FastSaying

Ever since I read 'Kitchen Confidential,' I saw a little light bulb go off. Being a chef is like being on a pirate ship; it's not like 'Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?' or whatever my impression was as I was growing up.


Jon Favreau

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
ROLAND SMITH I've been fascinated by the world ever since I read 'Kitchen Confidential' by Anthony Bo...
JON FAVREAU It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON 'The Replacements' is where I met Jon Favreau, and we just clicked like, you know, like kids...
FAIZON LOVE It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo...
PETER LERANGIS You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only...
RICK RIORDAN I was changing a light bulb over Groucho Marx's bed, so I took my shoes off, got on his bed and ...
ELLIOTT GOULD 'The Replacements' is where I met Jon Favreau, and we just clicked like, you know, like kids...
FAIZON LOVE I've been my mom's kitchen helper since I was a little kid.
TAYLOR SWIFT I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan.
BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously.
ERINN HAYES I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean ...
RICK RIORDAN We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory o...
DAN BROWN 'Thirteen' was really hard on my family. I wrote this movie about them and their flaws and i...
NIKKI REED Alas, I think I am becoming a god.
TITUS Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.
LUCAN I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.
LUCAN Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents...
NATHAN FILLION I've never had much interest in spinoffery - the idea of writing in someone else's universe ...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS I recently saw HBO's 'Getting On,' and I was like, 'That's awesome.' I love ...
DANIELLE SCHNEIDER I was pregnant, and, like, 'Being a mom's going to be easy!' And now I'm like, '...
LAURA BENANTI You know, I used to warm the thermometer on the light bulb... I was really good at being sick. I cou...
GRAYDON CARTER Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way."
"Funny name for an aircraft...
GORDON KORMAN I call all chefs 'cooks.' They're all cooks. That's what we do, we cook. You're ...
TOM COLICCHIO I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thin...
KARL MARLANTES Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
SENECA Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
SENECA We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
SENECA Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take...
SENECA Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
SENECA Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.
SENECA Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
SENECA A lot of things I have turned down ended up being a big embarrassment. Like that script, 'The Be...
TERRY ZWIGOFF I don't consider roles like in 'Die Hard' what I do. This is like a hobby. It's fun....
BONNIE BEDELIA I love the comfort of daily life's routines: things like being able to read a paper on the subwa...
ELIZABETH STROUT People are like, 'Was it hard growing up mixed?' 'Did you not fit in?' and I'm l...
LAURA HARRIER I saw 28 Days. I don't remember rehab being like a day camp or being that funny. Rehab is a dump...
CHARLIE SHEEN When I read 'Stand By Me,' it was like, 'This is a look back at the same time period whe...
ROB REINER I have loved to cook since I was a child in my mother's kitchen. If I don't have time to coo...
KAMALA HARRIS Ever since I was a little girl, I wanted Valentino to design my wedding dress. Valentino is the defi...
NICKY HILTON After I quote unquote came out as a Republican, one of my dearest gay friends said to me, 'You&#...
ANGIE HARMON I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird.
EDIE CAMPBELL I love 'Iron Chef' and I love 'Chopped.' I watch both of them. I think it is crazy w...
GUY FIERI I'm not a great reader, believe it or not. It's not the vocabulary - my father made me read ...
DAVID ROBINSON I was always the frugal kid growing up because I was saving for college. Or I was always that kid th...
SHAILENE WOODLEY When I was a little girl, my dream was just to hear my song on the radio. It was very fascinating to...
BEBE REXHA I was probably 8 years old; my mom let me stay up one night. She's like, 'You have to see th...
MARK RUFFALO I like the city. I like the concrete. I like big business. I like being a CEO of my own company and ...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY I actually like older horror movies more than newer ones because when I'm watching newer ones, l...
EMILY ALYN LIND It's a party that's being organized; it's not a protest. The carnival is not like it was...
