I Don't Cook Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

Patti LaBelle

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. I just received the message she left earlier today. She left the message yesterday, but she left today. Now I feel like leftovers, but I don't feel like leftovers. I need to cook and eat a fresh meal to not think of myself as yesterday's fresh meal.

Jarod Kintz

#9. I'm a writer. I don't cook and I don't clean.

Dorothy West

#10. The trouble with the dead, as I see it, is they don't stay that way.

Tom Cook

#11. I don't cook 'concepts.' I use my head, but I cook from the heart, I cook for flavor.

Marcella Hazan

#12. In a city like New York, especially for young professionals who aren't in a family situation, most people don't cook for themselves. This is the only city I've ever lived in where I eat out every night.

Cary Fukunaga

#13. I don't usually cook." "And the world thanks you," he murmured

D.B. Reynolds

#14. I don't consider myself a rock star chef, I really don't. I cook for a living and I try to help out as many people as I can in my life and that's all I care about. I don't care about the fame of television, I use to a lot.

Robert Irvine

#15. I don't want to talk too much about the nitty-gritty of writing. It's rather like a pressure cooker with a certain amount of pressure in it - the more you let out, the less you cook.

Vikram Seth

#16. Ah yes, you like to cook, don't you?
well, i used to. you need real dedication. fresh ingredients, a discerning palate, an eye for presentation. it's not a modern art. good cooking has hardly evolved since the nineteenth century.

Haruki Murakami

#17. I don't normally cook, but if I did it probably would be beans, sausage, bacon and eggs. I never really get to eat that to be honest.

Wayne Rooney

#18. Not a day goes by that I don't click on RealClearPolitics at least once, the presidential poll charts, graphs and moving averages are great. If RCP didn't already exist, somebody would have to invent it.

Charlie Cook

#19. I say God bless you, I don't say bless you ... I am not the Lord, I can't do that.

Dane Cook

#20. I cook every day. If I don't cook, they don't eat. Who's going to do it? I'm their mother!

Jennie Garth

#21. I also have no idea how to be a girlfriend. I love sleeping alone and I avoid sick people at all costs. I don't even cook for myself, so I need someone who appreciates a lovingly baked frozen pizza.

Jessica Pan

#22. I'd love to say I'm an accomplished cook, but I don't have any signature dishes. I'm good at breakfast
I make great eggs. My father gave me a little recipe. It's all in the seasoning. But it's a Greek secret. I won't give it away!

Jennifer Aniston

#23. Lord, you're Irish," said Will. "Can you make things that don't have potatoes in them? We had an Irish cook once when I was a boy. Potato pie, potato custard, potatoes with potato sauce ...

Cassandra Clare

#24. I am not a chef. I can't claim that title. The difference is a cook doesn't have a degree. A chef has formal education. It has nothing to do with talent or actual preparation - one just can't claim the title if you don't have degree.

Anna Pump

#25. Well, if a horse refuses, you've phrased your question wrongly. It's the same with women. Don't ask them, 'Shall we go out to dinner?' Ask: 'What can I cook for you?' Can she say not to that? No, she can't.

Nina George

#26. I buy smoked mackerel in a vain attempt at being healthy. I do actually really like it, and you don't have to cook it, which is handy.

Jo Brand

#27. I don't need to be dead to see something like that. Besides, I know you pretty well by now. You better slow down before you run out of eligible men. This is a small town.

J.J. Cook

#28. I love food and I love everything involved with food. I love the fun of it. I love restaurants. I love cooking, although I don't cook very much. I love kitchens.

Alma Guillermoprieto

#29. I don't cook. I respect food too much.

Eva Mendes

#30. My first on the bucket list will be a night game at LSU. I don't know if I'm ever going to get there. Of all the things in college sports, that would be No. 1.

Beano Cook

#31. I'm a decent cook, and I will try to cook anything. My only weakness is that I don't know servings - I only know how to make a lot.

Patrice O'Neal

#32. I don't believe you can ever really cook unless you love eating.

Nigella Lawson

#33. I don't want to rot like mangoes at the end of the season, or burnout like the sun at the and of the day. I cannot live like the gardener, the cook and water-carrier, doing the same task everyday of my life ... I want to be either somebody or nobody. I don't want to be anybody.

Ruskin Bond

#34. It's not that I can't cook. I just don't enjoy cooking. It takes too long and you have to stand there monitoring everything, which doesn't work well for me and my ADHD.

Jen Kirkman

#35. Nice teeth is a turn on for me. If you open your mouth and it looks like a battle of epic proportions, I don't like it.

Dane Cook

#36. Regrettably, people today don't watch many programs that actually teach people how to cook, so I agreed to do a competitive show that I think will provide inspiration.

Ron Ben-Israel

#37. You been shopping? no i been shopping. well what'd you buy? i bought a piston engine. well how you going to cook it? you don't cook it it's a piston engine! well your not going to eat it raw are you? oh, i never thought of that ...

Graham Chapman

#38. Unfortunately, I cook for two boys, and they don't care what it looks like on the plate, and neither do I.

Judy Gold

#39. I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.

