Good Cook Quotes

#1. I think we identify ourselves by labels or things that we are able to do: I am this. I am a good cook. I am a good mother. I am a good this. I am a good doctor. I am a good lawyer. When you can't do those things anymore, you wonder where your identity is. #Quote by Ann Romney

#2. I'm a good cook, and I look at something like 'Iron Chef' and think, 'It's a good thing I already know how to cook' - because I would never think I could do it if I watched these shows. #Quote by Nora Ephron

#3. Good cookery is not an extravagance but an economy, and many a tasty dish is made by our Continental friends out of materials which would be discarded indignantly by the poorest tramp in Whitechapel. #Quote by William Booth

#4. If you like good ol' fashion Southern soul food then, yes, I am a good cook! My specialty is chicken dumplings and poke salad. #Quote by Dolly Parton

#5. Some salesmen think that selling is like eating - to satisfy an existing appetite; but a good salesman is like a good cook - he can create an appetite when the buyer isn't hungry. #Quote by George Horace Lorimer

#6. My mom is a really good cook. We used to make dumplings together. #Quote by Jason Wu

#7. I'm good at anything that's country - biscuits, gravy, chicken-fried steak. Look at me, for God's sake. I cook what I like to eat. #Quote by Blake Shelton

#8. A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart. The delight of the nursing mother, of the scholar, of the successful hunter, of the good cook, of the skilful maker, of anyone doing needed work and doing it well, - this durable joy is perhaps the deepest source of human affection and of sociality as a whole. #Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin

#9. A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate. #Quote by Voltaire

#10. It may be safely averred that good cookery is the best and truest economy, turning to full account every wholesome article of food, and converting into palatable meals what the ignorant either render uneatable or throw away in disdain. #Quote by Eliza Acton

#11. Food first," Kellen said firmly, "because I'm a really good cook, and I want you to experience the full awesomeness. And then bed, nice and slow, for pretty much the same reason. #Quote by Kaje Harper

#12. Please don't cook me, kind sirs! I am a good cook myself, and cook better than I cook, if you see what I mean. #Quote by J.R.R. Tolkien

#13. She was a very good cook and also believed that color combinations of the food on your plate were important: "It isn't very interesting to eat a plate full of white, therefore it can't be very good for you either. #Quote by Sean Hepburn Ferrer

#14. I am a very good cook." When she did cook.
"Good. I like to eat." He lightly bit her palm.
The too-much-air feeling in Lucy's stomach pressed upward into her heart. "What?" she asked past the constriction in her chest.
"What do I like to eat?"
"Yeah."
"Blondes with blue eyes."
Oh God. She pulled her hand from his. "Are you hungry?"
His gaze lowered to her mouth. "I could eat. #Quote by Rachel Gibson

#15. A good cook can produce a good dish from any old scrawnbag of a chook. #Quote by Simon Hopkinson

#16. I'm a really good cook. I bake a lot. I cook dinner most nights. I cook everything from Italian food to Mexican food. But if I'm going to some place and it's a potluck, I'm always the one to bring dessert! #Quote by Amanda Schull

#17. A good spice often deceives us into thinking that someone is a good cook. #Quote by Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#18. When you become a good cook, you become a good craftsman, first. You repeat and repeat and repeat until your hands know how to move without thinking about it. #Quote by Jacques Pepin

#19. You're a good cook," he murmured against my ear. "I think I must keep you. #Quote by Raine Miller

#20. To become a good cook is to know yourself, and I, at this point, know myself. I know myself, and I know the cook I want to be and the cook I am striving to be. #Quote by Marcus Samuelsson

#21. The fact is that it takes more than ingredients and technique to cook a good meal. A good cook puts something of himself into the preparation - he cooks with enjoyment, anticipation, spontaneity, and he is willing to experiment. #Quote by Pearl Bailey

#22. I'm not a particularly good cook. Part of it is that it is the kind of cooking anybody could do if they bothered. It's improvisational. I cook with whatever I have laying around. #Quote by Steve Albini

#23. I loved my mother very much, but she was not a good cook. Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before. In our house Thanksgiving was a time for sorrow. #Quote by Rita Rudner

