food
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘food’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.” -Hunter S. Thompson
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“I’m at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I’ve just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.” -Rodney Dangerfield
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“Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.” -Luther Burbank
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“In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.” -Mitt Romney
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“Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.” -Cathy Guisewite
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“I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.” -Bertrand Russell
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“The term ‘serious actor’ is kind of an oxymoron, isn’t it? Like ‘Republican party’ or ‘airplane food.’” -Johnny Depp
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“There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.” -Robert A. Heinlein
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“Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.” -Sarah Bernhardt
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“Put your nose into the Bible everyday. It is your spiritual food. And then share it. Make a vow not to be a lukewarm Christian.” -Kirk Cameron
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“I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.” -Johnny Carson
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“If you’re using first-class land for biofuels, then you’re competing with the growing of food. And so you’re actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.” -Bill Gates
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“You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we’re in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we’ve got to do something about the unemployed.” -Ronald Reagan
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“A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.” -Pat Buchanan
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“The disparity between a restaurant’s price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill.” -Bryan Miller
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“One of the glories of New York is its ethnic food, and only McDonald’s and Burger King equalize us all.” -John Corry
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“More than any other in Western Europe, Britain remains a country where a traveler has to think twice before indulging in the ordinary food of ordinary people.” -Joseph Lelyveld
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“If music be the food of love, play on.” -William Shakespeare
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“When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.” -Tecumseh
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“I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.” -Ray Charles
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“Even when a person has all of life’s comforts – good food, good shelter, a companion – he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.” -Dalai Lama
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“Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.” -Mark Twain
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“There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.” -Chris Rock
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“Older people shouldn’t eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.” -Robert Orben
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“Did you ever see the customers in health – food stores? They are pale, skinny people who look half – dead. In a steak house, you see robust, ruddy people. They’re dying, of course, but they look terrific.” -Bill Cosby
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“Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.” -Plato
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“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” -J. R. R. Tolkien
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“Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.” -Jim Rohn
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“Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family.” -Roland Joffe
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“When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life.” -Monica Bellucci
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“We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it.” -Ray Kroc
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“If I’m making a movie and get hungry, I call time-out and eat some crackers.” -Carol Alt
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“I do love Italian food. Any kind of pasta or pizza. My new pig out food is Indian food. I eat Indian food like three times a week. It’s so good.” -Jennifer Love Hewitt
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“That’s a big goal of mine, to try and grow as much of my own food as possible.” -Daryl Hannah
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“I love food and I love everything involved with food. I love the fun of it. I love restaurants. I love cooking, although I don’t cook very much. I love kitchens.” -Alma Guillermoprieto
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“In Italy, they add work and life on to food and wine.” -Robin Leach
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“I love spaghetti and meatballs… I eat a lot.” -Susan Lucci
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“Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.” -M. F. K. Fisher
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“I like to eat and I love the diversity of foods.” -David Soul
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“Confit is the ultimate comfort food, and trendy or not, it is dazzling stuff.” -Sally Schneider
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“I think Australian food is probably some of the best in the world.” -Karrie Webb
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“Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.” -Finley Peter Dunne
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“Italy will always have the best food.” -Diane von Furstenberg
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“If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.” -Leigh Hunt
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“The less food, the more time to talk, the more to talk about.” -Damon Wayans
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“The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.” -Cyril Connolly
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“The only think I like better than talking about Food is eating.” -John Walters
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“Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food.” -Andrew Weil
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“Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.” -Denis Leary
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“Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.” -Mary Catherine Bateson
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“Our minds are like our stomaches they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.” -Quintilian
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“I can make dressing – or stuffing. Y’all call it stuffing up here, we call it dressing down there. It’s really good dressing. That family recipe was passed on, and I love to make that.” -Edie Brickell
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“Food is your body’s fuel. Without fuel, your body wants to shut down.” -Ken Hill
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“Maybe a person’s time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food.” -Frank A. Clark
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“Eating without conversation is only stoking.” -Marcelene Cox
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“Food can become such a point of anxiety – not because it’s food, but just because you have anxiety. That’s how eating disorders develop.” -Vanessa Carlton
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“If I could only have one type of food with me, I would bring soy sauce. The reason being that if I have soy sauce, I can flavor a lot of things.” -Martin Yan
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“Every major food company now has an organic division. There’s more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before.” -Michael Pollan
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“Is Elizabeth Taylor fat? Her favorite food is seconds.” -Joan Rivers
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“Know how to garnish food so that it is more appealing to the eye and even more flavorful than before.” -Marilyn vos Savant
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“I love all kinds of bread. Whenever I crave junk food, I want salty things like peanuts or potato chips.” -Tyra Banks
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“Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.” -Robert Redford
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“I like food. I like eating. And I don’t want to deprive myself of good food.” -Sarah Michelle Gellar
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“It’s easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn’t magically appear on a supermarket shelf.” -Christopher Dodd
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“Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.” -Truman Capote
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“You don’t need a silver fork to eat good food.” -Paul Prudhomme
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“An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.” -A. J. Liebling
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“I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good.” -Virgil Thomson
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“I haven’t eaten at a McDonald’s since I became President.” -William J. Clinton
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“Food is our common ground, a universal experience.” -James Beard
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“LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.” -Henry Fielding
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“I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook.” -Robert Mondavi
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“I eat a variety of foods like vegetables, fruit and beef for protein and iron.” -Sasha Cohen
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“So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.” -Franz Kafka
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“What I’ve enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn – I love it!” -Jamie Oliver
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“I like to use ‘I Can’t Believe it’s Not Butter’ on my toast in the morning, because sometimes when I eat breakfast, I like to be incredulous. How was breakfast? Unbelievable.” -Demetri Martin
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“If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.” -W. Somerset Maugham
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“Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.” -Peter De Vries
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“More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
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“When I was trying to impress Kate I was trying to cook these amazing fancy dinners and what would happen was I would burn something, something would overspill, something would catch on fire and she would be sitting in the background trying to help, and basically taking control of the whole situation, so I was…
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“Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.” -Sophia Loren
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“He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.” -Jonathan Swift
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“The most dangerous food is wedding cake.” -James Thurber
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“Sandwiches are wonderful. You don’t need a spoon or a plate!” -Paul Lynde
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“My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.” -David Byrne
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“Never order food in excess of your body weight.” -Erma Bombeck
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“Fettucini alfredo is macaroni and cheese for adults.” -Mitch Hedberg
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“If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat with him… the people who give you their food give you their heart.” -Cesar Chavez
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“Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.” -Sai Baba
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“I don’t like food that’s too carefully arranged it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I’d buy a painting.” -Andy Rooney
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“Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.” -Samuel Butler
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“A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.” -Aesop
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“We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.” -George Orwell
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“Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.” -Dorothy Day
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“I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.” -Oscar Wilde
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“You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.” -Yogi Berra
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