Batali Restaurants Quotes

#1. Old men are children once again a dream that sways and wavers into the hard light of day.

Aeschylus

#2. I was never really a nerd. I'm not really into comic books or Dungeons and Dragons or any of that kind of stuff. I was in drama class, and I'm a big movie and music buff. And I'm into sports.

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

#3. Close analysis of 'miracles' have never led to any proof for a supernatural explanation, and, in fact, many have proven to be cheap magic tricks, hallucinations or primitive misunderstandings of natural phenomena.

Armin Navabi

#4. Sight is the least sensual of all the senses. And we strain ourselves to see, see, see
everything, everything through the eye, inone mode of objective curiosity.

D.H. Lawrence

#5. It's the silence that scares me. It's the blank page on which I can write my own fears.

Mark Lawrence

#6. 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

#7. I have received delegations of working men who come, apparently speaking of the utmost sincerity, have declared that they would regard it as a genuine hardship to be deprived of their beer.

Woodrow Wilson

#8. Daffy-down-dilly came up in the cold, Through the brown mould Although the March breeze blew keen on her face, Although the white snow lay in many a place.

Anna Bartlett Warner

#9. Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. I'm looking for something different. A lot of chefs' cookbooks are food as it's done in the restaurants, but they are dumbed down, and I hate it when they dumb them down.

Mario Batali