Brooksley Wylie Quotes

I am not going to get eaten by ducks! ~ Jen Wylie

The stupid ducks give me nightmares. ~ Jen Wylie

You have this annoying ability to say the perfect thing and then ruin it by still talking. ~ Jen Wylie

Unless you're a terribly bad writer, you are never going to have too many readers. ~ Andrew Wylie

I don't really believe in targets, because my next target is to beat Stoke City ~ Ron Wylie

There is no advance without strife. ~ Philip Wylie

I spread my arms. In the Rainbow Jungles of Ever there lives what I affectionately call, killer ducks. ~ Jen Wylie

If any have a stone to throw It is not I, ever or now. ~ Elinor Wylie

Get out of your rut and into the groove ... ~ Ray Wylie Hubbard

You scare me, too," he whispered.
"Why ever so?" she asked, breathless and fluttery.
"At how badly I want to kiss you. ~ Wylie Snow

The businessmen have corrupted liberty by trying to propose it as a material quality. ~ Philip Wylie

I don't think if you're serious about literature your library is filled with award-winning books. ~ Andrew Wylie

Listening is one of the lesser-known skills that mistresses offer. ~ Betty Jane Wylie

This is how it feels to die: It starts from outside and works its way in. ~ Sarah Wylie

Not to understand the doer is to have no certain knowledge of what has been done, or why it was undertaken ~ Philip Wylie

Marriage is the agreement to let a family happen. ~ Betty Jane Wylie

People have been manipulating food ever since they realized cooking a whole animal was difficult. Cows don't come in hot dog form. ~ Wylie Dufresne

There are all kinds of ways of being unfaithful, not the worst of them with your body. ~ Betty Jane Wylie

He promised he'd never leave me. That we'd be friends forever."
"He was foolish to promise such things, ~ Jen Wylie

He smiled weakly. "You are the only woman I have ever met who made me think so much."
She laughed. "That doesn't say much for you. ~ Jen Wylie

She wondered what it sounded like when your heart broke. Glass shattering? The thundering roar of falling mountains? Or maybe the squishy rip of a real heart? ~ Jen Wylie

I've always had fond memories of cooking Thanksgiving. ~ Wylie Dufresne

I stick my tongue out at it. Ugh. I should be committed to an insane asylum. At least I'm not talking to a volley ball. ~ Jen Wylie

What matters is what you are holding in your consciousness as to the possibility for your life now. ~ Karen S. Wylie MA

As I start each day I have a blank canvas. I will make every effort to fill it with color. ~ Wylie R. Weeks

Eggs are one of my all-time favorite foods, and making the over-easy egg is a test of skill. ~ Wylie Dufresne

I like all cheese, but my guiltiest pleasure is definitely American cheese. ~ Wylie Dufresne

It dawned upon everybody that Aggie, at perhaps a hundred and sixty pounds and five feet nine and a half, was, as Beth later said, 'dynamite in the physical culture department. ~ Philip Wylie

Popery is the gospel transubstantiated into the flesh and blood of Paganism, under a few of the accidents of Christianity. ~ James Aitken Wylie

So every artist and would-be artist makes this same phrase: 'I knew, I never got it said. ~ Philip Wylie

If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve. ~ Philip Wylie

You must never leave me Sweetness. I will never leave you. ~ Jen Wylie

Extremely ripe things are not ideal for pickling. If you pour a hot liquid over super ripe strawberries, you're going to have strawberry soup. ~ Wylie Dufresne

you have to let the one you love go, so that if they come back to you, you know that they are yours forever ~ Trish Wylie

Not having a New York culinary tradition, far from being limiting, it's an opportunity to create freely. ~ Wylie Dufresne

The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft. ~ Philip Wylie

There is a line between sexualityand promiscuity, and the line is closer to celibacy than not. ~ Betty Jane Wylie

I have no interest in vegetarians whatsoever. Zero. Less than zero. ~ Wylie Dufresne

I believe I'll take off my colors for awhile / And just kick back and sing some blues ... ~ Ray Wylie Hubbard

Being a chef isn't the ideal career to intersect with parenting, but I try to be in my kids' lives as much as possible. ~ Wylie Dufresne

When ramps are in season, we pickle a bunch of ramps and fold that into soup. Pickled pearl onions are great chopped up or pureed. ~ Wylie Dufresne

Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache. ~ Philip Wylie

I will always wear this scar. It's called love. ~ Wylie R. Weeks

There will never be a universal way of cooking, but information will always be universally useful. ~ Wylie Dufresne

Buddha was not a Christian, but Jesus would have made a good Buddhist. ~ Ray Wylie Hubbard

The day when we plan seriously to start living either never comes or it comes too late. ~ I. A. R. Wylie

The spirit of pickling is one of adventure and fun. ~ Wylie Dufresne

Hollandaise, I would like to pour over my head and just rub all over myself. Eggs Benedict is genius. It's eggs covered in eggs. ~ Wylie Dufresne