#24. Prince Wen-hui's cook, Ting, was cutting up an ox. Every touch of his hand, every ripple of his shoulders, every step of his feet, every thrust of his knees, every cut of his knife, was in perfect harmony, like the dance of the Mulberry Grove, like the chords of the Lynx Head music. Well done! said the prince. How did you gain such skill? Putting down his knife, Ting said, I follow the Tao, Your Highness, which goes beyond all skills. When I first began cutting up oxen, all I could see was the ox. After three years, I had learned to look beyond the ox. Nowadays I see with my whole being, not with my eyes. I sense the natural lines, and my knife slides through by itself, never touching a joint, much less a bone. A good cook changes knives once a year: he cuts. An ordinary cook changes knives once a month: he hacks. This knife of mine has lasted for nineteen years; it has cut up thousands of oxen, but its blade is as sharp as if it were new. Between the joints there are spaces, and the blade has no thickness. Having no thickness, it slips right through; there's more than enough room for it. And when I come to a difficult part, I slow down, I focus my attention, I barely move, the knife finds its way, until suddenly the flesh falls apart on its own. I stand there and let the joy of the work fill me. Then I wipe the blade clean and put it away. Bravo! cried the prince. From the words of this cook, I have learned how to live my life. #Quote by Stephen Mitchell

#25. I survived because I never took on big responsibilities in my private life. In the early days, I lived on two or three pounds a week and learned to cook - and I'm a good cook - because I had to. Even when I went on holiday, I stayed in other people's houses. #Quote by Cameron Mackintosh

#26. And she's certainly a good cook." Miss Betts sighed. "The epitaph of the spinster. #Quote by Annie Barrows

#27. I was a very good cook, and I knew I could build a business. #Quote by Martha Stewart

#28. My mom is a really good cook. I didn't get the cooking gene, but she cooks this really amazing dinner every Christmas, and that's always really fun. #Quote by Miranda Cosgrove

#29. Women are indoctrinated from infancy about beauty. We feel we must be Superwoman and have it all: beauty, brains, a good work ethic, great with children, a good cook. The list is long, isn't it? I think it's particularly hard for women to accept the unconditional love God offers. We are so used to being held to such a high standard - and failing - that we feel we can never measure up. What a blessing when we realize that we don't have to. God loves us, warts and all. We are safe in his arms. Safe to tell him our dreams, our fears, our failings. Safe to relax in his unconditional love. #Quote by Colleen Coble

#30. I wouldn't know what to do with daughters,' he says. 'Exchange them for sons?'
'But then I could wind up with something like you.'
'I'm not so bad,' he says. 'I'm smart.'
'You're about a hundred miles away from the town of Smart, my friend.'
'You're mistaken, counselor,' he says. 'I'm smart, I can take care of myself. I'm an awesome tennis player, a keen observer of life around me. I'm a good cook. I always have weed.'
'I'm sure your parents are proud.'
'It's possible.' He looks at his knees and I wonder if I've offended him. #Quote by Kaui Hart Hemmings

#31. A good cook is always the first one into the kitchen every morning and the last one to go home at night. #Quote by Terry Pratchett

#32. I always ask at once, 'Do you drink?' and if she says 'No,' I bow politely and say I am sorry but I fear she will not suit. All good cooks drink. #Quote by James Whistler

#33. Yet Laudan's mother had no choice about whether to be a good cook or not. It was simply what was expected of her, and of every other farmer's wife in England at that time. She did not cook because she 'loved' cooking but because this was the role that life had allotted her.
There was nothing unusual in the way that Laudan's mother cooked. If anything, her life in the kitchen was easy by the standards of the day. At least a farmer's wife had access to plentiful meat and vegetables, whereas city cooks in early twentieth-century Britain were expected to produce the same quantity of meals but with meagre ingredients and limited equipment, often in single-room dwellings where there was no kitchen and no escape from cooking. We idealise the homespun meals of the past, imagining rosy-cheeked women laying down picturesque bottles of peaches and plums. But much of the art of 'cooking' in pre-modern times was a harried mother slinging what she could in a pot and engaging in a daily smoke-filled battle to keep a fire alive and under control, on top of all the other chores she had to manage.
Before we offer too many lamentations for the cookery of the past, we should remember how hard it was – and still is, for millions of people – to cook when you have no choice in the matter. #Quote by Bee Wilson

#34. There are many people who claim to be good cooks; just as there are many people who, after having repainted the garden gate take themselves to be painters. #Quote by Fernand Point

#35. Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion. #Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#36. I'm S. Theodora Markson," she said.
"I'm Lemony Snicket," I said, and handed her an envelope I had in my Pocket. Inside was something we called a letter of introduction, just a few paragraphs describing me as somebody who was an excellent reader, a good cook, a mediocre musician and an awful quarreler. #Quote by Lemony Snicket

#37. A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness. #Quote by Elsa Schiaparelli

#38. Sour Milk

You can't make it
turn sweet
again.
Once
it was an innocent color
like the flowers of wild strawberries,
and its texture was simple
would pass through a clean cheesecloth,
its taste was fresh.
And now
with nothing more guilty that the passage of time
to chide it with,
the same substance
has turned sour and lumpy.

