Calvin Trillin - Best Quotes

When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying as politely as possible that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.

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The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.

Calvin Trillin

The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.

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My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

I was very much into buying contemporary art but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art but all of a sudden my mood has changed and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.

I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Author: Calvin Trillin

People not just reporters are more interested in politics than in government so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.

I never did very well in math – I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

With humor it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.

There's always a source for humor.

If it's inappropriate to write about if there's nothing funny about it then it's not funny.

We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page – even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.

I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind like a mild disability some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.

I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.

Canadians are very well behaved they don't throw their food.

I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.

When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying as politely as possible that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.

The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.