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.
Calvin Trillin

Food, Family, Mother

Health food makes me sick.
Calvin Trillin

Diet, Health, Food

I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.
Calvin Trillin

Funny, Mind, Looking

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.
Calvin Trillin

Imagination, Teacher, Seem

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

Food, Off, Stand

People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.
Calvin Trillin

Politics, Government, Interested

There's always a source for humor.
Calvin Trillin

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

Everyone, Far, Word

Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting.
Calvin Trillin

Book, Tour, Reporting

Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.
Calvin Trillin

Food, Throw, Canadians

Getting a tattoo would probably make me cry.
Calvin Trillin

Getting, Cry, Tattoo

I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.
Calvin Trillin

School, Remember, Wanted

I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.
Calvin Trillin

Food, Restaurant, Cook

I don't mind being interviewed on television or radio.
Calvin Trillin

Mind, Television, Radio

I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.
Calvin Trillin

Food, Book, Read

I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious.
Calvin Trillin

Serious, Expect, Disturbed

I've always thought that parallel parking was my main talent.
Calvin Trillin

Thought, Talent, Parking

I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.
Calvin Trillin

Three, Books, Written

If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.
Calvin Trillin

Funny, Nothing, Write

The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.
Calvin Trillin

Food, Trying, Keep

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

Place, Question, Days

The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
Calvin Trillin

Life, Book, Between

We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.
Calvin Trillin

Funny, Down, Writers

What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.
Calvin Trillin

Long, Another, Making

What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.
Calvin Trillin

Writing, Place, Might

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: December 5, 1935

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