Anthony Bourdain Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Anthony Bourdain quotes, Anthony Bourdain sayings, and Anthony Bourdain proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

I've long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we're talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime associates, food, for me, has always been an adventure. Anthony Bourdain
Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food. Anthony Bourdain
There is no other place on earth even remotely like New Orleans. Don't even try to compare it to anywhere else. Anthony Bourdain
Travel isn't always pretty. It isn't always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that's okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind. Anthony Bourdain
We learn as professionals by repetition, by getting it wrong, getting yelled at and doing it again. Anthony Bourdain
Without Montreal, Canada would be hopeless. Anthony Bourdain
There is no final resting place of the mind. Anthony Bourdain
Good food is very often, even most often, simple food. Anthony Bourdain
A burger is something anyone can do, just follow the rules. Anthony Bourdain
Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have. Anthony Bourdain
When dealing with complex transportation issues, the best thing to do is pull up with a cold beer and let somebody else figure it out. Anthony Bourdain
Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it - not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits. Anthony Bourdain
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. Anthony Bourdain
Those places I don't understand, just doing bad food. It takes some doing. Making good pasta is so much easier than making bad stuff. It actually takes quite an effort to make poor linguine pomodora. Anthony Bourdain
I'm a control freak. If you're going to slap my name on something, I would like to control it. Anthony Bourdain
Nobody in Singapore drinks Singapore Slings. It's one of the first things you find out there. What you do in Singapore is eat. It's a really food-crazy culture, where all of this great food is available in a kind of hawker-stand environment. Anthony Bourdain
The way you make an omelet reveals your character. Anthony Bourdain
Food is everything we are. It's an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It's inseparable from those from the get-go. Anthony Bourdain
Very few restaurant workers could even dream of eating in the restaurants they work in. Many do not make a living wage. Anthony Bourdain
The days of predatory poets in search of literary inspiration and young flesh are probably over for good. Hippies can just as easily get their bong rips in Portland or Peoria. But the good stuff, the real good stuff, the sounds and smells and the look of Tangier, what you see and hear when you look out the window and take it all in, that's here to stay. Anthony Bourdain
I'm not looking to freak people out-eating rodents or bugs. I don't do that anymore Anthony Bourdain
I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture. Anthony Bourdain
Good food is very often, even most often, simple food. Anthony Bourdain
For those with restless, curious minds, fascinated by layer upon layer of things, flavors, tastes and customs, which we will never fully be able to understand, Tokyo is deliciously unknowable. I’m sure I could spend the rest of my life there, learn the language, and still die happily ignorant. Anthony Bourdain
They're professionals at this in Russia, so no matter how many Jell-O shots or Jager shooters you might have downed at college mixers, no matter how good a drinker you might think you are, don't forget that the Russians - any Russian - can drink you under the table. Anthony Bourdain
Your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride. Anthony Bourdain
If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it's the restaurant business. Anthony Bourdain
The journey is part of the experience - an expression of the seriousness of one's intent. Anthony Bourdain
The journey changes you...It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. Anthony Bourdain
Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself. Anthony Bourdain