Thomas Keller Quotes

I hope the cooks who are working for me now are getting that kind of experience so they can use what they're learning now as a foundation for a great career.

Thomas Keller

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: chef
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 14, 1955

Topics

LearningHopeGreatExperienceMe

True Americanism is practical idealism. Its aims, instead of being materialistic and mechanical, are idealistic to the point of being Utopian. In this way, the U.S. can provide and express ideals that strike a chord in humans everywhere - a declaration of independence on behalf of all the peoples of the world.

Maurice Saatchi

WorldIndependenceStrikeTrueWay

At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.

Steve Earle

HomeSoccerPhoneI CanThreeWant

I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics. So forgive me. But I am passionate about this country. I am equally passionate about the potential of the people who live here.

Simon Cowell

LivePoliticsI AmPeopleMeAlways

I think, personally - I don't know if other readers would agree - but reading 'Penumbra,' I detect an Internet writer or a writer who came up on the Internet.

Robin Sloan

ReadingThinkInternetKnowUpWho

Heinrich Heine once imagined the exiled Israelite as a dog who regains his stolen manhood only when he embraces the Sabbath bride. I see western swing performing a similar function in hardscrabble Texas, turning dirt-poor hired hands into Dapper Dans with magic feet at the Saturday night hoe-down.

Clive Sinclair

DogNightFeetTexasBrideSaturday

The sun shines everywhere, not just at the beach.

Brande Roderick

BeachSunJustSun ShinesEverywhere

We were copying lots of bands, like Avett Brothers and Old Crow Medicine Show.

Winston Marshall

MedicineOldShowLikeBrothers

If you have 100 acres worth of food, and you've got 500 animals out there, the young ones and the old ones are going to starve to death because they can't compete. When they starve, they start to eat things they shouldn't be eating and spread disease not only to them but to us.

Shawn Michaels

FoodDeathEatingStartWorthYou

I'll meet the raging of the skies, but not an angry father.

Thomas Campbell

FatherAngryMeetSkiesRaging

Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

Richard Branson

SuccessFailureBusinessFinanceYou

In the Freudian age, parents say to their children, 'Don't be defensive,' meaning, 'You have no argument,' but I was born in the age of Rommel, when defense was considered an honorable thing.

Mark Helprin

AgeChildrenParentsMeaningYou

At times in my life, I have been utterly lonely. At other times, I've had disgusting infectious diseases. Try admitting these things in our culture.

Martha Beck

LifeCultureLonelyMy LifeTryOur

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