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Traveler Inspirational Quotes (495)

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I'd like to play bass like Bootsy Collins. I'm serious. That would be my dream.
Anthony Bourdain
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In my house, neither my wife nor my daughter are impressed that I'm on television, and they remind me of that frequently.
Anthony Bourdain
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I'm not trying to explain other cultures, or to give a fair and balanced account of a country, or the top ten things you need to know. I'm not trying to spread world peace and understanding. I'm not an advocate or an activist or an educator or a journalist. I'm out there trying to tell stories the best I can.
Anthony Bourdain
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When I cook, I generally stick with what I know, what I'm comfortable with, and what I feel I've paid my dues learning, and am good at.
Anthony Bourdain
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Turning your nose up at a genuine and sincere gesture of hospitality is no way to travel or to make friends around the world.
Anthony Bourdain
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In that sense, what a great way to live, if you could always do things that interest you, and do them with people who interest you.
Anthony Bourdain
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My French definitely improves the more I drink, as I worry less and less about absolutely perfect grammar. I do speak and understand the language, just not particularly well.
Anthony Bourdain
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I travel 250 days a year. There are chef friends who I only see every couple of years. By conventional standards I'm a bad friend. I'm not there to remember your birthday or to offer you words of support through Twitter. I'm not up on what you're doing in New York because I'm not in New York. I'm not what people call in parenting circles present
Anthony Bourdain
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I've been very careful about what I say yes to and what I say no to. And I think seriously always about... this may be a good idea right now or it may be a lot of money right now, but will it be good for me five years from now? Will it be fun? Will it make me hate myself? I think about all of those things.
Anthony Bourdain
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One of my few virtues - I don't have a lot of them - would be a deep sense of curiosity. I'm interested in how other people live in other places I'm interested in other cultures.
Anthony Bourdain
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When do you stop to de-douche?
Anthony Bourdain
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It's been about a week without alcohol of any kind. I'm enjoying my new, clean-living lifestyle.
Anthony Bourdain
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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.
Anthony Bourdain
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I need the anesthetic qualities of the local fire water.
Anthony Bourdain
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I look at Guy Fieri and I just think, 'Jesus, I'm glad that's not me.'
Anthony Bourdain
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Regret is something you’ve got to just live with, you can’t drink it away. You can’t run away from it. You can’t trick yourself out of it. You’ve just got to own it.
Anthony Bourdain
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I urge you to travel - as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to.
Anthony Bourdain
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A proper saute pan should cause serious head injury if brought down hard against someone else's skull. If you have any doubts about which will dent, the victim's head or your pan, then throw that pan right in the trash.
Anthony Bourdain
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One of life's terrible truths is that women like guys who seem to know what they're doing.
Anthony Bourdain
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Drink heavily with locals whenever possible.
Anthony Bourdain
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There is no other place on earth even remotely like New Orleans. Don't even try to compare it to anywhere else.
Anthony Bourdain
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For me, the cooking life has been a long love affair, with moments both sublime and ridiculous.
Anthony Bourdain
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Learn how to cook a (effing) omelet. I mean, what nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast? You look good doing it, and it's a nice thing to do for somebody you just had sex with.
Anthony Bourdain
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I think of [street food] as the antidote to fast food it's the clear alternative to the king, the clown and the colonel.
Anthony Bourdain
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