All Julia Child Quotes
- Upon reflection, I decided I had three main weaknesses: I was confused (evidenced by a lack of facts, an inability to coordinate my thoughts, and… Careful
- ...the waiters carried themselves with a quiet joy, as if their entire mission in life was to make their customers feel comfortable and well tended. Carried
- I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was. Discovering
- Ye gods! But you're not standing around holding it by the hand all this time. No. [...] [T]he dough takes care of itself. [...] While… All
- There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter. Architecture
- But I was a pure romantic, and only operating with half my burners turned on. Burners
- Was it a sign of Creeping Decrepitude? Creeping
- We hit it off immediately, especially Helene, who was a 'swallow-life-in-big-gulps' kind of person. Big
- Just speak very loudly and quickly, and state your position with utter conviction, as the French do, and you'll have a marvelous time! Conviction
- The sweetness and generosity and politeness and gentleness and humanity of the French had shown me how lovely life can be if one takes time… French
- We are so bemused by our own petard, that we are unable to look at things objectively. Bemused
- I think every woman should have a blowtorch. Blowtorch
- One of the secrets, and pleasures, of cooking is to learn to correct something if it goes awry; and one of the lessons is to… Awry
- ...operational proof...it's all theory until you see for yourself whether or not something works. All
- ...no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing. Born
- Remember, 'No one's more important than people'! In other words, friendship is the most important thing--not career or housework, or one's fatigue--and it needs to… Career
- I admired the English immensely for all that they had endured, and they were certainly honorable, and stopped their cars for pedestrians, and called you… Admired
- In the blood-heat of pursuing the enemy, many people are forgetting what we are fighting for. We are fighting for our hard-won liberty and freedom;… Blood
- I would far prefer to have things happen as they naturally do, such as the mousse refusing to leave the mold, the potatoes sticking to… Apple
- We had a happy marriage because we were together all the time. We were friends as well as husband and wife. We just had a… All
- The more you know, the more you can create. There's no end to imagination in the kitchen. Cooking
- If you don't pick your audience, you're lost because you're not really talking to anybody. Anybody
- To be a good cook you have to have a love of the good, a love of hard work, and a love of creating. Cook
- You don’t spring into good cooking naked. You have to have some training. You have to learn how to eat. Cooking
- You are the butter to my bread,and the breath to my life Bread