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Anthony Bourdain 57
Chef and food writer 1956–2018Related quotes
No Reservations - Machu Picchu
Context: It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know of it, how many places I have still to go, how much more there is to learn. Maybe that's enlightenment enough - to know that there is no final resting place of the mind, no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom, at least for me, means realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go.
“If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place.”
“Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.”
Source: Retirement (1782), Line 623.
“There is no resting place for a nation or a people on their onward march.”
On his becoming the first President of India after the constitution was adopted
Source: Presidents of India, 1950-2003, p. 11
“There's a place for him, but he's the final determinant as to whether he achieves that or not.”
On Barack Obama
Interview in The Guardian (2007)
Context: There's a place for him, but he's the final determinant as to whether he achieves that or not. He needs to capture the imagination of a universe hungry for decent thought and passion. All he has to do is be truthful and have a vision for what to do and stop playing a goddamn game of politics. If he does that, he'll get everything he needs.
“Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe.”
As quoted in The Copernican Revolution : Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought (1957) by Thomas S. Kuhn
Context: Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe. All this is suggested by the systematic procession of events and the harmony of the whole Universe, if only we face the facts, as they say, "with both eyes open."
Source: Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950), Chapter I, Secrets Behind History
“The left-handed are precious; they take places which are inconvenient for the rest.”