The sour milk
makes interesting & delicious doughs,
can be carried to a further state of bacterial action
to create new foods,
can in its own right
be considered complicated and more interesting in texture
to one who studies it closely,
like a map of the world.

But
to most of us:
it is spoiled.
Sour.
We throw it out,
down the drain-not in the backyard-
careful not to spill any
because the smell is strong.
A good cook
would be shocked
with the waste.
But we do not live in a world of good cooks.

I am the milk.
Time passes.
You cannot make it
turn sweet
again.
I sit guiltily on the refrigerator shelf
trembling with hope for a cook
who dreams of waffles,
biscuits, dumplings
and other delicious breads
fearing the modern housewife
who will lift me off the shelf and with one deft twist
of a wrist...
you know the rest.

You are the milk.
When it is your turn
remember,
there #Quote by Diane Wakoski

#39. I'm a good cook; one of my specialities is reindeer and potato pie. #Quote by Terry Jones

#40. You don't have to be a chef or even a particularly good cook to experience proper kitchen alchemy: the moment when ingredients combine to form something more delectable than the sum of their parts. Fancy ingredients or recipes not required; simple, made-up things are usually even better. #Quote by Erin Morgenstern

#41. She who is centered in the Tao can go where she wishes, without danger. She perceives the universal harmony, even amid great pain, because she has found peace in her heart. Music or the smell of good cooking may make people stop and enjoy. But words that point to the Tao seem monotonous and without flavor. When you look for it, there is nothing to see. When you listen for it, there is nothing to hear. When you use it, it is inexhaustible. #Quote by Laozi

#42. There are some things that I like, like education, wine, and I'd like to be a good cook, although I'm a pretty good eater now. #Quote by Rick Wagoner

#43. I'll tell you something about tough times. They just about kill you, but if you decide to keep working at them, you'll find your way through. #Quote by Joan Bauer

#44. Happiness is a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion. #Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#45. You're such a good cook. You're going to make someone very fat and happy one day," he said, his mouth half full with a bite of apple.

"I'm going to make you fat and happy. You know that."

"Ah, to be fat! #Quote by Kiera Cass

#46. They knew that you breathed and you slept and you worked, but they didn't know that you read. Such a thing was beyond comprehension. They thought that in your spare time you sat and gazed into space, or looked at Peg's Paper or the Crimson Circle. You could almost see them reporting you to their friends. 'Margaret's a good cook, but unfortunately she reads. Books, you know. #Quote by Margaret Powell

#47. When you're in Hollywood and you're a comedian, everybody wants you to do other things. All right, you're a stand-up comedian, can you write us a script? That's not fair. That's like if I worked hard to become a cook, and I'm a really good cook, they'd say, "OK, you're a cook. Can you farm?" #Quote by Mitch Hedberg

#48. I like to cook good meals, especially when I have a lot of time. #Quote by Ekaterina Gordeeva

#49. There was a fisherman named Fisher who fished for some fish in a fissure. Till a fish with a grin, pulled the fisherman in. Now they're fishing the fissure for Fisher. 2 How many cookies could a good cook cook If a good cook could cook cookies? A good cook could cook as much cookies as a good cook who could cook cookies. #Quote by Ben Dover

#50. One of the greatest pleasures of my life has been that I have never stopped learning about Good Cooking and Good Food #Quote by Edna Lewis

#51. And the ghosts walked into my memory, into the happiness, into the pain of my future, and they wished me well. I turned, as though I saw them in the unfolding season, in the beauty and in the death of autumn. Perhaps I had, perhaps I had. #Quote by Vera Jane Cook

#52. Why do they bother saying "raw sewage"? Do some people actually cook that stuff? #Quote by George Carlin

#53. I wanted to write songs that were as good as the covers. #Quote by George Thorogood

#54. My feet are not a good part of my body. They definitely have suffered for my art. They're, like, all bunions and blisters. #Quote by Lindy Booth

#55. Yeah, there were regrets - but mostly there was an understanding - it had all brought her to here. To now. To who she was this moment. And she understood the power in that. The good in that. And the need to keep moving forward to create all she could with her life. #Quote by Terri St. Cloud

#56. I don't think I'm a good host. I'm not a good host. I'm terrible at hosting. That's my problem. #Quote by Chelsea Handler

#57. Haskell to Quinlin
You need anything, Quin, absolutely anything, you call me and I'll be there. Remember, friends help you move. Good friends help you move a body. Best friends bring their own shovel. You say the word, and I'll be there with a spanking new shovel. Or holy water and an exorcism ritual. Whatever works. #Quote by I.D. Locke

