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Definition of Recipe

Recipe

A formulary or prescription for making some combination, mixture, or preparation of materials; a receipt; especially, a prescription for medicine.

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Recipe Quotations

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.
Margaret Thatcher

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Carl Jung

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Jane Austen

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.
George Eliot

My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual.
Phyllis Diller

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
Elbert Hubbard

As I sit down and start to work, I often panic. I stare at the empty piece of music paper. How can I say that my piece will be ready for performance next January when I do not have a recipe for making it happen?
Lukas Foss

You don't run 26 miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secret recipe.
Frank Shorter

There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that's what is unique about them.
Robert Sternberg

Recipe writers hate to write about heat. They despise it. Because there aren't proper words for communicating what should be done with it.
Alton Brown

The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
Andre Maurois

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.
Norman Douglas

The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Charles Lamb

There are so many things that come into writing a recipe, and it's really important if you're writing for home cooks to be cooking like you are at home.
Sally Schneider

My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
Eartha Kitt

We make films that we ourselves would want to see and then hope that other people would want to see it. If you try to analyze audiences or think there's some sophisticated recipe for success, then I think you are doomed. You're making it too complicated.
Brad Bird

If the militarily most powerful - and least threatened - states need nuclear weapons for their security, how can one deny such security to countries that are truly insecure? The present nuclear policy is a recipe for proliferation. It is a policy for disaster.
Joseph Rotblat

I may find something that looks interesting and then go on to alter the recipe by adding spices, things of my own. I also look for time-saving recipes, dishes that can be prepared ahead and stored.
Paul Lynde

It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives' recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause.
Michael Kinsley

But for the time being, I've only learned one cake recipe and how to make scrambled eggs.
Eva Herzigova

I can make dressing - or stuffing. Y'all call it stuffing up here, we call it dressing down there. It's really good dressing. That family recipe was passed on, and I love to make that.
Edie Brickell

The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.
Leon Gambetta

What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.
Benjamin Franklin Fairless

A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.
John Kasich

The recipe for success is a tried and true one here in Rhode Island - innovation, reform, public service.
Donald L. Carcieri

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Recipe Translations

recipe in Afrikaans is resep
recipe in Dutch is recept
recipe in French is ordonnance, recette
recipe in German is Rezept
recipe in Hungarian is recept
recipe in Italian is ricetta
recipe in Norwegian is resept
recipe in Portuguese is receita
recipe in Spanish is receta
recipe in Swedish is recept

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