Top 100 Recipe Quotes

#1. I think the most important recipe for a good date is just spending time with somebody and really connecting and feeling like the best version of yourself regardless of what you may be doing.

Sophia Bush

Recipe Quotes #1523
#2. Having read several prize-winning novels, Fancy was confident that she now knew the recipe:
1. Write a simple narrative.
2. Make a long list.
3. Scatter the contents of your list throughout your narrative.

Jaclyn Moriarty

Recipe Quotes #16620
#3. The kitchen is where you put all the ingredients together. The kitchen is where you prepare the plan and put your recipe together. No matter what you do in life, you have to have a plan and put it together.

Yo Gotti

Recipe Quotes #17600
#4. When I was young and crazy, I was young and crazy. It can be hard enough just to BE in your teens and 20s. Then add fame, money, access, and every single person telling you that you're the greatest person who ever was, and it can be a recipe for disaster. Some people literally don't survive it.

Rob Lowe

Recipe Quotes #19615
#5. I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

Margaret Thatcher

Recipe Quotes #23051
#6. In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Recipe Quotes #23504
#7. 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

Recipe Quotes #24889
#8. In order to make bread, every baker follows a recipe, even if it's only held in their head.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

Recipe Quotes #34124
#9. If you follow a recipe for life, spontaneity will be cooked.

Khang Kijarro Nguyen

Recipe Quotes #45124
#10. In Sardinia one summer my best friend Marisa Berenson and I ironed each other's hair. We used a hot laundry iron and took turns putting our hair on the ironing board, literally ironing it. That's a recipe for straightening that may be highly successful, but is definitely not recommended.

Diane Von Furstenberg

Recipe Quotes #64993
#11. War is just a violent way of doing what half the people do calmly in peacetime: using the other half for food, heat, machinery and sexual pleasure. Man is the pie that bakes and eats himself, and the recipe is separation.

Alasdair Gray

Recipe Quotes #72036
#12. I let myself relax into the pattern of the recipe.

Jael McHenry

Recipe Quotes #85758
#13. In a lifetime, the recipe always needs amending - more of this, a little less of that, what to do now that the cake has fallen.

Deb Caletti

Recipe Quotes #85851
#14. The first time you make something, follow the recipe, then figure out how to tailor it to your own tastes.

Ruth Reichl

Recipe Quotes #90825
#15. What happens if fully rational politicians compete for the support of irrational voters - specifically, voters with irrational beliefs about the effects of various policies? It is a recipe for mendacity.

Bryan Caplan

Recipe Quotes #98122
#16. With cult foods, there is an underlying assumption that the best cooking ideas came generations ago. Yet culinary innovation is nothing to be ashamed of. When a chef tells me he is cooking with his grandmother's recipe, I always wonder why. Did talent skip the past two generations?

Nathan Myhrvold

Recipe Quotes #98331
#17. Tough times have always lent themselves to nativist sentiments and closed-door policies. But in the case of highly skilled immigrants, these policies are a recipe for stagnation.

James Surowiecki

Recipe Quotes #101502
#18. I quite enjoy cooking but I'm not consistent. I can't follow the recipe book. If something goes well, I'll never make it again, which is completely stupid. It's a one-shot kind of deal.

Rebecca Hall

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#19. Recipe for a happy marriage: My wife and I always hold hands. If I let go, she shops.

Red Skelton

Recipe Quotes #110452
#20. My parents would always have us, as many times as we could, sit together for dinner and talk about what was happening in our lives, and so we created a great recipe where I could be completely honest with my mother and to an extent my father, being an attorney.

Ryan Seacrest

Recipe Quotes #115368
#21. Disobedience is a sure recipe for disaster, picking up the pieces is even harder

Kudakwashe Mazendame

Recipe Quotes #116541
#22. I may find something that looks interesting and then go on to alter the recipe by adding spices, things of my own. I also look for time-saving recipes, dishes that can be prepared ahead and stored.

Paul Lynde

Recipe Quotes #120932
#23. Most executives have learned that what one postpones, one actually abandons ... timing is a most important element in the success of any effort. To do five years later what would have been smart to do five years earlier, is almost a sure recipe for frustration and failure.

Peter Drucker

Recipe Quotes #132898
#24. I brought in a yogurt master from Turkey. I went to Greece. I was always going back and forth, from New York to Turkey and Greece. The recipe we use has been around hundreds and hundreds of years. Growing up in Turkey, not a day would go by that we wouldn't eat yogurt like this.

