The right words can spark inspiration, ignite and idea or simply bring a smile to your face. Sometimes I read them and break into spontaneous hopping up and down applause.  I'm a big fan of quotes and post them often on Twitter via @Travelblggr.

Coffee quotes are usually my favorite ... but here are my 10 picks for cooking, eating & food ...

1)“I like a cook who smiles out loud when he tastes his own work. Let God worry about your modesty; I want to see your enthusiasm.” - Robert Farrar Capon

2) "Bollocks have never frightened me. I'll eat a bollock any time." - Germaine Greer

3) "Vegetables are a must on a diet.  I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie."  ~Jim Davis

4) "If God had intended us to follow recipes, He wouldn't have given us grandmothers." ~Linda Henley

5) "One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating."   ~Luciano Pavarotti and William Wright

6) "There is no love sincerer than the love of food."  ~George Bernard Shaw

7) "Cooking is like love, it should be entered into with abandon or not at all" - Harriet Van Horne

8)  "Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first."  - Josh Billings

9) "No one who cooks, cooks alone.  Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.' -Laurie Colwin

10)  "I feel a recipe is only a theme, which an intelligent cook can play each time with a variation" -Madam Benoit

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