Restaurant People Anthony Bourdain Quotes & Sayings

Then one day, this kid named Darren Walsh touched the Cheese with his finger, and that's what started this thing called the Cheese Touch. It's basically like the Cooties. If you get the Cheese Touch, you're stuck with it until you pass it on to someone else. The only way to protect yourself from the Cheese Touch is to cross your fingers. — Jeff Kinney

There are people with otherwise chaotic and disorganized lives, a certain type of person that's always found a home in the restaurant business in much the same way that a lot of people find a home in the military. — Anthony Bourdain

I mean, I wanted to shove a pocket knife into each of his tires within the first fifteen minutes of meeting him. — Christina Lauren

Peace begins with feelings of love. — Debasish Mridha

We have understood nothing of life until we have understood that it is one vast confusion. — Henry De Montherlant

We want to leave the people here with the knowledge that we have loved them dearly but also that we have no regrets and lived our lives to their fullest. Therefore, I conclude that we should be full. Full of something delicious. — Jim Gaffigan

I don't see Jesus as rescuing the fallen; I see Jesus as expanding the potential of life.
The primary reason the old idea of rescuing the fallen is no good is that there never was a time when we fell from perfection into sin. — John Shelby Spong

No matter how long your've been at it, you always start from scratch. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?"
"If I can be of use."
"Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one. — Arthur Conan Doyle

If you have a good experience in a restaurant, you tell 2 people. If you have a bad experience, you tell 10 people. — Anthony Bourdain

He frowned. She laughed. He brightened. She pouted. He grinned. She flinched. Come on: we don't do that. Except when we're pretending. Only babies frown and flinch. The rest of us just fake with our fake faces.
He grinned. No He didn't. If a guy grins at you for real these days, you'd better chop his head off before he chops off yours. Soon the sneeze and the yawn will be mostly for show. Even the twitch.
She laughed. No she didn't. We laugh about twice a year. Most of us have lost our laughs and now make do with false ones.
He smiled.
Not quite true.
All that no good to think, no good to say, no good to write. All that no good to write. — Martin Amis

We will not allow to become a political issue in this country the question of Asianisation. — Bob Hawke

We are fornicating in the sight of six billion people. — Ayn Rand