Hamdi Ulukaya

Recipe Quotes #140500
#25. The feminist movement taught women to see themselves as victims of an oppressive patriarchy ... Self-imposed victimhood is not a recipe for happiness.

Phyllis Schlafly

Recipe Quotes #145078
#26. I do a lot of recipe creation. Translation: cooking tempting dishes that must be eaten.

Ruth Glick

Recipe Quotes #152781
#27. In order to run a great business, you must know that a bunch of really intrinsically unhappy people, that's not a recipe for success. Don't be anywhere you don't need to be; it's just like that.

Mick Fleetwood

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#28. It's like a kitchen, acting. Put a chef in a kitchen and they will have different recipes. Whatever your recipe, what works for you won't work for another.

Carole Bouquet

Recipe Quotes #162235
#29. My recipe for bliss on a Friday night consists of a 'New York Times' crossword puzzle and a new episode of 'Homicide;' Saturdays and Sundays are oriented around walks in the woods with the dog, human companion in tow some of the time but not always.

Caroline Knapp

Recipe Quotes #162483
#30. Conspiracy!! And now employing juvenile mongoloid demon babies!! My famous chicken recipe will never be yours!! Grr! Woof!

Jhonen Vasquez

Recipe Quotes #165763
#31. The recipe for each child is just for that child, even if it is the same mother and father.

Alexander McCall Smith

Recipe Quotes #175166
#32. The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.

Milton Friedman

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#33. She is a beautiful recipe of so many wonderful things.

Steve Maraboli

Recipe Quotes #184184
#34. Well, my mother did teach me a killer family recipe for a Bloody Mary. I guess I can make that next Thanksgiving-Haylee Mitchell

Natasha Larry

Recipe Quotes #187142
#35. It astounded Farah that Frankenstein-er, Frank Walters couldn't remember his given Christian name, but could recall the recipe for Indian curry with the endless measurements of exotic spices.

Kerrigan Byrne

Recipe Quotes #189459
#36. Cooking is the transformation of uncertainty (the recipe) into certainty (the dish) via fuss.

Julian Barnes

Recipe Quotes #192439
#37. I googled "what to do when your future werewolf mate/boyfriend/best friend courts you and brings you a dead rabbit." First, there was a lot of porn. Then I found a recipe for Maltese rabbit stew. It was delicious. The stew, not the porn. The porn was weird. GORDO

T.J. Klune

Recipe Quotes #196746
#38. I think, once recipes become digital, pirating a digital recipe and all the questions that you have with music and so forth will become pertinent to food as well.

Hod Lipson

Recipe Quotes #197262
#39. They say the recipe for Sprite is lemon and lime. I tried to make it at home. There's more to it than that.

Mitch Hedberg

Recipe Quotes #201353
#40. If organizations measure the input to the strategy implementation, but not the output, it's a recipe for disaster.

Pearl Zhu

Recipe Quotes #201669
#41. You can't make a recipe for something as complicated as surgery. Instead, you can make a recipe for how to have a team that's prepared for the unexpected.

Atul Gawande

Recipe Quotes #203470
#42. [Homeschooling] ... recipe for genius: More of family and less of school, more of parents and less of peers, more creative freedom and less formal lessons.

Raymond S. Moore

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#43. The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Leon Gambetta

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#44. I cook mostly vegetarian vegetable and bean stews. Quinoa salads. I make my mother-in-law's recipe for chicken and barley stew all the time.

Gail Simmons

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#45. How to figure out the recipe of your life? Your body knows when it needs food. And it asks for it. But if your devouring self keeps asking for more food, pounds of unnecessary problems are added to your life.

Ruben Papian

Recipe Quotes #218236
#46. When ambition outstrips ability, that is always a recipe for disaster.

Jan Siegel

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#47. They toasted each other, then after she sipped hers, she ate some of the bisque - creamy, a little buttery, with lots of big chunks of lobster and a hint of garlic. It was so good that she asked him for the recipe. He gave it to her and added," But I'll fix it for you anytime.

Terry Spear

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#48. 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

Recipe Quotes #230695
#49. Disappointment is part of life's recipe.

