Laurie Colwin Quotes

When I eat something like vegetable bibimbap, I get that warm and fuzzy feeling of eating stuff that I grew up with.

When I feel like the day is great? Pasta. When I feel like I want the day to be great? Pasta. It's just awesome.

Food can offer a moment of pure emotional pleasure in an otherwise hard and difficult world.

Grits really are food for the soul.

We don't realize how much we create reality through language. If we say that life is hard, it will be hard.

We know what we should and shouldn't put in our mouths, but in those times that pull on our souls, we revert to what's emotionally comfortable.

Life is hard. Life is beautiful. Life is difficult. Life is wonderful.

Food is the most primitive form of comfort.

... most bereaved souls crave nourishment more tangible than prayers: they want a steak. What is more, they need a steak. Preferably they need it rare, grilled, heavily salted, for that way it is most easily digested, and most quickly turned into the glandular whip their tired adrenals cry for.

You don't have to have perfect wisdom to get very rich - just a bit better than average over a long period of time.

Nobody asked to be born. Life is hard, kinda.

The perfect borscht is what life should be but never is.

My life here is perfect and I'm happy at Real Madrid so, of course, I want to stay as long as I can.

I’ve long said that if I were about to be executed and were given a choice of my last meal, it would be bacon and eggs.

I grew up in a home filled with music and had an early appreciation of jazz since my dad was a jazz musician. Beginning at around age three I started singing with his band and jazz music has continued to be one of my three passions along with acting and writing. I like to say jazz music is my musical equivalent of comfort food. It's always where I go back to when I want to feel grounded.

Unless you have been very, very lucky, you have undoubtedly experienced events in your life that have made you cry. So unless you have been very, very lucky, you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.

God wants to help us to eventually turn all of our weaknesses into strengths,1 but He knows that this is a long-term goal. He wants us to become perfect,2 and if we stay on the path of discipleship, one day we will. It’s OK that you’re not quite there yet. Keep working on it, but stop punishing yourself.

Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese--toasted mostly.

Chocolate doesn't solve everything, Nana." "It solves a whole heck of a lot, though.

I love the old movies from my past, when I was growing up. I just have a special place in my heart for them. They kind of feel like comfort food to me, so watching them is just cozy and warm.

I feel like Twitter was tailor-made for me, because I can do short spurts all day long. I loved my blog, but doing daily, then thrice weekly entries was really time consuming. 140 characters is perfect.

I love New York, but it's a rough city. It's not dangerous now the way it was in the 70's or the 80's, but it's still a rough city. It's hard to hack it there. Life is harder than it is on the West Coast. To be able to deal with that, you have to have a lot of aspirational feelings pinned on being there.

She was a great cook, but she cooked more for herself than for other people, not because she was hungry but because she was comforted by the rituals of the kitchen.

Food is not about impressing people. It's about making them feel comfortable.