Michael Symon Quotes

If you learn a recipe, you can cook the recipe. If you learn the technique, you can cook anything.

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• Stillness as a technique is still really captivating to me.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • Technique
  • Stillness
  • Captivating

• There is no reason for me to show my collection in New York, because it's not about craft and technique there.

  

  Zac Posen
  • Reason
  • Show
  • Technique

• I carry a small spiral notebook with me at all times and have been doing this for many years. There's a shoe box in my closet filled with these notebooks, each riddled with notes and impressions, ideas, schemes, and soup recipes.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Small
  • Me
  • Ideas

• Too many books are full of recipes that aren't doable at home. They are purely aspirational. They are quite frightening, even for me.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Home
  • Books
  • Quite

• Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

  

  Man Ray
  • Inspiration
  • Information
  • Technique

• We have something called naked Sundays ... You have to keep marriage alive, spice it up ... We don't need to go anywhere, we're just with each other. We do everything naked. We cook naked.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Up
  • Marriage
  • Needs

• I often write into recipes techniques that I learned in the restaurant kitchen. There are ways of organizing your prep and so on that are immensely useful. Those are woven into all the recipes I do.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Kitchen
  • Restaurant
  • Techniques

• The best reply to an atheist is to give him a good dinner and ask him if he believes there is a cook.

  

  Louis Nizer
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Giving

• I think I should learn French and be a better cook - basic, really good life stuff.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Life
  • Good
  • Thinking

• Under no circumstances trust a lean cook.

  

  Iain Hewitson
  • Trust
  • Circumstances
  • Cooks

• Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.

  

  Allen Tate
  • Religion
  • Values
  • Technique

• I love to cook, and I love to have all my family around the dinner table.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Family
  • Dinner
  • Cooks

• In the field of marketing . . . the trend toward selling [has] reached something of a nadir with the unveiling . . . of so-called subliminal projection. That is the technique designed to flash messages past our conscious guard.

  

  Vance Packard
  • Past
  • Marketing
  • Technique

• Their violence (the jungle wars of the '70s), and all violence for that matter, reflects the neutral exploration of sensation that is taking place, within sex as elsewhere and the sense that the perversions are valuable precisely because they provide a readily accessible anthology of exploratory techniques.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • War
  • Violence
  • Sex

• The most indispensable qualification of a cook is punctuality. The same must be said of guests.

  

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  • Cooks
  • Guests
  • Indispensable

• Somewhere lives a bad Cajun cook, just as somewhere must live one last ivory-billed woodpecker. For me, I don't expect ever to encounter either one.

  

  William Lewis Trogdon
  • Cooking
  • Cooks
  • Encounters

• The art is the challenge which you must meet every day: the technique you should learn to control with time. The science and the art of photography are really one, and not opposed to each other.

  

  Yousuf Karsh
  • Art
  • Control
  • Challenge

• Yet smelt roast meat, beheld a huge fire shine, And cooks in motion with their clean arms bared.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Fire
  • Meat
  • Cooks

• We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, affliction, or infamy. We kill when, because it is easier, we countenance, or pretend to approve of atrophied social, political, educational, and religious institutions, instead of resolutely combating them.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Poverty
  • Institutions
  • Combating

• Loose ends are cool... Loose ends mean that you are still living your life. The person who dies with the most loose ends wins.

  

  Charlie Jane Anders
  • Person
  • Living
  • Dies

• When things are going well, something will go wrong. / When things just can't get any worse, they will. / Anytime things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Wells
  • Difficulty
  • Overlooked

• My bed was an island within the desolate sea of my room. Yet I knew that there were other people home-bound from illness or injury, scattered here and there throughout rural towns and cities around the world. And as I lay there, I felt a connection to all of them. We, too, were a colony of hermits.

  

  Elisabeth Tova Bailey
  • Sea
  • Connection
  • Illness

• If you learn a recipe, you can cook the recipe. If you learn the technique, you can cook anything.

  

  Michael Symon
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