri grinned cockily at Pam and turned to Chelsea. "I figure my coffee won't have time to get cold before this is over.

C.B. Cook

#14. I'm an appalling cook. I can just about create a glass of orange juice and a ham-and-cheese sandwich.

Dara O Briain

#15. If there's one thing I can't bear, it's when hundreds of old men come creeping in through the window in the middle of the night and throw all manner of garbage over me. I can't bear that.

Peter Cook

#16. I was told by a girl once that I should teach a course on how to kiss properly. I thought that was really a nice compliment. I then asked her what she thought about my sexual prowess and she recommended I talk to a guy she used to date. Body blow.

Dane Cook

#17. I like to play board games a lot with my girl, things like that. We attempt to cook. And even if it goes wrong, it doesn't matter because it's the time you spend doing it that's important.

Sam Worthington

#18. My husband and I have a deal, which has worked out well: He cooks one Sunday, I cook the next. The kids set the table, and we eat in the dining room together, just as I used to do as a kid.

Christa Miller

#19. here I am, after having been a warrior and a prince, cook, steward and everything else, boiling kettle for de young gentlemen.

Frederick Marryat

#20. And one of the reasons that I wrote the cook books was so that I could be at home more than being on the road.

Trisha Yearwood

#21. I lead a simple life. I feed the fish. I walk the dogs. I cook dinner. Occasionally I take a meeting.

Macaulay Culkin

#22. There is a place in America for diversity of views and opinions. I may cook my gumbo differently from you, but that does not make mine better. I may just use different ingredients. Politics has gotten so spicy, and we need to cool it down some. We may find that your recipe for gumbo is just as good.

Donna Brazile

#23. I made the unexpected but happy discovery that the answer to several of the questions that most occupied me was in fact one and the same: Cook.

Michael Pollan

#24. I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.

Kate Winslet

#25. I think Eleanor Roosevelt's so popular at Allenswood because it's the first time she is, number one, free. But it's the first time somebody really recognizes her own leadership abilities and her own scholarly abilities.

Blanche Wiesen Cook

#26. I could not help concluding this man had the most supreme pleasure while he was driven so fast and so smoothly by the sea.

James Cook

#27. What happens in Vegas, I'm telling everyone.

Dane Cook

#28. I cook, I create, I'm incredibly excited by what I do, I've still got a lot to achieve.

Gordon Ramsay

#29. You're a professor of astrophysics? And you want to be the ship's cook?" "Is the job in space?" "Yes." "Then I wish to be the ship's cook,

Anonymous

#30. I really like 'The Three Kings' DVD. I love that movie and all the extra footage and documentaries.

A. J. Cook

#31. I personally don't think a woman should ever live with a man unless they're married. I guess there are some really great guys out there who wouldn't take advantage of having a live-in cook and maid, but guess how those arrangements usually turn out?

Linda Howard

#32. They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, right?" I said. "How about Tristan and I make you and Jax a romantic dinner? And you bake him a cake for dessert. We'll warm him up with a gourmet meal, but once he tastes your cake, he'll be putty in your hands.

Kristie Cook

#33. So let me be clear: I'm proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me.

Tim Cook

#34. Cooking, to me, it's kind of therapeutic. It's completely different from music as well. I'm not amazing at it, but I can cook myself a good meal. And I'm not just saying this, but anytime I'm on the bus or at home, I'm watching Food Network or cooking on TV just 'cause it's interesting to me.

Phillip Phillips

#35. I feel like I was born and bred to stay self-motivated. I'm not one of those people who ho-hums and feels sorry for himself when something's bad.

Dane Cook

#36. I hate violence. I hate injustice more. I just want to be a fry cook, but the world demands more from me than eggs and pancakes.

Dean Koontz

#37. You have no choice as a professional chef: you have to repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat until it becomes part of yourself. I certainly don't cook the same way I did 40 years ago, but the technique remains. And that's what the student needs to learn: the technique.

Jacques Pepin

#38. I'm not on chef level, but I'd make a good line cook. That's not too shabby.

Jon Favreau

#39. We're guys. I punched him, he hit me back, and then everything was fine. We went out for ice cream after.

