Eating Quotes - Page 27

• If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it.

  Mao Zedong

  Food, Teaching, Learning

  Mao Tse-Tung, Zedong Mao (1977). “Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung”, Pergamon

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• We still (sometimes) remember that we cannot be free if our minds and voices are controlled by someone else. But we have neglected to understand that we cannot be free if our food and its sources are controlled by someone else. The condition of the passive consumer of food is not a democratic condition. One reason to eat responsibly is to live free. (pg. 323, The Pleasures of Eating)

  Wendell Berry

  Voice, Mind, Remember

  Wendell Berry (2010). “Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food (Large Print 16pt)”, p.12, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness - pushing us at intervals close to taboo and dangerous desires, which range from the impulse to commit sudden arbitrary violence upon another person to the voluptuous yearning for the extinction of one's consciousness, for death itself. Even on the level of simple physical sensation and mood, making love surely resembles having an epileptic fit at least as much as, if not more than, it does eating a meal or conversing with someone.

  Susan Sontag

  Love, Simple, Desire

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• Now that I think about it, maybe he is a werewolf. I can picture him lunging over the moors in hot pursuit of his prey, and I'm certain that he wouldn't think twice about eating an innocent bystander. I'll watch him closely at the next full moon. He's asked me to go dancing tomorrow--perhaps I should wear a high collar. Oh, that's vampires, isn't it? I think I am a little giddy. (After meeting Mr. Markham V. Reynolds, Jr.)

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Moon, Thinking, Bystanders

  Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (2009). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, p.38, A&C Black

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• O, she's warm! If this be magic, let it be an art Lawful as eating.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Art, Magic

  'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 5, sc. 3, l. 109

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• There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to purely spiritual creature. That is why He uses material things like bread and wine to put the new life into us. We may think this rather crude and unspiritual. God does not: He invented eating. He likes matter. He invented it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Faith, Spiritual, Inspiration

  C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

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• George Harrison: The day after the Blue Angel audition, John showed up to rehearsal with a long list of name suggestions, and I remember each and every one of them: the Deads-men, the Deadmen, the Undeads-men, the Undeadmen, the Rots, the Rotters, the Dirts, the Dirty Ones, the Grayboys, the Eaten Brains, the Eating Brains, the Mersey Beaters, the Mersey Beaten, the Bloodless, the Graves, the Headstones, and the Liverpools of Blood. Paul ripped off John's right arm and used it to slap John across the face, then he said, "Those're horrible, mate, just horrible, y'know.

  Alan Goldsher

  Dirty, Angel, Men

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• Did I tell you I finally found the perfect page-cutter? It's a pearl-handled fruit knife. My mother left me a dozen of them, I keep one in the pencil cup on my desk. Maybe I go with the wrong kind of people but i'm just not likely to have twelve guests all sitting around simultaneously eating fruit.

  Helene Hanff

  Mother, Knives, People

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• I realize it has become too easy to find a diet to fit in with whatever you happen to feel like eating and that diets are not there to be picked and mixed but picked and stuck to, which is exactly what I shall begin to do once I've eaten this chocolate croissant.

  Helen Fielding

  Chocolate, Realizing, Fit

  Helen Fielding (2013). “The Bridget Jones Omnibus: The Singleton Years: Bridget Jones's Diary & The Edge of Reason”, p.48, Pan Macmillan

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• By working only when you are most effective, life is both more productive and more enjoyable. It's the perfect example of having your cake and eating it, too.

  Tim Ferriss

  Inspirational, Cake, Perfect

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• Taffy. He thinks about taffy. He thinks it would take his teeth out now, but he would eat it anyhow, if it meant eating it with her.

  Mitch Albom

  Thinking, Teeth, Taffy

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• On a related subject, Signore Pazzi, I must confess to you: I'm giving serious thought to eating your wife.

  Thomas Harris

  Wife, Giving, Serious

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• The Bird of Hermes is my name, Eating my Wings to make me tame.

