#r

My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee. ↗

— Alton Brown

#been #committee #eats #feeling #good

Take ice. Ice is fascinating to me. Ice is the one thing in our world that went from an agricultural product to being manufactured. ↗

— Alton Brown

#being #fascinating #ice #manufactured #me

The stubby French painter Toulouse-Lautrec supposedly invented chocolate mousse - I find that rather hard to believe, but there you have it. ↗

— Alton Brown

#chocolate #find #french #hard #i

Well, you know, when you go into a restaurant, one of the scariest things is the wine list, so whenever I'm really feeling intimidated, I'll just pick a wine type, like a Chianti or Brunello or a Burgundy, and I'll pick a year that's missing and ask for that one. ↗

— Alton Brown

#burgundy #feeling #go #i #intimidated

Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller. ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#capacity #directing #film #good #had

I'm a great believer in outlines. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#great #great believer #i #outlines

You know most of the food that Americans hold so dear - things like hamburgers and hot dogs - were road food, but even before they were road food, they were peasant food. ↗

— Alton Brown

#dear #dogs #even #food #hamburgers

In the beginning, the media was calling me a bad boy all the time because of the way I act and feel onstage. None of them have ever taken the time to get to know me when I climb offstage. ↗

— Bobby Brown

#bad #bad boy #because #beginning #boy

The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down. ↗

— Eric Brown

#dissatisfied #down #get #guilty #haven

I've never met an American who wanted to build an empire. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#build #empire #i #met #never