Top 100 Trotter's Quotes
#1. I met Charlie Trotter before I actually saw him in person; I was 24 when I first opened the pages of Charlie's cookbook 'Charlie Trotter's' and was greeted by a man I would know and admire for the next 20 years.
Marcus Samuelsson
#2. It's a lot harder to get people to 'ooh' and 'aah' over beets and carrots than it is to get them to 'ooh' and 'aah' over artichokes or asparagus, and I enjoy being able to take these humble, 'lowbrow' foodstuffs up a few notches and serve them with great exuberance.
Charlie Trotter
#3. The first step into the realm of giving is ... not manward but Godward: an utter yielding of our best. So long as our idea of surrender is limited to the renouncing of unlawful things, we have never grasped its true meaning: that is not worthy of the name for 'no polluted thing' can be offered.
Lilias Trotter
#5. I never considered Miles Davis a perfectionist; I always considered him as an excellence-ist, where deviation is actually kind of cool.
Charlie Trotter
#6. My friends back home call me a warrior. In fact I'm a butterfly-faced warrior.
DeeDee Trotter
#7. I don't know how to put this gently, but I'm trying to tackle the biggest question of all, which is the God question.
Charlie Trotter
#8. At home, a man is entitled to raise his voice maybe once a year, if something really gets under his skin. At work, it's different. I raise my voice all the time. Not out of malice, but to get things right. It's never personal.
Charlie Trotter
#9. You can't be afraid to not have everything figured out. There's too much pressure on young people today to have it all figured out when they're in college.
Charlie Trotter
#10. Excellence is about fighting and pursuing something diligently, with a strict and determined approach to doing it right. It's okay if there are flaws in the process - it makes it more interesting.
Charlie Trotter
#11. But as someone famous (it was either Winston Churchill or Rocky Balboa) once said, 'Being brave ain't about not being punched, it's about being punched but continuing to come back to get punched over and over again'.
Derek 'Del Boy' Trotter
#12. I don't understand people who spend their twenties hanging out in bars and going to football game. That stuff is so boring compared to really applying yourself to what you do.
Charlie Trotter
#13. I love faltering. I love, in a sense, coming up short. Because you learn nothing from success. You learn so much from failing.
Charlie Trotter
#14. Sometimes I think I should have chosen a line of work where it was just me alone in the room, with the sun coming in, and God, insofar as he or she exists, smiling down upon me. Then I would have never been accused of being a tyrant, other than towards myself.
Charlie Trotter
#15. Experts don't apply rules, make decisions or solve problems.
They do what comes naturally, and it almost always works. When
they fail it often is because they are pitted against another
expert.
Robert J. Trotter
#16. I couldn't really relate to the fraternity or party scene, to the people out in the mall every day protesting one thing or another. I felt like there was no one I could relate to.
Charlie Trotter
#17. I would always be embarrassed to read out loud in class because I would transpose words and letters and things.
Charlie Trotter
#18. I took the obligatory economics classes in school, but I've long been a fan of the Milton Friedman philosophy and its libertarian bent: One must be free to do what one wants to do, as long as you don't harm another. This is the seminal treatise on free-market economics.
Charlie Trotter
#19. Disease often tells its secrets in a casual parenthesis.
Wilfred Trotter
#20. I timed my previous wife's pregnancy to the moment to have my son born on Bob Dylan's 50th birthday. There is no bigger Bob Dylan fan than me. You don't just time the day and impregnate your wife to get your kid to be born on Bob Dylan's 50th birthday.
Charlie Trotter
#21. I have a Missouri Fox Trotter. So mine's like a quarter horse, but just a much better gait - it moves very fast.
Mitt Romney
#22. Any fool can be happy. What I'm interested in is satisfaction. There's got to be more to life than just being happy. You've got to be fulfilled. You've got to be satisfied; philosophically satisfied is what I mean.
Charlie Trotter
#23. It's nice to come into an atmosphere that's uplifting and good.
Steve Trotter
#24. Maybe it's good to be traumatized in your youth, to make you think differently and step outside the box. Anybody can be comfortable, but if you get your world rocked, shaken as it were, then maybe it causes you to really go to a whole other level in a different way.
Charlie Trotter
#25. Playing Sgt, Trotter in 'The Mousetrap' is the same as playing Scripps in 'The History Boys,' in the sense that they're dream roles that I've always wanted to do. The fact they're letting me do this professionally and I'm getting paid for it, I find astonishing.
Thomas Howes
#26. Dare to have it out with God, and ask Him to show you whether or not all is focused on Christ and His Glory.
Lilias Trotter
#28. Jill showed friend Kay the cute white mice.
They liked to run races for cheese.
Mice were lots of fun to play with.
Jill said, "Take Poopsie, the male one, please!
Melinda K. Trotter
#29. That weekend my people brought home
a big eared gray scrawny kit.
He was so loud and annoying
that I did not like him one bit.
Melinda K. Trotter
#30. A quarter century of running a restaurant - that's a long time to do one thing.
