Steingarten 7 Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes very small investments can release enormous, infinite potential that exists in all of us. — Jacqueline Novogratz

China can draw on a talent pool of 1.3 billion people, but the United States can draw on a talent pool of 7 billion and recombine them in a diverse culture that enhances creativity in a way that ethnic Han nationalism cannot. — Lee Kuan Yew

I just thought vampires would look, you know, vicious while drinking blood," I said. "You look like you're in kindergarten with your juice pack. — Wynne Channing

Comparing Ferran with Heston or Grant makes no
more sense than comparing three painters because
they buy the same brand of brushes. - Jeffrey Steingarten — Grant Achatz

I think that you can make a drama and have it be intensely funny, and vice versa. — Jason Gann

For years I'd understood that publishing in paperback was the kiss of death. — Christina Baker Kline

None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves. — Charles Spurgeon

Divide and rule, subdivide and rule even more powerfully, fragment and rule absolutely." "That's — Frank Herbert

In truth you cannot understand the nature of My Reality, either today, or even after a thousand years of steady austerity or ardent inquiry, even if all mankind joins in that effort. — Sathya Sai Baba

Maybe evolution is irrelevant at dinnertime. — Jeffrey Steingarten

I am reminded that while New Yorkers say "standing on line," the rest of the English-speaking world says "standing in line. — Jeffrey Steingarten

As a leftover sixties liberal, I believe that the long arm and beady eyes of the government have no place in our bedrooms, our kitchens, or the backseats of our parked cars. But I also feel that the immediate appointment of a Special Pastry Prosecutor would do much more good than harm. We know the free market has totally failed when 89 percent of all the tart pastry, chocolate-chip cookies, and tuiles in America are far less delicious than they would be if bakers simply followed a few readily available recipes. What we need is a system of graduated fines and perhaps short jail sentences to discourage the production of totally depressing baked goods. Maybe a period of unpleasant and tedious community service could be substituted for jail time. — Jeffrey Steingarten

You ... you and Doc trying to protect me?"
"Strange world, isn't it?"
In was a few seconds before I could answer.
"The strangest," I finally agreed. — Stephenie Meyer

But the goal of the arts, culinary or otherwise, is not to increase our comfort. That is the goal of an easy chair. — Jeffrey Steingarten

Among the cognoscenti, though, it is not just about elaborate new flavors. I always consider the main test of ice cream to be the simple ice creams, especially vanilla. One should have fun when one eats, but it should also be seriously good. — Jeffrey Steingarten

Vegetarianism is always the product of scarcity, of religion, or of ideology, including nutritional fads and fashions. — Jeffrey Steingarten

Whenever I have nothing better to do, I roast a chicken. — Jeffrey Steingarten

Whenever I travel to the South, the first thing I do is visit the best barbecue place between the airport and my hotel. An hour or two later I visit the best barbecue place between my hotel and dinner. — Jeffrey Steingarten

Blue thinks of this now as he makes his way across the river, watching black ahead of him and remembering his father and his boyhood out in Gravesend. The old man was a copy, later a detective at the 77th precinct, and life would have been good, Blue thinks, except for the bullet that went through his father's brain in 1927. Twenty years ago, he says to himself, suddenly appalled by the time that has past, wondering if there is a heaven, and if so whether or not he will get to see his father after he dies. — Paul Auster

Where I say that He abideth sorrowfully and moaning, it meaneth all the true feeling that we have in our self, in contrition and compassion, and all sorrowing and moaning that we are not oned with our Lord. And all such that is speedful, it is Christ in us. And though some of us feel it seldom, it passeth never from Christ till what time He hath brought us out of all our woe. For love suffereth never to be without pity. — Julian Of Norwich

Make the work you are doing today better than the work you did yesterday. — Robin Sharma

As the Dark Lord spoke when he saw the Archangel Michael descending upon him: We are in some serious shit. — C.T. Phipps

We went a few decades without a good mullet on TV, so I'm happy to bring it back. — Josh McDermitt

What's so bad about addiction? I can't remember. Isn't it something about giving up your freedom? Isn't freedom an illusion? — Jeffrey Steingarten

As long as I can remember, male candy eaters have been ill-used, misunderstood, and denigrated, in films and on television, as weak, self-indulgent, soft, effeminate, undisciplined, and venal. Most of us have been driven underground. We eat our candy alone and on the sly. We never experience the intimacy of sharing candy with others - unless we have chosen our mates wisely. — Jeffrey Steingarten

I gave Paul a withering look but the truth was I was curious as hell. First of all, to find out what Sullivan wanted. And second, to see what a teacher's room looked like. I'd always sort of figured they came out during the day to teach classes and then got stored in shoe boxes under someone's bed until they were needed again. (James) — Maggie Stiefvater

The only thing more enjoyable than chocolate, is bacon. — Jeffrey Steingarten

In Valencia, when you catch snails for your paella, you feed them rosemary for a few days, both to purge them and to give them flavor. — Jeffrey Steingarten

Subsistence, I am happy to report, is not much of a problem for me these days either. I could probably subsist for a decade or more on the food energy I have thriftily wrapped around various parts of my body. — Jeffrey Steingarten

Bad bread wrecks my outlook on life. — Jeffrey Steingarten