P.J. Gordon Quotes

You see new shows coming out with the same format, slightly high end, a little bit more glossy. You think, "S - . It's just the same s - but different day."

I won't let people write anything they want to about me.

I'm not trying to take New York by storm. I just want to sneak in there, keep my head down, batten down the hatches and cook.

There are very few chefs both in Britain and the States that really identify the secret of being consistent. And combine consistency with flavor.

I was a naturally aggressive left-back, a cut-throat tackler.

I shoot from the hip.

They say cats have nine lives. I've had 12 already and I don't know how many more I'll have.

I don't run restaurants that are out of control. We are about establishing phenomenal footholdings with talent.

We have never done anything in a cynical fake way

I came up from a difficult background.

I love eating out. I don't deny that. But I don't want 12 or 15 courses because the chef wants me to taste this or taste that. I just want to be able to decide.

I like finding talent. That's what really turns me on, I suppose.

When you're cooking in the premier league of restaurants, when things go down, it has to be sorted immediately.

If I relaxed, if I took my foot off the gas, I would probably die.

I didn't get depressed, I don't get depressed.

It's vulgar, coming from where I do, to talk about money.

Chelsea has always been a foodie heaven and it will never change in that respect.

I tend to get sounds that sound a little bit wrecked.

I go shopping for jeans, and they're playing shitty music in the store, I just leave. I can't be around music that I hate.

When I hear music which is really exciting, I get really excited, and when I hear music which is really boring, I get really upset. I get angry.

If history teaches anything, it teaches humility.

Americans, [John Adams] wrote in 1780, believed that their "revolution is as much for the benefit of the generality of Mankind in Europe, as for their own."

More than any other figure in our history [Tomas] Jefferson is responsible for the idea of American exceptionalism.

[Tomas] Jefferson believed that the United States was a chosen nation with a special responsibility to spread democracy around the world.

It was [John's Adams] Massachusetts constitution if anything that influenced people.

[John Adams' writings] had indicted the United States for slavishly copying the English constitution by erecting bicameral legislatures in their state constitutions, most drafted in 1776.

I think [John] Adams was correct when he said that his May resolutions were "an Epocha, a decisive Event," and tantamount to a declaration of independence.

After [Tomas] Jefferson's defeat of [John] Adams in the presidential election of 1800, they didn't communicate with one another for more than a decade.

[John] Adams never hid his jealousy and resentment of the other Founders, especially Benjamin Franklin.

[John Adams] diary, of course, is even more revealing of his feelings. Both his letters to [his wife] Abigail and his diary tell us what he really thinks about people and events.

[John Adams] is impressed with [Tomas] Jefferson's learning, but noted his silence during the debates in the Congress: "I never heard him utter three Sentences together."

By the time [John Adams] came to write his Defence of the Constitutions of the United States in 1787 he had as dark a view of the American character as that of any critic in our history.

[John] Adams was the best and most colorful stylist among the Founders. Although [Tomas] Jefferson is widely regarded as the smoothest writer, Adams is by far the most engaging and imaginative.

Business deals are successfully negotiated every day throughout America. The common thread is a mutual desire to reach an accord. And the media business is no different.

In my day, the players used to work their socks off. It's all changed now, obviously.

The only way to ensure that our promise to provide every opportunity for students with disabilities, and help them achieve their full potential, is to give our schools the dollars they need.

I think I have over 60 apps on my iPhone. I use six.

I never thought Oregon would elect to the U.S. Senate a Mormon, but it did.

From the American retelling of Romeo and Juliet in West Side Story to the Japanese adaptation of King Lear in Ran, Shakespeare's cultural influence is virtually limitless.

I believe that the Government's first duty is to defend its citizens, to defend them against the harms that come out of hate.

I do not know that there is a more certain sound than Senator Kennedy. I cannot imagine a more uncertain sound than Senator Kerry.

The American people are being victimized more than any free market would warrant.

My neighbor is now an 18-wheeler who comes by here 1,000 times a day.

Mitt Romney has a proven job creation record as governor and in the private sector.

If you keep asking me questions, I will continue to find excuses.

Good players win you games, good formations stop you losing them.

Sometimes to go forward you've got to go to the depths of your own personal despair and claw yourself back. From that point, no matter what happens, you know you can do it.

He could have done one of three things. He didn't do either.

Thomas Gravesen thinks he's broke his hand, but I told him that you play football with your feet and not your hand.

People talk about footballers and they get a bad press when not all of them deserve it.