Nigella Lawson Quotes

You could probably get through life without knowing how to roast a chicken, but the question is, would you want to? ~ Nigella Lawson

Also, in a funny way, if you have been happily married there are no unresolved areas, nothing to prove to yourself after the other dies. ~ Nigella Lawson

You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be. ~ Nigella Lawson

If I could go into the woods and kill a bear myself, I'd wear it proudly as a trophy. ~ Nigella Lawson

Then again, they're not scripted and I feel it's virtually impossible to be anything but yourself when you're in front of the cameras and cooking so there is a measure of truth in what you see. ~ Nigella Lawson

I am determined that my children should have no financial security. It ruins people not having to earn money, ~ Nigella Lawson

I don't believe in low-fat cooking. ~ Nigella Lawson

Clean eating necessarily implies that any other form of eating – and consequently the eater of it – is dirty or impure and thus bad, and it's not simply a way of shaming and persecuting others, but leads to that self-shaming and self-persecution that is forcibly detrimental to true healthy eating. ~ Nigella Lawson

There is a kind of euphoria of grief, a degree of madness. ~ Nigella Lawson

I put the kitch into kitchen. ~ Nigella Lawson

Delia Smith needs to realise that when Nigella flirts with the camera she comes across as a slut. When Delia does it she comes across as an old slut. ~ Robert Clark

Tension translates to your guests. They'll have a much better time having chili and baked potatoes than they would if you did roast duck with a wild cherry sauce and then had to lie down and cry for a while. ~ Nigella Lawson

I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour. ~ Nigella Lawson

Cake baking has to be, however innocently, one of the great culinary scams: it implies effort, it implies domestic prowess; but believe me, it's easy. ~ Nigella Lawson

While I am sure there are a number of women who secretly wonder whether they are lesbian, most simply have, somewhere, a fantasy about having sex, in a non-defining, non-exclusive way, with other women. ~ Nigella Lawson

Everyone wants to be young, beautiful and rich. I don't say that scornfully: there are worse things to want to be. But that's why, for example, people don't begrudge Kate Moss how much she earns for a day's work but will fulminate over the take-home pay of some fat, old Water Board exec. ~ Nigella Lawson

I am always surprised when people read double entendres into my innocuous babble. ~ Nigella Lawson

But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it into your head. What's damaging is when sentences go through your head and you burn with the injustice of it. ~ Nigella Lawson

Emotion is messy, contradictory ... and true. ~ Nigella Lawson

It sounds like something on a very trite T-shirt, but life is what happens. ~ Nigella Lawson

I lurch from chaos to chaos. I can't find my driving licence and my clothes are everywhere - cooking is the neatest thing I do. ~ Nigella Lawson

I took a fortnight off. But I'm not a great believer in breaks. I don't want to be rattling around inside my own head. I did feel I was spiralling into a Kathy Burke character and tried going out, but I prefer it here. Filming keeps me busy. It absorbs me. ~ Nigella Lawson

I do think awful things may happen at any moment, so while they are not happening, you may as well be pleased. ~ Nigella Lawson

Some people did take the domestic goddess title literally rather than ironically. It was about the pleasures of feeling like one rather than actually being one. ~ Nigella Lawson

I don't like conflict. ~ Nigella Lawson

You need a balance in life between dealing with what's going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over. ~ Nigella Lawson

'Statistically, people who have been happily married and then widowed tend to remarry. ~ Nigella Lawson

(In cooking), there is always room for careful tinkering. ~ Nigella Lawson

I don't believe you can ever really cook unless you love eating. ~ Nigella Lawson

I'm not much of a drinker. I'm an eater more than a drinker. So I feel that I don't have to wait to get a hangover in order to eat these. ~ Nigella Lawson

I need to be frightened of things. I hate it, but I must need it, because it's what I do. ~ Nigella Lawson

Good olive oil, good butter, milk - they give food taste and depth and a richness that you cant reproduce with low-fat ingredients. ~ Nigella Lawson

You cannot truly say you live well unless you eat well. ~ Nigella Lawson

I am not a chef. I am not even a trained or professional cook. My qualification is as an eater. ~ Nigella Lawson

In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect. ~ Nigella Lawson

I think maybe when you live with someone who is really very ill for a long time, it somehow gives you more of a greedy appetite for life and maybe, yes, you are less measured in your behaviour than you would otherwise be. ~ Nigella Lawson

I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst. ~ Nigella Lawson

I wasn't good with authority, went to lots of schools, didn't like the fact that there was no autonomy. ~ Nigella Lawson

I think we all live in a world that is so fast-paced, it's threatening and absolutely saturated with change and novelty and insecurity. Therefore, the ritual of cooking and feeding my family and friends, whoever drops in, is what makes me feel that I'm in a universe that is contained. ~ Nigella Lawson

On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child. ~ Nigella Lawson

The modern world is personal; people want to know intimate things. ~ Nigella Lawson

Gordon Ramsay makes me laugh because he knows that I'm not a chef. ~ Nigella Lawson

Anyway, what makes people look youthful is the quality of their skin and I don't think you can change that. ~ Nigella Lawson

I never have plans for the future as you never know how things will turn out. ~ Nigella Lawson

People who have fabulous childhoods have this sense that nothing is ever going to be that good again. With me, I have the sense that nothing is going to be that bad. ~ Nigella Lawson

In Europe, where climate change absolutism is at its strongest, the quasi-religion of greenery in general and the climate change issue in particular have filled the vacuum of organised religion, with reasoned questioning of its mantras regarded as a form of blasphemy. ~ Nigel Lawson

