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

• What did we want out of Iraq? We wanted a country that was stable and secure, that elected its own government, that was not going to be a threat to its neighbors and also was capable of protecting and defending itself. That was our objective in Iraq.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Country
  • Want
  • Government

• 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

• Times have changed; so must the lenses through which we see the political future.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Future
  • Political
  • Changed

• 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

• When I had my dogs, I used to spend a lot of time in Central Park, which is a great place to be alone among a lot of people.

  

  Carol Kane
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• You've got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you're going to hit civilians.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • You
  • Forget
  • Drop

• If I'm writing for a particular artist, I definitely think about their past records, pay attention to the type of tempos that they like. If I have the privilege of actually being in the session with the artist, I just like to have a conversation with them.

  

  Amber Denise Streeter
  • Artist
  • Records
  • Conversation

• When I was in Nashville, Tennessee in 1970 with Derek and the Dominoes, I went into this shop and they had a rack of Strats and Teles - all going for $100.00 each. I bought a handfull and made Blackie out of the body from one, the neck from another, and so on

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • Music
  • Body
  • Made

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

  

  James Beard