Top 50 Quotes About Too Many Cooks
#1. A tale of too many cooks in the defence.
Ian Brown
#3. If you let too many cooks in the kitchen it could cloud your vision of what you want to do.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead
#4. The more the merrier. Too many cooks spoil the broth of destruction.
Gareth Roberts
#6. I imagine the proverb about too many cooks spoiling the broth can be applied to writing as well as anything else. The poetical or literary broth is better cooked by one person.
Barbara Pym
#7. In my experience, 'SNL' has Lorne Michaels, who is, you know, the captain of the ship and gives the show direction and a singular focus, whereas 'MadTV' - even in my 13 episodes there - had maybe one too many cooks and was a bit more chaotic creatively.
Taran Killam
#8. Well obviously, when you're in a band you have to diplomatic about things. Everybody wants to put in their two cents and while sometimes it works, often times it also doesn't, and a lot of times it leads to arguments, like when there's too many cooks in the kitchen.
Dino Cazares
#9. If there are too many cooks in the kitchen, the dish is not going to work out.
Danielle Trussoni
#10. They said it was to be a revolutionary house, free of class struggle, no servants' rooms because they didn't believe in laundry maids or cooks.
Nobody does, really. Why should they? Only in having clean clothes, clean floors, and enchiladas tapatias.
Barbara Kingsolver
#11. The world has too few modest fry cooks and far too many self-important professors.
Dean Koontz
#12. Cooks build muscles; we can stand all day long on our feet and not feel the pain.
Eric Ripert
#13. I guess that from the moment we are fed by our mothers, without even knowing it, we are caught in a net that brings us comfort, something we always feel when a special woman cooks for us. It is something unique and personal - it is something we want to keep for ourselves.
Jose Andres
#14. HELL: A place where the police are German, the motorists French and the cooks English.
Bertrand Russell
#15. I'm a writer. I don't cook and I don't clean.
Dorothy West
#16. At Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet Academy, I studied under a brilliant and fiery teacher. This tiny, stuttering old man flew into a rage if his students' white socks failed to reach mid-calf level. Nor could he tolerate floppy hair. We wore hairnets to class - an athletic brigade of short order cooks.
Sascha Radetsky
#17. Because I'm a chef, I eat out frequently, so it's hard for me to control what I consume in terms of calories. But when I'm at home, I eat what my wife cooks for me. She works hard to avoid making foods that are high in calories and cholesterol, so most of the time, she makes vegetarian dishes.
Masaharu Morimoto
#19. No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.
Laurie Colwin
#20. I enjoy doing independent films more, only because there's more freedom. There's not as many cooks tampering with what you are trying to do.
Illeana Douglas
#22. There are so many things that come into writing a recipe, and it's really important if you're writing for home cooks to be cooking like you are at home.
Sally Schneider
#23. I was aiming for the cooks that I've talked to by teaching an online course and by traveling, listening to people who are really busy and harried but want to be cooking.
Sally Schneider
#24. Many a restaurant seems to employ more copy writers than cooks.
Peg Bracken
#25. There's an old joke that you know you're in heaven if the cooks are Italian and the engineering is German. If it's the other way around you're in hell.
David Byrne
#26. I don't cook. I respect food too much.
Eva Mendes
#27. I'm very lucky to have a husband who cooks, for a start. It's a good partnership. I met him through a friend, and we just hit it off.
Lesley Nicol
#28. The chef that grew up with the grandma who cooks tends to always beat the chef that went to the culinary institute. It's in the blood.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#30. 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
#31. Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever, And do not listen to those critics ever Whose crude provincial gullets crave in books Plain cooking made still plainer by plain cooks.
W. H. Auden
#32. Stuffing is evil. Stuffing adds mass, so it slows the cooking. That's evil because the longer the bird cooks, the drier it will be.
Alton Brown
#33. 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
#34. Late season fruits.
The blood orange has its admirer, who suck it smugly. Cooks stalk it; they'd like to put it in some tartare sauce. However, some, like me, turn their noses up. In silence they mould bits of bread into balls, delighting in their work, then chuck them in God's face.
Claude Cahun
#35. If a man marries his housekeeper or his cook, the national dividend is diminished.
Arthur Cecil Pigou
#36. Whoso has sixpence is sovereign (to the length of sixpence) over all men; commands cooks to feed him, philosophers to teach him, kings to mount guard over him,to the length of sixpence.
Thomas Carlyle
#37. Today, it's money. There's no question about that. Unless you endorse a grill that cooks hamburgers and steaks, where else can you make the kind of money that you can make in the ring if you're good?
Dick Schaap
#39. I did a show a long, long time ago called 'Cooking Mexican'. It was a studio show as opposed to on-location like the one I do now. Before my first show, I was a cooking instructor, and I did a whole lot of classes for home cooks about Mexican food.
Rick Bayless
#40. Everyone tries to compare cooks to rock stars. I see more comparisons to the fashion world.
David Chang
#41. Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: as 'art for art's sake' it is unthinkable. A man may sing in his bath every morning without the least encouragement, but no cook can cook just for his or her own sake in a like manner. All good cooks, like all great artists, must have an audience worth cooking for.
Andre Simon
#42. All I do is stay in the kitchen and cook. I don't go there to party.
Patti LaBelle
#43. Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is.
Mignon McLaughlin
#44. 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
#45. I have a problem with the new cooks: you all are more cultured, you cook better ... but you're lazier.
Juan Mari Arzak
#46. Frying gives cooks numerous ways of concealing what appeared the day before and in a pinch facilitates sudden demands, for it takes little more time to fry a four-pound carp than to boil an egg.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
#47. The more you cook, the better you'll look.
Chris Mohr
#48. It must be hard to cook if you anthropomorphisize your vegetables.
Bill Watterson
#49. I bask in the affection I get on the streets. I recently went into the kitchen of a restaurant to meet the cooks. They were people I didn't know, but what a joy it was meet them! Such experiences wouldn't happen if I were doing only one kind of cinema.
Boman Irani
#50. There are at present many Coloured men in the Confederate Army doing duty not only as cooks, servants and labourers, but real soldiers, having muskets on their shoulders, and bullets in their pockets.
Frederick Douglass