Quotes About Line Cooks

#1. Line cooks are the heroes.

Anthony Bourdain

#2. You might get the impression from the specifics of my less than stellar career that all line cooks are wacked-out moral degenerates, dope fiends, refugees, a thuggish assortment of drunks, sneak thieves, sluts and psychopaths. You wouldn't be too far off base.

Anthony Bourdain

#3. '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

#4. No one asks the cow or the chicken where it gets its protein. I eat about 4,000 or 5,000 calories a day, and I cook for myself. I also have a line of cooks that work with me - some raw, some vegan.

John Salley

#5. Stealth Meditation If you start to feel overwhelmed, take a quick, centering moment - as short as following three breaths - to connect with a deeper sense of yourself.

Sharon Salzberg

#6. Every failure is an opportunity to begin again with more information.

Henry Ford

#7. Success breeds confidence.

Beryl Markham

#8. What strange, perplexing, questionable questions!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#9. The tendency to follow the path of least resistance guarantees failure in life.

Brian Tracy

#10. Actions may be judged according to time and place, and their values may change; but style, language (apart from content) are crystallized at the moment.

Erika Mann

#11. It didn't have a real ending. It just slipped backward when other things happened.

Peter Straub

#12. I've always said even the most hardened pro-choice people would be just devastated to watch an actual birth and then watch a baby be killed before their eyes.

Kevin Sorbo

#13. I was never trying to write a hit. I was just trying to write good songs and get a message out, and it was my great good fortune to be popular.

John Denver