Maya Corrigan > Maya's Quotes

“She’d have to treat the interview more like risotto than instant rice, adding ingredients gradually while stirring gently.”
― Maya Corrigan, By Cook or by Crook

“If one could order a crime as one does a dinner, what would you choose? . . . Let’s review the menu. Robbery? Frogery? No, I think not. Rather too vegetarian. It must be murder—red-blooded murder—with trimmings, of course.”
― Agatha Christie, The A.B.C. Murders

“[Her] idea of a fair trade--her lentils for your caviar.”
― Maya Corrigan, By Cook or by Crook

“We owe much to the fruitful meditation of our sages, but a sane view of life is, after all, elaborated mainly in the kitchen.”
― Joseph Conrad

“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
― C.S. Lewis

“You need not see what someone is doing to know if it is his vocation, you have only to watch his eyes: a cook mixing a sauce, as surgeon making a primary incision, a clerk completing a bill of lading, wear that same rapt expression, forgetting themselves in a function.

How beautiful it is, that eye-on-the-object look.”
― W. H. Auden

“Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.”
― W.H. Auden, Forewords and Afterwords

“a good dinner is of great importance to good talk. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.”
― Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

“Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!”
― Roald Dahl

“Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart.”
― Erma Bombeck

“How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?”
― Charles de Gaulle

“The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious.

Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets.

The beet is the melancholy vegetable, the one most willing to suffer. You can't squeeze blood out of a turnip...

The beet is the murderer returned to the scene of the crime. The beet is what happens when the cherry finishes with the carrot. The beet is the ancient ancestor of the autumn moon, bearded, buried, all but fossilized; the dark green sails of the grounded moon-boat stitched with veins of primordial plasma; the kite string that once connected the moon to the Earth now a muddy whisker drilling desperately for rubies.

The beet was Rasputin's favorite vegetable. You could see it in his eyes.”
― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

“Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography. ”
― Robert Byrne

“You are what you eat and read.”
― Maya Corrigan

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain