Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Trotter

Chefs, as a whole, say yes to any project, fundraiser, or tasting because they have such a generous spirit.

Joseph Addison

Poverty palls the most generous spirits; it cows industry, and casts resolution itself into despair.

David Prowse

I'm also involved in the rights of the disabled and do some fundraising for that and I thought it would have been a big boost for the campaign but it couldn't be worked out.

Bill Maher

Rick Santorum beat Mitt Romney in three states on Tuesday. Got a huge amount of fundraising. That's the good news for Rick Santorum. The bad news: people are now Googling 'Santorum.'

Brad Feld

The only thing that we know about financial predictions of start-ups is that 100 percent of them are wrong

Jason Calacanis

I get a lot of emails from entrepreneurs. The best ones are short, to the point and include some question and/or the product

Dan Pallotta

Everyone wants charities to spend as little as possible on overhead. That's backwards. Overhead is what drives growth. If charities can't grow, they can't solve problems. So overhead is a good thing. And I'm overhead.

Fred Wilson

The fact is that the amount of money startups raise in their seed and Series A rounds is inversely correlated with success

John McCain

I don't know a politician who enjoys fundraising. The system is such that the American people have lost faith.

Mark Steyn

Can't spell, can't spot fake Shakespeare, can't tell one wacky foreigner from another: it's increasingly obvious that Barbra is some deep sleeper planted by the Republicans to discredit the very concept of activist celebrities. Poor old Democrats, in thrall to her fundraising: people who need Barbra are the unluckiest people in the world.

Millard Fuller

I have tried raising money by asking for it, and by not asking for it. I always got more by asking for it.

Daniel Boulud

When France was the only reference for chefs to learn, you could go everywhere in the world, and they would copy dishes directly because they didn't have much expanded imagination or technique or knowledge.

April Bloomfield

Food's delicate. You have to handle it with finesse. You can't just be a big ogre.

Howard Morton

She's just the master chef in the kitchen. When she was measuring out the milk for nine children, she made sure each glass had an equal amount. Otherwise, the kids would get on her about it.

Claudia Fleming

Men are always pushed into group situations ... like group sports with a leader. In the kitchen the chef is your captain, but in pastry there is more autonomy, more independence. Women relish that. you are permitted to be creative sooner than on the hot line.

Emilia Fox

I'm the joke of the family with cooking because I've never done it - primarily because I've been surrounded by people who are so good at it. Mum's brilliant. Boyfriends have always been good at it. I'm waiting for my inner chef to be released.

Eric Ripert

Some chefs go crazy with one restaurant, and if I had 20, I would go nuts.

Luigi Barzini

They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach.

Andy Cohen

I've been nominated for 12 Emmys, and we won - for 'Top Chef' - the only time I didn't go.

Tom Colicchio

We are not really privy to all that crazy stuff that goes on in the show. I go to work, eat, and talk about food. The wild things happen when we aren't around. I expected Top Chef to last three or four seasons and we are now shooting season ten.