Calvin Trillin

#40. I wasn't born to cook or clean,
but to read and write,
if you don't like me the way I am,
then go fly a kite.

Besa Kosova

#41. Really, I don't like to do any household chores. There was a time when I loved to cook, but that was when I wasn't writing books.

Elaine Pagels

#42. When you don't know how to cook, you just say, 'I need something quick,' and then you fry something up. Now that I cook, I think, 'Do I want to have fried fish, baked fish, or grilled fish?'

Larry Fitzgerald

#43. I don't really cook meat. I eat a bit of seafood but I'm not really into meat and the idea of cooking it is pretty intense.

Bella Heathcote

#44. I like TV in the way that it moves quickly, I like the pace of TV because I'm that type of actor. I like to go-go-go. I don't have to do 50 million takes of something. I guess I'm not that patient. I really like the pace of it.

A. J. Cook

#45. I don't like littering and I think it leads to terrorist activities.

Dane Cook

#46. I'd like to learn how to cook. I've hauled around this big, old, heavy Martha Stewart cookbook in my suitcase to Cape Cod, L.A., Paris. I don't know what possessed me.

Mamie Gummer

#47. I can't use swords, you bastard!
I don't know how to navigate a ship!
And I can't cook!
Or lie!
And I'm pretty sure I can't live without being helped! -Monkey D. Luffy

Eiichiro Oda

#48. Don't worry, Prima Donna. If you start to look faint, I'll drag your body to safety."
"My name is Hailey."
"Okay, Hailey. I'll drag your prima-donna butt to safety, right after I finish my lunch break

Eileen Cook

#49. I start the day with oatmeal with vanilla almond milk. If I don't, I'm dying by noon and eating everything in sight. On-set, I avoid crap and pack soup and salad. I cook pork chops or turkey tacos for dinner.

Kaley Cuoco

#50. Sometimes I'll go to the grocery store and buy a bunch of groceries as though I knew how to cook, which I don't, and as though I was going to be home for the next six days, which I won't.

Mike Birbiglia

#51. I would like to know more about how to cook Japanese food. I love it, but don't know much about it.

Daniel Humm

#52. I mostly get takeout, I have to admit - I don't know if that's something to be ashamed of. I'm not much of a cook.

Janeane Garofalo

#53. I don't know if I could kill someone with a frozen turkey because that is a lot of evidence to eat ... unless I found a whole room of people who also wanted that person dead.

Dane Cook

#54. I have loved to cook since I was a child in my mother's kitchen. If I don't have time to cook, I'll just read a cookbook.

Kamala Harris

#55. I always cook meats on low and things like eggs or cakes on high, because things with eggs in them you want to cook through and through; and you don't want to put food in there that cooks so slowly that bacteria develops.

Michele Scicolone

#56. Tim Cook has been asked a very specific question, in public by the way, and Tim Cook has refused in public. I don't blame him for that. I will guarantee you that there are all kinds of things that the private sector can be doing to be helpful, and they have not been engaged.

Carly Fiorina

#57. they don't know how properly to cook Florida lobsters. Simple. Rinse out the lymph first, then poach and broil. I even poach fish before cooking. Makes it firmer.

Bruce Van Sant

#58. This may sound surprising for someone who works in Hollywood, but I do not count calories, and I don't even care about weight gain, which I know sounds really bizarre. I listen to my body. I don't just wake up in the morning and cook whatever I eat.

Nikki Reed

#59. I don't care what it looks, I don't care what it feels like, I believe God.

Michelle Cook-Hall

#60. I haven't got a problem with scrutiny. If it gets hot in the kitchen, don't cook a meal. People should be able to criticise us - it's completely appropriate.

Kerry Stokes

#61. I still don't know how to cook and that's just unacceptable.

Mo Rocca

#62. I say: If you don't know how to cook, I'm sure you have at least one friend who knows how to cook. Well, call that friend and say, 'Can I come next time and can I bring some food and can I come an hour or two hours ahead and watch you and help you?'

Jacques Pepin

#63. I don't like when juice wears tights, its a horrible combination when juice wears tights.

Dane Cook

#64. He wants a thunder tiger, Akihito."
"Well, I want a woman who can touch her ears with her ankles, cook a decent meal and keep her opinions to herself. But they don't fucking exist either!

Jay Kristoff

#65. I love cooking. I cook for myself every day. I like the ceremony of it. It takes me into a different zone. I make a lot of pasta. But cooking for a crowd of five or ten or, heaven forbid, twenty? No, thank you. I don't like feeling like a slave to the care and feeding of my guests.

Tim Gunn

#66. I do a lot. I don't like to sit still. I am pretty spontaneous. I like to cook a lot. I like to eat. I like to workout, surf, read, write, and create. I am always working on a couple of projects that I always have and need to put more time into.

Michael B. Jordan

#67. When my children were very young and I was working I had someone cooking for me. I don't have a cook now, I haven't had one for a number of years and I do it myself. But when they were all little it was hard to pay attention to everyone's homework at the end of the day and make dinner.

Meryl Streep

#68. I don't hate Dane Cook, but I am trying to go after people I think are capable of more.

