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Kitchen Quotes

The kitchen is the heart of the house.

– Alvaro Enrigue

I always feel like the editing room is like coming into the kitchen. What kind of a meal do you make from there? It can be anything.

– Brit Marling

The type of renovation I do most often is opening a kitchen to the family room.

– Candice Olson

Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food.

– Andrew Weil

I have a fireplace in my kitchen that I light every night, no matter what.

– Alice Waters

I try not to get too rattled about things that aren’t that important – there’s a different outburst for when the kids are reaching for a knife in the kitchen versus the reaction I have when they just won’t stop talking. And my wife and I have mellowed out as we’ve gone along.

– Chris O’Donnell

I was mixing iced tea and lemonade in my kitchen since as long as I can remember. It wasn’t until some time in the early 1960s that it became associated with me publicly.

– Arnold Palmer

I usually write in my kitchen, which is a large, octagonal room that looks into woods – three big windows look out into the trees.

– Chuck Palahniuk

I started at 5 years old in the kitchen table with my family supporting me. I know where I’m from and I know exactly where I’m going.

– Celine Dion

No matter what the recipe, any baker can do wonders in the kitchen with some good ingredients and an upbeat attitude!

– Buddy Valastro

If you go around the kitchen and ask my employees what they want to be doing in three to five years, most of them, if they’re being honest, will tell you that they don’t want to be working for me. They want to have their own place. And I think that’s great.

– Charlie Trotter

‘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.

– Anthony Bourdain

I’m always dancing in my kitchen. And I love to sing. I’ve always sung. My father was a lovely singer. Always sang Jim Reeves at parties.

– Anne-Marie Duff

It was improv that really helped me start coming up with recipes and just believe in my instincts. That’s why the first recipe I made up was ‘I Ain’t Chicken Chicken’ because I finally felt bold and fearless in the kitchen, which was an entirely new feeling for me.

– Aarti Sequeira

I like to stand in my kitchen with the script on a counter that’s about chest high. Usually I do something else at the same time – make a chicken or slice vegetables – and all day long I just read it over and over and over.

– Christopher Walken

People with chile peppers on their chef pants shouldn’t be allowed in the kitchen.

– April Bloomfield

‘Two Voices,’ from my album with Peter Schwalm, is an intact dream-poem. I awoke one night with an image of a piece of paper and all the words of the poem written on it, so I just blundered down to the kitchen table and ‘copied it out.’

– Brian Eno

Being a vegetarian Buddhist would be a bit harsh to deal with in the kitchen, so I’m a Taoist, I study martial arts, and I don’t drink or smoke.

– Arthur Potts Dawson

I was more of the kind of babysitter that liked holding the baby, sort of playing Mom, and then putting the baby to bed and watching TV while eating everything in their kitchen.

– Ari Graynor

On the good days, my mother would haul out the ukulele and we’d sit around the kitchen table – it was a cardboard table with a linoleum top – and sing.

– Carol Burnett

In Berkeley, we built the garden and a kitchen classroom. We’ve been working on it for 12 years. We’ve learned a lot from it. If kids grow it and cook it, they eat it.

– Alice Waters

I go out to the kitchen to feed the dog, but that’s about as much cooking as I do.

– Betty White

I only wear red socks in the kitchen. They bring me luck.

– Graham Elliot

If I didn’t write sex scenes, all my characters would head to the kitchen and make cups of tea.

– Michael Winter

When chefs like Wolfgang Puck became household names, that became a compelling reason for an intelligent young person to go into the cooking profession. There have been no waiters who have turned into household names. The service and hospitality aspects have clearly lagged behind the kitchen.

– Danny Meyer

The kitchen is a sacred space.

– Marc Forgione

It’s like a kitchen, acting. Put a chef in a kitchen and they will have different recipes. Whatever your recipe, what works for you won’t work for another.

– Carole Bouquet

Open your refrigerator, your freezer, your kitchen cupboards, and look at the labels on your food. You’ll find ‘natural flavor’ or ‘artificial flavor’ in just about every list of ingredients. The similarities between these two broad categories are far more significant than the differences.

– David Chang

I have a terrible, terrible fear of knives. I only buy food that I don’t need to cut… I haven’t cut my food in years! Like, I won’t even touch a plastic knife or anything sharp. And if I’m in a kitchen and somebody picks up a knife, I leave.

– Christian Serratos

You throw the kitchen sink at your early books. You put everything in there. It’s like when you meet a new girlfriend or boyfriend, you tell them all your best stories. By the time you have been married for 10 years, they are crying, ‘Shut up!’

– Mark Billingham

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