Top 84 Richman's Quotes

#1. You can learn a lot when you play in a little town in Holland or Western Australia, and you learn different things than you would learn playing a big city.

Jonathan Richman

Richman's Quotes #27220
#2. It should go without saying that even the most narrowly construed eminent-domain power would violate individual rights. Either a person owns his legitimately acquired property or he does not.

Sheldon Richman

Richman's Quotes #54149
#3. Christian Louboutin made you cry. So I bought you Jimmy Choo's.

Julie A. Richman

Richman's Quotes #56431
#4. I think it's very, very, very hard to get a book published. I never want to be one of those teachers that say, 'don't do this, ' because how sad would the world be if people didn't create art and write? But, it's not an easy journey being a writer.

Alyson Richman

Richman's Quotes #162179
#5. Wealth comes from the production and exchange of goods and services. If someone efficiently produces a good that many people willingly trade their money for, he becomes wealthy.

Sheldon Richman

Richman's Quotes #182870
#6. If you're a guy who's always been the fun-to-be-around teddy bear, then all of a sudden people are viewing you as sexy, it's nice. It's great not having to be the plucky best friend or the comic relief anymore - I love that.

Adam Richman

Richman's Quotes #205548
#7. She always told us there were two types of women. Those who are lit from the outside and those who are lit from within. The first needs the shimmer of a diamond to maker her sparkle, but for the other, her beauty is illuminated through the sheer light of her soul.

Alyson Richman

Richman's Quotes #234024
#8. You will never be lonely with a book at your side,

Alyson Richman

Richman's Quotes #248423
#9. I always hated watching cooking shows where the chef would use ingredients that I couldn't get my hands on, cooking implements that I couldn't afford, recipes that I could never have access to.

Adam Richman

Richman's Quotes #270833
#10. I remember my late father, who was the biggest football fan I have ever known, used to stress when I was younger that, win or lose, you always have to compete with honor.

Adam Richman

Richman's Quotes #277238
#11. There are two sensations of skin you will always remember in your lifetime; the first time you fall in love-and that person holds your hand-and the first time your child grasps your finger. In each of those times, you are sealed to the other for eternity.

Alyson Richman

Richman's Quotes #287376
#12. There's no way that I could have known about a 72-oz. steak challenge in Amarillo unless thousands upon thousands of locals and travellers alike had attempted it. I guess if 'Man V Food' is me paying homage to these legends, then I suppose 'Man V Food Nation' is the legacy.

Adam Richman

Richman's Quotes #305893
#13. It's weird because people think the biggest guys are the biggest eaters, but fat doesn't expand as much as muscle, so you want someone with a big frame who can expand.

Adam Richman

Richman's Quotes #325128
#14. The Travel Channel had success with their 'Food Paradise' series, '10 Best Places to Pig Out' and those types of specials, so they knew there was a market for comfort food and wanted to develop a show around it.

Adam Richman

Richman's Quotes #361926
#15. It's easy to recognize the surface of beauty. To see it with your two eyes. But the challenge to the artist is conveying the many layers underneath.

Alyson Richman

Richman's Quotes #441540
#16. The truly free market is the worker's best friend.

Sheldon Richman

Richman's Quotes #441915
#17. I like being the people's champion when it comes to dining.

Adam Richman

Richman's Quotes #451520
#18. To combat the monotony of gym workouts, I started playing soccer. I looked at workouts as training sessions. My soccer training includes squats, pushups, resistance-band work, and sprints. Ninety minutes of running became part of my love of the game rather than a chore.

Adam Richman

Richman's Quotes #533431
#19. There was a lightness to the material that she loved but that also made her feel vulnerable, and she wondered which was more dangerous - the transparency of a fabric or of the soul?

Alyson Richman

Richman's Quotes #546201
#20. I love that you can pick up your phone at a hotel and have something to eat in your bed. I love home, but there are amenities at a hotel that you simply don't have at home.