Stephenie Bentley Freeman

Recipe Quotes #234401
#50. If I had one piece of advice for people - if they are cooking from the Alinea cookbook, the Betty Crocker cookbook or the back of the box - read through the entire recipe first before reaching for any ingredients, and then read again and execute the directions.

Grant Achatz

Recipe Quotes #236024
#51. 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

Recipe Quotes #237473
#52. I make the best Spanish omelettes in the world, but I won't tell you the recipe!

Hrithik Roshan

Recipe Quotes #241731
#53. You know, really - actually, it's funny because it's a sore spot with me because I have all these recipes that, you know, you have to measure things out and put them in. And then you bake it and it becomes this thing. And it's not a recipe.

Trisha Yearwood

Recipe Quotes #243155
#54. Outside sleep's open window, between the drops of rain, history is writing a recipe book for every earthly pain.

Ani DiFranco

Recipe Quotes #248140
#55. You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.

Bear Grylls

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#56. Second novels are bears. As are other people's expectations for them. I think taking the time you need with the second book is key. Writers spend years and years on their first novels and then are often expected to turn out a second at warp speed, a recipe for failure.

Jandy Nelson

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#57. What strikes me, the more I cook, is that the best recipes are ones where the basic anatomy is so sound it will survive multiple adjustments. When a recipe has good bones, you can change the seasoning, double the garlic, swap lime for lemon, and it still turns out delicious.

Bee Wilson

Recipe Quotes #262387
#58. Life is not a recipe. Recipes are just descriptions of one person's take on one moment in time. They're not rules. People think they are. They look as if they are. They say, "Do this, not this. Add this, not that." But, really, recipes are just suggestions that got written down.

Mario Batali

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#59. This was banter, all right - pointed and spiky, the kind he'd expect from a bloke. A blunt tongue in an angel's body: it was the devil's own recipe to enamor him.

Meredith Duran

Recipe Quotes #268581
#60. There will never be another woman who owns the look, the personality, and the experience that you do. Those ingredients make up the recipe that defines who you are, and it's your gift from the Lord - own it.

Candace Cameron

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#61. Superior numbers versus superior firepower. A recipe for unending slaughter.

Patrick Ness

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#62. You want the secret off my succes; my recipe? I have always brought the same care to making an adventure novel, a serialized novel, that others would bring to the making of a poem. My ambition was to raise the level of this much maligned genre.

Gaston Leroux

Recipe Quotes #275109
#63. Sexy is good as long as it's not the main recipe. It's an ingredient. I would not appear in a leotard in a video if I [did] not have other dimensions.

Shakira

Recipe Quotes #276228
#64. If there would be a recipe for a poem, these would be the ingredients: word sounds, rhythm, description, feeling, memory, rhyme, and imagination. They can be put together a thousand different ways, a thousand, thousand ... more.

Karla Kuskin

Recipe Quotes #278944
#65. The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

Carl Jung

Recipe Quotes #286812
#66. he filled to perfection the classic recipe for a small boy: "a noise surrounded by dirt.

Arthur C. Clarke

Recipe Quotes #291727
#67. education without inspiration is only a recipe for desperation

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Recipe Quotes #303099
#68. You've got a lot of very, very smart people standing by waiting for somebody else to do the work. Not a recipe for long-term solvency in my opinion.

Mike Rowe

Recipe Quotes #304342
#69. I haven't been thinking at all, not really, I've just been following the steps. The recipe.
& this is like turning a page in the cookbook & finding the next one blank.

Stephen King

Recipe Quotes #308940
#70. Get married with the feeling it is going to last. Not like the bride I know who doubled the wedding cake recipe and froze one.

Phyllis Diller

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#71. A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Recipe Quotes #314643
#72. For a long time, I didn't think I wanted to live in the Ozarks or write about the region. It seemed to be a sure recipe for obscurity, and to be obscure was not my conscious ambition.

Daniel Woodrell

Recipe Quotes #318816
#73. Most cooks try to learn by making dishes. Doesn't mean you can cook. It means you can make that dish. When you can cook is when you can go to a farmers market, buy a bunch of stuff, then go home and make something without looking at a recipe. Now you're cooking.

Tom Colicchio

Recipe Quotes #321931
#74. A natural, polite smile deceives no one.

Ogwo David Emenike

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#75. Don't gape at me, Logan, everyone sees the way you look at her, how you watch over her like a hawk. You're too protective of her. Combine that with your competitive nature, add a dash of lust and a pinch of anger, and you have a perfect recipe for trouble.

