Top 100 Wylie Quotes
#1. It had need to bee
A wylie mouse that should breed in the cat's care.
John Heywood
#2. Wylie: "If you don't like advice, why do you pay me?"
Stahr: "That's a question of merchandise. I'm a merchant. I want to buy what's in your mind.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#3. In a flashback, we hear Holly's mother summing up her life in a conversation with her husband, Wylie: "My life is one big mistake," she said. "No, it's not," he said. "It's a series of small mistakes.
Will Allison
#4. I love going to the set every day, because Noah Wylie will be there waiting.
Sherry Stringfield
#5. Most people early achieve and later intensify a tendency to process new and disconfirming information so that any original conclusion remains intact. They become people of whom Philip Wylie observed: "You couldn't 't squeeze a dime between what they already know and what they will never learn."
Charlie Munger
#6. It was always fun to skate with Paul Wylie and Paul Martini.
Nancy Kerrigan
#7. Once a certain degree of insight has been reached," said Wylie, "all men talk, when talk they must, the same tripe.
Samuel Beckett
#8. Some years ago, I fired my agent, Andrew Wylie, alias The Jackal. I want to stress this wasn't an amicable parting of the ways or a hankering on my part for fresh representation. I fired him because his agency wasn't doing enough for me.
Tibor Fischer
#9. Being a chef isn't the ideal career to intersect with parenting, but I try to be in my kids' lives as much as possible.
Wylie Dufresne
#10. The bird Imagination, That flies so far, that dies so soon; Her wings are colored like the sun, Her breast is colored like the moon.
Elinor Wylie
#11. They are afraid. They would, today, keep secret a thousand things that, yesterday, they would have told one another freely. Freedom. Where is it now? We are driving it into limbo - their kind. To limbo.
Philip Wylie
#12. I can fry hollandaise, I can fry ketchup, I can fry mustard.
Wylie Dufresne
#13. Most people think the biggest sacrifice, the greates act of love you can give is to die for someone. And probably it is. But Sometimes it is the opposite. The biggest thing you can do for someone is to live.
Sarah Wylie
#14. You must never leave me Sweetness. I will never leave you.
Jen Wylie
#15. There's nobody you can call and say, 'So, can you maybe send me your formula for frying Hollandaise?' because to the best of my knowledge, it didn't exist before we did it.
Wylie Dufresne
#16. There is a type of warfare in which the entire pattern is made up of a collection of lesser actions, but these lesser or individual actions are not sequentially interdependent. Each individual one is no more than a single statistic, an isolated plus or minus, in arriving at the final result.
J.C. Wylie
#17. The East Village is where I cut my teeth as a kid. I ran around here on a skateboard.
Wylie Dufresne
#18. I've been asked to endorse lots of different pieces of equipment. It's not necessarily that it's an awful thing to be asked to endorse something, because it's inherently a compliment to your skills, your abilities, on a level. But sometimes it's just not the right fit.
Wylie Dufresne
#19. Okay, a lot of people think that I'm someone known for a love of eggs and egg cookery. Being asked to endorse an egg yolk separator, I mean, I understood where it came from, but it didn't seem necessarily like something that was ultimately worth pursuing.
Wylie Dufresne
#20. The most important thing with turkey is to let it rest - most people don't let it rest long enough. It will get juicier the longer you let it rest.
Wylie Dufresne
#21. I believe I'll take off my colors for awhile / And just kick back and sing some blues ...
Ray Wylie Hubbard
#22. The Sabbath is the link between the paradise which has passed away and the paradise which is yet to come.
Andrew Wylie
#23. It's just about asking why. We as cooks historically have been very, very technically proficient but not technically informed as to why we do what we do. Modernist cuisine is about that knowledge.
Wylie Dufresne
#24. I have no interest in vegetarians whatsoever. Zero. Less than zero.
Wylie Dufresne
#25. We need justice. We need toleration, honesty and moral courage. These are modern virtues without which we cannot hope to control the forces science has let loose among us.
I. A. R. Wylie
#26. There will never be a universal way of cooking, but information will always be universally useful.
Wylie Dufresne
#27. It's a funny thing, but it's often overlooked that I'm a huge devout lover of French cooking. I have the utmost respect for them, though they have lost their respect for me because they think the way I cook is nutty.
Wylie Dufresne
#28. The novelist now usurps the chair of the educator, the pulpit of the preacher, the columns of the journalist. Yet his original purpose of entertaining may have been his highest purpose. (introduction to Gladiator, Book League Monthly, 1930)
Philip Wylie
#29. The winter will be short, the summer long,
The autumn amber-hued, sunny and hot,
Tasting of cider and of scuppernong.
Elinor Wylie
#30. I stick my tongue out at it. Ugh. I should be committed to an insane asylum. At least I'm not talking to a volley ball.
