A. J. Liebling Quotes

I met a keen observer who gave me a tip: 'If you run across a restaurant where you often see priests eating with priests, or sporting girls with sporting girls, you may be confident that it is good. Those are two classes of people who like to eat well and get their money's worth.'

A. J. Liebling

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• I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.

  

  Ted Turner
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.

  

  Jackie Earle Haley
  • Time
  • Great
  • Fun

• Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Words

• Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!

  

  Candice Olson
  • Friends
  • Parents
  • Girl

• Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Rock
  • Find
  • Piano

• I put so much of myself out there and make myself so accessible that sometimes I fear I make myself too accessible.

  

  Halsey
  • Fear
  • Myself
  • Sometimes

• I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Kind
  • Cool
  • Sword

• I think the process is one of using the camera and sound in the way a detective uses a magnifying glass: to find the clues. They're discovery devices, not performance devices - you're watching things the way a cat does. You're not judging. You're there to witness something.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Cat
  • Judging
  • Performance

• It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • World
  • Music
  • Different

• I become a first-time novelist and a senior citizen on the same day.

  

  Wayne Grady
  • Time
  • Day
  • Same

• I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Career
  • Learning
  • Beginning

• Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • American
  • Name
  • Irish

• As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Food
  • Control
  • Living

• I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Change
  • Accept
  • Willing

• I'm not an actor who appears on the stage and gives people advice on how to live or what to do and entertains them. It is not my specialty.

  

  Vagit Alekperov
  • People
  • Live
  • Advice

• There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • People
  • Better
  • Version

• They hate whom they fear.

  

  Quintus Ennius
  • Fear
  • Hate
  • Whom

• I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Opportunity
  • Luck
  • Preparation

• I tend to play a lot of blues things at home, because most blues things are basically within a 12-bar pattern.

  

  Marc Bolan T. Rex
  • Home

• Where there is peace, there is sports; where there is sports, there is peace. Peace is what allows us, especially young people, to dream, go after one's goals and prepare you for the next challenge in life.

  

  Kim Yuna
  • People
  • Life
  • Dream

• There's really nothing else I'm going to do with my life. I'd be useless if I weren't singing or acting.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Life
  • Singing
  • My Life

• I have calmed down my look. Is it really necessary to wear all that jewelry and makeup at 7 A.M.? When you're tired, you start to over-compensate by wearing too much bling.

  

  Jessie J
  • Tired
  • Makeup
  • Jewelry

• Undeniably, I'm a country singer; I'm a country songwriter. But I feel like I make country music for people who like country music and for people who don't.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• I met a keen observer who gave me a tip: 'If you run across a restaurant where you often see priests eating with priests, or sporting girls with sporting girls, you may be confident that it is good. Those are two classes of people who like to eat well and get their money's worth.'

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • People
  • Good
  • Money