Delia Smith Quotes

It's not particularly fun to have to factor in step stools to almost all areas of your home.

It's great to have a home and everything else that comes with it.

I've teamed up with Pine Sol to celebrate the makers of home.

Suppose you had a small electrical fire and... a structural engineer [looked] at your home's wiring [and] reports that the wiring is "shot" and there is a 50% chance that your house would burn down in the next few years unless you replace all the wiring. The job will cost $20,000... so you get an independent assessment. The next engineer agrees with the first warning. You can either continue to shop for additional evaluations until you find the one engineer in 1,000 that is willing to give you the answer you want, "Your family is not in danger" or you can change the wiring.

With gas cookers and chip pans in every kitchen, the chip-pan fire was by far the most popular method these Proddies had for burning their houses down. The second technique was the ever popular chimney fire and number three had to be the drunken cigarette drop on the carpet. Mind you, why they'd be cooking chips at this hour was anyone's guess.

Little journeys and good cost bring safe home.

I tell young people that the greatest paintings in museums are made with minerals mixed in oil smeared on cloth with the hair from the back of a pig's ear. It's that simple.

Time is your most precious resource; make every minute count.

I have become a giant fan of the testing process, especially with a comedy. I mean, they tell you what's funny. It's almost tailor-made for people who shoot the way we shoot, trying a million different options and versions of things. Because the audience doesn't laugh at a joke, we put in another joke. If they don't laugh at the next joke, we put in another joke. You just keep doing them and you can get the movie to the point where every joke is funny, if you have enough options in the can.

Time is a precious thing. Never waste it.

I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes.

Time is the most valuable asset you don’t own. You may or may not realize it yet, but how you use or don’t use your time is going to be the best indication of where your future is going to take you .

It's the worst feeling when you come home alone late at night and think the stranger sitting on your couch is a pile of clothes.

Every lawyer, no matter whom they represent, is trying to help someone, whether it's a person, a corporation, a government entity, or a small or big business. To me, lawyering is the height of service - and being involved in this profession is a gift.

It can be scary to be everywhere else for a long time. I always feel that I'm safe at home, near my family.

Sophronia was minding her own business and running late to luncheon, as was her custom. She'd let to learn the advantage of punctuality. As she told Sister Mattie the third time she was late to household potions and poisons, nothing interesting happened until after an event commenced.

But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.

Nothing separates successful people from unsuccessful people more than how they use their time!

I do not over-intellectualise the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.

Did you ever notice all the items on a honey do list are dangerous. Clean gutters, put light in shower, patch roof. It's a honey die list.

For a man's house is his castle, et domus sua cuique tutissimum refugium [and one's home is the safest refuge to everyone].

You cannot paint the exterior of your house. You have to take the paint chip down to show the paint-chip Nazis.

I find vacuuming very therapeutic. I like the lines it makes on the carpet.

Maybe more youngsters would stay home at nights if they were not afraid to stay alone at nights.