Caviar Quotes

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.

It was part of theTexas ritual? We know about champagne and caviar but we talk hog and hominy.

The South, to me, is fried chicken and catfish caviar --- that's grits --- and good-looking women.

Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.

When I go out, I love steak and caviar.

One can be unhappy before eating caviar, even after, but at least not during.

For me, true luxury can be caviar or a day with no meetings, no appointments and no schedule.

If you eat caviar every day it's difficult to return to sausages.

I like to work really hard and then earn the good life. I actually enjoy it. If you're eating caviar all the time, it doesn't taste good anymore.

I don't take notes; I don't outline, I don't do anything like that. I just flail away at the goddamn thing. I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami. You can't sell it as caviar.

Those big-shot writers ... could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar.

I lived through the garbage. I might as well dine on the caviar.

Wit is like caviar - it should be served in small portions and not spread about like marmalade.

Fame to me certainly is only a temporary and a partial happiness ... fame is not really for a daily diet, that's not what fulfills you. It warms you a bit but the warming is temporary. It's like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have to have it every meal and every day.

God didn't bless me with success so I could eat caviar every day.

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

Ah, Caviar! I keep on eating it, but can never get my fill. Like olives. It's a lucky thing it's not salty.

Give me Caviar Kaspia and give me a hamburger. I love the two extremes.

In nineteenth-century Russia, sauerkraut was valued more than caviar.

Russians will consume marinated mushrooms and vodka, salted herring and vodka, smoked salmon and vodka, salami and vodka, caviar on brown bread and vodka, pickled cucumbers and vodka, cold tongue and vodka, red beet salad and vodka, scallions and vodka-anything and everything and vodka.

Mr. Rockefeller is due to entertain munificently at breakfast, and make his pitch. My advice to one invited guest was: Order caviar, and then say No.

[on whether he harbored any resentment at his forced retirement from the stage after he was fired by Britain's National Theater] I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare... An actor must act.

Pressed caviar has the consistency of chilled tar.

All of a sudden I discovered that I'm allergic to caviar. It was the perfect metaphor for my life. When I was only able to afford bad caviar, I could certainly eat my fill of it.

Having a show get canceled is like, 'Oh, you have caviar between your teeth,' you know what I mean? Because you had a show in the first place.