Charlie Trotter
#31. I got on a Dostoyevsky kick right after college. I started with 'Crime and Punishment,' went on to 'The Possessed' and then 'The Brothers Karamazov' and 'The Idiot.'
Charlie Trotter
#32. I don't care what the airlines say, there is no such thing as a non-stop flight.
Steve Trotter
#33. You know the old adage that the customer's always right? Well, I kind of think that the opposite is true. The customer is rarely right.
Charlie Trotter
#34. Ultimately, I want to prepare food that will be recognized equally in Tokyo, London, and Paris. I am after that universality, that transcendence.
Charlie Trotter
#35. Madame ... gloatingly savored her words as earlier she had savored her pig's trotter.
Georges Simenon
#36. My fantasy is to have a restaurant where there are no written menus, but where you just ask people, 'What are you in the mood for? Fish? Meat? White wine?'
Charlie Trotter
#37. I'd rather climb 14a and eat whatever I want than climb 14d and measure out my food.
Sonnie Trotter
#38. It was not noisy prejudice that caused the work of Mendel to lie dead for thirty years, but the sheer inability of contemporary opinion to distinguish between a new idea and nonsense.
Wilfred Trotter
#39. There has been no great surprise, no sudden revelation. I knew pretty much what I was getting into. What I've learned is that a restaurant can be as much of an art as you want it to be, but it has to be a successful business first.
Charlie Trotter
#40. A pig's trotter is a fantastic thing. The first night of my honeymoon in Paris, my wife fell asleep in her steak tartare, so my trotter kept me company.
Fergus Henderson
#42. As tough as I've been on anybody, as hard as I've ever been on anybody, I have been harder on myself. By far.
Charlie Trotter
#43. When God delays in fulfilling our little thoughts, it is to have Himself room to work out His great ones.
Lilias Trotter
#44. Take the very hardest thing in your life - the place of difficulty, outward or inward, and expect God to triumph gloriously in that very spot. Just there He can bring your soul into blossom.
Lilias Trotter
#45. Achieving excellence is being passionate about what you're doing and working so hard that they have to hire two people to replace you.
Charlie Trotter
#46. If people give me a year or two of their best effort, then I am their friend for life.
Charlie Trotter
#47. Toilet paper unrolled and slithered
then wrapped around my tummy.
That paper tried to roll me up
into an Egyptian mummy.
Melinda K. Trotter
#48. You have to be critical of what you do every day, to analyze it and be willing to push it further.
Charlie Trotter
#49. I'd not sign away my liberty to any man,' Alice answered with spirit.'Wives have no more rights than servants.But once we women have the vote,we'll change all that.
Janet MacLeod Trotter
#50. I signed contracts when I didn't know what that meant. I thought I'd get residuals off of the shows I've been on: History Channel, Discovery, Dateline, Johnny Carson, etc. It's the only regret I have in life. If I got residuals, I wouldn't be shucking oysters now, though I do love my job.
Steve Trotter
#52. If you go around the kitchen and ask my employees what they want to be doing in three to five years, most of them, if they're being honest, will tell you that they don't want to be working for me. They want to have their own place. And I think that's great.
Charlie Trotter
#54. Turn your soul's vision to Jesus, and look and look at Him, and a strange dimness will come over all that is apart from Him.
Lilias Trotter
#55. I'm strapped in [the barrel] with a five-point drag-racing harness. With 50 feet to go, they tell me on the walkie-talkie to get ready for a head-first. "We love ya, man," was the last thing I heard. Then I could feel myself going over.
Steve Trotter
#56. I bounced off a rock at the bottom and saw stars for a second, but I wasn't knocked out. It's the rush of rushes, the most incredible feeling I've ever had.
Steve Trotter
#57. It is also possible, I believe, if one lives in India long enough, to come across a globe-trotter who is modest and teachable, but we have been out here only twenty-two years, and I am going home without having seen one.
Sara Jeannette Duncan
#58. When I graduated I wasn't sure what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn't want a conventional career.
Charlie Trotter
#59. The dispassionate intellect, the open mind, the unprejudiced observer, exist in an exact sense only in a sort of intellectualist folk-lore; states even approaching them cannot be reached without a moral and emotional effort most of us cannot or will not make.
Wilfred Trotter
#60. such as the fact that Strider was called Trotter until a very late stage in the writing of the book; that Trotter was at one time a hobbit, so named because he wore wooden shoes; that
J.R.R. Tolkien
#61. Dammit, Trotter. Don't try to make a stinking Christian out of me.
Katherine Paterson
#62. Institutions that adopt systems and use them in certified ways in 2011 and 2012 could getting about $50,000 per doctor in total payments by being meaningful users of certified EHR technology over the period from 2011 to 2016.
Fred Trotter
#63. The idea that you have to pursue greatness ... it's up to you; it's your life.
Charlie Trotter
#64. Cuisine is only about making foods taste the way they are supposed to taste.
Charlie Trotter
#65. Chefs, as a whole, say yes to any project, fundraiser, or tasting because they have such a generous spirit.
