Eating Quotes - Page 2

• A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.

  Naomi Wolf

  Motivational, Beauty, Women

  Naomi Wolf (2013). “The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women”, p.187, Random House

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• Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Work, Food, Inspiration

  Igor Stravinsky “An Autobiography”, Library of Alexandria

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• It was between the ages of 14 and 20 and I started off not eating at all, maybe an apple a day.

  Torrie Wilson

  Apples, Age

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• I have been told my eating habits are absolutely bizarre. But I don't think so.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Thinking, Habit

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• Now I know that that is just the phenomena of eating this way. Most all of my letters say I hit a plateau and then one morning I woke up and the melt had happened.

  Suzanne Somers

  Morning, Ice Cream, Letters

  Interview with Cheri Sicard, fabulousfoods.com. August 06, 2007.

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• I've been watching what I eat. When I was putting on all the weight, I was drinking Guinness and not eating. I didn't have room to because I was drinking all the time.

  Robbie Williams

  Drinking, Ice Cream, Weight

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• Anyway, I collapsed in France in the middle of a tour. I hadn't been eating properly, I was getting very phobic about audiences, and I collapsed in pure fright.

  Andy Partridge

  Fear, France, Middle

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• Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus.

  Peter Ustinov

  Food, Night, Men

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• Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Food, Talking, Cooking

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• It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.

  Beatrix Potter

  Too Much, Said, Lettuce

  Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies (1909) p. 9

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• From the described experiment it is clear that the mere act of eating, the food even not reaching the stomach, determines the stimulation of the gastric glands.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Ice Cream, Swag, Reaching

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• There are no golden geese. There are only fat geese eating the food that could nourish more athletic opportunities for women.

  Donna Lopiano

  Opportunity, Ice Cream, Athletic

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• You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.

  Oliver Reed

  Fall, Down And, Weak

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• I love eating in it, brushing my teeth and swallowing the toothpaste in it. I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space.

  Laura Kightlinger

  Lost Love, Hands, Space

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• If I don't work, I'll be sitting on the couch watching TV, eating popcorn and getting like a cow.

  Celia Cruz

  Tvs, Watching Tv, Popcorn

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• I hate it when people come up to me when I'm eating.

  Shirley Bassey

  Hate, People, Come Up

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• Zac Efron would make us feel guilty for eating big dinners. He'd say, 'Do you really want to eat those carbs?' It was like, 'Thanks a lot!'

  Ashley Tisdale

  Want, Dinner, Thanks

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• The sun would come up over the ocean, and we'd be eating scrambled eggs before we shot some stuff. It was a vacation in the sense that it was the best working conditions.

  Marguerite Moreau

  Ocean, Vacation, Ice Cream

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• Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

  Peter De Vries

  Inspirational, Motivational, Food

  Comfort Me with Apples Ch. 15

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• You know an odd feeling? Sitting on the toilet eating a chocolate candy bar.

  George Carlin

  Feelings, Chocolate, Bars

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• Alfred Austin said, "Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."

  Alfred Austin

  Horse, Food, Journey

  "Fictional character: Alex Blake". "Criminal Minds". Season 8, Episode 5: "The Good Earth", www.imdb.com. October 31, 2012.

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• I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

  Oscar Wilde

  Food, Oysters, Sick

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• Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.

  Harriet Van Horne

  Love, Food, Memorable

  1956 Vogue, Oct.

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• A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.

  Barbara Johnson

  Food, Weight Loss, Dessert First

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Leaking Laffs Between Pampers and Depends”, p.67, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.

  Buddy Hackett

  Funny, Family, Mothers Day

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