Jay Rayner Quotes

#1. English wine is like Belgian rock or German disco: a waste of everyone's time and money.

Jay Rayner

#2. Salt is the difference between eating in Technicolor and eating in black and white.

Jay Rayner

#3. The United States has, overall, the most effective system of higher education the world has ever known.

Clark Kerr

#4. One of my mottos for living is: never eat on a boat, unless you own the boat.

Jay Rayner

#5. Women find it far more difficult to overcome their inclination to coquetry than to overcome their love.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#6. A novel is a relationship, you know? When you read a book, the writer has done half the work, and you're doing half the work. You're providing the imagination, the words are turning into pictures in your mind, there's an active relationship that's going on.

Noah Hawley

#7. Bad restaurants find unique ways to be bad. Good ones are good in the same way: good food, nice staff, a pleasant room. The human capacity for finding unique ways to screw things up always amazes me.

Jay Rayner

#8. Every choice before you represents the universe inviting you to remember who you are and what you want.

Alan Cohen

#9. If something's not mean't for you, you won't get it, simple as that.

Nadine Coyle

#10. The tragedy of my job [journalist] is that I rarely get to go where I want to go. I have to go where the job takes me.

Jay Rayner

#11. In my experience of vegan food it tends to be a symphony of beige.

Jay Rayner

#12. People adore bad reviews. Nobody would be interested in reading the good ones.

Jay Rayner

#13. My job is my own only land.

Maxine Hong Kingston