Julia Child

If you're in a good profession, it's hard to get bored, because you're never finished - there will always be work you haven't done.

I wouldn't keep him around long if I didn't feed him well.

With enough butter, anything is good

You are the butter to my bread,and the breath to my life

You don’t spring into good cooking naked. You have to have some training. You have to learn how to eat.

Remember, 'No one's more important than people'! In other words, friendship is the most important thing--not career or housework, or one's fatigue--and it needs to be tended and nurtured.

...no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing.

...operational proof...it's all theory until you see for yourself whether or not something works.

One of the secrets, and pleasures, of cooking is to learn to correct something if it goes awry; and one of the lessons is to grin and bear it if it cannot be fixed.

There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter.

...the waiters carried themselves with a quiet joy, as if their entire mission in life was to make their customers feel comfortable and well tended.

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