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Nigella Lawson Quotes

I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: british
Birth: January 6, 1960

Topics

Soul Yourself People Desert Think

I remember... seeing the first plane go into the towers and thinking: 'It's a beautiful day. Somebody really must have gotten off course to have the plane go into the towers.'

Beautiful Day Thinking Remember Go

Batman and Superman are probably my favorite superheroes - apart from Constantine.

Superman Favorite Batman Apart

The shedding of any clothes, when you're 70 years old, is tricky.

Clothes You Old Years Tricky Any

I believe that the majority of times the scale tilts toward the good. It's this amazing thing that rolls on and if we get in the flow of it, that's God. And if we fight it, if we swim the other way, we're swimming away from the purest expression of this life.

Life Good God Fight Amazing Believe

I got up with my wife, I sat down at the computer when she went to work, and I didn't stop until she got home.

Stephen R. George

Work Home Wife Computers Down Stop

I love cooking. I like to make lasagna - it's authentic Italian-style. I also do a great chicken recipe for a barbecue.

Sullivan Stapleton

Love Great Cooking Barbecue Chicken

I wasn't a very good waitress, always spilling things on people and forgetting things. I once spilled ashes all over Mike Wallace's table.

Good People Table Forgetting Over

Perhaps my favourite story is 'Le Passe-Muraille' by Marcel Ayme. It's about a guy who wakes up with a weird faculty that means he can walk through walls. He's a very shy clerk, and he uses it to get revenge, or vent his frustration.

Walk Walls Revenge Frustration Story

I'm not saying writing comedy's brain surgery, but there is a certain pressure to it. It's the equivalent of doing homework that's going to end up on national television.

Brain Writing Saying End Pressure

I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.

Beauty Influence Language Kind Way

People will say a movie bombed at the box office but I couldn't care less.

People Care Say Will Office Box

I was very, very young, living in India. I'd been put to bed in the afternoon, and I had that lovely feeling you have when you're about to nod off. I remember the yellow curtains of the room blowing in the wind and feeling blissfully happy and content.

Happy Yellow Wind Remember You Bed

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