Top 577 Recipe Quotes & Sayings

A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.

Sometimes it's good to not be able to buy everything, because then it gives you something to look forward to. That's why you shouldn't give kids too much - then they have nothing to look forward to. It's a recipe for disaster. What if you have a daughter and you give her everything and then she marries someone who can't give her everything? A recipe for disaster.

I meet so many young people who want to plan out their lives and want a recipe. They want me to tell them how to succeed. I didn't follow a recipe. I followed my instincts.

An algorithm is like a recipe.

So if we announce we're going to have a no-fly zone, and others have said this. Hillary Clinton is also for it. It is a recipe for disaster. It's a recipe for World War III. We need to confront Russia from a position of strength, but we don't need to confront Russia from a point of recklessness that would lead to war.

Always remember this...there is only ONE recipe for strength. A secret recipe that was handed down from Sandow to John Grimek to Paul Anderson to Vasily Alexeev to Bill Kazmaier to me. Now I'm giving you that magical recipe...hard work plus proper nutrition plus time equals strong.

Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor.

You can't make a recipe for something as complicated as surgery. Instead, you can make a recipe for how to have a team that's prepared for the unexpected.

There is no single recipe for success. But there is one essential ingredient: Passion

There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that's what is unique about them.

Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.

For me, whether it's in a book or on T.V., a recipe has to be simple. I have a short attention span, so to open a cookbook and see a recipe that goes on for three to four pages, well, I've lost interest.

Friends are the most important ingredient in this recipe of life.

I try a different cookie recipe every time I bake.

I make the best Spanish omelettes in the world, but I won't tell you the recipe!

Once you know the fundamentals of cooking, then you don't need to follow a recipe - you just know what herbs go well or what meats, or what combination of what goes together, and then you can just branch out from there. But if there's something specific that I want to make, I work on the recipe and tweak it to my own.

The major ingredient of any recipe for fear is the unknown.

We say it's not a recipe for success to have constant change, especially in football.

I cook a lot. I'm always experimenting. I'm not much of a recipe follower.

A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finish before you cook it. Before you start anything, read through the entire recipe once.

I'm not an amazing cook. But I can follow a recipe!

I was sent to sleepover camp since I was 6, and you know, it's a recipe for disaster.

If there were some recipe that would make all of our children really sane and civic-minded and hugely intelligent, I think we'd probably all do it. But I don't know that there is a recipe for creating that.

I love a good challenge of looking with new eyes at a tried and true recipe in my recipe Rolodex.

The holy grail of recipe developing is the recipe that turns out so much more impressive than you would expect from the effort it took to produce.

Recipe? Recipe? We don' need no stinkin' recipe.

You don't have to follow every recipe to the letter.

I wish I could tell you the recipe for figuring out who the target user is for your product and who your users should be, but... there isn't a recipe. It comes down to think really hard and use your judgement to figure out who you're really building this for.

A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe.

Once you have mastered a technique, you barely have to look at a recipe again

The great American food writer M. F. K. Fisher once wrote an essay called 'The Anatomy of a Recipe.' To have a good anatomy, in her view, a recipe should have a sense of logical progression. She despaired of recipes with 'anatomical faults,' where the reader is told to make a cake batter and only then to grease the loaf pans.

What I like about cooking is that, so long as you follow the recipe exactly, everything always turns out perfect. It’s too bad there’s no recipe for happiness. Happiness is more like pastry—which is to say that you can take pains to keep cool and not overwork the dough, but if you don’t have that certain light touch, your best efforts still fall flat. The work-around is to buy what you need. I’m talking about pastry, not happiness, although money does make things easier all around.

You have to have a plan, or else you're just creating a recipe for chaos.

Cooking is a philosophy; it's not a recipe.

It's a recipe for disaster.

Cooking is an observation-based process that you can't do if you're so completely focused on a recipe.

Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.

A cookbook is only as good as its poorest recipe.

Life's no piece of cake, mind you, but the recipe's my own to fool with.

My personal recipe for success is- Do what you love and don't look at the clock.

My own recipe for world peace is a bit of land for everyone.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

What could be a better recipe than mixing fashion and food?

When you taste something delicious, ask for the recipe! Or offer to trade a recipe!

I always feel like a script is a recipe, and then you bring the elements into the recipe, and you cook with it.

There is a tendency to think that if we engage too directly with moral questions in politics, that's a recipe for disagreement, and for that matter, a recipe for intolerance and coercion.

If there is one recipe for unhappiness it is that: expectations.

The only recipe is hard work, persistence, and belief.

If I'm doing a pavlova, for example, I need a recipe as I can't remember it well.

Instead of staying strong and working through when times are really tough, I usually quit this recipe for failure and start a whole new recipe. So if something is too challenging, I tend to chalk it up as not a good fit, and move on to something else.

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

We own a proprietary recipe for Casamigos Tequila that can't be duplicated.

I'm not an amazing cook, but I can follow a recipe.

There is no recipe for success - it is as unique as you are

You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.

Computer programming is really a lot like writing a recipe. If you've read a recipe, you know what the structure of a recipe is, it's got some things up at the top that are your ingredients, and below that, the directions for how to deal with those ingredients.

I keep everything in Notepad: shopping lists, to-do lists, recipe tasting notes, my blog content calendar, recipe inspiration, blog-post drafts.

A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.

If you learn a recipe, you can cook the recipe. If you learn the technique, you can cook anything.

A recipe is not meant to be followed exactly - it is a canvas on which you can embroider.