Quotes by Calvin Trillin - AI Generated Quotes

Calvin Trillin

Health food makes me sick.

-Calvin Trillin

diet

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

-Calvin Trillin

family

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

-Calvin Trillin

food

I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.

-Calvin Trillin

food

Health food makes me sick.

-Calvin Trillin

food

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

food

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.

-Calvin Trillin

food

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

-Calvin Trillin

food

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

-Calvin Trillin

food

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

-Calvin Trillin

food

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.

-Calvin Trillin

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.

-Calvin Trillin

funny

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

-Calvin Trillin

funny

Health food makes me sick.

-Calvin Trillin

health

There's always a source for humor.

-Calvin Trillin

humor

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

-Calvin Trillin

humor

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

-Calvin Trillin

imagination

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

-Calvin Trillin

politics

Calvin Trillin

Health food makes me sick.

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.

Health food makes me sick.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

Health food makes me sick.

There's always a source for humor.

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

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

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.

Other Authors to Explore

Alfred Austin

Bob Keeshan

Dennis Weaver

Channing Tatum

Simon Pegg

Izaak Walton

Fred F. Fielding

Johan Huizinga