M.white Quotes

I didn't understand myself well enough be an ambassador to my world, to inspire people to want to cook, to inspire young people to want to come into my industry.

Chefs today choose to step onto that treadmill where they have to be seen. Every day they have to go to this party, they have to go to that party. But then you think "Who is doing the cooking?".

The more I invested in myself, the kinder I was to myself and the more I understood myself.

The technology is the independent variable, the social system the dependent variable. Social, systems are therefore determined by systems of technology; as the latter change, so do the former.

The reality is that if you always do what you've always done, you'll always be where you've always been.

I'm one of those people that you have to keep your eye on or I'll wander off into the woods and forget to come back.

Success is having a career that you love with every fiber in your body.

Every man who praises himself brushes the luster from his best efforts.

Satan has many helpers.

True generosity is too frequently eaten up by prosperity and riches.

God Himself was crucified with Christ, for Christ was one with the Father.

Satan well knows that success can only attend order and harmonious action. He well knows that every thing connected with Heaven is in perfect order.

The righteousness by which we are justified is imputed; the righteousness by which we are sanctified is imparted. The first is our title to heaven, the second is our fitness for heaven.

I'm not coming in . . . this is fun.

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that does not have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular.

I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.

An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.

Leave me alone. I'm fine.

Consistency is a paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.

See, the poor dream all their lives of getting enough to eat and looking like the rich. And what do the rich dream of?? Losing weight and looking like the poor.

A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.

I've never tried to be a celebrity chef, people call me that but I was that young boy that the media chose.

The secret is planning your work and working your plan. If you don't know where you are going, how will you know when you arrive? You can't stumble upon your destination.

UFC 151 will be remembered as the event Jon Jones and Greg Jackson murdered.

It would be really embarrassing to introduce yourself as somebody who makes beauty.

The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from one new world to another.

Cheer up beautiful people... this is where you get to make it right.

People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.

In my bands, I don't really walk around telling people what to play, just out of respect really. I mean, if there's something I feel in my gut, I'll bring it up.

To me, the responsibility of an actor is to recreate humanity honestly. I never feel like an actor, I always look at it from a blue collar perspective.

A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.

I don't cook. I think they named the 'Mike'-rowave after me.

There are two kinds of comics; there are the ones who build bridges, and then there are the people who walk across the bridges as though they built them. The bridge builders are few and far between.

Jesus Christ, is this an NPR convention?

You can't ride home on a bowl of goat.

Great work comes from great joy. Leave the angst for the movies; do art - that is fun.

I quit smoking cigarettes and with the $70 a month I am saving not smoking cigarettes I'm smoking $700 worth of cigars.

Salutations; it's just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning

Streams of melting snow.

The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.

Animal lover that I am, a cougar I am not.

I believe so many people live what I call that false identity they are living according to other people's expectations, associations, their experiences, the labels in life. And they buy into that.

Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today.... What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely, because only the future has intrigued them.

We are not our own. We do not belong to ourselves. But we have been purchased with a dear price. We have cost an immense sum, even the sufferings and death of the Son of God.

Who can measure the love Christ felt for a lost world, as he hung upon the cross, suffering for the sins of guilty men? This love was immeasurable. It was infinite.

There is one straight chain of truth without one heretical sentence in that which I have written.

I believe the bible helps yourself.

I don't go where I'm tolerated. I go where I'm celebrated.

Saying you love something out loud with the wrong intonation in your face can damn you and destroy what you're working on.