MICHEL MARTELLY I was a total nerd growing up. I'd rather sit home and read a novel on New Year's Eve and sa...
BETH BRODERICK Here's how I work: It's 2013, and most marketers are operating like it's 2009. I'm a...
GARY VAYNERCHUK My biggest thing about being a role model is whatever I'm preaching, I'm practicing. If I...
GIGI HADID I swim all the time at night - I've always been a water girl. It's a black-bottom pool and m...
BROOKE BURNS I read for the 'ah-ha's,' the information that makes a light bulb go off in my mind. I w...
ZIG ZIGLAR To be honest, the only thing I ever really wanted to be was a writer - since I read 'Charlotte&#...
LOUISE PENNY There's something about being rejected - when I go out without my friends, I'm reminded of h...
JASON RITTER Being outspoken about my faith isn't just something that I do; it's who I am because my fait...
TIM TEBOW I've always been a rocker. Like ever since I was really young. I had a crush on the Green Day gu...
ASHLEE SIMPSON I saw Roland Barthes's 'Mourning Diary' at a bookshop, and I felt it was like I was dest...
GO AH-SUNG Doing 'All Good Things' really felt like I was acting for myself rather than anyone else. It...
KIRSTEN DUNST My go-to is a red lip. It's a timeless fashion statement, and I've loved doing it ever since...
GRACIE GOLD It's like a kitchen, acting. Put a chef in a kitchen and they will have different recipes. Whate...
CAROLE BOUQUET I had a stunt double for 'The Bronze.' She's literally the most amazing human being I...
HALEY LU RICHARDSON I'm the minority in my house sometimes. My wife is Swedish, and we go to Sweden and everyone is ...
WILL FERRELL I never worked hard until I got to the Howard Law School and met Charlie Houston... I saw this man&#...
THURGOOD MARSHALL Ever since I was a little kid and first heard Jimmy Reed's 'Honey, Don't Let Me Go,'...
BILLY GIBBONS Growing up in New Orleans as Archie Manning's son, I felt like a target, and I've always kno...
PEYTON MANNING People are always like, 'Oh, 'Jurassic Park' is on...' or 'Oh, 'The River Wi...
JOSEPH MAZZELLO I remember the first time I saw the 'Sugarhill Gang' on Soul Train. I was 11 or 12. I was li...
JAY-Z I'm not really part of that 'L.A. thing' or that celebrity culture. I'm more like so...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS When I was younger, I always liked acting. You know, like, acting locally, or community theater at s...
TAVI GEVINSON In my life, I got a haircut junior year of college that was a real wash-'n-go type of situation....
JESSICA ST. CLAIR With my childhood, it's a wonder I'm not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-J...
ABRAHAM MASLOW When I was a kid, I would be watching TV shows like, you know, like 'Get Smart' and be like,...
BRUCE ERIC KAPLAN I'd never seen Rigondeaux's face without it being obscured by headgear or a photograph of Fi...
BRIN-JONATHAN BUTLER It's tough, you know: I'm a chef first, and a restaurant owner, way before I was ever on Foo...
GUY FIERI I just like being as romantic as possible. I thrive off unrequited love. I've been in love in on...
TOBIAS JESSO, JR. What's amazing with 'The X Factor' is that it gives people a chance who wouldn't nor...
CYNTHIA ERIVO There's something about being in front of a live audience that's fun. It's a really inte...
STEVEN WRIGHT If someone is being bullied or feels like an outsider, and they relate to something that I've do...
JOHNNY DEPP When I was coming home from school as a youngster, and I saw my dad's car in the driveway, I wou...
JOE TORRE In hip-hop, there's not a lot of love. There's not a lot of love being spread. It's alwa...
J. COLE I sometimes get asked, 'What's it like, being spotted?', but the truth is I don't, e...
ROMY MADLEY CROFT I think rap music is rap music. I mean, are there heavy writing aspects of it? Absolutely. In a sens...