Charlie Trotter
#66. Wonderful," he said. "Tell me. Which books in the Bible do you favor?"
"Oh, I favors 'em all," Pa said. "But I mostly like Hezekiel, Ahab, Trotter, and Pontiff the Emperor."
The Old Man frowned. "I don't recollect I have read those," he said.
James McBride
#67. One must know combinations, one must have a true knowledge of food to be in the moment.
Charlie Trotter
#68. The second thing to be striven for is intuition. This sounds an impossibility, for who can control that small quiet monitor? But intuition is only interference from experience stored and not actively recalled.
Wilfred Trotter
#69. Mrs. Trotter made a sincere though wrong sound, while opening her handbag to look for help.
Patrick White
#70. The body cannot produce enzymes in perfect combinations to metabolize your foods as completely as the food enzymes created by nature do. This results in partially digested fats, proteins, and starches that can clog your body's intestinal tract and arteries.
Charlie Trotter
#71. I have a certain point of view, a certain way to plate food, certain ingredients that I like to use.
Charlie Trotter
#72. The most successful food, I think, is food that both appeals to the super-sophisticated diner or foodie and to the lay diner at the same time.
Charlie Trotter
#73. I don't ever want to lose that mind-set where you've got to be able to realize different ideas-slash-fantasies-slash-possibilities in your life.
Charlie Trotter
#74. An event experienced is an event perceived, digested, and assimilated into the substance of our being, and the ratio between the number of cases seen and the number of cases assimilated is the measure of experience.
Wilfred Trotter
#75. Then Snowball (for it was Snowball who was best at writing) took a brush between the two knuckles of his trotter, painted out MANOR FARM from the top bar of the gate and in its place painted ANIMAL FARM. This was to be the name of the farm from now onwards.
George Orwell
#76. Life's too short. You may be on this planet for 80 years at best or who knows, but you can't just pedal around and do the same thing forever.
Charlie Trotter
#77. I have always considered desserts to be of equal importance to the savory food.
Charlie Trotter
#78. I try to keep my religion and politics separate. But I do prefer my stunts on Sundays. "I know you have a lot to worry about during the week, Jesus, but can you just watch over me, keep me alive, that day?"
Steve Trotter
#79. If you want the meaning of families and life and religion and philosophy rolled into one package, all you need to read is 'The Brothers Karamazov.'
Charlie Trotter
#81. In a time when it is common for chefs to simply reproduce the innovations of others, the few who speak for themselves through their food become the skilled artists of their time.
Charlie Trotter
#82. I'm all about making money. It's the greatest thing, because it means you get money to spend.
Charlie Trotter
#83. Kaylee giggled as he tunneled up inside her sleeve.
Out popped his head for a quick look, then he took leave.
He enjoyed scaling up, down and around her shirt.
What a sweet, funny and adorable flirt.
Melinda K. Trotter
#84. What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone.
Charlie Trotter
#85. The art of cooking is among the most intimate things that we can do for another.
Charlie Trotter
#86. I have a goal so lofty it's almost embarrassing to talk about. And that's to be the best restaurant in the world.
Charlie Trotter
#87. I don't want to turn 50 and say, 'Gosh, I wish I'd lived in that part of the world for a time. I wish I'd read that book by Faulkner.' I want time to delve back into Thoreau and Kafka.
Charlie Trotter
#88. All four elements were happening in equal measure - the cuisine, the wine, the service, and the overall ambience. It taught me that dining could happen at a spiritual level.
Charlie Trotter
#89. If you ever want to get anywhere in life, you're going to have to push it, and somebody's going to push you to get there. End of story.
Charlie Trotter
#90. In my case, vertical food was less about standing things up than layering things: more an attempt to gain texture by weaving things together.
Charlie Trotter
#91. The fundamental activity of medical science is to determine the ultimate causation of disease.
Wilfred Trotter
#92. It's a challenge to demonstrate that you can prepare some really interesting food with humble ingredients.
Charlie Trotter
#93. I wasn't using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education.
Charlie Trotter
#94. If you know what you're doing, you can make a meal happen with any kitchen knife. But using a top-quality knife versus a low-quality one is the difference between driving a Jaguar and a VW Jetta across the country. They'll both get you there. But the Jaguar will give you a much smoother ride.
Charlie Trotter
#95. The five rings of marriage: there's the engagement ring and the wedding ring, but there are three others, too: the boring, the suffering and the lawyering. I watched it for 20 years from behind a bar in Ft. Lauderdale. I prefer to stay single.
Steve Trotter
#96. Always make stock in a large quantity and freeze it in plastic bags. That way, when you want to make a nice soup or boil veggies, you can simply pull the bag out of the freezer.
Charlie Trotter
#97. My parents couldn't be looser. It was the ultimate laissez faire upbringing.
Charlie Trotter
#98. A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting.
Charlie Trotter
#99. I back away from negativity - there's too much in this world, and I don't want to be around it.
Steve Trotter
#100. Fernand Point's philosophy instilled what cuisine is all about: generosity and hugeness of heart.
Charlie Trotter
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