... the agent provocateur of a good dinner.

When we no longer have good cooking in the world, we will have no literature, nor high and sharp intelligence, nor friendly gatherings, no social harmony.

The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry.

I want order and taste. A well displayed meal is enhanced one hundred per cent in my eyes.

The guardian and arbiter of superlative eating, with every meal an unforgettable experience in pleasure, starting with the soup, which he said, 'must be the agent provocateur of a good dinner.'

to "set the standard for beauty in classical and modem cookery, and attest to the distant future that the French chefs of the 19th century were the most famous in the world.

My boy, the 'quenelles de sole' were splendid, but the peas were poor. You should shake the pan gently, all the time, like this.

Why should the Marquis de Cussy wage war on soup? I cannot understand a dinner without it. I hold soup to be the well beloved of the stomach.

Beef is the soul of cooking.

So be satisfied and quiet, be contented with your contentment. I lack certain things that others have, but blessed be God, I have a contented heart which others have not.

Accent your positive and delete your negative.

Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.

There's a point where you have to take charge of yourself and what you allow in your space.

Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul.

I want to remain that family farmer independence, which I think is so critical to this country. I think it's helped build this country.

Our wine is bitter, but it is our wine.

The overall concept comes first and then that informs the product, the shoot and how we communicate it. Everything comes back to the concept. It all gets thought about at the same time.

You know, I really hate Romans, but I have to say their descendants make one fine automobile. (Kyrian)

Play the charts like the Beatles.