Food Quotes

The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.

Garrison Keillor

Taking food alone tends to make one hard and coarse. Those accustomed to it must lead a Spartan life if they are not to go downhill. Hermits have observed, if for only this reason, a frugal diet. For it is only in company that eating is done justice; food must be divided and distributed if it is to be well received.

Walter Benjamin

I would say, stay the hell away from the party scene. Anything you put in front of your goal, and especially something like that, whether it's too much gambling, too much food, too much cold beers on the weekend - anything that you put in front of the prize is going to end up getting in the way and hurting you in the end.

Brad Renfro

In our house we repeated the pattern of thousands of other homes. There were a few books and a lot of music. Our food and our furniture were no different from our neighbors'.

Emanuel Celler

I came literally to the table with a wealth of knowledge by simply understanding how food should taste.

Rocco DiSpirito

Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

And on a Canadian set, everybody is equal. You get paid the same. You live together in barracks. You have a communal kitchen. You buy and cook your own food.

Sandra Oh

Food is a coping mechanism people are afraid of giving it up because then they'll feel confused and lost.

Phil McGraw

Everything in food is science. The only subjective part is when you eat it.

Alton Brown

That's a big goal of mine, to try and grow as much of my own food as possible.

Daryl Hannah

Food is your body's fuel. Without fuel, your body wants to shut down.

Ken Hill

The first law of dietetics seems to be if it tastes good, its bad for you.

Isaac Asimov

It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.

Ronald Reagan

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Benjamin Franklin

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

There was no corn -- in the wide market-place all loathliest things, even human flesh, was sold; They weighed it in small scales -- and many a face was fixed in eager horror then; his gold the miser brought; the tender maid, grown bold through hunger, bared her scorned charms in vain.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it's a subject below their social standing.

Robert Kiyosaki

Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn't illegal.

Voltaire

I suppose women are attracted to the bad-boy image sometimes because it's fun to have an adventure. It's like eating junk food... it's fun at the time, but ultimately not the best choice.

Dita Von Teese