EARL SWEATSHIRT When was the last time you were super offended? I might be like, 'That's the dumbest thing I...
JUSTIN THEROUX My waist used to be tiny. I just saw a picture of Miley Cyrus with a little crop top and low pants, ...
CAMILA ALVES I bring a copy of 'Dracula' with me wherever I go, the book. It's my favorite book in th...
JACK REYNOR I'm proud to say that I was that guy playing the character of Dr. Burke on 'Grey's Anato...
ISAIAH WASHINGTON What happened to me is I gained a little weight so I could be more accessible to people. They're...
ADAM DEVINE I love those kids on 'The Suite Life of Zack and Cody.' I remember when they were little the...
KELLAN LUTZ People build up a picture of Johnny Depp as being some sort of weird pirate character. In reality he...
FREDDIE HIGHMORE When I was younger, my dad was making a music video for a band in Montreal. I was goofing around and...
VANESSA LENGIES I've worked with actors before where I was like, this is not working, and then I've seen the...
VINCENT KARTHEISER That is the true joy of being a solo artist. I can do whatever I want. I can go wherever I want. I c...
JENNY LEWIS If you can believe it, Hollywood wanted to change my birthdate. I was born after Valentine's Day...
CESAR ROMERO

More Jon Favreau

I've been fascinated by the world ever since I read 'Kitchen Confidential' by Anthony Bo...
JON FAVREAU I was 22 and had worked on Wall Street for a year, and quit my job. I bought a motorcycle and sort o...
JON FAVREAU Movies like 'Chef' are not really box-office monsters in the summertime and don't really...
JON FAVREAU When it comes to celebrities and tabloids, to me that is a bummer. That's a little disappointing...
JON FAVREAU When Iron Man's flying, we'd send real planes up to do the choreography so that we'd get...
JON FAVREAU If you look at the mythology of aliens, there's a lot about gold. It's about them coming for...
JON FAVREAU For years, I was watching other people have so much fun playing out their version of authorship, lik...
JON FAVREAU Between the theme parks and the movies, the Disney iconography was probably the first set of archety...
JON FAVREAU I don't 'handle' people. It's so much easier to manipulate actors than to really hav...
JON FAVREAU I don't know that a movie like 'Daredevil' did better for having Ben Affleck then 'S...
JON FAVREAU What's fun about chefs is that they're big guys, often, and they might not look like the mos...
JON FAVREAU You show people playing poker or hacking into a computer; it feels so significant in the script, and...
JON FAVREAU People think bigger movies are bad, and that's just not true - there's bad big films, and th...
JON FAVREAU Of course I danced a lot when I was making 'Swingers.' The swing music scene was big in Holl...
JON FAVREAU I'm a very lazy person by nature. I have to be really engaged, and then I go straight from lazy ...
JON FAVREAU I think what is nice about 'Elf,' and why it doesn't play as one long sketch, is that th...
JON FAVREAU I can't begin to tell you how fulfilling the perennial nature of 'Elf' on television has...
JON FAVREAU There is nothing as fun as making a cultural splash with a movie. Sometimes the splash happens, like...
JON FAVREAU Half the people think I write Obama's speeches; the other half think I'm on 'Entourage.&...
JON FAVREAU Scorsese's been a hero of mine since I was young. If you saw 'Swingers,' you know I was ...
JON FAVREAU People look at Marvel movies as epic in scope, but if you look back at the comics, you realise that ...
JON FAVREAU I wanted to be a New York City firefighter. I didn't make it in, though.
JON FAVREAU I just adored 'Shaun Of The Dead.' That's a true mashup. That's a real Romero-era zo...
JON FAVREAU Get the shading right, the lighting right, and there are things you can do to make the CGI look more...
JON FAVREAU There is no free lunch, so if you're playing with the big train set - on big movies - it's a...
JON FAVREAU I like happy endings in movies. I think life has a happy ending. When it's all said and done, it...
