Best Food Critic Quotes

#1. You've got to block out all distractions when you train. Your focus has to be 100% into the rep. You've got to get into a zone. You know you're in the zone when guys in the gym look you in the eye and then quickly turn away 'cause they see the fire. You've got to be all business.

Mike Matarazzo

#2. I am not a food critic. Or a chef. Or even a professional writer. What I am schooled in the art of, however, is enjoying myself.

Jewel Staite

#3. My roots really instilled Chicago values in me.

Sondra Radvanovsky

#4. I just wish I got a quarter every time someone clicks on 'Little Women, Big Cars.' We had a 125-page script for this show. We used the creator's house to shoot. But it's expensive to do these shows. They're eventually not going to be able to get the quality of actors.

Julie Warner

#5. So for a long time, I did a lot of freelance writing in addition to writing fiction and such - I was a food critic for a magazine for a bit, I did writing for nonprofits and political things, I was the editorial consultant for another magazine for a couple years, all sorts of jobs.

Tod Goldberg

#6. There was Virginia Boote, the food and restaurant critic, who had once been a great beauty but was now a grand and magnificent ruin, and who delighted in her ruination.

Neil Gaiman

#7. Food critic and writer Waverley Root described the common American near beer as "such a wishy-washy, thin, ill-tasting, discouraging sort of slop that it might have been dreamed up by a Puritan Machiavelli with the intent of disgusting drinkers with genuine beer forever."[21]

Waverly Root

#8. You can be a decent critic if you know about food, but to be a really good one, you need to know about life.

Ruth Reichl

#9. Don't answer every critic. Sometimes, the answers you give may be right but misconceived and misunderstood.

Israelmore Ayivor

#10. Leaders learn more from blames than praises. Praises make them know what's already done well; blames show them what's yet to be done well.

Israelmore Ayivor

#11. If you are your worst critic, don't be angry if others try to claim the title.

Faydra D. Fields

#12. When you love something, you can't be happy all the time, can you? Like, that's why you love it. It makes you feel all kinds of things, not just happy. It can hurt, it can make you fucking mad, but... it makes you feel something, you know?

Emma Mills

#13. And at the last, a war between magic and science that would leave the world in ashes. At the center of all this were a man and a woman, who were still children now.

Charlie Jane Anders

#14. The bottom line is to be in control of your own destiny.

James Woods

#15. I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.

Alex Kapranos

#16. I'd rather live my life knowing that I'm not perfect than spend my whole life pretending to be.

Will Smith

#17. At the end of the day, it seems like there's a critic archetype for food movies, like with 'Ratatouille' or anything. You know, if you were doing a puppet show about chefs, one puppet would be the chef, one would be the critic.

Jon Favreau