Laurie Colwin Quotes

No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, and the wisdom of cookbook writers.

Laurie Colwin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 14, 1944 - October 24, 1992

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I don't have a type. But one thing I can say from my dating experience is that a physical attraction will only take you so far. So you definitely have to have a strong intellectual connection as well.

Jesse Metcalfe

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Nothing has gotten me out of Philadelphia. I moved 20 minutes away from Philly. That's about it.

Jill Scott

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I used to get, like, 2,000 letters a week at one point.

Andrew Keegan

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The thing most people don't pick up when they become an entrepreneur is that it never ends. It's 24/7.

Robert Kiyosaki

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My first memories of life were in rehearsal; that's why I can sleep through anything.

Robert Glasper

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There are a lot of people who want to leave their children with a world that is in better shape.

Robert J. Fisher

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If you sing a song of peace with enough gestures and grimaces, it becomes a war song.

Jean Giraudoux

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I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

Soren Kierkegaard

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People often ask me why I persisted in doing research on a subject that was so controversial. I frequently respond by telling them that only a few scientists are granted the great fortune to pursue topics that are so new and different that only a small number of people can grasp the meaning of such discoveries initially.

Stanley B. Prusiner

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I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn't want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it.

Roger Angell

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I don't believe the fertilised egg can be equated with the sort of human life that you and I represent, or our children represent.

Robert Winston

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I'm excited about seeing things, and I'm interested in the way I think other people saw things.

Roy Lichtenstein

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