Marcella Quotes

#1. Maybe all Cinderellas have fairy godmothers. Mine must have positioned me outside the kitchen so that I could overhear Marcella. I raced up to my room and replaced the books I had taken.

Gita V. Reddy

#2. I've always loved dogs and have had one since I was three. We bought her from a kid selling puppies out of a cardboard box on the street where we lived in New York City. Great dog. We named her 'Marcella' after a Raggedy Ann character. She grew up with us.

Bob Peterson

#3. 'Outlaw Cook' was a revelation. Folks like Jeff Smith and Marcella Hazan got me interested in cooking, but John Thorne pushed me into the path that I follow to this day. This is the only cookbook I've ever read that understands how men really eat: over the sink, in the dark, greasy to the elbows.

Alton Brown

#4. We can still talk to each other," I say. "Nothing's changed." That's the biggest lie I've ever told him, even bigger than the lie about my so-called dead twin Marcella. Until a couple of years ago Josh thought I had a twin sister named Marcella who died of leukemia.

Jenny Han

#5. Not everyone in Italy may know how to cook, but nearly everyone knows how to eat. Eating in Italy is one more manifestation of the Italian's age-old gift of making art out of life.

Marcella Hazan

#6. In effect, vice turns common sense upside-down, and he who admits himself to be vicious abides by stigmatizing terms of horror.

Georges Bataille

#7. I find anthropology is a marvellous discipline to shock me out of my own world into another world.

John Dominic Crossan

#8. True coworkers give each other honest feedback to improve their work.

Marcella Bremer

#9. I need to smell its smells, to hear its sounds, to see food in a pot that simmers, bubbles, sizzles. I enjoy the physical involvement of stirring, turning, poking, mashing, scraping.

Marcella Hazan

#10. And of course, there is always the F for failure. F for failing falling festering failure. F for fault. F for forgotten.

Marcella Pixley

#11. Once the pasta is sauced, serve it promptly, inviting your guests and family to put off talking and start eating.

Marcella Hazan

#12. I have brought the little Breese, as ordered, Neefis Archibennu.

Jeanne Marcella

#13. TV writing is for people who hate being alone more than they hate writing.

Matthew Weiner

#14. don't fly too close to the sun," Tess Calls. "you'll burn the tips of your wings. Stay right with me. i'll keep you safe.

Marcella Pixley

#15. They say it is hard to raise children. They say I would understand it
when I have children of my own. They say I would understand it when I go through the experience myself.

It is not easy to raise children into adults. There are so many things that could go wrong.

Marcella Purnama

#16. My name is Clay Jannon and those were the days when I rarely touched paper.

Robin Sloan

#17. The Italian comes to his table with the same open heart with which a child falls into his mother's arms, with the same easy feeling of being in the right place.

Marcella Hazan

#18. It's a choice, Annabel. And if you make the wrong one, you have only yourself to blame when there are consequences.

Sarah Dessen

#19. I figure a lot of folks are probably looking to find out if Moses Malone is into that stuff, but the closest I come to drugs is drinking a Coca-Cola. I don't want that cocaine; it's not for me.

Moses Malone

#20. I became addicted to the guilt. The strange thrill of doing something so morbid, so off-color, and so completely wrong.

Marcella Pixley

#21. One of the first lessons I learned in working life was that you don't need to like every one of your colleagues, and they don't need to like you either. You just have to respect them, and getting their respect in return.

Marcella Purnama

#22. Real love isn't something you plan or earn, it's something that just hits you -like a bolt of lightning- and changes you forever.

Chelsea Fine

#23. The home is the most important factor in civilization, and that civilization is to be measured at different stages largely by the development in the home.

Herbert Spencer

#24. Travis' eyes turned soft, and the corners of his mouth turned up. Our friendship? Sometimes I wonder if you listen to me at all.

Jamie McGuire

#25. [On cooking:] What you keep out is as significant as what you put in.

Marcella Hazan

#26. In the Italian kitchen, ingredients are not treated as promising but untutored elements that need to be corrected through long and intricate manipulation and refined by the ultimate polish of a sauce.

Marcella Hazan

#27. Eating in Italy is essentially a family art, practiced for and by the family. The finest accomplishments of the home cook are not reserved like the good silver and china for special occasions or for impressing guests, but are offered daily for the pleasure and happiness of the family group.

Marcella Hazan

#28. Success and accomplishments aren't the golden "good life" goals. Instead, having a good life is simple. For an old man to be happy, he just wants to watch the fireworks with his granddaughter on Chinese New Year's Eve.

Marcella Purnama

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

Marcella Hazan

#30. What people do with food is an act that reveals how they construe the world.

Marcella Hazan

#31. When we have been hurt, slighted, or wounded unfairly, we are not left alone to bear it. We can get on our knees and ask for the Lord's help to forgive.

Virginia H. Pearce

#32. Cooking is an art, but you eat it too.

Marcella Hazan