Joanna Coles Quotes

We have enormous appetites for both food and love, and yet there's junk food and also junk love.

Joanna Coles

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• I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad tracks - and green things started to grow there!

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Food
  • Green
  • Grow

• When we're ill, one of the last things we have that we can enjoy is food.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Food
  • Enjoy
  • Last

• A fighter lives in his training camp, and I'm not always paying attention to what is happening on the outside. But I do know the Mexican people and the Mexican-American people in this country are very hard-working people. That's my only comment about Donald Trump.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • People
  • Country
  • American

• Fly-in, fly-out curating nearly always produces superficial results; it's a practice that goes hand in hand with the fashion for applying the word 'curating' to everything that involves simply making a choice - radio playlists, hotel decor, even the food stalls in New York's High Line Park.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • High
  • Food
  • Hand

• Food was always important in my family, but I didn't think of it as a vocation until a later point in life.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Life
  • Important
  • Family

• I'm not an amazing cook. But I can follow a recipe!

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Food
  • Amazing
  • Follow

• The food being presented at the most expensive restaurants, by the most sophisticated chefs, was not always recognizable as food to the diner - it required a leap of faith, and I felt curious about that phenomenon.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Faith
  • Food
  • Curious

• Years down the line, I became a food stylist.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Food
  • Years
  • Down

• Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Joy

• Wherever I go, as long as I get a hot vegetable dish, I am okay. If I am in Gujarat, I have Gujarati food. If it's Shillong, it's northeastern.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Dish
  • Vegetable
  • Gujarat

• When it comes to inmates, we have boiled them down to just the few things we know about them - their crime, their current life situation, their identification number. But the reality is they were something before they were their crime.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Situation

• That point of life when I learned I could cook, that always made me understand what cooks felt like feeding other people. It's okay to receive, but it's really cool to give, so food is to me sexy because it's the fact that someone is giving it to someone else.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • People
  • Life
  • Giving

• Each one of us has our own evolution of life, and each one of us goes through different tests which are unique and challenging. But certain things are common. And we do learn things from each other's experience. On a spiritual journey, we all have the same destination.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Life
  • Different
  • Experience

• I started to read labels around age 18 or 19. I don't buy things that don't sound like food, and I've been that way all my life. I do go through phases, during which I eat meat for maybe three months then don't. I do eat lots of vegetables. It's the same with dairy - I'll eat it then stop.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Life
  • Age
  • Food

• I've always hoped 'Chopped' would telegraph our enormous affection and love and admiration for chefs and food, but at the same time, we are inflicting extraordinary cruelty on them.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Time
  • Love
  • Food

• I've been on a team that won the world championship of barbecue. But barbecue's interesting, because it's one of these cult foods like chili, or bouillabaisse. Various parts of the world will have a cult food that people get enormously attached to - there's tremendous traditions; there's secrecy.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • World
  • Interesting

• There's a certain time of day after sunset when people naturally seem to feel the urge to gather by a fire or a stove or a hibachi or another common source of heat and food, and hunker down together to eat and drink. Call it the blue hour.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • People
  • Time
  • Together

• If the first bite is with the eye and the second with the nose, some people will never take that third, actual bite if the food in question smells too fishy, fermented or cheesy.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • People
  • Food
  • Question

• I love England, especially the food. There's nothing I like more than a lovely bowl of pasta.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Love
  • Food
  • Lovely

• I prize my seamstress, I value my copyist; but my cook, who knows well how to prepare the food to sustain life, and nourish brain, bone, and muscle, fills the most important place among the helpers in my family.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • Life
  • Important
  • Family

• How shall we define a god? Expressed in psychological terms (which are primary-there is no getting behind them) a god is something that gives us the peculiar kind of feeling which Professor Otto has called 'numinous'. Numinous feelings are the original god-stuff from which the theory-making mind extracts the individualised gods of the pantheon.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • God
  • Mind
  • Feeling

• The wish to pass something on to your children is about the most basic, human and natural aspiration there is.

  

  George Osborne
  • Children
  • Wish

• When I went to the Association [ National Association for the Advancement of Colored People] I learned a few things by observation. One of the things that used to strike me was [Walter White] need to impress people, even just people who came into the office.

  

  Ella Baker
  • People
  • Office
  • Observation

• We have enormous appetites for both food and love, and yet there's junk food and also junk love.

  

  Joanna Coles
  • Food