Food Quotes - Page 35

• Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist *can* come from *anywhere*.

  Peter O'Toole

  Artist, Ego, Pixar

  "Fictional character: Anton Ego". "Ratatouille", www.imdb.com. June 22, 2007.

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• I once went out with this wild girl. She made French toast and got her tongue caught in the toaster.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Girl, Humor

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• Anyone can cook but only the fearless can be great.

  Brad Garrett

  Fearless, Cooks

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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

  Real, Ice Cream, Moments

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you can eat with mates or friends or family, I mean, it's such a brilliant thing isn't it? If you feel really rubbish and you have a nice bit of food it makes you feel good, you know?

  Jamie Oliver

  Nice, Mean, Feel Good

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• I bet you think an egg is something you casually order for breakfast when you can't think of anything else. Well, so did I once, but that was before the egg and I.

  Claudette Colbert

  Thinking, Order, Eggs

  "Fictional character: Betty MacDonald". "The Egg and I", www.imdb.com. 1947.

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• Revenge is a dish best served cold.

  Ricardo Montalban

  Revenge, Animated Series, Cooking

  "Fictional character: Khan Noonien Singh". "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan", 1982.

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• A Georgia peach, a real Georgia peach, a backyard great-grandmother's orchard peach, is as thickly furred as a sweater, and so fluent and sweet that once you bite through the flannel, it brings tears to your eyes.

  Melissa Fay Greene

  Sweet, Real, Eye

  Melissa Fay Greene (2015). “Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction”, p.22, Da Capo Press

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• A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one’s accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food comes.

  Wendell Berry

  World, Consciousness, Eating

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.326, Counterpoint

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• Don't touch my d**k, don't touch my knife.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Knives

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• When the waitress puts the dinner on the table, the old men look at the dinner. The young men look at the waitress.

  Gelett Burgess

  Inspirational, Men, Cooking

  Gelett Burgess (1937). “Look Eleven Years Younger”

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• My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic.

  Chiang Kai-shek

  White, Cooking, Soup

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• Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our antimaterialist, otherworldly, New Age, spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu, and seaweed slime.

  Edward Abbey

  Spiritual, Cooking, Age

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.16, RosettaBooks

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• I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.

  Kingsley Amis

  Cooking, Sometimes, Culinary

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• On a hot day in Virginia, I know nothing more comforting than a fine spiced pickle, brought up trout-like from the sparkling depths of the aromatic jar below the stairs of Aunt Sally's cellar.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Aunt, Virginia, Comforting

  "Coming to a Freezer Near You: Pickle Pops" by Elena Ferretti, www.foxnews.com. March 1, 2010.

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• At the working man’s house, hunger looks in but dares not enter.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, House, Looks

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.249

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• Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Looks

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• It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Men, Cooking, Salt

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1822). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha ...”, p.154

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• When there are starving people in the world, it seems wrong that so many of us Americans eat as much for entertainment as for nourishment.

  Andy Rooney

  People, Cooking, World

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• SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety-nine. For every sauce invented and accepted a vice is renounced and forgiven.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Ninety Nine, Civilization, People

  Ambrose Bierce (1958). “The Devil's Dictionary: A Selection of the Bitter Definitions of Ambrose Bierce”, p.163, Prabhat Prakashan

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• When she goes about her kitchen duties, chopping, carving, mixing, whisking, she moves with the grace and precision of a ballet dancer, her fingers plying the food with the dexterity of a croupier.

  Craig Claiborne

  Moving, Dancing, Dancer

  "Food and Drink: A Book of Quotations". Book by Susan L. Rattiner, September 19, 2012.

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• Watch a French housewife as she makes her way slowly along the loaded stalls... searching for the peak of ripeness and flavor... What you are seeing is a true artist at work, patiently assembling all the materials of her craft, just as the painter squeezes oil colors onto his palette ready to create a masterpiece.

  Keith Floyd

  Patience, Art, Creating

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• I don't eat friggin' lobster or anything like that. Because they're alive when you kill it.

  Nicole Polizzi

  Lobster, Alive

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• To eat figs off the tree in the very early morning, when they have been barely touched by the sun, is one of the exquisite pleasures of the Mediterranean.

  Elizabeth David

  Morning, Tree, Sun

  Elizabeth David (1999). “Italian Food”, p.261, Penguin

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• The onion is the truffle of the poor.

  Robert J Courtine

  Cooking, Onions, Culinary

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