Anthony Bourdain Kitchen Confidential Quotes & Sayings

Freedom from Egypt should have meant freedom from idols for Israel. — Jud Wilhite

You don't have to be bitter in life. Focus on the beauty of life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

How is it that the sky feeds the stars? — Lucretius

I can mix and match a cute shirt with some skinny jeans under a leather jacket and it looks fun and unique. — Miley Cyrus

When I was writing 'Kitchen Confidential,' I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car. — Anthony Bourdain

The best way to get even with anyone is to put them in the rearview mirror on your way to something better. — Joe Hill

We have never preached violence, except the violence of love, which left Christ nailed to a cross, the violence that we must each do to ourselves to overcome our selfishness and such cruel inequalities among us. The violence we preach is not the violence of the sword, the violence of hatred. It is the violence of love, of brotherhood,the violence that wills to beat weapons into sickles for work. — Oscar A. Romero

Frighteningly honest. What Anthony Bourdain did to the world of cooking in Kitchen Confidential, Leopold will do to the world of journalism. It's Sid & Nancy meets All the President's Men. — Rob Cohen

If you listen to your own inner voice, it will tell you where you are now, and which method will work best for you in your evolution towards the light. — Ram Dass

Sometimes a kiss was just a kiss.
Sometimes a kiss announced changes.
That time the kiss was my downfall. — Stephanie Witter

God's greatest desire is for you to come to Him. — Jim George

I urge you to travel - as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. — Anthony Bourdain

A lot of people said I could be a good player. I just wanted the opportunity to show it. I just let it happen. — Albert Pujols

The great commander can certainly move fast and strike like lightning, but his art of war consists first and foremost in moderation, measured geometric order, carefully weighed-up knowledge of circumstances and rules, a tranquil 'thinking things over'; without this there is little use in being acquainted with that 'infinity of situations' in which a soldier finds himself. — Claudio Magris

In the first day of my youth I tried to find it in the creatures, as I saw others do: but the more I sought, the less I found it, and the nearer I went to it, the further off it was. For of every image that appeared to me, before I had fully tested it, or abandoned myself to peace in it, and inner voice said to me: 'This is not what thou seekest. — Henry Suso

I've been fascinated by the world ever since I read 'Kitchen Confidential' by Anthony Bourdain. I've watched 'Top Chef' and watched interviews with chefs on 'Charlie Rose' ... I thought they're really intriguing characters, and they really encapsulate that tension between vision and commerce, art and commerce. — Jon Favreau

'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. — Anthony Bourdain

I don't have many friends in Philadelphia. I sort of have one. I have the dog and someone else. — H. G. Bissinger