Andy Kindler

#69. I don't know why men like to barbecue so much. Maybe its the only thing they can cook. Or maybe they're just closet pyromaniacs.

Cecelia Ahern

#70. Woman: You certainly know the way to a man's heart.
Mae West: Funny, too, 'cause I don't know how to cook.

Mae West

#71. I don't cook, 'cause I don't know how to cook.

ASAP Rocky

#72. Maybe you should finally give the girl Pop's number, and I don't know, be her friend."

"Just like that."

"It's friendship, Harley, not rocket science.

Amy Cook

#73. I don't really have one dish. I'm a very improvisational cook. I sort of like to make things up as I go along. I'm quite creative in the kitchen.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw

#74. I don't get to cook in my own restaurant.

Danny Meyer

#75. I am just your everyday, average girl. I live by the beach. I wear flip flops. I don't wear make-up. I go to the gym.

A. J. Cook

#76. I don't know how to cook, but I do know how to bake.

Rachel Nichols

#77. I don't belong to any club or group. I don't fish, cook, dance, endorse books, sign books, co-sign declarations, eat oysters, get drunk, go to church, go to analysts, or take part in demonstrations.

Vladimir Nabokov

#78. If my voice can resonate that way with kids, maybe it will resonate through 'Planes' as well, and they'll hear that little something that I'm giving to them, a performance that says to them, "I want to try." It's all interconnected. I don't think it's thinking too deeply about it.

Dane Cook

#79. I love museums but I don't want to live in one.

Tim Cook

#80. I don't cook, so my favorite dish to prepare is something on the takeout menu.

Tyler Perry

#81. People come up to me all the time and say, 'Oh, I love to watch Food Network,' and I ask them what they cook, and they say, 'I don't really cook.' They're afraid, they're intimidated, they know all about food from eating out and watching TV, but they don't know where to start in their own kitchen.

Michael Symon

#82. I don't own encryption, Apple doesn't own encryption. Encryption, as you know, is everywhere. In fact some of encryption is funded by our government.

Tim Cook

#83. I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.

Natalie Wood

#84. I don't cook ... I don't know how to clean ... there's may be a good chance I'm an alcoholic.

Chelsea Handler

#85. I can't cook. I don't have the right brain for it, somehow. I can't walk into a room and tidy it up. I get distracted. I pick up one thing and I start looking at it. And my cooking is truly heinous.

Sophie Kinsella

#86. I can make things, but I don't cook them, exactly. Like salmon, I can stick that in a pan. Or the other day I made noodles, but they were hard. It never occurred to me to check them; I just stopped cooking them when I felt they were ready. Really, I'm too absentminded.

Paula Poundstone

#87. If the choice is between cooking alive and wasting money unnecessarily I would rather waste some money, because long before we cook we are going to kill each other if we don't deal with climate change.

George Soros

#88. I don't know if I could rebuild an airplane engine, but I know a little bit about rotors and rivets.

Dane Cook

#89. I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing.

Mark Twain

#90. To be fair, it's not just cycling - the term "sporty" isn't used to describe me. I don't run unless something is chasing me, and I have some kind of visual-spatial ball deficiency.

Eileen Cook

#91. "I think we need food."
"As long as I don't have to cook it."
He threw his arm around my shoulder as we turned back to the palace. It felt like a very boyfriendish thing to do. "But we did so great last time."
"All I learned about was butter."
"Then you know everything.

Kiera Cass

#92. Do you remember a time when men were men? When they would do anything for love, for their friends or for their country?'

No, I don't, but at least I would love to read about those men!

David Cook

#93. May the words come easy, the doubt be weak, and the coffee strong enough to eat through steel. (I don't drink coffee...but I understand most authors do, and they like it with a bit of fight in it.) Now, let us boot up, sit down, and accrue those daily page counts!

G. Allen Cook

#94. I do try to keep my show very improvisational. I don't work off a set list; I like to keep it more in the moment. I like to have information about where I'm going, what might be happening in that particular region as well. I like for people to feel like the show is for them.

Dane Cook

#95. I can't believe how many people don't have time to cook but have time to watch football and 'The Voice.' They're certainly making a choice.

Tom Douglas

#96. You're a pig," I whispered back. "You know that, right?"
"So far bein' a pig works for me, babe," he said. "Gotta go now. Check out the college. Hit the clinic and get some pills. Don't call your brother. Cook something fuckin' great for dinner and don't wear any panties. That's all I ask.

Joanna Wylde

#97. I'm not a big eater. I'm a terrible cook, and so I don't cook for myself.

Caroline Paul

#98. I don't really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks.

Tori Amos

#99. Whenever I start dating someone new, I just can't hold back. No matter how often my girlfriends warn me,'Take it slow, let him win you over, don't give it away so quickly,'I just can't resist-I have to cook for him...

Giulia Melucci

#100. With the Chiefs, you can't live in Kansas City and not like the Chiefs. To go catch a game at Arrowhead is a pretty great experience. I haven't had the chance to go to games anywhere else, but, from what I'm told, I don't really need to.

David Cook