Scott Foley Quotes

Bread and football - that's how I grew up.

Gravy is the simplest, tastiest, most memory-laden dish I know how to make: a little flour, salt and pepper, crispy bits of whatever meat anchored the meal, a couple of cups of water or milk and slow stirring to break up lumps.

I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.

It's funny; as I get older I'm reverting to my roots - I want to plant stuff.

The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy.

I find I'm an old soul.

I tend to like antique things. Something can be old, but it can be timeless.

I don't go out and get arrested anymore. The most extravagant thing I do these days is play golf. I'm like an old man.

I feel good when I stir something with a spurtle, but I don't make porridge very much in London.

Like a lot of kids, I had a Superman cake or different theme cakes, but then I hit the age where I think my mom thought I was ready for the German chocolate cake that she makes for my dad. Just the sight of that, the taste of that frosting, just reminds me of being at home with my mom and my dad and my sister and my friends.

I think the older I get, the less I should be doing.

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

At this age, I should be leading a quiet life.

Watching a child first learn to crawl on a carpet somehow has more significance to you as you get a little older. Perhaps it is that you have suffered more.

I live my life like an 85-year-old man.

I suppose you always look back at how easier things were being young. There's always a shame that you're not as naive as you were.

The older I get, the less busy I like to be.

I love comfort food - it's the basis of everything.

I know part of nostalgia is romanticising the past, but I love doing things in a slower way, and the glamour of bygone eras.

I believe with baking there is a certain nostalgic fix.

The good part about getting older is you stop trying to prove anything to anyone, including yourself. All you are in the pursuit of is collecting experiences - beautiful, fragile little soap bubbles that you store in your heart, and every once in a while you pull one out and gaze at the delicate pictures it shows you.

You can wine and dine all around the globe but the joy of coming back home to a meal cooked by your mom is pure bliss.

Baking can be done with a few simple ingredients, so it's about simplicity and nostalgia - people are reminded of their childhood.

When I was a kid, I couldn't see life outside ramen noodles and Kool-Aid.

Man is made of the wholly common, and custom is his nurse; woe then to them who lay irreverent hands on his old house-furniture, the dear inheritance from his forefathers: For time consecrates, and what is gray with age becomes religion.