Top 22 Calvin Trillin Quotes



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.

 

Someone who managed to navigate the tricky waters between living a life you could be proud of and still delighting in the many things there are to take pleasure in.

 

School plays were invented partly to give parents and easy opportunity to demonstrate their priorities.

 

Daddy, how come in Kansas City the bagels taste like just round bread?

 

Because a superior fried-chicken restaurant is often the institutional extension of a single chicken-obsessed woman, I realize that, like a good secondhand bookstore or a bad South American dictatorship, it is not easily passed down intact.

 

In the rather informal survey I have taken over the years on intensity of interest in food by profession, lawyers rank only a few trades below concert pianists….

 

…the existential paradox we all experience; we feel that we are immortal, yet we know that we will die.

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

With humor, it’s so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.

 

I never did very well in math – I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn’t meant my answers literally.

 

Canadians are very well behaved, they don’t throw their food.

 

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

 

As far as I’m concerned, ‘whom’ is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.

 

 

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