Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Mark Madison

We did grits this morning. We do have chefs from New Orleans, and we'll probably give that a try.

Gregory Smith

There are more chefs per capita in Park City than in Paris. It's a very sophisticated place.

Marcus Samuelsson

I love chicken. But, like a lot of chefs and cooks, I get tired of preparing it the same way.

Marcus Samuelsson

Chefs don't eat at normal hours, so the only time you feel like you really need a meal is after service, when you're exhausted and just crave something to help you wind down.

Daniel Boulud

I think D.C. has always been very, very vibrant for food. Like Boston in a way. Boston and D.C. were really the two cities that were the most active with their local chefs and their local food scene.

Bob Wright

Our chefs come up with wonderful specials all the time. Thursdays are lobster night ($13.95) and Wednesdays are prime rib night ($12.95). We have different specials throughout the week.

Rich Allison

My mom was cooking all the time. I was always around great food, and so was Sandy. Our mothers could cook better than some of the finest chefs around.

John Tyndall

Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.

Mary Gordon

My favorite dish is bibimbap, which is composed of various vegetables, steamed and pickled, and meat toppings over a bed of rice.

Dick Umile

I give a lot of credit to Kevin Regan. It?s not easy to stay composed when you?re down 3-0. I was proud of the way the guys responded.

Anne Worcester

She's as composed and graceful and confident as I've seen in any 17 year old. But it's hard to come off that big a win and keep the momentum going. It's so much easier to get there than to maintain that level of success.

Laura Davis

She's pretty tough to beat. She's very composed and never seems to miss a putt.

Jim Nestor

She's doing a great job in the back. Composed and confident back there. So, with that we don't have to take one of our outside half(backs) that we were thinking (and moving them to sweeper).

Louis D. Brandeis

The difference between a nation and a nationality is clear, but it is not always observed. Likeness between members is the essence of nationality, but the members of a nation may be very different. A nation may be composed of many nationalities, as some of the most successful nations are.

Willy Ley

Just as the water of a river near its mouth, in its final form, is composed largely of many tributaries, so an idea, in its final form, is composed largely of later additions.

Sivamani

Music is composed on computers and other electronic equipment; producers don't want to spend money on orchestra.

Thomas B. Macaulay

He . . . felt towards those whom he had deserted that peculiar malignity which has, in all ages, been characteristic of apostates.

Pete Lewinski

We had good looks from the field. Our shooting deserted us.

Thomas Wilson

A (Yugoslav army) prisoner had reported, for example, that seven people had deserted from his platoon,

Joel Kinnaman

My father is American and deserted the Vietnam War.

Bible Bible

For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

Kathryn Tucker

She completely devoured it within a second. ... If she would have been ill for any other medical reason, I don't think she would have been as motivated as she was to eat.

Adam Rayner

I don't devour huge amounts of television. I'm more naturally inclined to watch movies, but given my job, I need to have an understanding of what's on TV.

Alexa Von Tobel

When I was younger, I used to play mind games in which I'd try to finish tasks in minutes. My favorite was when I would shower, lay out my school clothes, then devour my dinner - in 15 minutes flat.

Virginia Henley

I devour history books. I love anything by Thomas B. Costain or George MacDonald Fraser. He writes magnificent history, and he also wrote the Flashman stories, which are irresistible.

Bible Bible

Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron: / But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of Benhadad.

Arlen Specter

Cannibals are devouring senators.

Alison Tyler

I devour books. But for the longest time, I refused to pay attention to genre or labels.

Holly Black

'Twilight' passed like a fever through the sophisticated reader and the unsophisticated reader alike. People devoured those books in single sittings, over weekends, with a kind of raw intensity that is rare.

E. P. Thompson

Many people like to eat sardines with their bones, which can be a good source of calcium as well as the omega-3 fatty acids.

Nick Taylor

Mom said we should go and see where we stand. We wanted to get a baseline of where we stood and where we wanted to go with our eating habits.

Keith Willis

Mentally, are you ready for that level? I don't think so. Because I've been there, done that. I know what's expected from a first-round pick. You're supposed to be God-sent, and if you get there and falter, they'll eat you alive.

Rhonda Cornum

One young man I spoke to said he was sitting eating lunch, and then found that he was somewhere else,

Arthur Miller

Now we're eating pizza as opposed to steak.

Billy Rose

Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs repairing.

Billy Rose

Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs painting.

Dorothy Frist

When the kids eat in the room, other kids will see them and we hope they'll try breakfast, too.

Tucker Max

Whatever your favorite food is, if you eat it every day for a month, you're going to get sick of it.

