Vlachos Bridgewater Quotes & Sayings

The summer before I went to culinary school, my family wanted me to take a job on a movie to make sure that I was making the right decision. I think they hoped I would change my mind about culinary school. — Giada De Laurentiis

I'm not talking about having to consult Julia Child before you can take a pot off the rack. I think that's something we can all do more and do better. — Michael Pollan

While writing the first draft is an exercise in shutting down all of the things we think we know so that the story features come tumbling out, the revision is the end of the joy ride. We pull on the gloves and sort of poke around inside the body. Is that a tumor? Will that limb need amputation? I nearly second-guessed myself into heart failure while learning to self-edit. — Patricia Hickman

The author explains that some find recourse from injustice in literature and art but that these tend to deepen sensitivity to injustice rather than dull it. — John Howard Griffin

Sometime over the past generation we became less likely to object to something because it is immoral and more likely to object to something because it is unhealthy or unsafe. So smoking is now a worse evil than six of the Ten Commandments, and the word sinful is most commonly associated with chocolate. — David Brooks

The thing that's fun about the 'Housewives' is talking to your friends about it. — Andy Cohen

People don't necessarily confide in one another to get something off their chest. They want something: reassurance, which is a hard gift to give convincingly. — Marilyn Manson

Music originally had a social function. You were in church, in a concert hall, a marching band; you were dancing. I'm concerned that music could be too separated from its roots and just become a pleasure-giving experience, like a drug. — Oliver Sacks

You're desperate, and so am I,' I said. 'Desperate people make stupid decisions all the time.'"

P244 — Veronica Roth

It had never crossed her mind that sending your child to school would be like going back to school yourself. — Liane Moriarty

I was stealing all the bases, and when you had to go to arbitration they said, 'You know, only the big boys make the money.' So I got to try and figure out how to hit a home run, too. — Rickey Henderson

Tomorrow has no more existence than yesterday, but you can always control now. We live in a series of nows. Think about now. — James Lee Burke