Harriet Van Horne quotes

“Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.”
-- Harriet Van Horne

Source : 1956 Vogue, Oct.

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“There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment possibilities than the television set.”
-- Harriet Van Horne

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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“Cooking is like making love, you do it well, or you do not do it at all.”
-- Harriet Van Horne

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“After nightfall, I wouldn't leave a burning building without an escort.”
-- Harriet Van Horne

Source : 1969 On muggings in Manhattan. In the Washington Post, 26 Feb.

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“One who roams the channels after dark, searching for buried treasure.”
-- Harriet Van Horne

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“Piglet: "How do you spell 'love'?" Winnie the Pooh: "You don't spell it...you feel it."”

“I love you,” I said, causing his face to contort in pain. “I’m not a man so I do not have a heart that loves as a human does. I’m an immortal god that dwells with supreme power because I hold the keys to Death. But you are my existence. I am yours.” Hot tears streamed down my face as I stared into the face of someone who comprehended an emotion much stronger than my weak, feeble words of love.”

“Only those who love with the heart can animate the love of others.”

Source : Abel Stevens (1881). “Madame de Staël: A Study of Her Life and Times: the First Revolution and the First Empire”

“Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man’s inhumanity to man.”

Source : Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.17, Lulu.com

“An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of propriety––Women and Men, Christians and Jews, Muslims and Buddhists, white, black, red, brown. An outrageous instinct to love and be loved executed your brain every hour on the hour.”

“An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.”

“Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.”

“Food simply isn't important to me.”

“People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.”

“Tasting a dish should be memorable If nothing remains in the memory of a single guest, then I have made a mistake.”