Food Pairing Quotes & Sayings

This is what it is like to be married: conversations in which no one actually speaks. — Anna Quindlen

What are the most important qualities that make a successful entrepreneur? The ability to communicate. The ability to express your idea with certainty. That's how you become a leader-even if you are unsure, your ability to explain your vision and your direction is the attribute you need the most ... Articulate your idea in 90 seconds or less ... — Kevin O'Leary

Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter falls, and the entire language falters. — Vera Nazarian

The role I really want to sing is Elisabetta from 'Don Carlo.' — Anna Netrebko

In a lot of ways, a lot of smells that aren't necessarily edible smell good, and they remind you of certain aspects of food. So making those associations with what smells good or smells a certain way and pairing that with actual edible ingredients is one avenue that we take creatively. — Grant Achatz

I don't think there's a problem with people discovering the music unless there's no way to get to them. That's the problem that you always have. — Gail Zappa

Are you saying that as long as you are capable of bearing children, you are expected to do nothing else?" Torres asked. "What else could we possibly do that any civilized society would regard more highly?" Wentin asked. Any — Kirsten Beyer

I didn't realize that, in doing a documentary, there is this process of discovery. It's not like a film or a play with a set script. It sort of reveals itself. — William Shatner

Invitations to travel are like dancing lessons from God. — Kurt Vonnegut

I think that's a very important part of what we need in this country, is that sense that we have lived through so many stages and that we are entering into a new stage where we could create something completely different. — Grace Lee Boggs

Love me as I am, sweet one, for I shall never be better. — Elizabeth Gaskell

More important than the food pairing is the person with whom you drink the wine. — Christian Moueix

Habaneros have a great fruity flavor, but the challenge is that you have to deflect the heat in order to taste the flavor. If you don't, you're dead. They should really have a warning sign on them. Deflect the habanero's heat by pairing it with sweet food. — Bobby Flay

We were a pairing out of an Aesop's fable, the grasshopper and the ant, the tortoise and the hare. And sure, maybe the ant was warmer in the winter and the tortoise won the race, but everyone knows that the grasshopper and the hare were infinitely more appealing animals in all their leggy beauty, their music and interesting side trips. What the story didn't tell you is that the ant relented at the eleventh hour and took in the grasshopper when the weather was hard, fed him on his tenderest store of grass all winter. The tortoise, being uninterested in such things, gave over his medal to the hare. Grasshoppers and hares find the ants and tortoises. They need us to survive, but we need them as well. They were the ones who brought the truth and beauty to the party, which Lucy could tell you as she recited her Keats over breakfast, was better than food any day. — Ann Patchett