Jacqueline Leo

Seven is more than a lucky number or a famous baseball player's uniform. It's the brain's natural shepherd, herding vast amounts of information into manageable chunks.

Kelly Ryan

Mozart wrote some of the most famous operas of all time; Mozart wrote some of the most famous Masses of all time, strong quartets, symphonies.

James McCartney

Music is in me. I don't have much of a choice. People might listen to one of my songs or come and see my because of my famous last name, but if my music's not good they won't hang around.

Maisie Williams

No one teaches you how to be a famous person; no one teaches you how to be a role model. It's something you have to do on your own.

Max Clifford

Now people are famous for doing things that 15 years ago they would have tried hard to keep out of the papers.

Matthew Burns

When I grow up, I want to be an artist, a person who sews things and a guitar player. I hope I am famous someday.

Doug Harvey

I know that there are no famous 'Doug Harvey plays.' And I'm proud of that.

Edgar Allan Poe

This maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.

Andy Borowitz

Get over yourselves with the coffee. You know, we all have it. It's like being famous for mustard or gum.

Judy McNamara

Lunt was trained as a chef. He liked to use fresh food in his cooking.

Daniel Boulud

Le Cirque at first was one of those general French restaurants in town, which were cooking more or less the same food. At Le Cirque, I wanted to do something different while respecting the foundation of the restaurant. I did that through the menu.

Mary Bush

Many households have two working spouses, so there are time pressures that influence food purchases.

Simon Pluess

Many people have lost all their food stocks and stoves in the quake ... and they need ready-to-eat food.

Nancy Cartwright

Mud is not one of the 4 food groups

Rig Veda

May all the food I partake be pure.

Peter Baker

Men still have this tendency to see food as being like fuel. It's there to serve a purpose.

Rebecca Stead

My kids really like food, and they like to cook, so it's a lot of fun to shop with them.

Jason Wu

My favorite thing about Taiwan is the food.

Michael Jai White

I don't know when the last time I had fried chicken was. Must've been years. As soon as I think about eating it, I think about the stomach ache I'd get.

Tyler James Williams

I have a saying: 'I'm good for three things: making fried bologna sandwiches, making money and picking out good movies.'

Natalie Martinez

I make a bomb vaca frita. It's like a flank steak like with the ropa vieja, but it's fried with garlic and lime. And I make a really good picadillo.

Yotam Ottolenghi

One Indian-inspired favourite of mine is mashed potato mixed with lemon juice, breadcrumbs, coriander and chilli, shaped into patties, fried and served with chutney and yoghurt.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Tossing doughnuts, fritters or fried dumplings in fennel sugar adds grown-up complexity without diminishing the indulgence factor.

Keith Belling

I love fried chips, but they weren't good for you, and I didn't like the healthy options like rice chips.

Suki Waterhouse

One thing people would be surprised to know about me: I have a mean roundhouse kick. And my guilty pleasure? Deep fried pig ears!

Danny Meyer

If someone said, 'You've got to eat your next two meals at American fast-food restaurants,' I would do one meal at Chipotle and one meal at Popeyes fried chicken.

Harry Balzer

What can I say? Americans love fried chicken.

William Shakespeare

I had rather live with cheese and garlic in a windmill.

Jordi Molla

After waking up, I take my vitamins and eat fruit or, sometimes, bread with garlic, which is good for your health.

Jennette McCurdy

My favorite is Steamfresh broccoli with just a hint of garlic salt.

Stuart Scott

People always talk about the nausea that comes with chemotherapy. For me, it's more like a queasiness. And it can be intense. It's an uncomfortable, gross kind of 'blech' feeling.

Sam Craig

There are multiple revenue streams, so theatrical gross is important because it signals the subsequent revenue through home video rentals, sales of DVDs, pay television and others.

David Johnson

I would suggest there's some sloppiness here. Neither mere negligence or gross negligence will suffice.

Richard Stice

But what worries me is that you're going to see pressure on gross margins as film declines.

Errol Flynn

My problem lies with reconciling my gross habits with my net income

Anna Kendrick

I heard people saying they were going to become millionaires by the time they were 25 - that's gross and obnoxious, but in California it's looked on as an asset.

Brent Sutter

The players thought it was pretty gross because my leg was just black. I limped around until the end of January.

Laurence Gilman

To say we're unhappy with the performance of the team is a gross understatement.

William Carpenter

To say I find these results unacceptable would be a gross understatement,

Isabella Rossellini

The first time I went to Hollywood, I was 25 years old. My background was mostly Italian.