#58. If you are doing what everyone else is doing, you are doing something wrong. Why? Because most people are not obtaining results that are considered extraordinary.
"If your thinking is causing you to do what everyone else is doing, you are only contributing to the average. Even if you are contributing to the average at a high level, it is still ... average.
"Do you want to be average? Do you want an average life span or an average lifestyle? Do you want an average marriage? Do you want to raise average children? Do you want an average spiritual life? Do you want average financial results? Do you want an average amount of influence for good in your community?
" ... to produce results that are extraordinary - you cannot afford to think like average people think. You cannot act like average people act. You cannot be what average people are ... which is normal. #Quote by Andy Andrews

#59. All are gurus to us, the wicked by their evil deeds say 'do not come near me'. the good are always good, therefore all are like gurus to us. #Quote by Ramana Maharshi

#60. There are different ways to organise capitalism. Free-market capitalism is only one of them-and not a very good one at that. #Quote by Ha-Joon Chang

#61. Dear Mel:
I trust this finds you recovered. Why did you have to run off like that? But I figured you were safe arrived at home, and well, or Khesot would've sent to me here--since you wouldn't write.

And how was I to pay for sending a letter to Remalna-city? I thought indignantly, then sighed. Of course, I had managed to find enough coin to write to Ara's family, and to obtain through the father the name of a good bookseller. But the first was an obligation, I told myself. And as for the latter, it was merely the start of the education that Branaric had blabbed to the world that I lacked.

I'm here at Athanarel, finding it to my taste. It helps that Galdran's personal fortune has been turned over to us, as repayment for what happened to our family--you'll find the Letter of Intent in with this letter, to be kept somewhere safe. Henceforth, you send your creditors for drafts on Arclor House…

I looked up at the ceiling as the words slowly sank in. "Personal fortune"? How much was that? Whatever it was, it had to be a vast improvement over our present circumstances. I grinned, thinking how I had agonized over which book to choose from the bookseller's list. Now I could order them all. I could even hire my own scribe…
Shaking my head, I banished the dreams of avarice, and returned to the letter--not that much remained.

…so, outfit yourself in whatever you want, appoint someone responsible as steward, and join me here at Athana #Quote by Sherwood Smith

#62. I would rather win than have good sportsmanship. #Quote by Allen Iverson

#63. Prayer is converse with God, equal honor with the Angels, progress in good things, averting of evils, righting of sinners. #Quote by Ephrem The Syrian

#64. No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God. #Quote by Saint Patrick

#65. When an individual develops his heaven nature, he shines like the sun. Such a person keeps conscious of, and clings to, what is good and great within himself. #Quote by Carol K. Anthony

#66. Unless we have good reason to think otherwise, it seems that our best guide to the future is a mirror image of the past. The nearest thing to clairvoyance is to assume that history repeats itself  -  backward. #Quote by Brian Christian

#67. Believe you can,
believe you are eligible,
and try,
because its all gonna be good only when u take a first step to reach the last #Quote by Sambalme

#68. In the awareness that we can always be wrong, and therefore ready at any moment to change direction if a new track appears; but knowing also that if we are good enough we will get it right and will find what we are seeking. This is the nature of science. The #Quote by Carlo Rovelli

#69. I look for good possibilities in movies. I don't look for perfection. #Quote by Christopher Walken

#70. Are you saying ... you can make people normal again?" I breathe out, the idea too tantalizing for my own good.
Allie nods. "That's the goal. #Quote by Natalie Whipple

#71. It is plain and demonstrable, that much ale is not good for Yankee, and operates differently upon them from what it does upon a Briton; ale must be drank in a fog and a drizzle. #Quote by Herman Melville

#72. SEX! Now that I have your attention ... Please try to meditate at least 15 minutes, every day. You know it's good for you. #Quote by Marcelo Goianira

#73. I just like when stuff feels good. 'Happy' feels good. #Quote by Pharrell Williams

#74. There is no such thing as a Mass Mind. The Mass Audience is made up of individuals, and good advertising is written always from one person to another. When it is aimed at millions it rarely moves anyone. #Quote by Fairfax Cone

#75. The measure of one's love for good poetry and for good music is the hatred, the violent hatred, one feels for bad poetry and bad music. #Quote by Alfred Bruce Douglas

#76. Sometimes you make good choices. Sometimes you make bad ones. But they're all made for a reason that seems to make sense at the time. #Quote by A Meredith Walters

#77. You have to realize, when you're a comedian, that you have to have a thick skin. And trust me, being onstage in front of people is already difficult enough. Somebody's personal attack in an email is not as hard as getting onstage. #Quote by Dane Cook

