"I am not a fancy cook or an……" — Laurie Colwin
"I am not a fancy cook or an ambitious cook. I am a plain old cook."
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43 Quotes by Laurie Colwin
Laurie Colwin has 43 quotes on this site.
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On Saturday mornings I would walk to the Flavor Cup or Puerto Rico Importing coffee store to get my coffee.…
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When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally....
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I do not believe that you have to spend a lot of money to eat well: it is hard to…
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A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins.
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Friendship is not possible between two women one of whom is very well dressed.
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The old days were slower. People buttered their bread without guilt and sat down to dinner en famille.
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Fulfillment leaves an empty space where longing used to be.
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To feel safe and warm on a cold wet night, all you really need is soup.
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For the socially timid, the kitchen is the place to be. At least, it is a place to start.
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Once my jars were labeled, I felt contentedly thrilled with myself, as if I had pulled off a wonderful trick.…
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There is nothing like soup. It is by nature eccentric: no two are ever alike, unless of course you get…
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When life is hard and the day has been long, the ideal dinner is not four perfect courses, each in…
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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would…
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It isn't that women are less ambitious,but women want to find a balance between work, love, and family.
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When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people…
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Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of…
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My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition;…
— Annie Besant
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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I'm attracted to women who are smart and funny and ambitious and have lives of their own and great families.…
— Tom Brady
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My mum is bright, ambitious, well read, political and very bolshie: when my dad was conscripted into the Army and…
— Jo Brand
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Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb,…
— Robert Burton
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The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
— Louisa May Alcott
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