Babbo's Quotes

#1. Babbo's menu is only four pages, but it's overwhelming - there are 20 different pastas in there, a lot of stuff. There is nothing I hate more than a useless, lazy menu with only three appetizers and four entrees.

Joe Bastianich

#2. If you want the beautiful moments to shine, you have to contrast that with dark and gruesome moments. That's the way life is.

Tony DiTerlizzi

#3. What's interesting about the U.K. is that it celebrates an alternative voice. It's up for telling new stories.

Riz Ahmed

#4. The difference between 'Molto Italiano' and 'The Babbo Cookbook' is that the ingredient lists in 'Molto' are about half or even a third the size. In 'Babbo,' they are very long, they are very real. That's exactly how we make them in the restaurant.

Mario Batali

#5. When we opened Babbo, we were an indie band. Now we're kinda Apple. We have 19 restaurants and 2,800 employees, we are no longer perceived as the indie band although we think of ourselves as the indie band, and we operate our restaurants as individual indie bands.

Mario Batali

#6. Because we cannot see the roads we have not taken, we become, by defaults, advocates for the path our life is on.

Ethan Watters

#7. Even if the whole world were to fall to pieces, the unity of the psyche would never be shattered.

Carl Jung

#8. The armament industry is indeed one of the greatest dangers that beset mankind. It is the hidden evil power.

Albert Einstein

#9. By seven o'clock even the long corridor was as dim as the alley outside. No one thought of shutting the windows - I doubt whether they will shut...and the fog rolled over the sill in banks and round the open glass doors, till even the white cap of a Sister could hardly be seen as she passed.

Enid Bagnold

#10. The books which you have read must be a part of you not all of you!

Maliheh Sadat Razavi

#11. I've learned what works and what doesn't, which gives me confidence.

Brian Johnson

#12. When I was at Babbo, I was covered in scars and scabs and burned bits - melted hair, ribbed burns I got reaching across the top of a hot skillet ... I sliced off the tip of my finger. I cleaved my forehead - a deep, ugly wound. Luckily, it regenerated.

Bill Buford