Anthony Bourdain Quotes

I like telling stories, and I tell stories that interest me. It would be boring to have to go to nothing but the best restaurants. That would be a misery to me.

Anthony Bourdain

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 25, 1956 - June 8, 2018

Topics

BestMeGoBoringNothingTell

When I would be myself, I was being big-headed. I was being egotistical. I was a megalomaniac, when it really was just having not to be a monkey for a few hours a day. And fulfilling the need to be a man.

Jerry Lewis

MyselfDayManMonkeyNeedJust

I did some research on cryonics and cryogenics, but I kept it to a minimum because I didn't want the science part of the novel to overshadow the fiction. Being medically accurate wasn't my main goal.

John Corey Whaley

ScienceResearchGoalWantFiction

Where there is age there is evolution, where there is life there is growth.

Anjelica Huston

LifeGrowthAgeEvolutionWhere

Nobody sells records any more, and the only way you can actually do anything is to go out and play live.

Stephen Morris

LiveYouPlayNobodyGoWay

The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers, and above all to throw light on the structure of the relation between sounds and meaning.

Roman Jakobson

LightSpeechMeaningStructureTask

The fact is that you could not be, and still cannot be, a 25-year-old homosexual trying to make it in the British film business or the American film business or even the Italian film business. It just doesn't work and you're going to hit a brick wall at some point.

Rupert Everett

WorkBusinessAmericanYouBrick

I don't really take vacations because when I'm working, it's usually in a far-flung, exotic place somewhere. But I have a farm in Australia I like to go back to when I'm at home and not working.

Russell Crowe

HomeFarmBackPlaceGoAustralia

Every role I've played, that could've happened. It's nice, it happens, but it is rather disconcerting when a young child comes up to at the airport and starts doing your lines, it happens.

Michael York

ChildDoingYoungNiceAirportUp

The reason I can give wonder is that I feel wonder about the world: the stars, a tree, my body - everything.

Doug Henning

StarsTreeWorldFeelBodyI Can

Both the United States and the world economy have already reached - and surpassed - their sustainable physical limits. Ground water is being drawn down, soils eroded, forests cut faster than they grow, fish caught faster than they reproduce, non-renewable fossil fuels burnt without developing substitutes.

Donella Meadows

WaterWorldLimitsGrowFishDown

It seems to me that not only the writing in most children's books condescends to kids, but so does the art. I don't want to do that.

Chris Van Allsburg

ChildrenArtMeWritingWantKids

I've been very fortunate with the scripts I've had and the people I worked with.

Clive Owen

PeopleFortunateBeenVeryHad

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