Jacques Pepin Quotes
After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what she wants. But, when we agree, we do what I want!
Quotes to Explore
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!
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Never having alone time is real tough on people.
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I like walking in Golden Gate Park.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.
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I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.
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I didn't know what it was not to work hard as I grew up.
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I'm a food addict, that's my downfall.
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Even without an economic downturn, women sometimes want to keep their shopping habits to themselves.
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You have to be proud of who you are.
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Small Faces were really a soul band as far as we were concerned. That's what we listened to; that's what we played, you know? We were pretty much based on Booker T. and the M.G.'s.
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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.
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I've made up my mind. I'll take my court martial.
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It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
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You hear a lot of people, they turn 40 and it really bugs them and they get depressed or whatever. I don't know - I just don't feel that way. I feel 19 years old all the time. I mean, it's not a lie. I could easily say, God, I feel 70. Or maybe I seem like I'm 70 or 200 or something to other people, I don't know. My brain feels 19 all the time. And that's a good spot.
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In L.A., I like to surf. I went through a phase - I was surfing four days a week. I'm still not good at it; I still spend most of my time falling.
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There is but one question ultimately to be asked respecting every line you draw, Is it right or wrong? If right, it most assuredly is not a 'free' line, but an intensely continent, restrained and considered line; and the action of the hand in laying it is just as decisive, and just as 'free' as the hand of a first-rate surgeon in a critical incision.
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After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what she wants. But, when we agree, we do what I want!
