Food Quotes - Page 34

• The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

  Samuel Johnson

  Love, Friendship, Champagne Drinking

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1825). “The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals”, p.175

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• Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd starve, because we grew our own potatoes, you know? And our own hogs, and our own cows and stuff, you know.

  James Earl Jones

  War, Anxiety, Cooking

  "The Voice of Triumph". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine.

  Ben Jonson

  Romantic, Wine, Eye

  "To Celia" l. 1 (1616).

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• Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.

  Barbara Jordan

  Anger, Thinking, Gambling

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• God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

  Franz Kafka

  Tattoo, Nuts, Giving

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• Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

  Helen Keller

  Nature, Years, Smell

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• How come when you mix water and flour together you get glue...and then you add eggs and sugar and you get cake? Where does the glue go?

  Rita Rudner

  Cake, Eggs, Water

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• The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain common work as it comes certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Life, Stars, Flower

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• While it is true that many people simply can't afford to pay more for food, either in money or time or both, many more of us can. After all, just in the last decade or two we've somehow found the time in the day to spend several hours on the internet and the money in the budget not only to pay for broadband service, but to cover a second phone bill and a new monthly bill for television, formerly free. For the majority of Americans, spending more for better food is less a matter of ability than priority. p.187

  Michael Pollan

  Phones, Two, People

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• Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.

  Louis Pasteur

  Drinking, Health, Wine

  Etudes sur le vin Pt 1, Ch. 2, Sect. B

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• Whoever thought a tiny candy bar should be called fun size was a moron.

  Glenn Beck

  Fun, Weight Loss, Bars

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• I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas - fat, drugged, and completely out of it.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Vegas, Feelings, Tables

  Anthony Bourdain (2010). “A Cook's Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal”, p.26, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Good wine is a necessity of life for me.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wine, Cooking, Culinary

  "The Man from Monticello: An Intimate Life of Thomas Jefferson". Book by Thomas J. Fleming, p. 250, 1969.

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• So if animals aren't our friends, then what are they? The answer can be summed up between two buns.

  Stephen Colbert

  Animal, Two, Buns

  "I Am America (And So Can You!)". Book by Stephen Colbert, 2007.

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• I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.

  Jonathan Swift

  Children, Years, Knowing

  A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burden to their Parents, or the Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public (1729)

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• Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don't forget food. You can go a week without laughing.

  Joss Whedon

  Laughing, Alive, Forget

  "Press tour bonus: Joss Whedon talks 'Dollhouse'". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, sepinwall.blogspot.ru. July 23, 2008.

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• You are what what you eat eats.

  Michael Pollan

  Healthy Eating, Eating, Real Food

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.112, Penguin

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• I am more modest now, but I still think that one of the pleasantest of all emotions is to know that I, I with my brain and my hands, have nourished my beloved few, that I have concocted a stew or a story, a rarity or a plain dish, to sustain them truly against the hungers of the world.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Thinking, Hands, Brain

  M. F. K. Fisher, Joan Reardon (2004). “The Art of Eating”, p.402, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Please go to this pizzeria. Order the margherita pizza with double mozzarella. If you do not eat this pizza when you are in Naples, please lie to me and tell me that you did.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Lying, Order, Mozzarella

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.81, A&C Black

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• A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.

  W. H. Auden

  Hope, Cooking, Valleys

  Collected Poems (1976) p. 639

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• There's no such thing as a tough child - if you parboil them first for seven hours, they always come out tender.

  W. C. Fields

  Children, Firsts, Tough

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• Anyone who thinks they're too grown up or too sophisticated to eat caramel corn, is not invited to my house for dinner

  Ruth Reichl

  Thinking, House, Cooking

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• The lion is most handsome when looking for food.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Purpose, Lions

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• Parla Come Mangi' --It is a common way to say 'be simple', 'don't try to be rhetorical' literaly: 'speak the way you eat

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Simple, Trying, Way

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• A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible. I wondered if they might be used-metaphorically, of course-to demonstrate the existence of God. Does naming a sphere of nothingness transmute it into being?

  Margaret Atwood

  Space, Doe, Might

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.310, Anchor

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