Alton Brown Quotes

I kept thinking, 'Somebody has to make a food show that is actually educational and entertaining at the same time... a show that got down to the 'why things happen.' Plus, I hated my job - I didn't think it was very worthwhile.

Alton Brown

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• Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Love
  • For Him
  • Discrimination

• Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Up
  • Good
  • Practice

• I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Career
  • Myself
  • Poetry

• There are young idealists all around the world falling in love with the Yankees now and realists who are gravitating to the Red Sox. I think the universe is on its head.

  

  Samantha Power
  • World
  • Love
  • Universe

• If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Book
  • Author
  • Choose

• Well, I needed the work - that's the honest answer. I haven't worked for a while, a couple of years. So I thought it would be nice to get back to work and earn some money.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Work
  • Money
  • Nice

• I love sailing but hate cruise ships.

  

  Garrett Neff
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Sailing

• When you listen to my music, you hear that there are all these voices going on in different parts of the song. That's because I was always around so many voices in church.

  

  Valerie June
  • Music
  • Different
  • Song

• I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Power
  • Friends
  • Fame

• If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Women
  • Mean
  • Heroes

• I have an incredible phobia of divorce.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Divorce
  • Incredible
  • Phobia

• I'm not working now, so I'm sort of facing the unknown.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Working
  • Unknown
  • Now

• If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • People
  • Think
  • Stop

• A lot of locked-room mysteries take time for you to pay attention and see the setup. They aren't thrillers, and they don't move along. The modern mystery story is really faster-paced, and I think modern readers tend to prefer seeing something happening on every other page.

  

  Otto Penzler
  • Time
  • Attention
  • Mystery

• I have a lot of fears that normal people have.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • People
  • Normal
  • Fears

• I usually work on a film soundtrack for two years, turning in a song every few months, and that keeps my creative energy high, because I'm constantly rotating projects. The trick is to make sure I don't work too hard and get exhausted.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Work
  • High
  • Song

• I'm a walking, talking enigma.

  

  Larry David
  • Walking
  • Talking
  • Enigma

• You know, when you first come up, and you get called up to the big leagues, all you want to do is just, you just want to have a career, a nice career. You want to make a living at it.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Up
  • Want
  • Career

• Halloween is one day of breaking out of your shell, one day you can be completely expressive, where the world gives you license to dress up.

  

  Chris March
  • Up
  • World
  • Halloween

• I want to be a Bond girl. Think about it - I have metal components in my legs, so when I go through airport security, I set off the alarms. But when they realize why I'm beeping, they let me through. What if I had weapons in my legs? I could take one off and pull out an Uzi! Legs Galore - that would be me!

  

  Aimee Mullins
  • Why
  • Girl

• I think the average American, if they go to the workplace, somebody's next to 'em, they're not poking around trying to figure out what their religious beliefs are.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • American

• Liberals want to live downtown. All over America - in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Georgetown - there are crowds of liberals living in the gritty, ugly, dirty neighborhoods sensible people are trying to flee.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Live
  • Trying

• An aphorism? Fire without flames. Understandable that no one tries to warm himself at it.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Fire

• I kept thinking, 'Somebody has to make a food show that is actually educational and entertaining at the same time... a show that got down to the 'why things happen.' Plus, I hated my job - I didn't think it was very worthwhile.

  

  Alton Brown
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Why