The best Quotes by Anthony Bourdain

The best Quotes by Anthony Bourdain

Anthony Michael Bourdain (June 25, 1956 – June 8, 2018) was an American celebrity chef, author, and travel documentarian.

Barbecue may not be the road to world peace, but it's a start.

Anyone who doesn't have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me.

This is the dream of all the world. The dream is to live in Granada. You know, work in the morning, have a one-hour in the afternoon, at night go out and have that life. You know. Go out and see your friends and eat tapa and drink red wine and be in a beautiful place.

What nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast?

Tokyo would probably be the foreign city if I had to eat one city's food for the rest of my life, every day. It would have to be Tokyo, and I think the majority of chefs you ask that question would answer the same way.

Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life.

You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together.

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No wonder the city never sleeps, it's too busy trying to get laid.

Carrie Bradshaw in Sex And The City - Season 1 Episode 11

5

Sex New York City

There are eight million people in this city. And those teeming masses exist for the sole purpose of lifting the few exceptional people onto their shoulders.

Grüner Kobold in Spider-Man

2

Fame New York City

If I can make it there
I'll make it anywhere
It's up to you
New York, New York

Frank Sinatra - New York, New York

2

Manhattan, for millions of our forefathers, the gateway to hope, opportunity and happiness beyond their wildest dreams. Today, that hope is still alive, it's called "The First Date". On Saturday nights, every restaurant in Lower Manhattan resembles its own little Ellis Island.

Carrie Bradshaw in Sex And The City - Season 2 Episode 3

2

New York City Manhatten

I want to wake up in that city
That doesn't sleep
And find I'm king of the hill
Top of the heap

Frank Sinatra - New York, New York

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In a city that moves so fast, you get the Sunday paper on Saturday - how did any of us know how much time we had left?

Carrie Bradshaw in Sex And The City - Season 2 Episode 5

1

We are New Yorkers. Proud citizens of the greatest city on earth. Thinking big isn't new to us. It is the very foundation of who we are.

Bill de Blasio

Regardless of our differences, this was still New York. A melting pot crammed onto an island, then pushed into a subway car with a rat eating pizza. You're not left or right. You're a New f*cking Yorker and we're in this together.

Jordan Klepper in The Daily Show - Debates Anti-Vax Mandate Protesters in NYC

Do you know how bad that coffee has to be to to be considered a health risk in New York? This is the same city where pizza gets delivered by a rat!

Ronny Chieng in The Daily Show

I don't wanna f*ck it up because one of us didn't prepare for the slim possibility of New York City traffic!

Michael Lawson in Uncoupled - Season 1 Episode 1

I remember Hell's Kitchen when you couldn't walk west of Ninth Avenue without getting knifed. Now it's Chelsea with better gays.

Stanley James in Uncoupled - Season 1 Episode 1

Most people come to New York to be discovered. The rest of us come here to hide.

Colleen Hoover in Verity

It's fascinating to see how versatile New York City is. It lends itself to being so many different places!

Margot Robbie

You know the thing about good food? It brings folks together from all walks of life.

James in The Princess and the Frog

15

Everything in this room is eatable. Even I'm eatable. But that is called cannibalism, my dear children, and is in fact frowned upon in most societies.

Willy Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

13

I’m not crazy about reality, but it’s still the only place to get a decent meal.

Ernest Cline in Ready Player One

6

Mr Willy Wonka can make marshmallows that taste of violets, and rich caramels that change colour every ten seconds as you suck them, and little feathery sweets that melt away deliciously the moment you put them between your lips. He can make chewing-gum that never loses its taste, and sugar balloons that you can blow up to enormous sizes before you pop them with a pin and gobble them up. And, by a most secret method, he can make lovely blue birds' eggs with black spots on them, and when you put one of these in your mouth, it gradually gets smaller and smaller until suddenly there is nothing left except a tiny little darkred sugary baby bird sitting on the tip of your tongue.

Roald Dahl in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

3

This is America. Anyone can eat what they want, as long as they eat too much.

Homer Simpson in The Simpsons - Season 24 Episode 5

3

Michael: "Can we have him for supper?"
Sylvia: "Have him to stay for supper, Michael. We aren't cannibals."

Sylvia Davies in Finding Neverland

2

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

1

Why you care about small things? World very simple place. World only have two things: Things you can eat and things you no can eat.

Quina Quen in Final Fantasy - IX

1

I can’t walk by chocolate without eating it.

Malin Akerman

1

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

W. C. Fields

1

Wine Food Cooking

What do you mean, "he don't eat no meat"? That's okay. I'll make lamb.

Aunt Voula in My Big Fat Greek Wedding

I'd love to be a wasp. First, I'm gonna ruin someone's BBQ and then I'll drown myself in their beer.

Thanks cows. I appreciate your tastiness.

Craig Ferguson

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San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.

Joseph Rudyard Kipling

Congratulations, San Francisco, you've ruined pizza. First the Hawaiians, and now you.

Wut in Inside Out

1

San Francisco Pizza Hawaii

I hope I go to Heaven, and when I do, I'm going to do what every San Franciscan does when he gets there. He looks around and says, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.'

Granada is one of the most fascinating cities in the world, and its geographical location must also be added to its rich heritage.

William Shakespeare

Granada is Spain's most valued treasure; a melting pot of flavours, smells and passion.

Victor Hugo

How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra!

Ernest Hemingway

I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple.

Calvin in Calvin and Hobbes

My idea of Heaven is to wake up, have a good breakfast, and spend the rest of the day drawing.

My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.

Gary Oldman

1

Tokyo - The modern Babylon.

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Look at London or Paris: they're both filthy. You don't get that in Tokyo. The proud residents look after their city.

Paris London Tokyo

I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.

Barry Eisler

Don't ever let a recipe tell you how much garlic to put in. You measure that with your heart.

1

Do I look like someone who cooks? I can open a can of Coke Light, that's it.

Karl Lagerfeld

1

I'm always cooking very slow so the eggs have enough time to process their separation.

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

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