Jen Wylie
#31. One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.
Philip Wylie
#32. So every artist and would-be artist makes this same phrase: 'I knew, I never got it said.
Philip Wylie
#33. I shall lie folded like a saint,
Lapped in a scented linen sheet,
On a bedstead striped with bright-blue paint,
Narrow and cold and neat.
Elinor Wylie
#34. I spread my arms. In the Rainbow Jungles of Ever there lives what I affectionately call, killer ducks.
Jen Wylie
#35. There is a line between sexualityand promiscuity, and the line is closer to celibacy than not.
Betty Jane Wylie
#36. You have this annoying ability to say the perfect thing and then ruin it by still talking.
Jen Wylie
#37. My job has changed over the years, 22 years roughly I've been cooking professionally. When I was younger, I aspired to be the star player. Now, it's more I like to sit in the dugout and make sure the team wins the game.
Wylie Dufresne
#38. It wasn't the traditional cooking most people do. For me, as a young chef, Thanksgiving meant going to work in the kitchen at places like Gotham, JoJo and Jean-Georges.
Wylie Dufresne
#39. I'm a books person. Yes, I have a Kindle. I used it for an hour and a half and put it in the closet.
Andrew Wylie
#40. My lord, adjudge my strength, and set me where
I bear a little more than I can bear.
Elinor Wylie
#41. Popery is the gospel transubstantiated into the flesh and blood of Paganism, under a few of the accidents of Christianity.
James Aitken Wylie
#42. Even now, it's still hard for him to say it. I don't blame him. It's an icky word. Why couldn't whoever was in charge of naming things call cancer 'sugar' and sugar, 'cancer'? People might not eat so much of the stuff then. And it's so much more pleasant to die of sugar.
Sarah Wylie
#43. You scare me, too," he whispered.
"Why ever so?" she asked, breathless and fluttery.
"At how badly I want to kiss you.
Wylie Snow
#44. I've seen cookbooks from lots of great chefs that have been disappointing. A book, to me, it has to have a story. Some of these people, they open a restaurant, and one year later, there's a cookbook. There's not much of a story yet.
Wylie Dufresne
#45. A few suits of clothes, some money in the bank, and a new kind of fear constitute the main differences between the average American today and the hairy men with clubs who accompanied Attila to the city of Rome.
Philip Wylie
#46. There will never be a right or wrong way to cook something, but there will always be a more informed way.
Wylie Dufresne
#47. I think I can poach a pretty mean egg the old-fashioned way.
Wylie Dufresne
#48. I don't Twitter or blog. I'm bad at small talk, and don't have good 'chat'. Talk to me about publishing, and I can go on for hours.
Andrew Wylie
#49. I really don't do much on the night of Thanksgiving other than bring the wine and carve the turkey. My contribution comes the day after, in the form of breakfast. I usually just forage through the leftovers for things that will go well with eggs.
Wylie Dufresne
#50. But we are as other men, exactly. Of one blood, one species, one brain, one figure, one fundamental set of collective instincts, one solitary body of information, one everything. Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.
Philip Wylie
#51. This is how it feels to die: It starts from outside and works its way in.
Sarah Wylie
#52. If any have a stone to throw It is not I, ever or now.
Elinor Wylie
#53. Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.
Philip Wylie
#54. I would say that I have an aspect of my personality which is that I have no personality. That's why I work as an agent. I have the assumed personality of the people I represent. I am like a sponge.
Andrew Wylie
#56. Unconsciously we grow to look upon the sick as people of another world.
I. A. R. Wylie
#57. Eggs Benedict is genius. It's eggs covered in eggs. I mean, come on,
that person should be the president.
Wylie Dufresne
#59. The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft.
Philip Wylie
#60. Buddha was not a Christian, but Jesus would have made a good Buddhist.
Ray Wylie Hubbard
#61. What matters is what you are holding in your consciousness as to the possibility for your life now.
Karen S. Wylie MA
#62. I have never cared very deeply about the actual taste of my work. Let its essential odor satisfy my mind and senses, and I am content. I rarely judge by the grosser test of actual gustation ... in cooking, to create a masterpiece for the nose alone - that is exquisite, that is Art!
Elinor Wylie
#63. An old earthen pipe like myself is dry and thirsty and so a most voracious drinker of life at its source; I'm no more to be split by the vital stream than if I were stone or steel.
Elinor Wylie
#64. I don't think if you're serious about literature your library is filled with award-winning books.
Andrew Wylie
#65. Faith's the agreement to abandon detachment, John! To supplant a packaged security for open integrity. To agree not to learn anymore. It is the acceptance of a channel, by a man who was previously able to move on the whole terrain
Philip Wylie
#67. I've always had fond memories of cooking Thanksgiving.