JON FAVREAU There's a nostalgic aspect to the 'Iron Man' franchise for me.
JON FAVREAU Hopefully we'll figure out how to get 'Iron Man 2' going, and I'll be involved with ...
JON FAVREAU I remember watching the 'Iron Man' cartoons when I was younger. I remember reading the origi...
JON FAVREAU I think that part of the reason that 'Iron Man' was so successful was that we really chose t...
JON FAVREAU 'King Kong,' especially the first two acts of it, is a really good example of the use of min...
JON FAVREAU For a movie - any movie - to work, all the bread has to fall jelly side up; everything has to go rig...
JON FAVREAU The ultimate storyteller is Shakespeare, who was able to get the 'groundlings' to laugh at h...
JON FAVREAU You have an hour and a half or two hours - maybe two and a half hours - in a movie, and it has to be...
JON FAVREAU When I'm working with improv people, I give them the green light to just bring it and try things...
JON FAVREAU Elf
JON FAVREAU At first you want to have a reputation as being talented or funny or...you know...special. As you go...
JON FAVREAU I used to be in arts and stuff. But I never was encouraged to...I was...aimed toward the sciences.
JON FAVREAU I don't think I'm egotistical as much as I'm taking responsibility for what I'm putting out there.
JON FAVREAU The prospect of [airing on TV] was very enticing to us as we made this. So, as edgy and current as w...
JON FAVREAU John Carter of Mars
JON FAVREAU For me, I love food. It's my greatest pleasure and also the thing that could ruin you as well. I...
JON FAVREAU I did a guest thing on 'My Name Is Earl,' and there is something about being involved in a T...
JON FAVREAU I like a naturalism to my dialogue and my comedy. I would rather have a few jokes sail by that might...
JON FAVREAU At the end of the day, it seems like there's a critic archetype for food movies, like with '...
JON FAVREAU When Ron Howard does 'Rush,' he has to learn and steep himself in F1 culture and European ra...
JON FAVREAU To see talented people in roles that others might not see them in, to see how they might fit in the ...
JON FAVREAU I think what's fun about the Western genre is the character arcs are very strong and, arguably, ...
JON FAVREAU Back to the painting of the Sistine Chapel, there's always been run-ins between benefactors and ...
JON FAVREAU I'm not on chef level, but I'd make a good line cook. That's not too shabby.
JON FAVREAU I'm a pretty early adopter of social media. There's a whole subculture to it. I'm smart ...
JON FAVREAU Everybody loves a hit. There is nothing as fun as making a cultural splash with a movie.
JON FAVREAU The irony is that the more unapologetically sexist men are in movies, the more women tend to be attr...
JON FAVREAU We just didn't give them a lot of opportunities. They didn't have a lot of chances because our defen...
DAN FAVREAU We started connecting with some of our passes. It's tough on this field because it's smaller, but we...
DAN FAVREAU I think any kind of win is encouraging. We've kind of played up and down all season - play one good ...
DAN FAVREAU You've got to hand it to them when we're playing almost 25 players and their bench is limited. They ...
DAN FAVREAU Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion, say, or Obama's birt...
JON MEACHAM No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even l...
JON CORZINE If you want something, you can't wait for someone to make it happen for you.
JON HUERTAS More than 150 heads of state attended the UN Summit, giving New Yorkers a chance to get in touch wit...
JON STEWART President Bush remained undeterred by the massive display of American opposition, even though much o...
JON STEWART I don't care about wealth. What seems to be upsetting is institutionalizing the advantages that ...
JON STEWART If you watch the news and don't like it, then this is your counter program to the news.
JON STEWART Ahh, Earth Day, the only day of the year where being able to hacky-sack will get you laid.
JON STEWART If your regime is not strong enough to handle a joke, then you don't have a regime.
JON STEWART I'm too short to host a late-night talk show. It's like the bar at an amusement-park ride. Y...