Eileen Cook

#40. But what if Oscar - "
"Breathes fire and threatens to cook you over a grill?"
"I was thinking what if he gets mad, but I think your way works as well."
"Then you shall make for a tasty meal.

Erica Sehyun Song

#41. I am driven by great work and seeing people do incredible things and having a part in that.

Tim Cook

#42. Imaginative cook, and her experiments weren't always edible. I was surprised, and sad, that he seemed to remember that far back. "Steak and potatoes," I answered, and he looked relieved. He seemed to feel awkward standing in the kitchen doing nothing; he lumbered

Stephenie Meyer

#43. I have new ideas every day, and I always want to take on new challenges.

Dane Cook

#44. I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.

Flavor Flav

#45. I cry for a little girl's dreams. I cry because the dreams will not die, though I am powerless to make them come true.

Glen Cook

#46. I've always been able to cook Italian food. That's in my blood because I'm half Sicilian.

Jen Lancaster

#47. Mum doesn't like it when I mention that Dad's a better cook than her. He was born in Spain and spent eight years in Portugal and is exceptional at lots of cuisines.

Paloma Faith

#48. I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.

Barbara Cook

#49. I'm not sure if I can cook. I probably can. But I'm really good at cajoling anybody around me to cook for me.

Nina Garcia

#50. I like to cook Vietnamese pho or vegetarian curries. I need to cook more but I need somebody to cook with.

Douglas Booth

#51. No one asks the cow or the chicken where it gets its protein. I eat about 4,000 or 5,000 calories a day, and I cook for myself. I also have a line of cooks that work with me - some raw, some vegan.

John Salley

#52. I really like suspenseful movies and movies that make you think.

A. J. Cook

#53. I did toy with the idea of doing a cook-book ... I think a lot of people who hate literature but love fried eggs would buy it if the price was right.

Groucho Marx

#54. Over the holidays is when I have the most occasions to cook and bake.

Nina Dobrev

#55. If I could only make her fall in love with me. Pretend to be a writer and just fuck her and have her cook for me. I would never have to write I'd just pretend.

Charles Bukowski

#56. All I do is stay in the kitchen and cook. I don't go there to party.

Patti LaBelle

#57. I'm not a big star in Japan. I'm an actor. I have a very normal life. Four days a week, I cook at home. A star doesn't do that.

Ken Watanabe

#58. I'm not giving up on life. I'm giving up on today.

Dane Cook

#59. Everything I cook tastes better than yo' momma's nipples.

Coolio

#60. So what's everyone else doing tonight?" I asked.
"Something with Jack," kate said, smiling coyly. "Clothing is optional.

Kristi Cook

#61. I think I should learn French and be a better cook - basic, really good life stuff.

Angelina Jolie

#62. When I'm home, I cook and try to eat really clean. I try to eat vegetables at every meal. I stay away from pasta and bread and have brown rice and potatoes instead.

Marisa Miller

#63. Every cook I knows loves to make pizza.

Tom Douglas

#64. I love to cook. I make an award-winning turkey chili.

Joely Fisher

#65. I hate it. I just do. That [artificial turf], local news, the IRS, and hair dryers are the four worst inventions of the century.

Beano Cook

#66. I moved back to Buffalo in 2009, and I had this moment where I wanted to have the best of both worlds. I wanted to be able to be in church and cook at home but then still get on a plane and fly back to New York and be this supermodel.

Jessica White

#67. I make a film like I cook for friends. I hope they like it, but if they don't, I'm prepared to enjoy it all by myself.

Melvin Van Peebles

#68. I'm a really good dinner party guest. I am always so appreciative, impressed that anyone has even managed to turn on the oven and cook for me.

Lucy Punch

#69. The thought of not having a chance to kiss me again made you throw yourself off a roof. I should be more careful. I know the effect I can have on women.

Eileen Cook

#70. An old, old formula came to mind, from back when I was very young indeed. "I am a soldier." I said it first in the language I had spoken then, then repeated myself in Sleepy's own Dejagoran dialect. "I've been distracted before. I'm still alive.

Glen Cook

#71. I have a problem with the new cooks: you all are more cultured, you cook better ... but you're lazier.