Sarah West

Recipe Quotes #339304
#76. If there is one recipe for unhappiness it is that: expectations.

Yasmin Mogahed

Recipe Quotes #339346
#77. A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Thomas Jefferson

Recipe Quotes #342475
#78. There is nothing like a good old recipe. If it has lasted, then it is good.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Recipe Quotes #344488
#79. I wish I could tell you the recipe for figuring out who the target user is for your product and who your users should be, but ... there isn't a recipe. It comes down to think really hard and use your judgement to figure out who you're really building this for.

Emmett Shear

Recipe Quotes #348059
#80. If you're cooking for someone important - whether it's your boss or a date - never try a new recipe and a new ingredient at the same time.

Marcus Samuelsson

Recipe Quotes #348329
#81. The key to leadership is having a vision, and being strong enough to say no and not try to please everybody. Thats a recipe for failure. Leadership is practiced through attitude and actions, rather than words and memos.

Matt Mickiewicz

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#82. I'm a bartender. I like recipes. They're concretes. Was the drink recipe for seduction one shot charm and two shots self-deception, shaken, not stirred?

Karen Marie Moning

Recipe Quotes #355704
#83. But for the time being, I've only learned one cake recipe and how to make scrambled eggs.

Eva Herzigova

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#84. When dealing with a complex adaptive system, sticking to the plan is a recipe for failure.

Anthony Mersino

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#85. You're only seventeen, you're too young to have a meatloaf recipe ... go get something pierced.

Roseanne Barr

Recipe Quotes #373158
#86. I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Margaret Thatcher

Recipe Quotes #374838
#87. I always see what's ... wrong. Would you want that? When I see a car or a rocket or spacecraft, I only see what's wrong. I never see what's right. It's not a recipe for happiness.

Elon Musk

Recipe Quotes #374942
#88. If people just put away what's left at the end of the month, that's a recipe for failure.

Richard Thaler

Recipe Quotes #377722
#89. Mastering one recipe is better than mastering too many. Learn something and own it, and you'll feel so much better about it. You'll have more confidence if you've made it five times, and that confidence adds so much fun to cooking.

Tom Douglas

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#90. Poverty will not take you to heaven, just repent of it and get rich, then you'll trek into heaven like a king.

Michael Bassey Johnson

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#91. The recipe for success ... customers will get what they want, when they want it ... you will see more revenue, greater brand loyalty, real relationships, and a competitive edge.

Martin Zwilling

Recipe Quotes #393543
#92. The recipe for beauty is to have less illusion and more Soul, to retreat from the belief of pain or pleasure in the body into the unchanging calm and glorious freedom of spiritual harmony.

Mary Baker Eddy

Recipe Quotes #397375
#93. No matter what the recipe, any baker can do wonders in the kitchen with some good ingredients and an upbeat attitude!

Buddy Valastro

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#94. I love to make pies - pot pies, quiches, savory tarts, fruit pies. I use an old-fashioned pastry blender with wires and a wooden handle. I never use a recipe.

Ruth Reichl

Recipe Quotes #407920
#95. Success Recipe: 2 cups faith, 2 cups love, 1 cup hard work, 1 cup persistence, 1 tbsp vision and a dash of swagger.

Jim Rohn

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#96. You can give the same recipe to ten cooks, and some make it come alive, and some make a flat souffle. A system doesn't guarantee anything.

Chuck Close

Recipe Quotes #418175
#97. I'm brilliant at cooking my stepmother's scrambled egg recipe. The secret is to put eggs, butter, milk, and seasoning together in the saucepan, and to keep stirring with a wooden spoon under a low heat until the preferred consistency is reached.

Ian McKellen

Recipe Quotes #421407
#98. I love the idea of cooking, but I don't like using recipe books, so I'll put a mish-mash together, and it might be amazing by total accident, or it will be a catastrophe.

Trinny Woodall

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#99. She is incomplete, a part-written recipe. How can she imagine what she will be if she only knows half of her ingredients?

Carys Bray

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#100. I make a mean pecan pie, and I have a great recipe for pralines - also using pecans. Pralines take a lot of patience, and patience is a must in the duck blind as well as in the kitchen. Good things come to those who wait.

Phil Robertson

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