Ruth Reichl Quotes

By the time I met Julia Child, her husband, Paul, was little more than a ghost of a man, so diminished by old age and its attendant diseases that it was impossible to discern the remarkable artist, photographer and poet he once had been.

Ruth Reichl

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: chef
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 16, 1948

Topics

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You can't simplify my taste and say, 'Parker likes big wines,' because it's just not true.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

YouSayTrueTasteSimplifyBig

I did a lot of sitcoms, and being funny isn't about being beautiful. Usually, beautiful people aren't the funny people.

Maura Tierney

FunnyBeautifulPeopleBeing Funny

I stopped using plastic cooking spoons years ago and love my bamboo spoons and spatulas by Bambuhome.

Anna Getty

LoveCookingYearsPlasticBamboo

Some of the best ideas come from sheer discovery, and not by some masterminded, preconceived genius.

Spike Jonze

BestIdeasGeniusDiscoveryCome

Trying to get over guys and knock them out, that's what fires me up. Decision victories, whoop dee doo, but finishing guys fires me up.

Robbie Lawler

DecisionMeTryingFinishingOver

If being a decent soul is being maternal, then fine.

Mary Beard

SoulBeingFineDecentThen

Things go wrong for me all the time with technology. I'm not familiar enough with it, and I'm too old-school a brain to be able to figure it out. I'm dumb. Anything that I have to attack with my thumbs, for any period of time, makes me feel stupid. So, I try to avoid it, as much as possible, to protect my thumbs.

Johnny Depp

TechnologyTimeMeBrainStupid

There's a certain amount of screwball and genius in 'Willy Wonka.'

Douglas Hodge

GeniusCertainAmount

I want the type of career where I can come back to theater. Theater is my home. Theater, to me, is like ballet for dancers. It's my foundation.

Condola Rashad

HomeMeFoundationBackCareerWant

Take the first A out of Abraham and put it at the end. You get Brahama. There's the ancient connection right there.

Ashwin Sanghi

EndYouConnectionFirstRightOut

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

William James

AttitudeSadSeriousCurseSomething

Trump has claimed he knows more about ISIS than America's leading generals. Clearly, this is also total nonsense; he doesn't seem to have done the slightest thing to educate himself about ISIS.

Peter Bergen

AmericaDoneMoreNonsenseClearly

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