Brian Yorkey quotes

“So you can settle the ***** down. My mother used to say, "Primero comemos, entonces lo demás." That means, "first we eat, then we do everything else."”
-- Brian Yorkey

#Food Quotes #Cooking Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.”

“We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.”

“A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.”

“A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.”

“Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.”

“From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.”

Source : A. E. Hotchner (2009). “Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir”, p.3, Da Capo Press

“If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.”

“I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.”

“If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again.”

Source : Song: Try Again, Album: I Care 4 U

“When I first started, I just wanted to work. I wouldn't necessarily do anything, but I'd pretty much almost do anything at the very beginning.”