Delia Smith Quotes

Hopefully people will be inspired to cook. It's my mission to persuade people not to be afraid of cooking.

Delia Smith

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• I have this dream of what I ultimately want my life to be like, and it involves a lot of quaint activities like cooking and canoeing and camping and hiking.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Life
  • Dream
  • My Life

• Unlike the stereotypical author, I've never had a job as a short-order cook, but I love cooking hot breakfasts for lots of people, juggling the eggs and the bacon and the tomatoes and the fried potatoes and so on.

  

  Garth Nix
  • People
  • Love
  • Job

• I write in freehand equivalents because measuring, to me, takes away from the creative process of cooking. Two turns of the pan with EVOO is about two tablespoons.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Creative
  • Process
  • Cooking

• My mission in life is to preserve craftsmanship.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Life
  • Mission
  • Craftsmanship

• That's definitely something I've experienced my whole life - people thinking one thing and then discovering that I'm not, hopefully. So I relate to having to fight that and claim my own identity, when people are trying to throw different ones at me.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• The organization of the government itself is something which we ought to examine in a more self-conscious way - the Federal Reserve and the Treasury and the Securities and Exchange Commission. The mission that each of them has is mainly economic but should be informed by good organizational practices.

  

  Oliver E. Williamson
  • Good
  • Government
  • Organization

• I watch cooking change the cook, just as it transforms the food.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Food
  • Change
  • Cooking

• There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend - I am a guilty party here - to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Party
  • Cooking
  • Painless

• 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
  • Why
  • Past
  • Best

• Sure, I could have lots of people who do the cooking, the driving, all that jazz - but I would be unhappy. I wouldn't want my children raised that way.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Children
  • Driving

• Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those experiences to create a sense of excitement and realism within the story.

  

  Oliver North
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Story

• I raised my sister. I was six when she was born. My mother had to make a living for herself and it was very hard, so I was looking after my sister, cooking and cleaning, and she had four jobs.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • She
  • Mother
  • Sister

• To jump and break the sound barrier will not be a mere record breaking experience or another extreme event that ends once the mission is accomplished.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Experience
  • Sound
  • Jump

• As a woman, you spend so much time either cooking or getting ready to go somewhere. I like to have music when I'm doing either of these things.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Time
  • Music
  • Woman

• Outstanding people have one thing in common: An absolute sense of mission.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Mission
  • Outstanding

• Whatever I'm doing, I'm in that moment and I'm doing it. The rest of the world's lost. If I'm cooking some food or making soup, I want it to be lovely. If not, what's the point of doing it?

  

  Sade Adu
  • World
  • Food
  • Lost

• When you have a little one, you realize that your only mission in life is to protect this helpless, very sensitive creature. That is your charge. That's primal. I relate to that deeply.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Life
  • Realize
  • Mission

• The White House has embarked on a mission to convince the people of our country that Social Security is in dire need of drastic change in order to save it for all workers.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • People
  • Country
  • House

• When you say you're not a feminist, if feminism hadn't existed, and you didn't live in a feminist world, you wouldn't be saying that, because you'd be too busy scrubbing out the toilets in back while cooking up your husband's tea and dying in childbirth at the age of 34.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Up
  • World
  • Live

• It's the clothes that influence the music I'm going to play.

  

  Graham Coxon Blur
  • Play
  • Influence
  • Clothes

• It was all because of his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealinggreat-great-grandfather!

  

  Louis Sachar
  • Good
  • Great
  • Dirty

• Is global warming causing more extreme weather events of greater intensity, and is it causing sea levels to rise? The answer to both is an emphatic 'no.'

  

  Jim Inhofe
  • Sea

• Without medical records that he hasn't released, we can't know whether Gingrich may have inherited his mother's manic depression. Nevertheless, one observes in the former House Speaker certain symptoms - bouts of grandiosity, megalomania, irritability, racing thoughts, spending sprees - that go beyond the ordinary politician's normal narcissism.

  

  Jacob Weisberg
  • May
  • Mother
  • House

• Hopefully people will be inspired to cook. It's my mission to persuade people not to be afraid of cooking.

  

  Delia Smith
  • Cooking
  • Mission
  • Hopefully