Quotes About Lifestyle

I believe in red meat. I've often said: red meat and gin.

I still buy books faster than I can read them. But again, this feels completely normal: how weird it would be to have around you only as many books as you have time to read in the rest of your life.

If Daisy Buchanan's laugh is the sound of money, then a gimlet, well executed, is the color of it. It is just the thing when you are feeling impoverished, financially or spiritually.

People are always talking about advancement and success, but going to Tokyo and living a vain, frivolous life wasn't advancement; it wasn't success.

One good thing that comes from living the nomadic life demanded by an expedition is that one sheds the fake skin donned from living too closely among society. For those of us who live for the freedom of such a lifestyle, that skin is dry and itchy and ill fitting. From my observances, that skin is much like a callus caused by the pure irritation of being forced to spend so much time with one's fellow man. Thank God I am spared such nonsense.

surrounded by snack and coffee shops that lived off the army of clerks.

She would power through this unsettling freak-out by eating healthy meals, keeping herself fit, reading, sleeping and doing all of the self-care that was clearly lacking in her life.

Here was the problem with Jack Reacher: he was a bad guy who sometimes did good things. Given his itinerant lifestyle, Will thought of him as an American James Bond—not the Bond from the movies but the Bond from the books who was one level up from a street fighter. There was no M to temper his feralness. Reacher did not have a legal license to kill. Or maim. Or shoot people in their knees, which was a really mean thing to do, even to a stone-cold gangster.

Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making clothes, so you should never feel bad.

Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.

I'm not a big wine guy. And bars, I never go to bars anymore. It's such a drag, man.

Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.

The normal food of man is vegetable.

Business men who are busy the whole day and immediately go to bed after supper, snoring like cows, are not likely to contribute anything to culture.

Seven thirty in the morning is too early for a man of my standing.

Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

Wine was created with man in mind, for his pleasure and relaxation, a balm to his good health.

A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another.

Unhappy business men, I am convinced, would increase their happiness more by walking six miles every day than by any conceivable change of philosophy.

Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.

A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''

There is a good deal in a man's mode of eating.

I'm really boring, man. Like, I'm really dull. And I think people may think that I have this glamorous, fun lifestyle, but it's pretty dull. But that's what I like.

Nowhere on the globe do men live so well as in America, or grumble so much.