Featuring all-new, never-before-published material, Chef Anthony Bourdain lays out his more than 25 years of drugs, sex, and haute cuisine in this gloriously amusing and delectably startling banquet of wild-but-true tales.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.”
“No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.”
“Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans … are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.”
“Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have.”
“Don’t lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don’t do it again. Ever”
Hi! Seth here! Here it is! I was asked to give a description of my book, Yearbook, for the inside flap (which is a disgusting phrase) and for websites and stuff like that. Yearbook is a collection of genuine stories that I fervently hope are at best merely hilarious and at worst wonderful enough to change your life. (I get that the former is a fancy “book” way of stating “the first one,” so it’s probably the former.)
I talk more about drug use than my mother would want, as well as about my grandparents, my stand-up comedy days as a teenager, bar mitzvahs, and Jewish summer camp. I also share some of my Los Angeles escapades, and I undoubtedly say things about the other famous individuals that will make me feel really uncomfortable at a gathering one day. If you choose to purchase the book, I sincerely hope you will enjoy it; if not, I apologize. If you ever run into me on the street and let me know what happened, I’ll try my best to make it right.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Never quit, but sometimes do quit, ’cause you simply might not be that good at some shit.”
“They also have an amazing seafood tower. I love a seafood tower and think more food should be served in tower formation. Sometimes pizzas get a little platform, but they’re really not living up to their potential.”
“Maybe that’s why Jews are Jewish. It’s more vague and casts a wider net than other religions. “I’m a Hindu.” “I’m a Muslim.” “I’m Jew…ish.” Less commitment is involved when “ish” is in the mix.”
“Once I ate a weed lollipop at the Golden Globes and got so high, I had to leave early.”
“My dad is from Newark, New Jersey. He somehow manages to be simultaneously bald and always in dire need of a haircut.”
In the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, Jon Krakauer had not slept in fifty-seven hours and was suffering from the brain-altering consequences of oxygen deprivation. Twenty other climbers were still tenaciously making their way to the summit as he turned to start his lengthy, perilous descent from 29,028 feet. Nobody had noticed how the sky was starting to get cloudy. Krakauer collapsed in his tent six hours later, 3,000 feet lower, in blinding snow and 70-knot gusts, safe but experiencing weariness and hallucinations. He discovered the next morning that six of his climbing companions had not returned to their campsite and were frantically fighting for their life. Five of them would be dead when the storm eventually subsided, and the sixth would have suffered so severe frostbite that his dominant arm would need to be amputated.
In this book, Krakauer explores what it is about Everest that has inspired so many people, including himself, to forgo caution, disregard the advice of loved ones, and willingly put their lives in danger, endure misery, and spend so much money. The firsthand account of what transpired on the roof of the world by Krakauer is a unique accomplishment since it is written with lot clearer and reinforced by his unquestionable reporting.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“But at times I wondered if I had not come a long way only to find that what I really sought was something I had left behind.”
“Everest has always been a magnet for kooks, publicity seekers, hopeless romantics and others with a shaky hold on reality.”
“With enough determination, any bloody idiot can get up this hill,” Hall observed. “The trick is to get back down alive.”
“We were too tired to help. Above 8,000 meters is not a place where people can afford morality”
“Thus the slopes of Everest are littered with corpses.”
The year 2020 will see the publication of Matthew McConaughey’s book Greenlights. On October 20, 2020, the Crown imprint of Crown Publishing Group released it. An unorthodox book by the Academy Award-winning actor, full of wild tales, sage advice from outlaws, and life lessons discovered the hard way.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“We all step in shit from time to time. We hit roadblocks, we fuck up, we get fucked, we get sick, we don’t get what we want, we cross thousands of “could have done better”s and “wish that wouldn’t have happened”s in life. Stepping in shit is inevitable, so let’s either see it as good luck, or figure out how to do it less often.”
“Don’t walk into a place like you wanna buy it, walk in like you own it.”
“I believe the truth is only offensive when we’re lying.”
“We cannot fully appreciate the light without the shadows. We have to be thrown off balance to find our footing. It’s better to jump than fall. And here I am.”
“We all have scars, we gonna have more. Rather than struggle against time and waste it, let’s dance with time and redeem it. Cause we don’t live longer when we try not to die. We live longer when we are too busy living.”
Author Jon Krakauer portrays the events in Into the Wild out of chronological order, making it difficult for the reader to determine when certain things occurred. This timeline reorders the book’s events according to their chronological order of occurrence rather than how they appear in Into the Wild for the benefit of clarity.
A young man from a wealthy family made a trip to Alaska in April 1992 and ventured out on his own into the wild north of Mount McKinley. Christopher Johnson McCandless was his full name. He had burned all the money in his wallet, donated his whole savings of $25,000 to charity, sold his car and most of his belongings, and created a new life for himself.
