Recipe Quotes

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. (Carl Jung)

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane Austen

The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.

Charles Lamb

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Elbert Hubbard

Recipe for greatness To bear up under loss, to fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief, to be victor over anger, to smile when tears are close, to resist evil men and base instincts, to hate hate and to love love, to go on when it would seem good to die, to seek ever after the glory and the dream, to look up with unquenchable faith in something evermore about to be, that is what any man can do, and so be great.

Zane Grey

Once you have mastered a technique, you barely have to look at a recipe again.

Julia Child

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

Margaret Thatcher

There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that's what is unique about them.

Robert Sternberg

My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.

Eartha Kitt

A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

A cookbook is only as good as its worst recipe. (Julia Child)

The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

André Maurois

I can make dressing - or stuffing. Y'all call it stuffing up here, we call it dressing down there. It's really good dressing. That family recipe was passed on, and I love to make that.

Edie Brickell

Here in the hospital, I say, that is not my body, not my body. I am not here for the doctors to read like a recipe.

Anne Sexton

Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.

Terry Eagleton

I like racing but food and pictures are more thrilling. I can't give them up. In racing you can be certain, to the last thousandth of a second, that someone is the best, but with a film or a recipe, there is no way of knowing how all the ingredients will work out in the end. The best can turn out to be awful and the worst can be fantastic. Cooking is like performing and performing like cooking.

Paul Newman

The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.

Milton Friedman

Americans treat history like a cookbook. Whenever they are uncertain what to do next, they turn to history and look up the proper recipe, invariably designated "the lesson of history."

Russell Baker

A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.

Pat Conroy

Remember, FDA employees are serious about fear. We pay these people to panic about an iota of rodent hair in our chili, even when the recipe calls for it. FDA employees are first-class agonizers, world champions at losing sleep. When Meryl Streep got hysterical about Alar, they actually checked the apples instead of Meryl's head.

P. J. O'Rourke

The first time you make something, follow the recipe, then figure out how to tailor it to your own tastes. (Ruth Reichl)

My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual.

Phyllis Diller

If you're trying to make a recipe that you're not even going to bother tasting, you're doing something wrong.

Bryan Fuller

It's always good to go over the recipe beforehand, so you can easily think of the next thing that needs to be done.

Guy Fieri

Vengeance is the act of turning anger in on yourself. On the surface it may be directed at someone else, but it is a surefire recipe for arresting emotional recovery.

Jane Goldman

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