Jean-Georges Vongerichten Quotes

When you do a menu at a restaurant, you have to be the engineer of that menu. It has to be a crowd-pleaser.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

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• My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

  

  Edmond Rostand
  • Point
  • Sincerity
  • Pessimism

• Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Nothing

• It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.

  

  Abbe Pierre
  • You
  • Church
  • Act

• I have my own studio down in Miami.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Down
  • Own
  • Miami

• What happens with every role, you have to trick yourself, you have to creatively find ways to explore the mental state of your character.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Character
  • Yourself
  • Explore

• Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Art

• You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Way
  • You
  • Most

• I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Painting
  • Loved
  • Drawing

• At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • People
  • Death
  • Food

• Artists talk in 'art speak.'

  

  Damian Loeb
  • Art
  • Speak
  • Talk

• Certainly the O.J. Simpson case was a turning point in my career.

  

  Dan Abrams
  • Career
  • Point
  • Turning Point

• I had no idea how difficult Sondheim's music would be. All through the rehearsals, I kept flubbing. There were so many tempo changes. I could never get through the opening number without any mistakes. One day, I went up to Hal Prince and offered to leave the show. He laughed it off. He said, 'Don't be silly. That's why we have tryouts.'

  

  Mako
  • Up
  • Music
  • Why

• One can't feel old in a day or overnight!

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Day
  • Feel
  • Old

• As threats emerge - from ISIS to Russia to the Iranian nuclear program - we need a president with the resolve to defend our country and not back down.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Country
  • Need
  • Down

• I think in all cultural organizations there has to be renewal. I'm also of a certain age that someone new can come in with a breath of fresh air. Things change, and I think that's important.

  

  Zarin Mehta
  • Important
  • Age
  • Change

• There have been actresses who transitioned and nobody knew. But for me, with everybody knowing my history, it will be harder. I'm sure there are some great scripts calling for an ultra-glamorous woman. And I'm prepared to be ultra-glamorous.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Great
  • History
  • Woman

• My idea of working out is going upstairs in my apartment.

  

  Dana Davis
  • Idea
  • Working
  • Apartment

• When winds are raging o'er the upper ocean And billows wild contend with angry roar,'T is said, far down beneath the wild commotion That peaceful stillness reigneth evermore. Far, far beneath, the noise of tempests dieth And silver waves chime ever peacefully,And no rude storm, how fierce soe'er it flyeth Disturbs the Sabbath of that deeper sea.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Sea
  • Angry
  • Ocean

• I see the work as a whole first. Then I compose the details. In working out, I always lose something. This cannot be avoided. There is always some loss when we materialize. But there is compensating gain in vitality.

  

  Arnold Schoenberg
  • Work

• Where men are forbidden to honour a king, they honor millionaires, athletes, or film stars instead; even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Food

• Friends aren't jumper cables. You don't throw them into the trunk and pull them out for emergencies.

  

  Charlie Krueger
  • Friends
  • Emergencies
  • Trunk

• What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

  

  Werner Heisenberg
  • Science
  • Right
  • Questioning

• So many times I've photographed stories that show the degradation of the planet. I had one idea to go and photograph the factories that were polluting, and to see all the deposits of garbage. But, in the end, I thought the only way to give us an incentive, to bring hope, is to show the pictures of the pristine planet - to see the innocence.

  

  Sebastiao Salgado
  • Photograph
  • Innocence
  • Degradation

• When you do a menu at a restaurant, you have to be the engineer of that menu. It has to be a crowd-pleaser.

  

  Jean-Georges Vongerichten