A group of moose hunters discovered his decomposing body four months later. The moving tale of Into the Wild is how McCandless came to pass away. Immediately after receiving his college diploma in 1991, McCandless set off on a vision quest like those undertaken by his heroes Jack London and John Muir, wandering through the West and Southwest.
He left his car, removed its license plates, and torched all of his money in the Mojave Desert. Alexander Supertramp would be his new moniker, and he would be able to revel in the unadulterated joys that nature offered without being constrained by money or possessions. McCandless simply threw the maps away because he wanted a blank place on the map. He disappeared into the wild, leaving his helpless parents and sister behind.
The 2012 memoir Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by American author, writer, and podcaster Cheryl Strayed. In her memoir, Strayed refers to her 1995 1,100-mile trek over the Pacific Crest Trail as a voyage of self-discovery.
Cheryl Strayed believed she had lost everything when she was twenty-two. After her mother passed away, her family dispersed, and her marriage quickly fell apart. With nothing left to lose, she took the rashest choice of her life four years later. She would travel more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail by herself, without any expertise or preparation, from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State.
Wild effectively conveys the terrors and delights of one young lady pressing forth against all odds on a trip that maddened, empowered, and finally healed her. It is told with suspense and elegance, glittering with love and humor.
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A compilation of poetry and prose about surviving is called Milk and Honey. concerning one’s personal experiences with abuse, torture, affection, loss, and femininity. There are four chapters, and each one has a distinct function. handles a new kind of suffering and heals another kind of heartache. ‘Milk and Honey’ takes the readers on a journey through some of life’s most difficult experiences and discovers sweetness in them as sweetness can be found anywhere if you’re just ready to look for it.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself.”
“i am a museum full of art
but you had your eyes shut”
“do not look for healing
at the feet of those
who broke you”
“if you were born with the weakness to fall you were born with the strength to rise”
“how you love yourself is
how you teach others
to love you”
True to the poignant life lessons she shares on her highly successful Instagram account, Cleo Wade shares them in Heart Talk, a motivational, approachable, and spiritual book of advice for the younger generation. This book is a daily pep talk to keep you feeling inspired and motivated. It contains more than 120 of Cleo’s original poetry, mantras, and affirmations, including fan favorites and never-before-seen ones.
With understandable, applicable, and accessible counsel, such as “Hearts break. This is a portable, recharging break for your daily life. “That’s how the magic gets in,” and “Baby, you are the finest flower that ever flowered, remember that when the weather changes.” Keep Heart Talk by your side table or in your suitcase for an energizing spiritual adrenaline rush that can assist you in identifying and removing any obstacles standing in the way of your emotional and spiritual growth.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Don’t wait on anyone to tell you what you are worth. You have to be the first person who knows what you are worth and can say what you are worth.”
“Comparison and extreme competition run on insecurities and the belief in scarcity, which inevitably isolates us from one another.”
“Being weird is when you love yourself enough to liberate yourself from the burden of trying to be normal. It is also when you are smart enough to know that there is no such thing as normal.”
“Take risks with faith, not fear.”
“Do not ignore your intuition. There is an infinite intelligence within you; let it be your guiding light.”
Kristin Newman spent a significant portion of her twenties and thirties shopping for dresses to wear to her friends’ weddings and baby showers. Kristin, who was not ready to settle down and needed a break from her fast-paced profession as a sitcom writer, instead traveled the world, often alone, for several weeks each year. Kristin fell hopelessly in love with the globe, but she also fell for many gorgeous locals, men who could provide the emotional connection she craved without limiting her independence.
Kristin introduces the reader to the Israeli bartenders, Finnish poker players, seductive Bedouins, and Argentinean priests who assisted her in becoming “Kristin-Adjacent” on the road—a slower, softer, and, yes, naughtier version of herself at home.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“To me, marriage was an ending, not a beginning. A stone on my chest. A giving-up, a decision to walk away from an interesting life for one just like everyone else’s. Much more “ever after” than “happily.”
“I wanted to love, but I also wanted freedom and adventure, and those two desires fought like angry obese sumo wrestlers in the dojo of my soul.”
“Everyone I knew, no matter what they chose, was at least a little in mourning for that other thing.”
“In Judaism, the way you learn to love someone is by giving to them,” she said. “The more you give to a person, the more you end up loving them. If love is just a feeling and that feeling changes, then what? Love has to be something you choose to build.”
“I always say that I need to travel to keep from dying of boredom from my own internal monologue. I think that, generally, most of us have a total of about twenty thoughts. And we just scroll through those thoughts, over and over again, in varying order, all day every day.”