My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school.

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.

One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washèd it away:Again I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tide, and made my pains his prey.

What are stories for if we don't learn from them?

Maybe love isn’t supposed to be comfortable. Maybe love is just supposed to be worth it.

A cowboy never takes unfair advantage - even of an enemy.

What's on your mind becomes what's in your life. So think the thoughts you want to see.

When I glanced at the chair, it started to shake. I’d like to think it was scared of me, but I rarely invoked that response in living things, let alone inanimate objects.

Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.

I don't use simple words. I make games and puzzles with my songs.

Eisenstein was a good editor. I was trained as a film editor, and I've no doubt that the editor is key to a film.

Talking, is a digestive process which is absolutely essential to the mental constitution of the man who devours many books.