lifestyle quotes

I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword – two jackets, one that’s driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.

If I wouldn’t have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

Water is my drink.

There’s nothing – I’ve bought everything I want. I don’t like yachts or anything; you know, I’m not a yacht person, and I’ve got pretty much the nicest plane I’d want to have.

I didn’t have any children of my own.

I’m a day-to-day-type person.

Sometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.

In New York I pretty much live in diners – I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.

I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It’s by the sea, there’s a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

I don’t believe you could be a 39-year-old quarterback in the NFL and eat cheeseburgers every day. I want to be able to do what I love to do for a long time.

Never get out of bed before noon.

I became a beach bum.

My music is a luxury.

Do I live as carelessly and worldly as unbelievers while professing to be a follower of Jesus? If so, I am exposing Christianity to ridicule and leading people to speak evil of the holy name by which I am called.

I listen to music all day every day. I can’t not listen to music. It’s kind of scary how much I listen to music, but it’s what I love, and it’s all I care about, so I’m good with it.

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

A bachelor’s life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

Health consists with temperance alone.

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It’s one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

I would be married, but I’d have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

Maybe some people can wake up and play PlayStation all day, but that’s never been me.

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

Man lives for science as well as bread.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

I’ve lived in a big showplace house, and I never want to live again in a house that overshadows me.

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

I make it a rule never to smoke while I’m sleeping.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance.

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.

Well, we’re living in a material world, and I’m a material girl… or boy.

I find the difference, for me, between having no money and having quite a bit is that the bills get bigger. And that’s it. The lifestyle doesn’t change.

Bravery never goes out of fashion.

Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.

Fame is like caviar, you know – it’s good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.

I’m filthy rich!

I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

The glamour of it all! New York! America!

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

I’m much healthier now.

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.