Most people I know feel that life would be complete if they could just lose ten pounds. ~ Betty Jane Wylie

Poverty isn't being broke; poverty is never having enough. ~ Betty Jane Wylie

He thinks I'm his! That I'm gonna cook and have babies or something!"
Jadus stares at me in shock and then turns to the man. "She can't cook. She burns everything. ~ Jen Wylie

We have fried things in cubes, historically. We tried bars of Hollandaise, we tried different shapes, but it ultimately seemed like the cube was the right shape. ~ Wylie Dufresne

I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose. ~ Elinor Wylie

I present classics in an unfamiliar way or unfamiliar ingredients and preparations in a classical way. ~ Wylie Dufresne

There's nobody you can call and say, 'So, can you maybe send me your formula for frying Hollandaise?' because to the best of my knowledge, it didn't exist before we did it. ~ Wylie Dufresne

Down to the Puritan marrow of my bones
There's something in this richness that I hate.
I love the look, austere, immaculate,
Of landscapes drawn in pearly monotones. ~ Elinor Wylie

My heart jumps out of its cage to see what the fuss is about. Damn thing. Always so hopeful, but my voice hides it well. ~ Sarah Wylie

If you would keep your soul
From spotted sight or sound,
Live like the velvet mole;
Go burrow underground. ~ Elinor Wylie

We need justice. We need toleration, honesty and moral courage. These are modern virtues without which we cannot hope to control the forces science has let loose among us. ~ I. A. R. Wylie

Faith's the agreement to abandon detachment, John! To supplant a packaged security for open integrity. To agree not to learn anymore. It is the acceptance of a channel, by a man who was previously able to move on the whole terrain ~ Philip Wylie

It's not any more unusual to be born twice than it is to be born once. ~ Ray Wylie Hubbard

They are afraid. They would, today, keep secret a thousand things that, yesterday, they would have told one another freely. Freedom. Where is it now? We are driving it into limbo - their kind. To limbo. ~ Philip Wylie

Invite hope to the start of each day. ~ Wylie R. Weeks

Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion. ~ Philip Wylie

I don't Twitter or blog. I'm bad at small talk, and don't have good 'chat'. Talk to me about publishing, and I can go on for hours. ~ Andrew Wylie

There will never be a right or wrong way to cook something, but there will always be a more informed way. ~ Wylie Dufresne

I… I… I… n-need," she stuttered. "I need… a… a…"
"You need a - ? What do you need, love? Anything. Just ask. I'll bring you the moon if that's what will make you happy. ~ Wylie Snow

I'm a books person. Yes, I have a Kindle. I used it for an hour and a half and put it in the closet. ~ Andrew Wylie

God must hate common people, because he made them so common. ~ Philip Wylie

On grief. We know where we've been. We know where we want to be. ~ Wylie R. Weeks

It occurred to the man that the biggest problem with this staid world was the overwhelming demand for conformity. Everything was so eerily definitive: assent to the mandates of society would see you on the rise, but dissent was a steady downward path. ~ Django Wylie

The mealy look of men today is the result of momism and so is the pinched and baffled fury in the eyes of womankind. ~ Philip Wylie

I really don't do much on the night of Thanksgiving other than bring the wine and carve the turkey. My contribution comes the day after, in the form of breakfast. I usually just forage through the leftovers for things that will go well with eggs. ~ Wylie Dufresne

The Sabbath is the link between the paradise which has passed away and the paradise which is yet to come. ~ Andrew Wylie

Every dish doesn't have to be showy, and every dish doesn't have to slap you in the face with technique. ~ Wylie Dufresne

An old earthen pipe like myself is dry and thirsty and so a most voracious drinker of life at its source; I'm no more to be split by the vital stream than if I were stone or steel. ~ Elinor Wylie

I shall lie folded like a saint,
Lapped in a scented linen sheet,
On a bedstead striped with bright-blue paint,
Narrow and cold and neat. ~ Elinor Wylie

The days that I keep my gratitude higher than my expectations, I have really good days. ~ Ray Wylie Hubbard

My job has changed over the years, 22 years roughly I've been cooking professionally. When I was younger, I aspired to be the star player. Now, it's more I like to sit in the dugout and make sure the team wins the game. ~ Wylie Dufresne

It's just about asking why. We as cooks historically have been very, very technically proficient but not technically informed as to why we do what we do. Modernist cuisine is about that knowledge. ~ Wylie Dufresne

My heart throbs and aches and, for once, it's not for myself. It's for all of us. It's for everyone who knows what it's like to be helpless, to have to watch on the sidelines, to be paralyzed, literally unable to do anything. ~ Sarah Wylie

Most people think the biggest sacrifice, the greates act of love you can give is to die for someone. And probably it is. But Sometimes it is the opposite. The biggest thing you can do for someone is to live. ~ Sarah Wylie

