Kitchen Confidential Quotes

#1. 'Kitchen Confidential' wasn't a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line cooks and restaurant lifers, basically; I had no expectation that it would move as far west as Philadelphia.

Anthony Bourdain

#2. When I was writing 'Kitchen Confidential,' I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car.

Anthony Bourdain

#3. Ever since I read 'Kitchen Confidential,' I saw a little light bulb go off. Being a chef is like being on a pirate ship; it's not like 'Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?' or whatever my impression was as I was growing up.

Jon Favreau

#4. Network's rating dependent. A show might not stick. A lot's timing. Like, my Bradley Cooper in 'Kitchen Confidential' didn't always work. Cable supports young shows. TV Land, which you can find on Hulu, Amazon, iTunes, wanted 'Younger.' They came to me.

Darren Star

#5. Frighteningly honest. What Anthony Bourdain did to the world of cooking in Kitchen Confidential, Leopold will do to the world of journalism. It's Sid & Nancy meets All the President's Men.

Rob Cohen

#6. We should've been better, more disciplined. We made untimely mistakes defensively, as a group. This is really humbling for us. After winning the Stanley Cup, we got brought back down to earth, hard. Maybe the humbling is good for us in the long run.

Steve Yzerman

#7. Life goes on after sorrow, in spite of sorrow, as a defense against sorrow.

Cornelia Meigs

#8. That's pretty much why I went into show business because I wanted to have a guitar and sing unaccompanied, that was like my fantasy of the perfect life.

Victoria Jackson

#9. He doesn't even look at her because there is too much there, and he's afraid. She is his first child, his favorite, every mistake he ever made.

Barbara Kingsolver

#10. I really like grammar. And spelling. I was a spelling-bee kid. I'm hard-core about grammar.

Emma Stone

#11. I believe every pencil has to be sharpened every now and then to stay sharp, or you dull out. So my records, I chose to speak on what black people do, what white people do, what women do, what men do.

Ice Cube

#12. If you have the Holy Spirit and let Him take charge of your life, it doesn't matter what your situation is, He'll turn it around for your good.

Chris Oyakhilome

#13. It's a big theme in my life, learning about myself and being a better person. I'm a work in progress; I have revelations every day.

Rick Rubin

#14. Good ideas had in the dark were generally best left there.

Alexandra Bracken

#15. I urge you to travel - as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to.

Anthony Bourdain

#16. Your heart keeps jumping like a kangaroo, floating like an onion in a bowl of stew.

Fabian

#17. I think things ultimately work out the way they're supposed to, even if it's not always the most comfortable, cushy way.

Beth Harbison

#18. One thing I liked about being in microscopy is it gets you out of your box constantly because there's such a diverse range of applications.

Eric Betzig

#19. For laughter is the perfect medicine for the tortured heart, the balm for misery,

Dean Koontz

#20. It all, maybe, most likely, indeed, might turn out for the best.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#21. I like the fact that now my understanding for entertainment and the entertainment business is completely different from what it was when I first came in. I get the business side of it.

Kevin Hart