Ruth Reichl Great Quotations

It takes a great deal of strength to be an optimist.

I meet people, and we can get past small talk pretty quickly if they've read my books. It's a great shortcut.

If you start with a great peach, there's nothing you're ever going to do that's going to make it any better than when it comes off the tree. In 1970, that was a revolution.

People are so used to eating terrible pancakes, no matter how you mess up, they're going to be great. And if you make fresh orange juice, they'll be over the moon.

One of mom's greatest acts of generosity was that she trained me to be defiant. Her great gift to me was encouraging me to be the person that I wanted to be, not the one that she and my father wished I was.

Given a choice between great food and boring company or boring food and great company, I'll take the great company any day.

you know, your mother is such a great cook.

What often, too often, happens in magazines is that you end up with a great editorial product, and then you're selling things that you don't really approve of.