Jeffrey Wright Quotes

I'm not saying my wife's a bad cook, but she uses a smoke alarm as a timer.

I'm a filmmaker who decided to go to culinary school. All I picked up was the fact if I didn't understand what was going on with every single ingredient, I could be qualifying for, like, the lunch food job at my daughter's school.

I can actually cook one meal now, as opposed to before, when I could cook nothing. My family are very excited.

If everyone could just cook properly I wouldn't have a problem.

Nobody pours stuffing like you do, my friend.

I love cooking and spending time in mine.

I spend more time in the kitchen than I have in the dining room, for obvious reasons, however, I just want to sit and indulge.

I've always been one of those people who romanticized cooking, but the few attempts I'd made in my life resulted in friends' contorted faces as they desperately tried to say something nice about the "dish" they were eating.

You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin , or even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.

Eat every meal as if it's your last; when the last one comes, you probably won't be very hungry.

Don't worry about something going away; enjoy it while it's happening. And don't worry about something that's not even real.

I, alas, must present myself somewhat ignominiously as a chef in a busy kitchen. Somewhere a novel is bubbling on a back burner, an old attempt at history may come out of the freezer.

Things are opaque to us, and we are opaque to ourselves.

Oh, I adore to cook. It makes me feel so mindless in a worthwhile way.

For me, a kitchen is like science fiction. I only go there to open the refrigerator and take something out.

Chef: Any cook who swears in French.

Life is a goddam mess...but you wouldn't want to miss it!

I can't ask for more out of life, and the more I learn, the less I know.

It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries of life.

I'm terrible in the kitchen. I was mostly raised by my mother and she could cook, so I never perfected that skill. If I had to count on my own cooking to survive, I'd probably be thinner.

Enjoy it while it lasts.

Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.

But what's so blessed-fair that fears no blot? Thou mayst be false, and yet I know it not.