William Shakespeare Quotes

When I was younger, I behaved a bit strangely sometimes - lost my temper, did silly things - but little by little, I've gotten better. As a chef, I think you need to do a lot of work on yourself and your temperament.

The loss of a child is my greatest nightmare.

'Kitchen Confidential' wasn't a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line cooks and restaurant lifers, basically; I had no expectation that it would move as far west as Philadelphia.

There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.

Zealots often carry the day.

You do what you have to do in life, when you form a philosophy that you can't talk yourself out of.

'Escargot' is French for 'fat crawling bag of phlegm'.

It's a silly old game.

The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.

I never represented glam. That's the thing, you'll never see me in the front row of a fashion show. I'm uninterested in it. I find it trivial and banal and boring.

I've got the body of a model and the face of a coal miner.

I really love to ride my motorcycle. When I want to just get away and be by myself and clear my head, that's what I do.

My plan B, if acting doesn't work out, is to work with disabled children.

I did not know how to paint a mural. I did not know how to prepare the surface. There was nobody from the Renaissance around who could advise me, and I did the best I could.

I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world-to pronounce and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye.

There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and "how well you look".

No hard guy's not scared when another hard guy's knife is coming at you. You're scared, obviously, but you've to act less scared than he is. It's who is going to act less scared.

Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Even hostile parodies admit from the start that the target has a distinct voice.

And, for instance, Baptists, Adventists, Lutherans, Pentecostals - let them exist on line with others.