Wylie Dufresne
#68. But you don't know how to read anymore! When you open a book, you do it in the faith and assurances that you are already master of what it contains and that the author has written only so you may prove him wrong!
Philip Wylie
#69. The mealy look of men today is the result of momism and so is the pinched and baffled fury in the eyes of womankind.
Philip Wylie
#70. Whether it be cereal technology or candy technology or snack technology, puff snacks, I'm always curious to know how those things are made and how we can take that technology, those ingredients, and apply it to a stand-alone restaurant.
Wylie Dufresne
#71. First deal with your own tears; tomorrow do something about acid rain.
Betty Jane Wylie
#72. My heart throbs and aches and, for once, it's not for myself. It's for all of us. It's for everyone who knows what it's like to be helpless, to have to watch on the sidelines, to be paralyzed, literally unable to do anything.
Sarah Wylie
#73. Hollandaise, I would like to pour over my head and just rub all over myself. Eggs Benedict is genius. It's eggs covered in eggs.
Wylie Dufresne
#74. There are all kinds of ways of being unfaithful, not the worst of them with your body.
Betty Jane Wylie
#75. Not having a New York culinary tradition, far from being limiting, it's an opportunity to create freely.
Wylie Dufresne
#76. It's been a struggle to get people to come eat for fun. You know, the way they listen to music. You can do all kinds of things with music. But food - it's something people need, and that changes everything. You start playing with it, people have all sorts of reactions.
Wylie Dufresne
#77. Common man has at long last got himself so far out of gear with nature and his environment that he is beginning to see the shape of extinction, whether he recognizes it as such or not.
Philip Wylie
#78. Education is not a function of any church or even of a city or a state; it is a function of all mankind .
Philip Wylie
#79. Extremely ripe things are not ideal for pickling. If you pour a hot liquid over super ripe strawberries, you're going to have strawberry soup.
Wylie Dufresne
#81. Down to the Puritan marrow of my bones
There's something in this richness that I hate.
I love the look, austere, immaculate,
Of landscapes drawn in pearly monotones.
Elinor Wylie
#83. I would say that molecular gastronomy is a field of science. I would - I would say that it's probably lumped under chemistry, maybe. Because cooking, while it has certainly biology and some physics, it's mostly chemistry.
Wylie Dufresne
#84. Her expression falls slightly as she senses that my walls are up and she's not nearly strong enough to climb over. Not even today when she is leukaemia's version of Superwoman.
Sarah Wylie
#85. The spirit of pickling is one of adventure and fun.
Wylie Dufresne
#86. He smiled weakly. "You are the only woman I have ever met who made me think so much."
She laughed. "That doesn't say much for you.
Jen Wylie
#87. In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.
Elinor Wylie
#88. Every dish doesn't have to be showy, and every dish doesn't have to slap you in the face with technique.
Wylie Dufresne
#89. I think things like 'farm to table' are misleading. I think sometimes that becomes a pedestal or a soap box to get people into your restaurant but is not ... it's almost empty in a way. I mean, my food comes from a farm, and I serve it on a table.
Wylie Dufresne
#90. Unless you're a terribly bad writer, you are never going to have too many readers.
Andrew Wylie
#91. Before I went on stage at Kyle Hutton's Real Life Real Music Festival, I heard one of his songwriting students, Abbey Hirvela, sing; she was in the poet's saddle and riding that horse like she owned it. She was good! I probably ruined her by showing her how to make an E chord without the 3rd though.
Ray Wylie Hubbard
#92. My mother made the best scrambled eggs, super-loose and soft.
Wylie Dufresne
#93. She wondered what it sounded like when your heart broke. Glass shattering? The thundering roar of falling mountains? Or maybe the squishy rip of a real heart?
Jen Wylie
#94. The day when we plan seriously to start living either never comes or it comes too late.
I. A. R. Wylie
#95. Not to understand the doer is to have no certain knowledge of what has been done, or why it was undertaken
Philip Wylie
#96. Poverty isn't being broke; poverty is never having enough.
Betty Jane Wylie
#97. Listening is one of the lesser-known skills that mistresses offer.
Betty Jane Wylie
#98. I have strong feelings about cookbooks because I am a lover of them and student of them and devourer of them and collect them. I find them to be a great source of inspiration. When I was a cook and not making much money, I always used to spend most of what I had on cookbooks.
Wylie Dufresne
#99. The days that I keep my gratitude higher than my expectations, I have really good days.
Ray Wylie Hubbard
#100. Whites cook at a lower temperature, set at a lower temperature than yolks. That, to me, is very interesting. That has opened up - as an egg lover, that has opened up sort of a world of possibilities, of applications.
Wylie Dufresne
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