Jonathan Dimbleby Quotes

Food is important to me, but I wouldn't say that I'm a gourmet. I don't like tricksy food.

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• Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Good
  • Important
  • Remember

• If I really believe that visual representation and narrative are ways to convey important, complex ideas, and if the world is gravitating toward this form, then geez, I better do it myself. I want to do it myself.

  

  Dan Pink
  • World
  • Believe
  • Important

• I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad tracks - and green things started to grow there!

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Food
  • Green
  • Grow

• I think when you're dealing with very tenuous scenes and difficult and heavy subject matter, it's important to be close intimately with your cast as friends, and be able to diffuse a lot of that tension and trust each other with the work.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Work
  • Important
  • Friends

• Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Food
  • Look
  • Eat

• For nearly two years, I was flying above the planet with my camera. I knew straight away that this was something important to do, just at this moment, a portrait of the planet for the millennium year. I worked in 80 countries, fighting for money all the time.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Time
  • Important
  • Money

• Net-a-Porter offers catwalk fashion and trend-driven shopping, but for Mr Porter, while fashion is still important, style is key.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Important
  • Fashion
  • Style

• The secret of doing well on TV is to understand that it's not too important. A lot of people watching doesn't change anything.

  

  Jack Germond
  • People
  • Important
  • Change

• A potlatch is similar to a court case in that both are prohibitively expensive; both involve lengthy speeches and the vigorous examination and debate of the actions, rights and legal responsibilities of the participants. One has food, singing and spiritual rites; the other, not so much.

  

  Eden Robinson
  • Food
  • Singing
  • Spiritual

• I eat whatever I want, junk food included.

  

  Vanessa Marcil
  • Want
  • Food
  • Junk Food

• I think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more important things than tennis.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Life
  • Important
  • Game

• You don't need money to be free. You can just say if you don't need stuff, you're always free.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • Money
  • Free
  • Always

• One of the peculiarities of Delhi is that the term 'reform' is associated only with passing of laws in Parliament. In fact, the most important reforms are those needed, without new laws, at various level of the government, in work practices and procedures.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Work
  • Important
  • Government

• You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Important
  • Balance
  • Too Much

• Everyone knows that metaphors are important, yet we have no idea why.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Important
  • Why
  • Everyone

• But probably this is helps to win, to win, to gold, more gold medals, and to win most my important medal, heart of people. This is most important for me.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • People
  • Important
  • Heart

• I'm just glad Open tennis is here. It's great for the game. That's more important.

  

  Pancho Gonzales
  • Great
  • Important
  • Game

• Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • Food
  • Human
  • Sharing

• In our house we repeated the pattern of thousands of other homes. There were a few books and a lot of music. Our food and our furniture were no different from our neighbors'.

  

  Emanuel Celler
  • Music
  • Different
  • House

• When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Man
  • Tired

• Research to me is as important, or more important, than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built.

  

  Leon Uris
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Book

• I read mostly Irish, African, Japanese, South American, and African writers. You can count on Scandinavian literature for a certain kind of darkness, a modern mythic style.

  

  Chris Abani
  • American
  • Style
  • Literature

• The most heroic thing you can do is tell someone that you love them.

  

  Jacques Audiard

• Food is important to me, but I wouldn't say that I'm a gourmet. I don't like tricksy food.

  

  Jonathan Dimbleby
  • Important
  • Food