Quotes About Passion

Everyone should be encouraged at every turn to develop their own modest yet unique repertoire—to find a few dishes they love and practice at preparing them until they are proud of the result. To either respect in this way their own past—or express through cooking their dreams for the future. Every citizen would thus have their own specialty. Why can we not do this? There is no reason in the world. Let us then go forward. With vigor.

Line cooks are the heroes.

Selling out is getting a job.

As well, there's the age-old syndrome common to fans of musicians with passionate and discerning cult followings. When the objects of adulation are crass enough to become popular, they quickly become a case of "used to be good.

Toast your goddamn muffins.

Be a fool. For love. For yourself. What you think MIGHT possibly make you happy—even for a little while—whatever the cost or good sense might dictate.

I like cooking pasta. Maybe it's that I always wanted to be Italian American in some dark part of my soul; maybe I get off on that final squirt of emulsifying extra virgin, just after the basil goes in, I don't know.

when the chef starts thinking he's an artist rather than a craftsman.

What is love? Love is eating twenty-four ounces of raw fish at four o'clock in the morning.

Pretty much mention oxtail, and ragù, and I'm ready to slit somebody's throat for a bite.

A vida de cozinheiro era uma vida de aventura, saque, pilhagem e rock'n'roll sem parar, com um desprezo displicente por toda a moral convencional. A vida do outro lado do muro parecia-me muito boa.

I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.

But like a love affair, looking back you remember the happy times best — the things that drew you in, attracted you in the first place, the things that kept you coming back for more.

Who can really describe why they fell in love?

Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive.

What I do I do because I like to do.

The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure of violence - the act of love, for instance; music, for instance. You must take your chance, boy. The choice has been all yours.

Each man kills the thing he loves

I wish people would think of me as a musician who writes novels, instead of a novelist who writes music on the side.

her insan sevdiÄŸi ÅŸeyi öldürür. Ceza öÄŸesi budur belki de.

Tutku korkuyu kovabilen tek güçtür.

Hapisteki ÅŸairin dediÄŸi gibi, her insan sevdiÄŸi ÅŸeyi öldürür. Ceza öÄŸesi budur belki de. (syf. 100)

Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeosity made flesh.

Herhangi bir ÅŸeyi s?n?rland?rmak çok güçtür. Dünyay?, yaÅŸam? s?n?rland?ramay?z. Ä°yi kabul ettiÄŸimiz, tatl?, güzel dediÄŸimiz birçok davran??ta, duyguda yabanl?k vard?r. ÖrneÄŸin tutkuda; müzikte.