Juan Mari Arzak

#72. Old movies are black-and-white; they've got good guys and bad guys. The thing was, I didn't want to live in the past anymore. It was time for my life to go full color.

Eileen Cook

#73. Cultures that may seem as durable as stone can break like glass, leaving all the things that held them together unattended. I believe that the craftsman, the artist, the cook, and the silversmith are peacemakers. They instill grace; they lull the world to calm.

Anthony Shadid

#74. I don't know how to cook and there's so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and prepare them. I like it when people cook for me, or I'll just order some take-out.

Famke Janssen

#75. I'll cook the water...

Maggie Stiefvater

#76. I never want to play a show where it feels overly programmed, processed, and all that. For anybody that comes to one of our shows, the goal for me is to make sure that's their show. That nobody else is going to see that show ever again. You know what I mean? I try to make it different every day.

David Cook

#77. I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model.

Rachael Leigh Cook

#78. I do like to cook; I'm sort of a mad scientist in the kitchen.

Kyle Chandler

#79. When something's good, I'm not an over-celebrator.

Dane Cook

#80. The magazine, the daytime show, we've always tried to write affordable, accessible. Those are key words for us, and I do mean us, a huge staff of people at the magazine who love to cook affordable, friendly food that helps families eat better for less.

Rachael Ray

#81. A certain amount of housekeeping also goes on in my poems. I wash doorknobs, do dishes, mop floors, patch carpets, cook.

Jane Hirshfield

#82. I love to cook, it's one of my most favorite things in the world. That's why I stopped being a vegetarian - I didn't want to serve people things I hadn't tasted myself.

Claudia Black

#83. I started a grease fire at McDonald's - threw a match in the cook's hair.

Steve Martin

#84. Hello, my name is Albany, and I have a telepathic connection with my twin sister, along with the ability to read minds.

C.B. Cook

#85. He called me "love". I liked that. A lot.

Kristi Cook

#86. All in all I'd rather have been a judge than a miner. And what's more, being a miner, as soon as you are too old and tired and sick and stupid to do the job properly, you have to go. Well, the very opposite applies with judges. *

Peter Cook

#87. I'll go grocery shopping at the farmer's market on a Sunday and already know what I'm going to cook for the next two, three or four days.

Tia Mowry

#88. Your dad does like you. In fact, he wants to protect you from me. He told me to not bother trying to get my claws into you and drag you down to my level.
Bother. Definitely bother. I like the idea of you getting your claws into me.

Eileen Cook

#89. Since these early days, I have seen and have experienced many types of discrimination and all of them were rooted in the fear of people that were different than the majority.

Tim Cook

#90. I knew at the time my haircut was pretty damn god-awful, so I was just hoping that I wasn't one of the joke ones. And they put me through to Hollywood and I thought, "Well okay, maybe I'm still one of the joke ones but at least I'm not terrible?"

David Cook

#91. A couple of days back, I got into a car accident. Not my fault. Even if it's not your fault, the other person gets out of their car and looks at you like it's your fault: Why did you stop at a red light and let me hit you doing 80!

Dane Cook

#92. I believe it's a cook's moral obligation to add more butter given the chance.

Michael Ruhlman

#93. I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people - how they act and such.

Dane Cook

#94. i am about castle walls and ivy growing wild

Rebecca Cook

#95. As a girl, I had zero interest in the stove. I've always had a healthy appetite, especially for the wonderful meat and the fresh produce of California, but I was never encouraged to cook and just didn't see the point in it.

Julia Child

#96. I have all the answers, it's just that most of them aren't right.

Rick Cook

#97. His office is still there, with his name on it. And it will always be there as long as I'm here.

Tim Cook

#98. I like to eat. Definitely. I love sitting around a table with my friends. But I don't know how to cook anything.

Donatella Versace

#99. I think sometimes that people assume because I'm on television I'm an expert, but I think the whole point of what I do is that I'm not and I don't have any training. My approach isn't about a fancy ingredient or style. I cook what I love to eat.

Nigella Lawson

#100. Tomorrow's a hunting day," I say.
"I won't be much of a help with that," Peeta says. "I've never hunted before."
"I'll kill and you cook," I say. "And you can always gather."
"I wish there was some sort of bread bush out there," says Peeta.

Suzanne Collins