#hat

Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. I'm looking for something different. A lot of chefs' cookbooks are food as it's done in the restaurants, but they are dumbed down, and I hate it when they dumb them down. ↗

— Mario Batali

#become #chefs #cookbooks #different #done

Twelve-piece cookware sets for ninety-nine bucks are routinely hawked on late-night TV - often by friends of mine. But with a mere five pieces, you can do whatever you like - slay the dragon and then cook its tenderloin in the style of the duke of Wellington, if you want to. ↗

— Mario Batali

#cook #cookware #dragon #duke #five

There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#energy #explain #explanations #genesis #i

Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you would do better if you slipped on a paving-stone and broke a front tooth. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#broke #calculation #child #cold #front

How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema. ↗

— Warren Beatty

#enema #giving #hate #hates #how

Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self. ↗

— Martha Beck

#essential #self #takes #whatever #your

Instead of fretting about getting everything done, why not simply accept that being alive means having things to do? Then drop into full engagement with whatever you're doing, and let the worry go. ↗

— Martha Beck

#accept #alive #being #doing #done

I believe that everything in life happens for a reason. ↗

— Boris Becker

#everything #happens #i #i believe #i believe that

You are incredibly fortunate whatever success falls on you, which is what happened with me. ↗

— James Van Der Beek

#fortunate #happened #incredibly #me #success

I hate to lose. Sometimes, I let my emotions get out of control. ↗

— Ed Belfour

#emotions #get #hate #i #lose