James Beard Quotes

A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.

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• I'm an atheist and a humanist, so I have no desire to evangelize anyone.

  

  Rae Carson
  • Desire
  • Atheist
  • Humanist

• I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • Boring
  • Explained
  • Unexplainable

• Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Nature
  • Future
  • Fate

• Death is better than slavery.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Death
  • Better
  • Slavery

• I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. And when we moved to America, it was just the typical thing except I was really good at it; so was my brother.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Good
  • America
  • Age

• May nothing entice me till I happily make my way to Jesus Christ! Fire, cross, struggles with wild beasts, wrenching of bones, mangling of limbs – let them come to me, provided only I make my way to Jesus Christ.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • Way
  • Fire
  • Jesus Christ

• During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Family
  • Political
  • Me

• My kids miss me when I'm away, but I don't mind living out of a suitcase. The U.K., U.S., France, Germany, Iraq... it's such a thrill meeting people of different cultures, learning about and from them. It's changed my perception about life, humanity and spirituality.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Way
  • Study
  • Everything

• What worries me is that conservative thought is moving quickly, but we're kind of the pachyderms in Congress because things move so slowly.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Moving
  • Thought
  • Worries

• Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Children
  • Clothes
  • Carry

• I hate negative ads in general.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Hate
  • Negative
  • General

• I do not need a trophy to tell myself that I am the best.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Trophy

• The central question driving literary aesthetics in the age of the iPad is no longer 'How should novels be?' but 'Why write novels at all?'

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Why
  • Age
  • Question

• In the first phase of shock over, say, your mortgage being called in or your job washed out, it's essential to engage with others and share the fear, release the feelings, do fun things to take your mind off it.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Mind
  • Job
  • Fun

• I'm not a walking fleet of vanity vans any more than I'm a walking, talking multi-star cast. I might want an entourage, but so far, it is entirely eluding me.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Want
  • Star
  • Might

• In the busy haunts of men.

  

  Felicia Hemans
  • Men

• Jesus Pietro wasn't used to dealing with ghosts. It would require brand new techniques. Grimly he set out to evolve them.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Jesus

• Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

  

  Alphonse de Lamartine
  • Men
  • Experience
  • Wise

• To be recognized by a brand like Reebok and to know that the company is looking at mixed martial arts shows the growth of the sport. For me, it's an amazing opportunity. I get to be the face of my own shoe, and it's surreal.

  

  Anthony Pettis
  • Opportunity
  • Amazing
  • Growth

• Where are you going?" I asked, feeling guilty for not being able to hang out with him. "To find a faerie to kill me, of course." He winked at us, then pretended to fall straight through when the faerie door opened. Even Arianna laughed as the door closed behind him.

  

  Kiersten White
  • Guilty
  • Able
  • Doors

• Whether in physics and mathematics or in the humanities, when something really finally works, it has a certain perfection to it, a feeling of inevitability, like it was so completely obvious all along, and it couldn't be any other way.

  

  Nima Arkani-Hamed
  • Perfection
  • Works
  • Inevitability

• Leaving was easy. It was everything else that was so damned hard.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Leaving
  • Hard

• A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.

  

  James Beard