JON STEWART I'm not just a boy toy. I have feelings and dreams like anybody else.
JON STEWART Liberal and conservative have lost their meaning in America. I represent the distracted center.
JON STEWART McVeigh's lawyer got him the death penalty, which, quite frankly, I could have done.
JON STEWART Many of our soldiers are stationed at Camp Coyote just south of the Iraqi border. This is how you kn...
JON STEWART The Supreme Court ruled that disabled golfer Casey Martin has a legal right to ride in a golf cart b...
JON STEWART Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.
JON STEWART Insomnia is my greatest inspiration.
JON STEWART The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom.
JON STEWART We have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we have been loo...
JON STEWART I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything.
JON STEWART You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work. I want to lo...
JON STEWART If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: they...
JON STEWART 'Swagger' would be the word for 'Dirt On My Boots.' With the real funky drum loop an...
JON PARDI I'm not going chic, I swear. The geek endures. But, I mean, a snazzy cool suit looks good.
JON HEDER One of the things that makes our military the best in the world is the certain knowledge of each sol...
JON KYL I can be a traditionalist but also play with Luke Bryan and get the crowd to go crazy. I think that ...
JON PARDI With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our...
JON MEACHAM All of a sudden, I was a young kid in my early 20s, and I had a couple of Broadway shows to my credi...
JON TENNEY I saw rock n' roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen.
JON LANDAU I toured around the country and met all these Broadway producers who put me in all these Neil Simon ...
JON TENNEY Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terr...
JON MEACHAM There's something real in women's intuition. It's an accurate signpost for decision maki...
JON VOIGHT Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursin...
JON PORTER A lot of people, including business leaders, think the future belongs to China. Globalization is not...
JON MEACHAM People selling content internationally need to be highly focused on selling the right product to the...
JON FELTHEIMER As a member of Congress, and a parent, I understand the importance of ensuring that families are abl...
JON PORTER Owners who buy aggressive dogs for security may be kidding themselves: The chances that the victim o...
JON KATZ When the Beatles wrote 'Paperback Writer,' it couldn't have been the same old thing. You...
JON BATISTE I think that generally music should be a positive thing, I like Bob Marley's attitude: he said t...
JON FISHMAN I was born in March 1949, a post war baby boomer.
JON ENGLISH 'Just looking at pictures' used to be considered cheating. No longer. The graphic novel is b...
JON SCIESZKA 'The Royals' has emerged as a breakout series that has become one of E Network's highest...
JON FELTHEIMER It's funny. When we were alive we spent much of our time staring up at the cosmos and wondering what...
JON STEWART Yes, the long war on Christianity. I pray that one day we may live in an America where Christians ca...
JON STEWART A tiny little baby!' says Tam. 'People look at me like I'm an animal. People who don't know me judge...
JON RONSON The internet is just a world passing notes around a classroom.
JON STEWART I'd like to repeat the advice that I gave you before, in that I think you really should make a radic...
JON KRAKAUER Happiness [is] only real when shared
JON KRAKAUER It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.
JON KRAKAUER If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, b...
JON STEWART I've been to Canada, and I've always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in abo...
JON STEWART You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it -- there's no turning back.
JON ENGLISH Just every moment with Dick Cheney has been my favorite. Here's what I wonder about Dick Cheney, and...
JON STEWART Yeah, that's the ticket.
JON LOVITZ Historic in a good sense, not historic in a sense of 'so we dropped bombs on everyone.'
JON STEWART Why can't they have gay people in the army? Personally, I think they are just afraid of a thousand g...
JON STEWART We don't consider ourselves equal opportunity anythings, because that's not - you know, that's the b...
JON STEWART For me it was just exciting to see fake news catching on like that. We don't… you know, it's inter...
JON STEWART But we are at war, and we here at THE DAILY SHOW will do our best to keep you informed of any late-b...
JON STEWART Yes! Finally captured Martha Stewart. You know, with all the massive and almost completely unpunishe...
