Danny Meyer Quotes
Restaurants are like kids. You hope you understand their innate gifts, and then you let them realize their aspirations.
Quotes to Explore
-
I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.
-
Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
-
My work involves online dating, but I believe almost every behavior exhibited online has an offline corollary. Really, the medium doesn't change human nature.
-
I really enjoy dancing. When there's music around, I can't help it; I start dancing, especially when I'm with friends.
-
You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
-
What I like to call 'journalism of depth' is the media that regards the collective conscience of the masses to be its point of departure. It is the media that believes, as a matter of principle, in the potential capabilities of the people and respects their choices.
-
I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
-
My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
-
I tell people, 'Have you ever been to Oklahoma? There are a lot of nice people there that do wonderful things.'
-
The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
-
Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.
-
Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?
-
Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.
-
The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
-
I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'
-
We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.
-
I think my track record speaks for myself... I have been endorsed by the African Union, but I am a prosecutor for 121 states parties and this is what I intend to be until the end of my mandate.
-
My parents got me in trouble when I was in school because someone was getting bullied, and I didn't do anything about it. I just watched it happen and then came to the school, and I got cussed out for not helping and not being a part of it.
-
My goal was to break 80. When you get to 70, if I can break 80, I consider that a victory.
-
I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age seven, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. And I was hooked. When my eighth grade art teacher, Mr. Smedley, told me he thought I had actual art talent, I decided to devote all my efforts in that direction in the hope that I might someday get into the comics biz. I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.
-
From what we've heard about George W., he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They're positive. They're good. He thinks he's got a good vision for America.
-
Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guide him without help from experience.
-
I'm way too famous and rich to be on a dating app, but if I get very desperate by the time I'm 60, I'll go on Tinder. Or I'll go on 'Millionaire Matchmaker'; I'll call Patti Stanger.
-
Restaurants are like kids. You hope you understand their innate gifts, and then you let them realize their aspirations.
