Marco Pierre Quotes

#1. I spent my days on the riverbanks, in the woods, in the fields, shooting, hunting and stalking. I unravelled everything within my life. Self discovery is most important to me.

Marco Pierre White

#2. All Being within this order, by the laws
of its own nature is impelled to find
its proper station round its Primal Cause.
Thus every nature moves across the tide
of the great sea of being to its own port,
each with its given instinct as its guide.

Dante Alighieri

#3. If the lift is broken, I'll just sit and wait for them to sort it out. I don't believe in friendly conversation or chit-chat.

Marco Pierre White

#4. Don't dress for others, dress for yourself. Clothes should be an extension of what you represent and what you feel inside.

Marco Pierre White

#5. Books educate and inspire, and they soothe souls
like comfort food without the calories.

Elizabeth Berg

#6. I find supermarkets fascinating places. It's extraordinary, you can buy anything there.

Marco Pierre White

#7. Scotty Moore plays one of the first really amazing riffs in rock history on Heartbreak Hotel with Elvis Presley ... it was dangerous, it scared everybodys parents, which was part of the attraction then - as it still is now ... it totally blindsided me and made me want to get a guitar and do that ...

Roger McGuinn

#8. Human nature, gentleman. It is original sin that leads men to misfortune, every time. I am a speculator in the market, gentlemen, and that is part of God's plan. Men only learn through suffering. So I punish human weakness, and God rewards me.

Edward Rutherfurd

#9. Carina's his trophy but I'm his prized possession." ~Marco

Senayda Pierre

#10. I've paid my price, a high price, I watched my mother die. I look at everything I've been given now as a form of compensation. A person who has regrets is a person who casts anchors.

Marco Pierre White

#11. A tree without roots is just a piece of wood.

Marco Pierre White

#12. One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a take on everything they observe.

Rachel Kushner

#13. Success is born out of arrogance, but greatness comes from humility.

Marco Pierre White

#14. You know that everyone thinks that in order to do South Park we must be wild, crazy, rock and roll stars. But the truth is we're just wholesome middle-American guys. We enjoy soda pop, baseball and beating up old people just as much as anybody.

Trey Parker

#15. If you are not extreme, then people will take shortcuts because they don't fear you.

Marco Pierre White

#16. I can't imagine anything worse than trying to impress a girl with dinner. To be honest, I'm always impressing myself, not other people.

Marco Pierre White

#17. Mother Nature is the true artist and our job as cooks is to allow her to shine.

Marco Pierre White

#18. Eating is one of the most important aspects of living. I like indulging. I like to eat one food at a time, to savor each individual thing.

Marco Pierre White

#19. I don't do social events, I don't do award ceremonies, I don't do charity dinners. I live my life off-radar.

Marco Pierre White

#20. Strategy will compensate the talent.
The talent will never compensate the strategy.

Marco Pierre White

#21. 'Chronicle' could have been a video-game movie. The original 'RoboCop' and the remake could have come from video games.

Michael De Luca

#22. Once you accept you are being judged by people who have less knowledge than yourself, then what's it worth?

Marco Pierre White

#23. Do not say to yourself, 'I am going to act this way tomorrow.' Just say to yourself - 'I am going to imagine myself acting this way NOW - for 30 minutes - today.'

Maxwell Maltz

#24. I'm not a worrier. I like sleeping.

Marco Pierre White

#25. In its sacredness, families get together to (unintentionally?) celebrate one genocide (against Native Americans) by committing another (against turkeys).

Daniel Brook

#26. The sign of a good society is where talent is respected.

Irrfan Khan

#27. Gastronomy is the greatest form of therapy that anyone can be exposed to.

Marco Pierre White

#28. At the end of the day it's just food, isn't it? Just food.

Marco Pierre White