JON STEWART I can't read lips unless they're touching mine.
JON TROAST GOP strategists hope the revelation of Kerry's wealth might debunk his status as a, quote, man of th...
JON STEWART You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were sw...
JON STEWART James Taylor may be an all-American boy but he isn't Horatio Alger, and the lionizing of many ro...
JON LANDAU Words without deeds is an affront to the principle that guides our Nation and makes a mockery of the...
JON CORZINE Here's the point - you're looking at affirmative action, and you're looking at marijuana...
JON STEWART Some people think we're adrift without any guidelines. I don't. I think we've had instru...
JON VOIGHT I would still rather be in Silicon Alley. I like the West Coast also, but it's sort of fragmente...
JON ORINGER I am a huge admirer of Franklin Roosevelt's, and I believe social security has done untold good ...
JON MEACHAM Among the many problems with taking the Bible literally is it reduces the most mysterious and comple...
JON MEACHAM Goats are the cable talk show panelists of the animal world, ready at a moment's notice to inter...
JON KATZ One wonders whether the Obama re-election campaign may be on the right track as it seeks to apply th...
JON MEACHAM 'Sing It Again Rod' touches all the solo bases since Stewart's departure from the Jeff B...
JON LANDAU I like hearing fiddles, steel guitar, acoustics up loud - really rock & roll stuff but with a co...
JON PARDI If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one&...
JON MEACHAM I'm thrilled to be asked to host the Academy Awards for the second time because, as they say, th...
JON STEWART If I were in a situation where I had to meet a pack of wolves and my family is with me, I'm goin...
JON SEDA I like San Francisco, but I don't think I'd want to work in Palo Alto. It seems like a prett...
JON ORINGER When I went to Everest, I underestimated things. I just didn't know what altitude could do. Or t...
JON KRAKAUER With tens of thousands of patients dying every year from preventable medical errors, it is imperativ...
JON PORTER Some people say that their pets will tell them when it's time to go. I don't believe that. N...
JON KATZ A border collie named Orson inspired me to buy a 110-acre farm with four barns and a sheep. That led...
JON KATZ If you're going to love animals and have a life with them, the odds are you're going to lose...
JON KATZ Some rescue groups are highly organized, experienced, well-funded, nearly professional. Others are s...
JON KATZ It's easy to see why dog rescue is a mushrooming culture. Turning a troubled person's life a...
JON KATZ Lifetime dogs intersect with our lives with particular impact; they're dogs we love in especiall...
JON KATZ Most Americans acquire dogs impulsively and for dubious reasons: as a Christmas gift for the kids. B...
JON KATZ There is no evidence that an animal can take on the sophisticated task of deciding to end his life a...
JON KATZ When I wrote about media and technology, I had a lot of lonely, even intimate book talks. Since writ...
JON KATZ I'm one of those people who has always struggled with emotions and revealing them. When my dog O...
JON KATZ Kids leave us and go off on their own lives. Family members tell us what they think of us. Animals c...
JON KATZ When an animal dies, it gives you the chance to love another animal. That's an insightful and pr...
JON KATZ It is possible to take something beautiful and lasting out of the heart-wrenching experience of seei...
JON KATZ A good breeder or experienced rescue agency wants you to prove that you'll be a capable caretake...
JON KATZ Taking responsibility and having faith in your own judgment will help you make good choices and deci...
JON KATZ When you write about animals, of course, you are really writing about the people who love and live w...
JON KATZ The Perfect Dog is an enticing fantasy pooch. It's the dog that instantly learns to pee outdoors...
JON KATZ Dogs and other animals - goats, donkeys, cows, a grumpy rooster - continue to change my writing life...
JON KATZ My goats are not contemplative, accepting, or introspective. They are the Greek chorus of my farm, s...
JON KATZ There is no evidence that dogs have the kind of complex emotional lives and value systems that we do...
