Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Koechner

You can only experience love if you have self love.

Cheryl Mendelson

I myself love getting cookbooks and novels that some congenial person has already tried and liked.

Benjamin Franklin

He who will not be counseled cannot be helped.

Alexandra Fuller

I always knew mum loved me - tough, look-after-yourself love, as if she knew she wouldn't always be there.

Deepak Chopra

To bring yourself love and happiness, do what you can to bring them to others.

Janet Jackson

The greatest achievement to any human being is to love God, yourself, and others.

Albert Camus

True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person.

Alphonsus Liguori

God is displeased at the diffidence of souls who love Him sincerely and whom He Himself loves.

Esther Hicks

It is my dominant intent to be good to me.

Charles Dickens

Novelties please less than they impress.

David Shields

My medium is prose, not the novel.

David Mitchell

For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed.

David Mitchell

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

David Quammen

I used to read only fiction. Now I don't read much, only occasionally, such as a Cormac McCarthy or a Jim Harrison novel.

Edmond de Goncourt

History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been.

David Hume

Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is doubly displeasing on that very account.

Audrey Tautou

When you decide to adapt some Russian novel, it's like everyone knows about it but nobody has read it.

Carol Shields

This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.

Alicia Silverstone

One of the things that often frustrates me with cookbooks is that there are one or two recipes that are really good and the rest of them are not so great.

Rick Whittington

no cookbook recipes for deciding where the cycle stands.

Aaron Sanchez

My family, we are three generations of cookbook writers,

Michael Symon

Recipes are important but only to a point. What's more important than recipes is how we think about food, and a good cookbook should open up a new way of doing just that.

Isabel Gillies

Reading cookbooks will help with just about anything in your life, including heartbreak.

Heston Blumenthal

I've got around 400 cookbooks.

Daniel Boulud

There was no Internet, not even many cookbooks except the old reference books. So we would sit down at night, a group of six chefs, and we'd exchange recipes and each talk about how we were doing things. It was the only way to learn new ideas.

Jan Miller

We think it has been the No. 1-selling cookbook since 1930.

Marcus Samuelsson

I can take a lot of pride that I can launch cookbooks and there's an audience out there that supports that.