Ducasse Chef Quotes & Sayings

Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life. — W.C. Fields

I am a very eco-friendly chef but a guilty air traveller. — Alain Ducasse

Kids with roofs and hot food have better things to do than play survival of the thuggiest. — Ryan Graudin

TV is a deformed vision, an excessive caricature. A chef has to stay an artisan, not become a star. — Alain Ducasse

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Samurai Song"

When I had no roof I made
Audacity my roof. When I had
No supper my eyes dined.

When I had no eyes I listened.
When I had no ears I thought.
When I had no thought I waited.

When I had no father I made
Care my father. When I had
No mother I embraced order.

When I had no friend I made
Quiet my friend. When I had no
Enemy I opposed my body.

When I had no temple I made
My voice my temple. I have
No priest, my tongue is my choir.

When I have no means fortune
Is my means. When I have
Nothing, death will be my fortune.

Need is my tactic, detachment
Is my strategy. When I had
No lover I courted my sleep. — Robert Pinsky

September knew a number of curse words, most of which she heard the girls at school saying in the bathrooms, in hushed voices, as if the words could make things happen just by being spoken, as if they were fairy words, and had to be handled just so. — Catherynne M Valente

I'm a very private person, so obviously I don't enjoy talking about more personal matters. — P.J. Harvey

I always thought it was a question of achieving some permanent state of tranquillity ... but it's not. It's more like learning to surf. The waves keep rolling in, each different from the last, and you have to ride them, instead of getting pounded to bits. — Lisa Alther

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. — Alain Ducasse

I have a very modern way of thinking; the chef is there to lead the team and not just to sit behind the piano. — Alain Ducasse

Poverty is not primarily about money. It is about having no idea what to do and/or having no one with whom to do it. The former I called imagination and the latter I called community. To the extent that our neighborhood had imagination and community, we were not poor. But without imagination and community, no money could help us. . . . The role of the local church is to be a community of imagination [for the kingdom].12 — David E. Fitch

Poverty scrapes these homes down until they all look the same, and they all have in common the absence of things that ought to be there. I might as well have been at one place all my life. — Hannah Kent

Manage the cause, not the result. — W. Edwards Deming

When man comes into the presence of God he will find, whether he wishes it or not, that all those things which seemed to make him so different from the men of other times, or even from his earlier self, have fallen off. He is back where he always was, where every man always is. — C.S. Lewis

Nature creates few men brave, industry and training makes many. — Niccolo Machiavelli

As you become your own advocate and your own steward, your life will beautifully transform. — Miranda J. Barrett

The first movie I saw where it convinced me I could be an actor was 'Mean Streets,' so whenever I see Robert De Niro and he says, 'Hi, Denis,' it's still a really big deal. — Denis Leary

We were very poor. But between the covers of books I could go anywhere, I could be anybody, I could do anything. I began to read about people of great accomplishment. As I read those stories, I began to see a connecting thread. I began to see that the person who had the most to do with you and what happened to you in life, is you. You make decisions. You decide how much energy you want to put behind that decision. — Ben Carson

The restaurants express the spirit of the chef, the spirit of the city, the country. — Alain Ducasse