It's quite weird knocking that out of them and telling them to forget cooking for chefs; forget what chefs say about your food.

Put your head down and work hard. Never wait for things to happen, make them happen for yourself through hard graft and not giving up.

I don't like looking back. I'm always constantly looking forward. I'm not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I'm too busy looking for the next cow.

Chefs are nutters. They're all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them.

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change. You've got to be boisterous to get results.

If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did.

The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody's ego, that's it, game over.

Kitchens are hard environments and they form incredibly strong characters.

The problem with Yanks is they are wimps.

There's a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family.

Push your limit to the absolute extreme.

Just knowing that they could read made the Baudelaire orphans feel as if their wretched lives could be a little brighter.

Mister Win-Win says it's always okay to pretend. He says that's the only way to feel happy sometimes.

What is evil?' asked the Fiend

She wanted to destroy something. The crash and clatter were what she wanted to hear.

If you build a 50-foot wall, you'll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.

On the third day after Jesus' own death, He came out of the grave to give the world a sign it cannot deny. For a man to predict His own death and resurrection was something only God could do.

In North America, hip-hop and urban music are much more developed than it could be in Europe, except for a couple of markets like France, for example, or Germany, they're a little bit more aware.

Society is a sort of organism on the growth of which conscious efforts can exercise little effect.

Thurst [thrust] out nature with a croche [crook], yet woll she styll runne back agayne.

Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men.