Sophie Kinsella Quotes

I'll make a horrible housewife. It's not like I'm disgusting, but I'm pretty bad about having a drink or eating something and then leaving the plate and rushing to go.

However, we couldn't focus on the films much during the series because we're dumb. Individually we're smart guys, but together we're one big dumb guy, and couldn't concentrate on two things at once.

I find it so easy to get distracted - I try not to do more than one thing at any one time.

I'm easily distracted by other things in the world around me.

Are you kidding? I'm a terrible cook, but John is a really great one. Literally, I never cook. The whole time we were dating, I prepared two officially romantic meals. Both of them were such disasters that he begs me never to go into the kitchen again.

At home in Devon, my wife Jessica does a huge proportion of the cooking - I do the basics. My timing is extremely good, particularly when it comes to vegetables, perhaps because in my work, timing is everything. I know exactly what fits into a minute when broadcasting, and I apply the same to carrots.

I can't cook to save my life.

I don't cook very often. Actually, I'd go further: I can't cook.

But I'll tell you what I'm really bad at: I don't concentrate on what I'm doing, so I constantly lose things. I put my purse in the fridge - I'm one of those people.

I think it's just my nature. I can't work on one thing. I have to work on many things.

I've got rid of the ADD, but I do find it hard to concentrate sometimes.

Every three months, I'll say, 'Honey, I think I should learn how to cook'.

I can't do too much of one thing, or I get very distracted.

My attention span was not great.

I'm afraid sometimes I cram too much into my schedule. And I'm not very domesticated. I'm absolutely hopeless in the kitchen.

My husband is not in the slightest bit domesticated, but as the years go, by he's getting better. He can make an excellent omelette.

Neither me or my wife are any good at cooking.

I couldn't cook. I could put a pizza from Iceland in the oven, but that was it.

If I'm really honest, I can't cook. I'm, like, the worst, worst, worst cook in the world.

I have a short attention span. And when I'm in the middle of one thing, I'm then drawn to the next thing.

My biggest hurdle usually has to do with concentration. I have a tendency to kind of start working on something, and then, all of a sudden, I'll totally divert and do something totally different.

One of the problems of modern society, or the post-Internet age, is that there are so many things bombarding us that we could care about. I think it's more important than ever to really get clear and focus on what's worth caring about and what's just noise or distraction.

Sometimes I have lapses of attention, and I can lose some points very quickly.

Sometimes I have lapses of attention, and I can lose some points very quickly - that's been a big thing for him.

As students, we completely failed with the washing up. You'd constantly have to eat out of the wrong receptacle. You'd end up with a cup of cornflakes or a plate of tea.