JON KATZ I'm always happy when people choose to get another dog because it's a healthy and healing th...
JON KATZ I think of animals more as spirits that come and go. They enter our lives at a particular time and t...
JON KATZ It's important to remember that the animals are not grieving with us. They're very accepting...
JON KATZ Why is it that if you take advantage of a corporate tax break you're a smart businessman, but if...
JON STEWART The two biggest things that translate from the pitching mound to hunting and fishing are patience an...
JON LESTER One gets the impression that Elvis Presley does what his business advisors think will be most profit...
JON LANDAU The best thing is to go public only when you're absolutely sure that's the right move for th...
JON ORINGER That's the fun of going to a high school reunion: it's seeing the people who you were close ...
JON HURWITZ Presently, the Commission for Commemorating 350 Years of American Jewish History has been brought ab...
JON PORTER There is a lack of talent in technology, and we need to be encouraging kids in school to learn how t...
JON ORINGER Animals have come to mean so much in our lives. We live in a fragmented and disconnected culture. Po...
JON KATZ I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house...
JON STEWART When you get together with childhood friends, for example, there's an intimacy that you instantl...
JON TENNEY The Rolling Stones have been the best of all possible worlds: they have the lack of pretension and s...
JON LANDAU I'm just thankful I'm surrounded by good people.
JON PARDI Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines,...
JON SCIESZKA Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience, it is best to approach and e...
JON MEACHAM Having a college degree gave me the opportunity to be... well-rounded. Also, the people I met at the...
JON SECADA I'm a funny guy. You've got to be able to make fun of yourself. We only live once.
JON PARDI First of all, this whole idea of this one percent versus the 99 percent, it's a false statistic....
JON LOVITZ If heaven is understood more as God's space on earth than as an ethereal region apart from the e...
JON MEACHAM Gallien cứ băn khoăn không hiểu liệu có phải anh đã nhặt ở cuối bang thứ bốn...
JON KRAKAUER Ten years of character development affords you a lot. You get a chance to dig deeper and deeper and ...
JON TENNEY Bob Dylan may be the Charlie Chaplin of rock n' roll. Both men are regarded as geniuses by their...
JON LANDAU It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything els...
JON LANDAU I held top-secret security clearance.
JON OSSOFF I don't view any of the hits I've ever written as the climax of my career. They're just ...
JON BELLION I worked on Capitol Hill for five years, and I saw how things work and how they do not. I saw the pa...
JON OSSOFF It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. Wha...
JON MEACHAM I do not believe 'Newsweek' is the only catcher in the rye between democracy and ignorance, ...
JON MEACHAM We played Carnegie Hall, and that was one time where I felt... Carnegie Hall as a legendary, very ve...
JON BATISTE It would be wonderful if the public sector were always great, or always terrible; or if the private ...
JON MEACHAM We've come from the same history - 2000 years of persecution - we've just expressed our sufferings d...
JON STEWART An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the reje...
JON MEACHAM Everybody goes to clinics, to hospitals, to doctors, and so on. Some people go to Planned Parenthood...
JON KYL I don't have the identity of any of them. I only had the nicks that they used on Internet Relay ...
JON JOHANSEN I know when I started I would have been happy to sound like the Beatles or Joe Tex or whoever. You w...
JON ANDERSON Greed, envy, sloth, pride and gluttony: these are not vices anymore. No, these are marketing tools. ...
JON FOREMAN I was much crazier than I had imagined. Or maybe it was a bad idea to read DSM-IV when you're not a ...
JON RONSON The DSM-IV-TR is a 943-page textbook published by the American Psychiatric Association that sells fo...
JON RONSON I would say television is a focus, and expanding our channel platform is a focus. As for buying libr...
JON FELTHEIMER I've had a lot of crappy jobs, but one of my favorites was working as a commercial fisherman in ...
JON KRAKAUER Anybody can be going from being broke to being wealthy, as I did.
JON LOVITZ