De Groot Quotes

#1. The right food always comes at the right time. Reliance on out-of-season foods makes the gastronomic year an endlessly boring repetition.

Roy Andries De Groot

#2. I think the future for young chefs is much brighter than it was 40 years ago. Because people have become so much more interested in food. That will not stop. We cannot go back now. We cannot go back to frozen.

Andre Soltner

#3. Old Burmese (now Myanmar) proverb: Burmese proverb: Government is one of the five evils along with fire, floods, thieves and enemies.

Jeffrey Friedland

#4. Maybe it shouldn't have come as such a surprise, but like a tooth extraction, there was a moment of intense pain and then a numbing sense of loss. I was officially unmarried.

Larry J. Dunlap

#5. I've always advocated using the break between product cycles as an opportunity to reflect and to look ahead, and that applies to me, too.

Steven Sinofsky

#6. Live to seek to draw close to God in all ways and seek His transforming love

Elizabeth George

#7. The 'perfect marriage' of food and wine should allow for infidelity.

Roy Andries De Groot

#8. Lyon is full of temperamental gourmets, eternally engaged in a never-ending search for that imaginary, perfect, unknown little back-street bistro, where one can dine in the style of Louis XIV for the price of a pack of peanuts.

Roy Andries De Groot

#9. Excellence is not an art. It is the habit of practice.

Aristotle.

#10. If anyone wishes to see how the soul dwells in its body, let him observe how this body uses its daily habitation; that is to say, if this is devoid of order and confused, the body will be kept in disorder and confusion by its soul ...

Leonardo Da Vinci

#11. I found it really disturbing to see a novelist writing a diatribe about Islam and Muslim radical extremists, blurring the distinction between the two.

Pankaj Mishra

#12. When you are consciously aware of all that you have to be grateful for, your life is in perfect harmony.

Hal Elrod

#13. There is no applause that so flatters a man as that which he wrings from unwilling throats ...

Ouida

#14. My early comics are really reflective of being kind of a befuddled, single loser in the Bay Area, and I think having kids has been by far the most profound impact on me as a person and as an artist.

Adrian Tomine

#15. A monster's worst fear is of being found.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#16. Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pigmy hatreds.

Honore De Balzac

#17. Judaism was not a religion but a law.

Moses Mendelssohn