Top 33 Chopping Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Chopping Quotes from famous people such as Craig Revel Horwood, Jesy Nelson, Tom Tancredo, John Niven, Chamath Palihapitiya, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

What would people be surprised to know about me? That I

What would people be surprised to know about me? That I love cooking and chopping wood for the heating system in my house.
Craig Revel Horwood
I’d become a bit of a joke. People would make memes, chopping my head off in a group photo and putting a monster or ET on there. I’d be in live Q&As and these things would pop up and I’d have to just sit there.
Jesy Nelson
Political conservatives need to recognize that multicultural politics is converging with leftist politics, and not only on ‘social issues’ like same-sex marriage. Our Constitution is also on the chopping block, and if you don’t see that, you haven’t been paying attention.
Tom Tancredo
It’s tough being a dictator, but I’ve always thought it must be tougher being a hanger-on to a dictator. The late nights spent listening to his crazed ranting, the weary rictus grin from smiling at bad jokes, the draining knowledge that one misjudged comment could land you on the chopping block.
John Niven
I feel like a lot of entrepreneurs hear all this talk about profitability and realize they need to lower their burn. So, they just start chopping off perks and people.
Chamath Palihapitiya
Most pumpkin dishes involve scooping out the seeds, cutting off the skin, and chopping up the flesh before cooking.
Yotam Ottolenghi
My late wife Olympia was Goan and I’ve been to India many times. I love the food there. We used to do our shopping in Southall, where you can find cheap but wonderful fruit like mangoes, vegetables and spices. I didn’t do much of the cooking, as Olympia did a lot – I was the under-chef and did some of the chopping.
Vince Cable
I do endless chopping and preparing things. I really find that relaxing. I do a lot of thinking as I am chopping and cooking.
Kate Winslet
I love taking things out of context and playing with them and chopping up rules.
Helen Oyeyemi
I was making all my own beats, and I really liked sampling stuff, like old ’50s and ’60s pop and soul and doo-wop records. I was chopping those up and putting loops and drums on them and just rapping over them.
G-Eazy
Turn the preparing of food into a communal affair by enlisting others to help with the chopping, grating, stirring, simmering, tasting and seasoning. When the cooking is finished, eat together round the table with the electronic gadgets switched off so you can savor the food and let the conversation flow.
Carl Honore
Zombies, what are you going to do with them? Just keep chopping them up, shooting at them, shooting at them.
Martin Scorsese
People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
Albert Einstein
Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block.
Annie Dillard
I use those medical gloves that fit very tightly and are disposable for all chopping – peppers, onions, garlic, etc. Very Lady Macbeth, I think.
Nora Ephron
If a man is pictured chopping off a woman’s breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman’s breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?
Sally Struthers
Throughout my time working in restaurants, I developed an illogical dread of some basic kitchen tasks. None of them – picking and chopping parsley, peeling and mincing garlic, browning pans of ground meat – were particularly difficult. But at the scale required in a professional kitchen, they felt Sisyphean.
Samin Nosrat
Laos is a country where everything is eaten. When I came back, I would find myself chopping parsley and thinking: ‘Why am I throwing these stems away? They’re perfectly edible.’
Ruth Reichl
There’s great value to knitting or digging up your garden or chopping up vegetables for soup, because you’re taking some time away from turning the pages, answering your emails, talking to people on the phone, and you’re letting your brain process whatever is stuck up in there.
Chellie Pingree
At my second record label, they told me and other female artists that some of us were going on the chopping block. I was 19… and it was devastating.
Katy Perry
I really enjoy making dinner for my kids and my husband – chopping ginger and marinating the tofu.
Sadie Frost
I love this pedal to death. The only way you could keep me from playing one is by chopping off my legs!
Kirk Hammett
One truism of federal budgeting is that growing deficits force difficult spending decisions, and when they do, programs to help the poor are usually first on the chopping block.
Brian Deese
I do not think I will ever write screenplays based on my books. I would not know what to cut out and what portions to keep. I like all the characters I have created. I cannot imagine chopping them off.
Ravi Subramanian
My boyfriend’s a real chef, so I steer clear of him when I’m in the kitchen – I wouldn’t like him to catch me chopping an onion.
Alice Levine
Songs are not on a conveyor belt. I’m not chopping them up and putting them out.
Maxwell
The testing levels have become ridiculous. All they show is contamination, and they have really put the trainers’ heads on the chopping blocks. It hurts racing.
Bob Baffert
I like the countryside. I like chopping wood. I’d like to be a carpenter.
Julian Barratt
After a day of writing, I love nothing more than to go into my kitchen and start chopping onions and garlic on the way to cooking an improvised meal with whatever ingredients are on hand. Cooking is the perfect counterpoint to writing. I find it more relaxing than anything else, even naps, walks, or hot baths.
Kate Christensen
What I have found is that the best way to unwind is cooking. You only have two hands. If you are chopping veggies, you are forcing yourself to put the phone down or step away from the computer. It’s extremely relaxing.
Whitney Wolfe Herd
The world is full of people who would like nothing better than to spend six hours on a golf course. I would rather be chopping shallots.
Ted Allen
I love cooking. It's what clears my mind, since it's pr

I love cooking. It’s what clears my mind, since it’s pretty hard to multitask when you’re chopping vegetables.
Katrina Lake
I was never a wallflower – I put my head on the style chopping block.
Boy George