Lesley Nicol Quotes

Recently I've been doing risottos. Some of them have been amazing. Some of them, not all of them.

I wasn't that great a chef, and I don't think I'm that great a writer.

I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose.

I'm learning with my mom how to cook more Spanish food. I'm trying to make a good paella, but that's a real art.

Too much attention and hoopla doesn't agree with my temperament.

When I was 11, I made truffle risotto for my family for Christmas dinner.

I love to cook and I've cooked a lot of Bulgarian food over the years.

I found that preparation is everything when you cook.

I'm just very grateful that the media has been so kind to me, because there's nothing unusual about me. I'm just a mum and a granny who is teaching cookery on TV. Basically, I'm very ordinary.

My daughters have become little judges. If I do produce a baked item, they tut at the soggy bottom and advise me to try harder next time.

There isn't anything hotter than a guy who cooks.

I love to cook, and both Pancham and Gulzarbhai loved to eat. Gulzarbhai loves my karela ghosht and my Bengali kheer.

The sage wears clothes of coarse cloth but carries jewels in his bosom; He knows himself but does not display himself; He loves himself but does not hold himself in high esteem.

The noblest deeds are well enough set forth in simple language; emphasis spoils them.

The Rose does not preen herself to catch my eye. She blooms because she blooms. A saint is a saint until he knows he is one.

Keep it, keep it!" I answered. "You are very welcome to it! It is only a couple of small things, doesn't amount to anything—about everything I own in the world.

The most essential point is lowliness.

I know I am no better than anyone else in this world. I'm just an actor, that's nothing special. But I'm not into anything bad. Just blackjack.

A small heart hath small desires.

When you have the arrogance, the confidence and you can't cook, then you're only going to look stupid.

I hope the World War II generation doesn't lose that quality that made them so appealing: their modesty, and the way they are always looking forward and seldom back.

Style is the art of getting yourself out of the way, not putting yourself in it.

People with humility don't think less of themselves, they just think of themselves less.

I am not ambitious to appear a man of letters: I could be content the world should think I had scarce looked upon any other book than that of nature.

I really don't like showing people how I play things; it's a little embarrassing because it always looks so simple to me.