  Kohta Hirano

  Fear, Names, Wings

  "Hellsing". Manga series by Kouta Hirano, 1997 - September 30, 2008.

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• Emotions weren’t created to just lie around. You should experience things to the full. I’ve got a sense of the clock ticking. We have to feel all those things to the maximum. Like, I don’t eat a lot but I really love eating. And I like being precise and particular. There is a certain respect in that. If you can do your day depending on how you feel, and enjoy things as well.

  Bjork

  Lying, How You Feel, Emotion

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• I was as afraid as the next man in my time and maybe more so. But with the years, fear had come to be regarded as a form of stupidity to be classed with overdrafts, acquiring a venereal disease or eating candies. Fear is a child's vice and while I loved to feel it approach, as one does with any vice, it was not for grown men and the only thing to be afraid of was the presence of true and imminent danger in a form that you should be aware of and not be a fool if you were responsible for others.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Fear, Children, Men

  "True at First Light". Book by Ernest Hemingway, ch. 17, 1999.

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• No one ever found out what was happening inside me. How the pain was eating me away. No one ever came to my rescue, or stood up for me.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Pain, Found, Stood Up

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• She would stay on the road and in hiding, a balloon floating through the sky, eating up hundreds of miles a day with a help of the perpetual tailwind.

  John Green

  Sky, Floating, Balloons

  "Paper Towns". Book by John Green, October 16, 2008.

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• Embarrassment felt a lot like eating chili peppers. It burned in the back of your throat and there was nothing you could do to make it go away. You just had to take it, suffer from it, until it eased off.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Suffering, Going Away, Peppers

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• Ares always reemerges from the chaos. It will never go away. Athenian civilization defends itself from the forces of Ares with metis, or technology. Technology is built on science. Science is like the alchemists' uroburos, continually eating its own tail. The process of science doesn't work unless young scientists have the freedom to attack and tear down old dogmas, to engage in an ongoing Titanomachia. Science flourishes where art and free speech flourish.

  Neal Stephenson

  Art, Technology, Civilization

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• I did work in a bakery for one day. But the boss went off and when he came back I was lying on the floor eating cakes.

  Noel Fielding

  Funny, Lying, Humor

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• They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance

  Oscar Wilde

  Looks, Muffins, Repentance

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.159, Penguin

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• He made a small sigh, as he swallowed the first blood, then his mouth closed over my earlobe, mouth working at the wound, tongue coaxing blood from the wound. He pressed his body the length of mine, one hand cupping my turned head, the other playing down the line of my body. Maybe it was just blood, but I never stroked my steak while eating it.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Blood, Hands, Mouths

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Obsidian Butterfly: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.476, Penguin

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• Therefore bread was created for the glory of Christ. Hunger and thirst were created for the glory of Christ. And fasting was created for the glory of Christ. Which means that bread magnifies Christ in two ways: by being eaten with gratitude for his goodness, and by being forfeited out of hunger for God himself. When we eat, we taste the emblem of our heavenly food—the Bread of Life. And when we fast we say, “I love the Reality above the emblem.” In the heart of the saint both eating and fasting are worship. Both magnify Christ.

  John Piper

  Gratitude, Heart, Mean

  John Piper (2013). “A Hunger for God”, p.23, SPCK

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• It’s a depressing habit you have of loving to sneeze and of eating apples as if they were juicier for you and being the first one to exclaim how good the movie is. You depress people. We like apples too.

  Leonard Cohen

  Depressing, Apples, People

  Leonard Cohen (2011). “Beautiful Losers”, p.66, Vintage

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• Had the cub thought in man-fashion, he might have epitomized life as a voracious appetite, and the world as a place wherein ranged a multitude of appetites, pursuing and being pursued, hunting and being hunted, eating and being eaten, all in blindness and confusion, with violence and disorder, a chaos of gluttony and slaughter, ruled over by chance, merciless, planless, endless.

  Jack London

  Fashion, Men, Hunting

  Jack London (2012). “White Fang”, p.50, Courier Corporation

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