Adam Richman

Richman's Quotes #608530
#21. Natto, Japanese ferment bean paste, will never cross my lips again. Spam Musubi, on the other hand, is something I love. I used to have a roommate of Vietnamese descent, and he would eat it all the time. It looked gross, but I finally had it - wrapped in seaweed and rice - it was terrific.

Adam Richman

Richman's Quotes #626399
#22. I will wait for Cleopatra, for I know my time must come. And I'm getting ready for wherever she'll be at-tra, cause I'm getting stronger now and not so dumb.

Jonathan Richman

Richman's Quotes #643097
#23. I love Jonathan Richman - I love a lot of his music, and the thing I really like about him is his attitude. He seems very happy, and the way he performs is like, 'Don't worry, everybody, just get into it. I'm just having fun; I like when you guys are having fun.'

Mac DeMarco

Richman's Quotes #679543
#24. I've long struggled with my body image and have worked hard to achieve a healthy weight.

Adam Richman

Richman's Quotes #746127
#25. You are too young to understand, solange, but there are many different types of love in this world. There are lovers of the flesh, lovers of the mind, and lovers sustained by family.:

Alyson Richman

Richman's Quotes #747445
#26. If people give up their attachment to expansive government, they will feel free to fight the income tax.

Sheldon Richman

Richman's Quotes #750072
#27. The alternative to the market process is government control, and we know where that principle leads.

Sheldon Richman

Richman's Quotes #820467
#28. We wore that grief like one wears one's underclothes. An invisible skin, unseen to prying eyes, but knitted to us all the same. We wore it every day.

Alyson Richman

Richman's Quotes #834107
#29. These $40 burgers with foie gras and truffles and all of that flies in the face of one of the most proletarian foods around. It's overpriced, overdone and just not worth it.

Adam Richman

Richman's Quotes #883250
#30. In an unmolested market economy - one where all dealings are consensual - the 'allocation' of wealth and income is the result of transactions.

Sheldon Richman

Richman's Quotes #961618
#31. But in order to survive in this foreign world, I had to teach myself that love was very much like a painting. The negative space between people was just as important as the positive space we occupy.

Alyson Richman

Richman's Quotes #969464
#32. My most memorable food challenge was probably the Big Texan in Amarillo. All the big executives called me because it was such an iconic challenge, and a victory in that would be a legitimizing device for myself as much as for the show.

Adam Richman

Richman's Quotes #996104
#33. The housing and financial crisis could not have occurred in the absence of government housing and monetary policies.

Sheldon Richman

Richman's Quotes #1023482
#34. And I saw for the first time how, despite the isolation of our own lives, we are always connected to our ancestors; our bodies hold the memories of those who came before us, whether it is the features we inherit or a disposition that is etched into our soul.

Alyson Richman

Richman's Quotes #1033763
#35. I need a stunt mouth.

Adam Richman

Richman's Quotes #1053985
#36. There are some things that a woman knows that she cannot tell even her family. It is part intuition and part self-preservation.

Alyson Richman

Richman's Quotes #1058824
#37. I love art, my mother is a painter, I majored in art history at Wellesley, and as I was having my second child I was thinking, what am I going to do, I have to do something to keep myself sane, and I began to ask myself, what are the most horrific circumstances under which art can be created?

Alyson Richman

Richman's Quotes #1070052
#38. To go from hating the way I looked to being a 'Cosmo' centerfold is a profound honor.

Adam Richman

Richman's Quotes #1076845
#39. Government spending reduces the capital that could be invested to serve consumers and to produce new employment opportunities.

Sheldon Richman

Richman's Quotes #1079193
#40. There is no right way to go on an edible journey. You can never tell what is going to be great, so you have to try everything. If you become doctrinaire about sticking to lowbrow foods or epicurean delights, your just being an extremist, and it won't do you any good.

Adam Richman

Richman's Quotes #1127274
#41. No matter how much the government controls the economic system, any problem will be blamed on whatever small zone of freedom that remains.