#78. Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good. #Quote by Ina Garten

#79. Sometimes the best gear for a climb is a good excuse. #Quote by John Sherman

#80. There is nothing good in this world that does not have some filth in its origin. #Quote by Anton Chekhov

#81. So in Asia I want to make - I want to succeed to make a model of what success, practicing democracy, and market economy. Then that will give a good influence over Asian countries. #Quote by Kim Dae-jung

#82. To be as good as it can be, a team has to buy into what you as the coach are doing. They have to feel you're a part of them and they're a part of you. #Quote by Bobby Knight

#83. When evangelical leaders can persuade the president to be concerned about what's happening in Sudan, or sex trafficking around the world, or HIV-AIDS, that's a very good thing. I am completely supportive of that. #Quote by Jim Wallis

#84. She leaned in to kiss him, tender and slow. "You're a good man, Hunter."


He rolled her underneath him, his body already aching for the sanctuary of hers. "You make me want to be. #Quote by Lisa Kessler

#85. Our dirty talking quickly turned to "Do you need a good spanking?" which I enjoyed but when it turned to "Who's your daddy?" I slapped him across the face and told him to shut the hell up and just fuck me #Quote by Shey Stahl

#86. God, if ever I have come close to wanting to commit suicide, it is now, with the groggy sleepless blood dragging through my veins, and the air thick and gray with rain ... I fell into bed again this morning, begging for sleep, withdrawing into the dark, warm, fetid escape from action, from responsibility. No good. #Quote by Sylvia Plath

#87. Always was Morocco. And recently the country's leadership seems to have embraced it in all its ill-reputed glory. The days of predatory poets in search of literary inspiration and young flesh are probably over for good. Hippies can just as easily get their bong riffs in Portland or Peoria. But the good stuff, the real good stuff, the sounds and smells and the look of Tangier
what you see and hear when you lean out the window and take it all in
that's here to stay. #Quote by Anthony Bourdain

#88. I'm almost finished," said Wilhelm, wiping out a line with his sleeve and drawing over it.
"I never doubted you for a moment," said Vex, then looked at Aurora and spoke more softly. "I actually doubted him the whole time. He's really not very good."
Wilhelm turned. "I'm standing right in front of you. I can hear literally every sound you make."
"Wilhelm, please," said Vex, "this is a private conversation. #Quote by Derek Landy

#89. Leaders are not born that way…they are developed through their experiences and their internal work. What good is an opinion where you don't have a responsibility? Leadership is practiced in attitude and actions … and results in inspiring achievement. Don't take yourself too seriously but do take your work seriously. #Quote by Thomas Smith

#90. 16In the same way, let your light shine before others, so n that [2] they may see your good works and o give glory to your Father who is in heaven. #Quote by Anonymous

#91. I can't tell her the truth. I cannot tell her that there is no such thing as okay. There is just life. Sometimes it will be good and other times it will be bad. #Quote by Andrea Richesin

#92. About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. #Quote by Josh Billings

#93. Maybe age is kinder to us than we think. With my bad eyes, I can't see how bad I look, and with my rotten memory, I have a good excuse for getting out of a lot of stuff. #Quote by Erma Bombeck

#94. It is not possible even at great length to "pot" The Lord of the Rings in a paragraph or two … It was begun in 1937, and every part has been written many times. Hardly a word in its 600,000 or more has been unconsidered. And the placing, size, style, and contribution to the whole of the features, incidents, and chapters has been laboriously pondered. I do not say this in recommendation. It is, I feel, only too likely that I am deluded, lost in a web of vain imaginings of not much value to others – in spite of the fact that a few readers have found it good, on the whole. What I intend to say is this: I cannot substantially alter the thing. I have finished it, is "off my mind": the labour has been colossal: and it must stand or fall, practically as it is.
[1951] #Quote by J.R.R. Tolkien

#95. Try to have a good day today, wherever you are, whatever you do, whoever is near, if no one is near. Try to be happy, because you may not see tomorrow. There is someone this morning, who didn't wake up, who will never see this day. Try to feel lucky that this is not you. #Quote by Margaret Cho

#96. In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons. #Quote by James MacGregor Burns

#97. Fine, good, Mary thought. Then how about dragging your skinny ass out of here and making sure your replacement is an ugly, two-toothed gorgon in a muumuu. #Quote by J.R. Ward

#98. She wriggled the demon's fingers a bit more. "It'd make a good back-scratcher." Rowan only frowned. "Killjoy," she said, and chucked the arm onto the torso of the Wyrdhound. #Quote by Sarah J. Maas