Cooking today is a young man’s game, I don’t give a bollocks what anyone says.

I’m just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.

I am not a crook.

Every artist wants something different out the game.

I get a little bit emotional during a game!

I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.

When I’m home, I spend Sunday with my husband. If we’re not cooking, we travel around in our camper, stop at fast-food restaurants, and picnic. We love that stuff that will harden your arteries in a hurry.

Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

My dinners at home are startlingly simple. Every night, I stop at the market near my hotel and pick up a steak, lamb chops or some liver, which I broil in the electric oven in my room. I usually eat four or five raw carrots with my meat, and that is all. I must be part rabbit; I never get bored with raw carrots.

A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today’s military rejects include tomorrow’s hard-core unemployed.

Writing’s just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast.

Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

Kitchens are hard environments and they form incredibly strong characters.

My sisters like cooking at my place. It has a bit more room, and the food tastes a little bit better. A big pot of spaghetti and sauce, some warm French bread – works all the time. I think I’ve been eating pasta for 26 years.

I have loved to cook since I was a child in my mother’s kitchen. If I don’t have time to cook, I’ll just read a cookbook.

The Kobe craze really annoyed me. Most of the practitioners had no real understanding of the product and were abusing it and exploiting it in terrible and ridiculous ways. Kobe beef should not be used in a hamburger. It’s completely pointless.

If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that’s exactly what I did.

A statement is persuasive and credible either because it is directly self-evident or because it appears to be proved from other statements that are so.

When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team’s dugout and they were already in street clothes.

Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game.

‚Kitchen Confidential‘ wasn’t a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line cooks and restaurant lifers, basically; I had no expectation that it would move as far west as Philadelphia.

I’ve been blessed with talents to play this game and been put on a stage to impact a lot of people. I don’t want to take that for granted.

I’m a decent cook; I’m a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.

Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.

The wild Indian power of escaping observation, even where there is little or no cover to hide in, was probably slowly acquired in hard hunting and fighting lessons while trying to approach game, take enemies by surprise, or get safely away when compelled to retreat.

The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.

Every three months, I’ll say, ‚Honey, I think I should learn how to cook‘.

If you like good ol‘ fashion Southern soul food then, yes, I am a good cook! My specialty is chicken dumplings and poke salad.

When you’re a chef, you graze. You never get a chance to sit down and eat. They don’t actually sit down and eat before you cook. So when I finish work, the first thing I’ll do, and especially when I’m in New York, I’ll go for a run. And I’ll run 10 or 15k on my – and I run to gain my appetite.

When I was a young man, Dirac was my hero. He made a breakthrough, a new method of doing physics. He had the courage to simply guess at the form of an equation, the equation we now call the Dirac equation, and to try to interpret it afterwards.

My mom had Julia Child and ‚The Fannie Farmer Cookbook‘ on top of the refrigerator, and she had a small repertoire of French dishes.

How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.

I’m just wanting to make the proper breakfast and keep the house. That’s my passion. At the request of my kids, I’m taking cooking classes. As I go to sleep at night, I think, ‚Did I do a great job as a mom, or was that an average day?‘

When I figured out how to work my grill, it was quite a moment. I discovered that summer is a completely different experience when you know how to grill.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.

When I cook for my family on Christmas, I make feijoada, a South American dish of roasted and smoked meats like ham, pork, beef, lamb, and bacon – all served with black beans and rice. It’s festive but different.

My mother cooked like a scientist. She had a giant Chinese-style cleaver that she chopped with, and a cupboard full of spices.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

Those places I don’t understand, just doing bad food. It takes some doing. Making good pasta is so much easier than making bad stuff. It actually takes quite an effort to make poor linguine pomodora.

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

One of my mentors schooled me on branding before it was a cliche term in the game.

When you cook under pressure you trade perfection.

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

You can call me the bad boy chef all you want. I’m not going to freak out about it. I’m not that bad. I’m certainly not a boy, and it’s been a while since I’ve been a chef.

A game is like a mirror that allows you to look at yourself.

You don’t come into cooking to get rich.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.

The radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful. It would heat your pizza only to minus 271.3*C – not much good for defrosting the pizza, let alone cooking it.

I entered the health care debate in response to a statement in the United States press in summer 2009 which claimed the National Health Service in Great Britain would have killed me off, were I a British citizen. I felt compelled to make a statement to explain the error.

I am the most unselfish chef in Britain today.

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Another suggestion is to cook a meal, maybe not every night, but a couple more times a week than you usually do. That way you have leftovers, and you take your lunch to work.

I’ve been my mom’s kitchen helper since I was a little kid.

I feel that if Jacques Pepin shows you how to make an omelet, the matter is pretty much settled. That’s God talking.