Jean-Georges Vongerichten Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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I don't drink tea or coffee. I'm like a child: I like fruit juices and sodas and creamy hot chocolate.
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When there was a fight in school, because I was the tall one, the teachers would say, 'I know you were there. I could see you.'
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When girls bully, it's very subtle, and you can't define it. At least with boys, the bullying is usually explicit, and you can deal with it. It's psychological with girls.
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Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.
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I am what they call a chubby-skinny guy. I appear to be normal and have the look of an in-shape man, but if we were to go to a pool party I would go with my shirt on.
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When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.
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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!
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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.
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No, I'm not coaching. It's a huge responsibility to coach somebody.
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The times may have changed, but the people are still the same. We're still looking for love, and that will always be our struggle as human beings.
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I have an eight-year-old child, and I literally can't wrap my mind around the kind of grief that must be felt when you lose a child.
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When I first thought of the idea for 'Sweet Valley High,' I loved the idea of high school as microcosm of the real world. And what I really liked was how it moved things on from 'Sleeping Beauty'-esque romance novels where the girl had to wait for the hero. This would be girl-driven, very different, I decided - and indeed it is.
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It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.
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I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.
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I have one idea of how to get more Democratic women to polling stations: Stand up for them.
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Our neighborhood - this solar system, the cosmos, actually - is so much more vast and amazing than the paltry headlines, insanity, and politics crammed at us daily as so-called news. The beauty of the hood and discoveries that await us are deserving of our attention and mandatory to our survival as a species.
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True democracy or the swaraj of the masses can never come through untruthful and violent means, for the simple reason that the natural corollary to their use would be to remove all opposition through the suppression or extermination of the antagonists.
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When the mood takes me, I like to be a man of action. I like to windsurf and ski, and most of all I love to ride horses. The wilder and faster the better!
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My town was all-white and shut down Section 8 housing because they didn't want black people to move into the town. And I thought that was wrong - duh.
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At my worst, I even resented Nic because an addict, at least when high, has a momentary respite from his suffering. There is no similar relief for parents or children or husbands or wives or others who love them.
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I got more used to my own voice, but still it's hard for me to listen to my own voice, or hear the recordings.
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The day of the week changes, but one day in the week I eat vegetarian.