Sigmar Polke

Light is a metaphoric thing. There is green light and red light. Then there is black light, which is mostly danger.

Charlie Siem

I'm always on duty, so I tend to wear suits. I've got double-breasted and single-breasted, mostly dark blues and grays. I'm obsessed with them, and I always have been.

Matt McGorry

I have a background in erotic dancing, but that's mostly just - it's not professional, it's just amateur.

Oren Peli

The thing that scares me is a place like the Amazon - which is the size of the continental U.S. and mostly unexplored and has a different ecosystem, there are so many things in there that can kill you.

Nathan Lane

Relationships, for me, have been elusive. And I would say mostly it's been my fault. I was always more concentrated on my career. And yes, you do question people's motives. Is it just because I'm him - I'm Nathan Lane?

Donald Trump

I've always been covered by a press that's mostly financial press.

Chang-Rae Lee

I'm not the sort of writer who can plan out things. Mostly I have no idea where I'm going.

Mary Wilson Little

It is difficult to see why lace should be so expensive; it is mostly holes.

Che Guevara

I have sworn before a picture of the old and mourned comrade Stalin that I won’t rest until I see these capitalist octopuses annihilated.

Charles Fort

Every science is a mutilated octopus. If its tentacles were not clipped to stumps, it would feel its way into disturbing contacts.

Mike Rowe

There's really not a difference between an octopus and, like, a giant pile of snot.

Michael Symon

On 'Chopped,' the time goes down a bit and there are several ingredients, usually one that makes no sense whatsoever with the rest of the ingredients. So it gets you out of your culinary comfort zone a little bit. Like we had octopus and cheese paired up with each other.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates

Marcel Proust

But to ask pity of our body is like discoursing in front of an octopus, for which our words can have no more meaning than the sound of the tides, and with which we should be appalled to find ourselves condemned to live.

Norton Juster

Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?

Matthew Engel

Derek Randall bats like an octopus with piles

Ellen Hopkins

Crank, You See isn't any ordinary monster. It's like a giant octopus, weaving its tentacles not just around you, but through you, squeezing not hard enough to kill you, but enough to keep you from reeling until you try to get away. Try, and you hunger for it grasping clutch, the way its tendrils prop you up, your need intensifying exponentially every minute you refuse to admit its being (p.469)

Dennis Weaver

Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil.

Dennis Weaver

The Age of Oil has really exhausted its usefulness, and it has actually become a danger to our lives and our ability to survive on the planet.

Deng Xiaoping

There is oil in the Middle East there is rare earth in China.

Edgar Allan Poe

He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth.

Edvard Munch

Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?

Ben Holmes

If any sector is working right now, it's oil and gas.

Ed Markey

People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.

Dizzy Dean

It puzzles me how they know what corners are good for filling stations. Just how did they know gas and oil was under there?

George Baker

To produce this oil efficiently and quickly, you need people who've done it before.

Jimmy Kimmel

See Andy, ... one day you're going to be right here, between Ernest Torrance and Olive Borden.

Christyne Nicholas

If they spend $20 on a cab, they're going to go to McDonald's, not to Olive Garden.

Anton Chekhov

Ah, Caviar! I keep on eating it, but can never get my fill. Like olives. It's a lucky thing it's not salty.

Lorde

I went to my prom. I wore this olive green, floor-length backless dress. It was rad.

George Herbert

Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.

Neal Barnard

A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do.

Leonard Cohen

Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love..

Rick Riordan

They chose the olive" "They must really like olives" "Forget it" "Now if she invented pizza that i can understand" -Percy to Annabeth in the lightning theif

Grover Norquist

Having been duke, you don't go be peasant again.

Anna Kournikova

Wear them with peasant dresses, or tuck them into jeans.

Pablo Picasso

Basically the French are all peasants.

G. M. Trevelyan

If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.

Louis Pasteur

Could I but know all, I would have the faith of a Breton peasant woman

Wallace Stevens

Success as a result of industry is a peasant's ideal.

Elizabeth Bowen

Spoilt pleasure is a sad, unseemly thing; you can only bury it.

Jan Eliasson

I have a masochistic pleasure to put in 14-hour days.

Alan Alda

Whenever I think of how much pleasure I have interviewing scientists, I remember that they're having the real fun in actually being able to do the science.

Aristotle

The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.

Alan Bennett

One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty.

Charles Lamb

There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.

Charles Buxton

To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

Charles Baudelaire

I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.

David Brooks

Learning was a by-product of her search for pleasure