Jay Kristoff

There's a fairy story called the 'The Shoemaker and the Elves' where this old cobbler keeps leaving leather out overnight and wakes up the next day, and there's a new pair of shoes. Co-authoring is a little like that. You send off the manuscript to your partner, and a few days later, you check your email, and hey, there's more book in here!

Australian Author

Sandra Bullock

I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make. We waste so much time making decisions based on someone else's idea of our happiness - what will make you a good citizen or a good wife or daughter or actress. Nobody says, 'Just be happy - go be a cobbler or go live with goats.

American Actress

Waris Ahluwalia

I think the reason for my fascination with craft is what it represents, what it means in our culture, what it means in our history and in humanity. It was the idea that you could go to your butcher to get something, you could go to your tailor to get this, and you could go to your cobbler to get that.

American Designer

Boban Marjanovic

I cannot finish a meal if I do not have a good dessert. But when I say good, I mean it has to be really good. And it's usually small stuff - a piece of candy, crepes, some apple cobbler. No cake.

Rick Bayless

My earliest memory is making peach cobbler with my grandmother. A wonderful memory. I grew up in a restaurant family - B.B.Q. restaurant.

American Chef

Alexei Sayle

If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres.

British Comedian

Lauren Alaina

As a little girl, I remember always wanting my grandmother to make blackberry cobbler for me. I'm obsessed with it.

American Musician

Jeffrey Wright

For me, an actor is a person who makes characters like a cobbler makes shoes.

American Actor

Harvey Keitel

That's like asking a cobbler if he's made too many pairs of shoes.

Aisling Bea

I love my cobbler, and he fixes my soles and soul for me.

Irish Actress

Cobbler is a traditional term for someone skilled in shoe repair and might imply small-scale, artisanal, or local business.

Occupational Term

Cobblers have a rich history; understanding this can help you grasp the word's traditional connotations.

Historical Craft

Technically, cobblers repair shoes and do not make them; shoemakers or cordwainers make shoes.

Not a Shoemaker

Cobbler as a dessert is particularly common in American cuisine and may not be well-known globally.

American Dessert

Peach cobbler is often seen as a simple, comforting food, reminding one of homemade or rustic-style cooking.

Simple Homemade

Cobblers are usually made with fruit that is seasonal or regional.

Seasonal Fruit

Cobbler as a drink is an old-fashioned type of cocktail that has come back into fashion.

Vintage Cocktail

A cobbler drink is often associated with warm weather and can be a refreshing choice.

Summer Refreshment

The alcohol in a cobbler cocktail is usually mixed with fresh fruit, giving it a flavorful, fruity taste.

Fruity Mix

A 'cobbler job' often implies a reparative effort that's temporary or not very professional.

Imperfect Repair

The term is used humorously for fixing things without specialized skills, often leading to mixed results.

No Expertise Needed

 Each night, before the first day of school, my grandmother would sit me next to the stove and with expert precision use a hot comb to press my hair. My grandmother was legendary, big, loud. She filled up a room with laughter and oftentimes curse words. She cooked a mean peach cobbler,

The trauma of systematic...

 genius I believe feels very much like being a carpenter or cobbler some of us are born to do one thing and in this case I was born to take humanity to space I was able to put the first