Sheldon Richman

Richman's Quotes #1130774
#42. We are all in "the perpetual quest for keeping oneself occupied, entertained, and important - which burns at the edge of addiction.

Jana Richman

Richman's Quotes #1143880
#43. The more power government has to provide things, the more power it has to dictate terms.

Sheldon Richman

Richman's Quotes #1156032
#44. He laughs. And in his laugh I hear bliss. I hear feet dancing, the rush of skirts twirling. The sound of children.
Is that the first sign of love?
You hear in the person you're destined to love the sound of those yet to be born.

Alyson Richman

Richman's Quotes #1178364
#45. Love stories always seem to be a spark.

Alyson Richman

Richman's Quotes #1194089
#46. A woman who loves books has a dreamer's soul, with each story she has read woven into her own.

Alyson Richman

Richman's Quotes #1211081
#47. I was hanging out with Jonathan Richman last night.

Evan Dando

Richman's Quotes #1218372
#48. Perspective is a tool used far too infrequently. If people had the courage to alternate their lens every now and then, the world would be a far more beautiful place.

Alyson Richman

Richman's Quotes #1267215
#49. I was logging 15-hour days, sampling food every minute. I had access to these amazing dishes, and it was easy to lose sight of how quickly the bites added up.

Adam Richman

Richman's Quotes #1280542
#50. The state is an organization of mere mortals who, by one dubious method or another, have been allowed to don the mantle of political legitimacy and to command obedience on pain of imprisonment even of those who never consented to the preposterous arrangement.

Sheldon Richman

Richman's Quotes #1286007
#51. The more the words the less the meaning and how does that benefit anyone?

Ecclesiastes 6:11

N.D. Richman

Richman's Quotes #1300632
#52. A good spicy challenge strikes a balance between flavour and fear.

Adam Richman

Richman's Quotes #1305167
#53. Your eyes are wide open. I feel as though I could step inside them and make myself at home.

Alyson Richman

Richman's Quotes #1334343
#54. Playing shows and making records keeps been getting easier and more fun.

Jonathan Richman

Richman's Quotes #1369255
#55. My favorite Galaxie 500 album is the first one, 'Today,' recorded in three days at Noise New York and produced by Kramer. It contains my favorite Galaxie 500 songs: 'Temperature's Rising,' 'Tugboat,' and our interpretation of Jonathan Richman's 'Don't Let Our Youth Go to Waste.'

Dean Wareham

Richman's Quotes #1381686
#56. Andy Paley got us a show opening for his band at an outdoor show at Simmon's College, on a Friday.

Jonathan Richman

Richman's Quotes #1396308
#57. Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish.

Mike Myers

Richman's Quotes #1432028
#58. I realized that I didn't need nearly as many calories as I'd grown accustomed to. I ate 100 to 200 calories every two hours or so, consumed healthy proteins (yogurt, lean meat, turkey jerky), and drank a gallon of water a day. And as my weight dropped, my energy soared.

Adam Richman

Richman's Quotes #1439513
#59. People with an investment in government power will torture logic like a medieval inquisitor rather than face the facts ... There's a simple way to keep money out of politics: Keep politics out of our money.

Sheldon Richman

Richman's Quotes #1478967
#60. Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole.

Jonathan Richman

Richman's Quotes #1516196
#61. Most recently, Richman et al (1997) have argued that a four-dimensional

Pierangelo Isernia

Richman's Quotes #1595976
#62. Today, the people who would use guns to violate rights have little trouble getting them, while those who would use them to defend their rights have increasing trouble getting them ... Gun control is in effect a subsidy for criminals.

Sheldon Richman

Richman's Quotes #1598925
#63. I don't do any songs that I'm sick of now - sometimes even songs that I request. If I'm sick of 'em I don't do 'em even for myself.

Jonathan Richman

Richman's Quotes #1605799
#64. I had previously been in the band the Modern Lovers with Jonathan Richman.