I love bright words, words up and singing early;
Words that are luminous in the dark, and sing;
Warm lazy words, white cattle under trees;
I love words opalescent, cool, and pearly,
Like midsummer moths, and honied words like bees, Gilded and sticky, with a little sting. ~ Elinor Wylie

When strawberries go begging, and the sleek
Blue plums lie open to the blackbird's beak,
We shall live well
we shall live very well. ~ Elinor Wylie

As a pure source of reference, 'Modernist Cuisine' is incredibly helpful. It's like a modern-day encyclopedia, except for a single subject. It's not always the answer, but it's always a starting point. I feel honored to have been able to contribute to it. ~ Wylie Dufresne

It's a funny thing, but it's often overlooked that I'm a huge devout lover of French cooking. I have the utmost respect for them, though they have lost their respect for me because they think the way I cook is nutty. ~ Wylie Dufresne

I've seen cookbooks from lots of great chefs that have been disappointing. A book, to me, it has to have a story. Some of these people, they open a restaurant, and one year later, there's a cookbook. There's not much of a story yet. ~ Wylie Dufresne

There is a type of warfare in which the entire pattern is made up of a collection of lesser actions, but these lesser or individual actions are not sequentially interdependent. Each individual one is no more than a single statistic, an isolated plus or minus, in arriving at the final result. ~ J.C. Wylie

I think things like 'farm to table' are misleading. I think sometimes that becomes a pedestal or a soap box to get people into your restaurant but is not ... it's almost empty in a way. I mean, my food comes from a farm, and I serve it on a table. ~ Wylie Dufresne

The bird Imagination, That flies so far, that dies so soon; Her wings are colored like the sun, Her breast is colored like the moon. ~ Elinor Wylie

It's been a struggle to get people to come eat for fun. You know, the way they listen to music. You can do all kinds of things with music. But food - it's something people need, and that changes everything. You start playing with it, people have all sorts of reactions. ~ Wylie Dufresne

She looked him over, seeing him for the first time in sunlight. A blush crept up her cheeks as she did. He turned out to be handsomer than she'd imagined with the sunlight in his hair and him smiling at her. A flush spread across his face as well as they continued to stare at each other silently. She looked away quickly, suddenly embarrassed. ~ Jen Wylie

For The Broken Ones fans ... Sneak peek from Broken Prince:
"That simple kiss, such an innocent thing, destroyed me. It tore apart the walls I'd built, the rules I've lived by, that had been bred into me. It sent my thoughts down paths they should never have gone. Would never have, if not for you." From Broken Prince (Bk 2 of The Broken Ones) ~ Jen Wylie

Typically, you learn how to cook, but you don't know why. We were looking for a deeper understanding of what was happening to our food as we roasted it, boiled it, grilled it, chopped it, etc. And it turned out, as we began to really say what is cooking, what does it mean to cook, there's a lot of science involved. ~ Wylie Dufresne

I think it's important for anyone who is artistic to look back on their body of work and be critical. Maybe the Beatles can look back and say everything was perfect, but we've come up with hundreds and hundreds of dishes, and anyone who is honest with themselves has to realize that every single one wasn't an absolute, unequivocal home run. ~ Wylie Dufresne

I can fry hollandaise, I can fry ketchup, I can fry mustard. ~ Wylie Dufresne

Green vegetables are something that fascinate chefs; the ability to keep vegetables green. How do we keep them green? What makes them green? Why are they green? And then that sort of army green. Why do they go from bright vibrant electric green to army green, and how can we avoid that? ~ Wylie Dufresne

Cold-Blooded Creatures

Man, the egregious egoist
(In mystery the twig is bent)
Imagines, by some mental twist,
That he alone is sentient

Of the intolerable load
That on all living creatures lies,
Nor stoops to pity in the toad
The speechless sorrow of his eyes.

He asks no questions of the snake,
Nor plumbs the phosphorescent gloom
Where lidless fishes, broad awake,
Swim staring at a nightmare doom.

William Dunbar was one of the first great Scottish poets, and is also known for his poem "Lament for the Makiris" (Lament for the Makers, or Poets).

Elinor Wylie "was famous during her life almost as much for her ethereal beauty and personality as for her melodious, sensuous poetry. ~ Elinor Wylie

I have never cared very deeply about the actual taste of my work. Let its essential odor satisfy my mind and senses, and I am content. I rarely judge by the grosser test of actual gustation ... in cooking, to create a masterpiece for the nose alone - that is exquisite, that is Art! ~ Elinor Wylie

In Western society, and particularly in American society, imagination is stulified from infancy. The imaginative child is discouraged and upbraided. He is told that the process is mere dreaming, that it wastes time and leads nowhere. It is said to be "impractical." As the child grows and its imagination inevitably leads it to express unconventional ideas and to try new behavior, it is chided and even viciously punished for such signs of unorthodoxy. ~ Philip Wylie