I need the anesthetic qualities of the local fire water. — Anthony Bourdain Anesthetics Copy Share Image
your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride. — Anthony Bourdain Amusement Copy Share Image
I'm in no position to try to tell people how to live their family life. — Anthony Bourdain Family Copy Share Image
I'm not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“The food was what you might expect to find on Air Uganda tourist class:” — Anthony Bourdain Food Copy Share Image
“Like I said before, your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.” — Anthony Bourdain Amusement Copy Share Image
Anyone who doesn't have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“I love the saying “Nobody likes a dirty old man or a clean little boy.” — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit. — Anthony Bourdain Cooking Copy Share Image
Chefs are fond of hyperbole, so they can certainly talk that way. But on the whole, I think they probably have a… — Anthony Bourdain Chef Copy Share Image
It just seems there's better things to do in your life than be on television if it's not interesting, if it's not… — Anthony Bourdain Being Copy Share Image
For a dinner date, I eat light all day to save room, then I go all in: I choose this meal and… — Anthony Bourdain Beautiful Copy Share Image
When you're training for jiu-jitsu, particularly if you're training for a competition, you have to be pretty prescribed in the variety of… — Anthony Bourdain Competition Copy Share Image
“I'd been the culinary equivalent of the Flying Dutchman too long, living a half-life with no future in mind, just oozing from… — Anthony Bourdain Life Copy Share Image
In Italy, kids are taken to restaurants very early, they're welcome there, and they learn how to behave. You don't see a… — Anthony Bourdain Acting Copy Share Image
I think of [street food] as the antidote to fast food; it's the clear alternative to the king, the clown and the… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“A mama's boy, loner, intellectual, voracious reader and gourmand, Dimitri was a man of esoteric skills and appetites: a gambler, philosopher, gardener,… — Anthony Bourdain Books Copy Share Image
We know, for instance, that there is a direct, inverse relationship between frequency of family meals and social problems. Bluntly stated, members… — Anthony Bourdain Baby Copy Share Image
I often look ridiculous in Japan. There's really no way to eat in Japan, particularly kaiseki in a traditional ryokan, without offending… — Anthony Bourdain Food Copy Share Image
I wouldn't want to compare myself to David Byrne whom I consider a genius, but what I think what we have in… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I’m a big believer in winging it. I’m a big believer that you’re never going to find perfect city travel experience or… — Anthony Bourdain Accidents Copy Share Image
You realize after you travel enough that there's some things that, no matter how good you are at making television, no matter… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
When you're shooting that fast end to end, you wake up in a hotel and you don't know where you are. You're… — Anthony Bourdain Dream Copy Share Image
The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“It’s more an affliction than the expression of any high-minded ideals. I watch Mark Bittman enjoy a perfectly and authentically prepared Spanish… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“I often use the hypothetical out-of-control ice-cream truck. What would happen if you were walking across the street and were suddenly hit… — Anthony Bourdain Regret Copy Share Image
“Male, female, gay, straight, legal, illegal, country of origin—who cares? You can either cook an omelet or you can’t. You can either… — Anthony Bourdain Chosen path Copy Share Image
“The whole suggestion is predicated on a damnable fucking lie—the BIG lie, actually—one which Richman himself happily helped create and which he… — Anthony Bourdain Creative process Copy Share Image
Sometimes the greatest meals on vacations are the ones you find when Plan A falls through. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
If you have a good experience in a restaurant, you tell 2 people. If you have a bad experience, you tell 10 people. — Anthony Bourdain Bad experiences Copy Share Image
Thinking of getting into the leg-breaking business, so I can profitably sell crutches later. — Anthony Bourdain Business Copy Share Image
My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Whatever everyone else has asked you to do or never let you do, and let's do that. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
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