Jerry Harrison

Richman's Quotes #1611729
#65. Government interference with the economic process represents a substitution of political for consumer objectives.

Sheldon Richman

Richman's Quotes #1620137
#66. If those we love visit us when we dream, those who torment us almost always visit us when we're still awake.

Alyson Richman

Richman's Quotes #1632904
#67. To those who believe the dead do not visit them, I say you have cataracts in your soul. I am a man of science, yet I believe in guardian angels and the haunting by ghosts.

Alyson Richman

Richman's Quotes #1644788
#68. The first Mardi Gras I went to, I stayed at the Tulane AE Pi house on Broadway. Slept on a pool table one night, slept under it the next.

Adam Richman

Richman's Quotes #1651307
#69. They played Boston. They played at the Boston Tea Party and through an amazing chain of events I got to hang out with them backstage even though I was underage.

Jonathan Richman

Richman's Quotes #1668453
#70. I know only one thing. One doesn't abandon family. One doesn't leave them, even in the name of love.

Alyson Richman

Richman's Quotes #1672996
#71. We must acknowledge, of course, that what looks like failure to us Americans outside the privileged elite may not actually be failure for our overlords.

Sheldon Richman

Richman's Quotes #1679306
#72. Back in the day, I used to watch 'The Cajun Chef' with Justin Wilson. His mixing would go one way, and his stomach would go the other.

Adam Richman

Richman's Quotes #1713401
#73. I knew what I was getting into: 72-ounce steaks, shakes by the quart, atomic wings. When I landed 'Man v. Food' in 2008, I accepted the fact that my weight would fluctuate. But instead of stressing about the scale, I made my long-term health a primary concern.

Adam Richman

Richman's Quotes #1719440
#74. He took a deep breath, as if he were taking the air from my own lungs and swallowing it for himself.

Alyson Richman

Richman's Quotes #1738255
#75. one needn't be born into a beautiful life in order to have one.

Alyson Richman

Richman's Quotes #1738521
#76. Freedom is never more in peril than when politicians feel the pressure to 'do something.'

Sheldon Richman

Richman's Quotes #1775444
#77. Well, you know it was so different from when you rehearsed. You're out there with your guitar and trying to get a sound, but it doesn't sound anything like what you expect!

Jonathan Richman

Richman's Quotes #1797754
#78. Sometimes it works. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Hospital'. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Pablo Picasso'. I've been playing a lot lately. I do it as long as I feel like it.

Jonathan Richman

Richman's Quotes #1807789
#79. The government's coercive taxing power necessarily creates two classes: those who create and those who consume the wealth expropriated and transferred by that power.

Sheldon Richman

Richman's Quotes #1831750
#80. Roadrunner, roadrunner, going faster miles an hour. Gonna drive past the Stop 'n' Shop, with the radio on. I'm in love with Massachusetts and the neon when it's cold outside. And the highway when it's late at night. Got the radio on, I'm like the roadrunner.

Jonathan Richman

Richman's Quotes #1852659
#81. I went in for a checkup, and when my doctor had me stand on the scale, even he was surprised. Seeing that number (which I'll take to the grave) was a turning point. I knew I needed to make a change. I cut out white flour and starches and worked with my doctor and a nutritionist to develop a plan.

Adam Richman

Richman's Quotes #1870345
#82. 'Man v. Food' was the biggest career-defining opportunity. I went from anonymity to someone of note with access to amazing eateries.

Adam Richman

Richman's Quotes #1871309
#83. In L.A., I love the L'Ermitage in Beverly Hills. Also, the Beverly Wilshire, where they make great huevos rancheros. I also love Shutters on the Beach, where I walk around everywhere in a bathrobe.

Adam Richman

Richman's Quotes #1874521
#84. In a day and age when there are so many culinary competitions - ranging from contests of taste to those of technique - The World Food Championships will be the ultimate food competition.

Adam Richman

Richman's Quotes #1877164

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