Quotation Explorer - 'Recipe'

I’m going to break one of the rules of the trade here. I’m going to tell you some of the secrets of improvisation. Just remember—it’s always a good idea to follow the directions exactly the first time you try a recipe. But from then on, you’re on your own. - James Beard
If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to a recipe that can be passed from one person to another. - John Steinbeck
Raising children is like baking cookies at high altitudes. The recipe doesn’t work. You must open the oven door and keep checking on the cookies. - Dr Margaret Aranda
Life is a recipe book our words always cook enough. - Kishore Bansal
I'm happily married to Peter senior; we're best friends as well as lovers, which is probably the best recipe for a successful relationship. We live in a lovely part of England. - Carole Mortimer
Read and write. That's the recipe for being a writer. - J.D. Cunegan
The feminist movement taught women to see themselves as victims of an oppressive patriarchy....Self-imposed victimhood is not a recipe for happiness. - Phyllis Schlafly
I hate the notion of a secret recipe. Recipes are by nature derivative and meant to be shared - that is how they improve, are changed, how new ideas are formed. To stop a recipe in it's tracks, to label it "secret" just seems mean. - Molly Wizenberg
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. - Jane Austen
A recipe for success. Think, do. Repeat as needed. - Rob Liano
A single recipe holds countless stories. - A.D. Posey
A miracle is when you take action on your written goal, and make it reality by working hard to create it. Transform your dreams into the real world, by writing your goals, taking action and making them happen. This is the short recipe for personal success. - Mark F. LaMoure
Living on earth and expecting to be surrounded by angels?Sure recipe for a heartache! - Asma Naqi
What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team. - Benjamin F. Fairless
The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement. - Don Roff
A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe. - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
A miracle is when you take action on your written goal, and work hard to create it. Transform your dreams into reality, by writing your goals, taking action and making them happen. This is the short recipe for top success. - Mark F. LaMoure
My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual. - Phyllis Diller
Placing religious beliefs above law is a great recipe for destruction of entire human race. - Ketan Waghmare
Recipe For Happiness Khaborovsk Or Anyplace'One grand boulevard with treeswith one grand cafe in sunwith strong black coffee in very small cups.One not necessarily very beautifulman or woman who loves you.One fine day. - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
It's just as sure a recipe for failure to have the right idea fifty years too soon as five years too late.
If God had created celery, it would only have two stalks, because that's the most that almost any recipe ever calls for. - skint foodie
A definite recipe for success is when you take persistent action on a strong definite goal. - Debasish Mridha
When everyone is hungry and waiting when things need doing urgently and the clock is ticking - it’s often wiser to get cooking and present a ready-made dish they’ll find tasty to eat rather than getting everyone involved in deciding on the recipe. - Rasheed Ogunlaru
A miracle is when you take action on your written goal, and work hard to create it. Transform your dreams into the reality, by writing your goals, taking action and making them happen. This is the short recipe for top success. - Mark F. LaMoure
I let myself relax into the pattern of the recipe. - Jael McHenry
If the militarily most powerful and least threatened states need nuclear weapons for their security, how can one deny such security to countries that are truly insecure? The present nuclear policy is a recipe for proliferation. It is a policy for disaster. - Joseph Rotblat
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. - Carl Jung
the taste of death does not comes from the recipe of cowardness - Rishi Mishra
Even when the economy isn’t doing so well, people will still need good products and services. When you build a business around products and services that people will always need, then find innovative ways to let it run on autopilot while you grow it, then that’s a sure recipe for wealth. - Kevin J. Donaldson
My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions. - Eartha Kitt
Smartass Disciple: Master, what is the secret recipe of your happiness?Master of Stupidity: If I tell you, there is nobody left to be made fun of. - Toba Beta
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge. - Elbert Hubbard
I thought it was a novel.It is.What’s it about??You’ll have to buy it to find out, but it’s got everything: love, death and an amusing dog.This one’s got a recipe for apple crumble, I said.Don’t you love that about the novel? The capaciousness? he said. - Marcel Theroux
Sunshine and water—the perfect recipe for happiness. - Toni Sorenson
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