Delia Smith Quotes

I sometimes think the chef end of cooking is not the real end of cooking. Cooking is all about homes and gardens, it doesn't happen in restaurants.

Delia Smith

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CookingChefThinkEndSometimes

The art of compromise should be always alive and well. You represent the people of your district, the people of your county, your city, your township. Make sure that you do it for the people rather than your party or issue.

Jesse White

ArtPeopleCityCompromiseYouSure

Talent is obviously very important, but it's also about how you approach the work and, you know, maybe this is a Canadian thing, but it's good to be nice.

Jeremy Podeswa

WorkGoodTalentYouBe NiceNice

It's important to have an examined life - but it's a fine line between having an examined life and being hypercritical of oneself. There has to be balance in there somewhere.

Jennifer Nettles

LifeBalanceImportantLineFine

After graduating from flares and platforms in the early 1970s, I started drama school wearing a pair of khaki dungarees with one of my Dad's Army shirts, accessorised by a cat's basket doubling as a handbag. Very Lady Gaga.

Jenny Eclair

SchoolArmyLadyEarlyDramaCat

That is, the wife must care for what the husband cares for if he is to remain resolute.

Mary Harris Jones

WifeHusbandCareMustCaresHe

Saying that you spend Christmas alone is, to most middle-class Americans, akin to confessing a terminal illness.

Michelle Dean

AloneSayingYouChristmasIllness

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Lord Byron

LoveGreatWeddingNeverHopesMuch

With care and patience, people may accomplish things which, to an indolent person, would appear impossible.

Dorothea Dix

PatiencePeopleImpossibleCareMay

There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.

Boris Yeltsin

LifePeopleFriendsYouNo Friends

Art should be witty, like a good Eddie Murphy movie, to make your life a little easier and better.

William Quigley

LifeGoodArtBetterWittyLittle

To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.

Pierre Corneille

RevengeCrownHatredDisasterTake

This is definitely a playoff team. There's no question about that. It's just a matter of how much we want it.

Peter Bondra

TeamWantMatterQuestionJustMuch

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