Food Quotes - Page 9

• Food can become such a point of anxiety - not because it's food, but just because you have anxiety. That's how eating disorders develop.

  Vanessa Carlton

  Anxiety, Eating Disorder, Eating

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

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• Wait. Why am I thinking about Krispy Kremes? We’re supposed to be exercising.

  Meg Cabot

  Exercise, Thinking, Krispy Kreme

  Meg Cabot (2009). “Big Boned”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• Nothing rekindles my spirits, gives comfort to my heart and mind, more than a visit to Mississippi... and to be regaled as I often have been, with a platter of fried chicken, field peas, collard greens, fresh corn on the cob, sliced tomatoes with French dressing... and to top it all off with a wedge of freshly baked pecan pie.

  Craig Claiborne

  Heart, Pie, Corn On The Cob

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• Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Life, Meaningful, Thinking

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.160, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• You can never have enough garlic. With enough garlic, you can eat The New York Times.

  Morley Safer

  New York, Garlic, Enough

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• I think Australian food is probably some of the best in the world.

  Karrie Webb

  Thinking, World, Australian

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• Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one's belt buckled.

  Frederic Raphael

  Great Restaurants, Mouths, Belts

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• More than any other in Western Europe, Britain remains a country where a traveler has to think twice before indulging in the ordinary food of ordinary people.

  Joseph Lelyveld

  Country, Travel, Workout

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• Food simply isn't important to me.

  Alice Paul

  Important, Food Safety

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• If you're afraid of butter, use cream.

  Julia Child

  Cooking, Gourmet, Use

  "Julia Child's centennial: celebrating America's beloved no-frills chef" by Amanda Holpuch, www.theguardian.com. August 15, 2012.

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• Avoid fruits and nuts. You are what you eat.

  Jim Davis

  Funny, Hilarious, Witty

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• Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Talking, Cooking, Dinner

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• I eat a variety of foods like vegetables, fruit and beef for protein and iron.

  Sasha Cohen

  Vegetables, Iron, Beef

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• Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.

  James Beard

  Beard, Bread, Culinary

  "The Soup & Bread Cookbook: More Than 100 Seasonal Pairings for Simple, Satisfying Meals". Book by Beatrice Ojakangas, p. 7, 2013.

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• Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

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

  Peter De Vries

  Inspirational, Motivational, Emotional

  Comfort Me with Apples Ch. 15

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• He receives comfort like cold porridge.

  William Shakespeare

  Cooking, Comfort, Cold

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 2, sc. 1, l. 10

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• I hate with a bitter hatred the names of lentils haricots - those pretentious cheats of the appetite, those tabulated humbugs, those certified aridites calling themselves human food!

  George Gissing

  Hate, Names, Hatred

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• We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

  Thornton Wilder

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Thornton Wilder (1958). “The Cabala ; The Woman of Andros”

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• The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Happiness, Stars, Discovery

  Brillat Savarin (2015). “The Physyology of Taste”, p.26, Editorial MAXTOR

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• The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Funny, Sarcasm, Poetry

  "Alarms And Discursions". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1910.

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• Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.

  Albert Einstein

  Funny Inspirational, Health, Animal

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press

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• I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.

  Nora Ephron

  Love, Regret, Mistake

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Feb 09, 2011

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• We all eat & it would be a sad waste of opportunity to eat badly.

  Anna Thomas

  Opportunity, Cooking, Would Be

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• Desserts are like mistresses. They are bad for you. So if you are having one, you might as well have two.

  Alain Ducasse

  Two, Mistress, Might

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