Charlie Trotter Quotes

My fantasy is to have a restaurant where there are no written menus, but where you just ask people, 'What are you in the mood for? Fish? Meat? White wine?'

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• Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Painting
  • Kitchen
  • Busy

• You go down South, and they're quirky; they have culture, and it's not uniformly true of our country. Our country has gotten a little blanded out, big sections of it. Even if you disagree with the politics, you have to appreciate the cuisine, the music, the literature.

  

  J. Smith-Cameron
  • Music
  • Country
  • True

• We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • World
  • Live
  • India

• Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Missing

• At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.

  

  Carl Spitteler
  • Up
  • Father
  • Law

• I'm not a Democrat.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • Democrat

• Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Long
  • Live
  • Why

• True character arises from a deeper well than religion.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Character
  • True
  • Religion

• English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Space
  • Football
  • English

• My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Kind
  • Never
  • Min­i­mal­ism

• Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Me
  • Better
  • Write

• I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Never
  • Just
  • Watched

• A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!

  

  Karl Kraus
  • World
  • Heart
  • Man

• I had no work after 'Gangster' for two years, and my sister Rangoli met with an accident that destroyed her looks. My struggle with my parents combined with the industry not accepting me made me feel alienated.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Work
  • Parents
  • Struggle

• A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Work
  • Job

• Israel will not divide its land. We're already too small.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Small
  • Land
  • Israel

• I travel around the world, and there are so many beautiful girls, but that's not going to make you a supermodel. You have to have something more than just a pretty face.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • World
  • Pretty
  • Beautiful

• In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Amount
  • Massive
  • Genetics

• The secret of success lies in that old word, 'Drudgery,' in doing one thing long after it ceases to be amusing; and it is 'this one thing I do' that gathers me together from my chaos, that concentrates me from possibilities to powers, and turns powers into achievements.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Long
  • Together
  • Success

• Some of the senior people, the very senior astronauts, shook my hand and said, 'K.C., you did a great job. Don't let anyone tell you different.'

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • People
  • Great
  • Different

• It's a new skill to have two children that want you at the same time.

  

  Mariska Hargitay
  • Time
  • Children

• Where I fall down is my short game. I don't practice enough, and when I have to take a half swing from 50 yards out, that's trouble.

  

  Pete Sampras
  • Game
  • Fall
  • Practice

• People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • People
  • Money
  • Dreams

• My fantasy is to have a restaurant where there are no written menus, but where you just ask people, 'What are you in the mood for? Fish? Meat? White wine?'

  

  Charlie Trotter
  • People
  • Wine
  • Mood