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

• As soon as I put my foot on Indian soil, my painting underwent a change not only in subject and spirit but in technique.

  

  Amrita Sher-Gil
  • Change
  • Spirit
  • Painting

• I wanted to do the comic strip. I tried to get it syndicated, and I sent some examples to a syndication company, and they sent me a rejection letter! I wasn't smart enough at the time to realize you shouldn't let rejection letters stop you. I thought that rejection letter meant I was not allowed to be a cartoonist in this world, so I put the rejection letter down and said, well, I'll be a stand-up comedian.

  

  Brian Regan
  • World
  • Smart
  • Realizing

• For millions of women and men around the world, the playwright Eve Ensler is a beloved figure. She represents the epitome of the politically engaged artist, someone who uses her creative brilliance to illuminate injustice and give voice to the voiceless.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• A lot of people think jugglers defy gravity or do stuff. Well, I kind of, from my childhood and golf and all that, it's a process of joining with forces.

  

  Michael Moschen
  • People
  • Childhood
  • Process

• 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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