P.J. Gordon Quotes

When referring to an individual, including yourself, never use the word 'just'.

Until you have courted the bluebills in the snow, you have not tasted of the purer delights of waterfowling

Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.

Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

When I started editing on my home computer, I said to myself, 'Well, I could be at home studying for a class or I could be at home editing a video.'

Climate change is the Everest of all problems, the thorniest challenge facing humankind.

I swim like a fish and I have an amazing kick.

Thoughts are magnetic. What we think about we attract.

I think driving in New York is a great experience. A lot more racing techniques go into it than anyplace else I've ever driven. There basically are no lanes.

As soon as you are trying to be funny or dramatic, that's when things start feeling fake and boring.

Let's face it, most pretty girls aren't funny.

Only night can make us whole again.

Criticism is the forerunner of divorce, the cultivator of rebellion, sometimes an agent that leads to failure.

On Halloween, witches come true; Wild ghosts escape from dreams. Each monster dances in the park.

I'm always interested in mixing technology and music. You know, maybe I'll have a MIDI bass pickup at some point, I don't really think that's the direction I would want to go.

I've always said that I think females make the best chefs anywhere in the world.

A camel is a horse designed by a committee and a committee's a sweet running piece of machinery compared to any government.

Live long enough and you'll come into pensions, a lovely thing. Presents every month from people you didn't know cared.

I never got a job I didn't create for myself.

Courage is like a strain of yoghurt culture, if you have some you can have some more.

Long Island for me, it's producing more chefs coming out of there than Paris.

I think pressure's healthy, and very few can handle it.

No one saw the recession coming. The UK businesses were solid as a rock, but the issues we had were in Paris, New York and LA. For every pound we were making here we were losing two pounds abroad.

Rude staff, bad lighting, and dirty bathrooms are all signs of a bad restaurant and a good reason to leave a restaurant!

Doctrine is the frame-work of life; it is the skeleton of truth, to be clothed and rounded out by the living graces of a holy life. It is only the lean creature whose bones become offensive.

I still love football, though, and I think cooking is like football. It's not a job, it's a passion. When you become good at it, it's a dream job and financially you need never to worry. Ever.

The love of power comes from a lack of the most important power, that of living a life of eternity with every creature.

If my last supper was ever going to be cooked by a chef, it would have to be Thomas Keller.

But I do feel a little teeny right now that I'm just about ready to start, and winter is entering. Half past autumn has arrived.

Under this Government, Britain will not return to the boom and bust of the past.

It was a very limited practice; carefully safeguarded. In 1890, that practice was discontinued.

I'm not a fighter, trust me. But I am someone who can get angry. I have a temper at times. Sometimes it gets the best of you no matter how you manage it.

It goes back to the early days in the kitchen where you would be tasting dishes all night long, so the last thing I want to do in the morning is eat. Chefs generally tend to be grazers.

No man's faith, no man's religion, no religion in all the world can ever rise above the truth.

When you experience resistance, you find the lessons that you are meant to learn

I think there is something beautiful in reveling in sadness

When you believe that you can do something that's when you can do it.

Darkness is a lot of what art is and certainly in our community a lot of it is people sort of wrestling with their demons.

Britain should be the world's number one center for genetic and stem cell research, building on our world leading regulatory regime in the area.

America knows it has got to deal with its deficit problems so that it, too, can promise it is making its proper and best contributions to the world economy.

The number of transistors on an integrated circuit will double in about 18 months.

I hope you will simply do what you can do in the best way you know. If you do so, you will witness miracles come to pass.

If we could follow the slogan that says,"Turn off the TV and open a good book" we would do something of substance for a future generation.

Those who are most able to buy what you have to sell are those who most demand that you agree with them.

I've had every advantage in the world, despite the 18 years of silence which were nobody's fault but mine.

Love is the very essence of life.

Avoid alcohol as you would a loathsome disease. Beer will do to you what hard liquor will do. Each contains alcohol in varying amounts.

I'm not really a bird person or an Audubon guy who studies them, but as I was around them, they interested me.

Don Quixote was a song for a 1969 Michael Douglas movie called Hail Hero! I wrote the title song for the film and they also used the Don Quixote one I had submitted.

Dishonesty of any kind will create a blemish.