Quotes of Calvin Trillin - somelinesforyou

“ Health food makes me sick. ”

- Calvin Trillin

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ Health food makes me sick. ”

- Calvin Trillin

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

- Calvin Trillin

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

- Calvin Trillin

“ Even today, well-brought-up English girls are taught by their mothers to boil all veggies for at least a month and a half, just in case one of the dinner guests turns up without his teeth. ”

- Calvin Trillin

“ Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place. ”

- Calvin Trillin

“ 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

“ 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

“ I suppose it's possible that the Sundance Kid didn't like to make much of his birthdays? they may have struck him as just another reminder that his draw was getting slower by the year? but what if he truly liked a major celebration? What if he looked forward every year to marking the day of his birth with what they used to call in the West "a real wingding, with pink balloons and a few survivors?". ”

- Calvin Trillin

“ 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

“ If law school is so hard to get through… how come there are so many lawyers? ”

- Calvin Trillin

“ The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression? ”

- Calvin Trillin

“ Following the Rumanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away. ”

- Calvin Trillin

“ Health food makes me sick. ”

- Calvin Trillin

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

- Calvin Trillin

“ Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry. ”

- Calvin Trillin

“ Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz is kept on the table to give the vampires heartburn if they get through the garlic defense. ”

- Calvin Trillin

“ 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

“ 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

“ Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry. ”

- Calvin Trillin

“ Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz is kept on the table to give the vampires heartburn if they get through the garlic defense. ”

- Calvin Trillin

“ If law school is so hard to get through… how come there are so many lawyers? ”

- Calvin Trillin

“ It happens to be a matter of record that I was first in print with the discovery that the tastelessness of the food offered in American clubs varies in direct proportion to the exclusiveness of the club. ”

- Calvin Trillin

“ It happens to be a matter of record that I was first in print with the discovery that the tastelessness of the food offered in American clubs varies in direct proportion to the exclusiveness of the club. ”

- Calvin Trillin

“ Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry. ”

- Calvin Trillin

“ Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry. ”

- Calvin Trillin
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