There will be moments when you have to be a grown-up. Those moments are tricks. Do not fall for them. ~ Jenny Lawson

Also, whenever I read this paragraph to people who don't live in the South, they get hung up on the fact that we had furniture devoted to just guns, but in rural Texas pretty much everyone has a gun cabinet. Unless they're gay. Then they have gun armoires. ~ Jenny Lawson

She was right, but at the same time she reminded me why girls make both great and terrible friends: They actually listen to your goals, even when you're too drunk to know what you're saying. ~ Jenny Lawson

I rented sloths by the hour. ~ Jenny Lawson

I'm made from a lot of unfulfilled arson. ~ Jenny Lawson

On the other side of fear is freedom. And usually fewer fingers than you started with. ~ Jenny Lawson

However useful computer models may be, the one thing they cannot be is evidence. Computer climate models are simply conjectures. ~ Nigel Lawson

It's because right now? YOU'RE READING. That's what the sexy people do. ~ Jenny Lawson

I don't need Botox," Laura countered. "I got Bangtox. It's when you decide to get bangs to cover your forehead wrinkles. It totally works and no one injects poison in your face." I ~ Jenny Lawson

When I look at my life I see high-water marks of happiness and I see the lower places where I had to convince myself that suicide wasn't an answer. And in between I see my life. I see that the sadness and tragedy in my life made the euphoria and delicious ecstasy that much more sweet. I see that stretching out my soul to feel every inch of horrific depression gave me more room to grow and enjoy the beauty of life that others might not ever appreciate. ~ Jenny Lawson

Better to have small faith in a great God than to have great faith in a small god. ~ Steven J. Lawson

I made a note on my phone to create a Swiss Army Dillo but spell-check changed it to "Create a Swiss Army Dildo," which frankly just seems painful and excessive. ~ Jenny Lawson

If we all get a trophy, the world atrophies. ~ John Lawson

I love animals, sometimes more than people, because they don't judge. All they want is love. ~ H.J. Lawson

When I was little, my father used to sell guns and ammo at a sporting goods store, but I always told everyone he was an arms dealer, because it sounded more exciting. ~ Jenny Lawson

If you put a bunch of chameleons on top of a bunch of chameleons on top of a bowl of Skittles what would happen? Is that science? Because if so, I finally get why people want to do science. ~ Jenny Lawson

I'm pretty sure 'ferral cats' is code for 'vampire cougars. ~ Jenny Lawson

that's when I realized that popularity is a big bunch of bullshit. Recognizing that popularity is sometimes the equivalent of human mange sort of cured me from wanting it. ~ Jenny Lawson

It's about taking those moments when things are fine and making them amazing, because those moments are what make us who we are, and they're the same moments we take into battle with us ~ Jenny Lawson

Usually your kids' positive qualities come less from your making them awesome and more from just not intentionally squashing the random things they're inherently born with that make them awesome. ~ Jenny Lawson

I am in favour of a fully transferable allowance. ~ Nigel Lawson

They're important but we're ignoring a lot of other parts that are probably just as compliment-worthy and sexy because we're too busy complimenting firm pecs and thin waists and untarnished souls. Branch out a little, is all I'm saying. It couldn't hurt. I bet your small intestines are adorable. ~ Jenny Lawson

Just cheer up is almost universally looked at as the most unhelpful depression cure ever. ~ Jenny Lawson

In a world filled with violence, hatred, and suspicion, giving is an expression of faith, trust, and concern. ~ Douglas A. Lawson

We feel so much pride and joy when our children follow in our footsteps. Let's make sure our footsteps are worthy enough for them to follow. ~ Toye Lawson Brown

You are defined not by life's imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them. ~ Jenny Lawson

I am caught in a Mark Twain shame spiral. ~ Jenny Lawson

With this blistering salvo of poetic gutshots Lawson has proven himself Bizarro's true bard, its mad laureate. Switching from dark whimsy to retina-blast shock to political outrage without missing a beat, The Troublesome Amputee is a powerful collection of pitch-black verse. ~ Jeremy Robert Johnson

You are only as good as the people you work with, I think. ~ Josh Lawson

Whoever has not learned to let Nature have her way is not fit for a gardener, or, for that matter, for a contented soul. A garden makes all our senses swim with pleasure. ~ William Lawson

I think that the ordinary bloke has an instinctive sense that it wouldn't be too bad if the weather warmed up. ~ Nigel Lawson

Australia is filled with roundabouts and everyone drives on the wrong side of the road. In the end we decided to split up the work and I feverishly watched the GPS and yelled, Left! Right! ROUNDABOUT! ~ Jenny Lawson

With new hope.
We build new lives.
Why complain when it rains?
This is what it means to be free. ~ Lawson Fusao Inada

The lake hadn't been frozen long and of all them had been expressly forbidden to go out on it, but Norman Pye, who was older than the rest of them, said that it would be safe if they slid out on their bellies. So they did. "We thought it was exciting as all get out," Miss Vernon said. "We could hear the ice cracking but it didn't give, and we slid across it like seals. Oh, it was tremendous fun. The ice was clear as glass and you could see right to the bottom. All the stones lying there, brighter and more colourful than they ever are when you look through the water. You could even see fish swimming about. And then all at once there was this loud crack and the whole sheet gave way, and there we were in the water. ~ Mary Lawson

It is the same with revolution; so long as the proper spirit is spreading amongst our young men, we are satisfied that it spreads without bombast or parade. ~ Henry Lawson