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I've read hundreds of cookbooks. Most of those cookbooks don't even tell you how to get a steak ready, how to bake biscuits or an apple pie.
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There's something inside of me that makes me want to help people, especially people who are having difficulty of some kind.
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I've only had two rules. Do all you can and do it the best you can. It's the only way you ever get that feeling of accomplishing something.
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No hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me.
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The easy way is efficacious and speedy, the hard way arduous and long. But, as the clock ticks, the easy way becomes harder and the hard way becomes easier. And as the calendar records the years, it becomes increasingly evident that the easy way rests hazardously upon shifting sands, whereas the hard way builds solidly a foundation of confidence that cannot be swept away.
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Feed the poor and get rich or feed the rich and get poor.
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Work is the basis of living. I'll never retire. A man'll rust out quicker than he'll wear out.
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The food I've liked in my time is American country cooking.
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A lot of learned men think people really are the food theyve eaten.
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I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know.
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I've read hundreds of cookbooks. For my money, they are the bird.
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The hard way builds solidly a foundation of confidence that cannot be swept away.
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People are just like farm equipment. They rust out quicker than they wear out.
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Hard work beats all the tonics and vitamins in the world.
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There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.
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To me, my recipes are priceless.
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I think a dream is just a suggestion to start something out, do something.
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One has to remember that every failure can be a stepping stone to something better.
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My life isn't over and I'm not going to sit in a rocking chair and take money from the government.
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Scientists are a bunch of romantics.
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I just say the moral out of my life is don't quit at age 65, maybe your boat hasn't come in yet. Mine hadn't.
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That friggin' … outfit .... They prostituted every goddamn thing I had. I had the greatest gravy in the world and those sons of bitches they dragged it out and extended it and watered it down that I'm so goddamn mad.
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I am not too proud of having my name associated with some of my restaurants.
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I'm too drunk to taste this chicken