Charlie Trotter Quotes
Chefs, as a whole, say yes to any project, fundraiser, or tasting because they have such a generous spirit.
Quotes to Explore
-
Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.
-
A pitcher will never be a big winner until he hates hitters.
-
My mom says I'm a fighter, a fierce competitor, and I think I am, too.
-
I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!
-
I don't hide my being Israeli. I say it in every interview. I put out a record with songs in Hebrew. The people who signed me have no connection to Judaism or Israel.
-
Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
-
Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'
-
From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.
-
The hired preachers of all sects, creeds, and religions, never do, and never can, teach any thing but what is in conformity with the opinions of those who pay them.
-
The female attention I have to struggle hardest with is from my two-year-old daughter.
-
Religious symbols should be visible in public space, in a dignified and non-provocative manner. Christmas trees here, Jewish menorahs there and, further along, a minaret - these symbols represent human life in all its diversity.
-
It's not that we like sad movies that make us feel like, 'Oh, my God, what a bummer.' We like emotionally moving experiences. It's nothing new. It's catharsis. It goes back to the Greeks.
-
I grew up in a modern home, but my grandmother lived across the street in an old house that was built when churches were illegal in Mexico. She had a chapel in the home, right between the kitchen and dining room.
-
Eventually every man gotta face the problem of tryin' to figger if it’s worthwhile to prove that he is himself.
-
If He who in Himself can lack nothing chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.
-
Ah've never felt anything about countries, other than total disgust. They should fuckin abolish the lot of them. Kill every fuckin parasite politician that ever mouthed lies and fascist platitudes in a shell-suit and a smarmy smile.
-
I threw the kitchen sink at him but he went to the bathroom and got his tub.
-
Even famous poets such as Marianne Moore and William Carlos Williams were rarely asked to read their poems.
-
And sometimes we die to prove that we lived.
-
I did go to a performing arts school, so that facilitated my creativity, though I ended up going in a more musical direction.
-
Chefs, as a whole, say yes to any project, fundraiser, or tasting because they have such a generous spirit.
