Jiro Ono Quotes

#1. Jiro Ono serves Edo-style traditional sushi, the same 20 or 30 pieces he's been making his whole life, and he's still unsatisfied with the quality and every day wakes up and trains to make the best. And that is as close to a religious experience in food as one is likely to get.

Anthony Bourdain

#2. Debts are a heavy burden. Throw them off, and you walk free.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#3. I want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can't. It's a taste in your mouth. And an emptiness.

Aaron Huey

#4. All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.

Richard Rohr

#5. Generosity is nothing more seen than in a candid estimation of other men's virtues and good qualities.

Isaac Barrow

#6. The people who work in Wall Street still look up to Gordon Gekko. He's sort of a guru.

Michael Douglas

#7. In some of the L.A. clubs, people can act too cool to get into your music. That can get to be a bit much.

Chad Smith

#8. Why buy a book when you can join a library.

Ricky Gervais

#9. Comics have always been storyboards.

Dave Morris

#10. I just didn't want to admit that he was dead.

Lindy Boggs

#11. I once asked General Eisenhower's son, John, if his father ever nourished resentments. "No," he replied, "Dad never wastes a minute thinking about people he doesn't like.

Dale Carnegie

#12. When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going.

Garry Marshall

#13. If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell.

John Bunyan

#14. You can't just trust to luck; you have to really listen to what that character is telling you.

Estelle Parsons

#15. No excuses. Just do the work.

Shalane Flanagan