Meals Quotes - Page 3

• It's the company, not the cooking, that makes a meal.

  Kirby Larson

  Cooking, Company

  Kirby Larson (2007). “Hattie Big Sky”, p.159, Yearling

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• I don't always prepare such rich meals. Sometimes I'll just serve a simple quiche, salad and dessert for dinner. During the week I try to eat lightly.

  Paul Lynde

  Simple, Trying, Dinner

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• When we have spiritual reading at meals, when we have the rosary at night, when we have study groups, forums, when we go out to distribute literature at meetings, or sell it on the street corners, Christ is there with us.

  Dorothy Day

  Spiritual, Reading, Night

  Dorothy Day, David Scott, Benedict J. Groeschel (2002). “Praying in the Presence of Our Lord with Dorothy Day”, p.38, Our Sunday Visitor Publishing

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• My favorite meal is turkey and mashed potatoes. I love Thanksgiving, it's just my favorite. I can have Thanksgiving all year round.

  Cindy Margolis

  Thanksgiving, Kids, Years

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• Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, 'A house guest,' you're wrong because I have just described my kids.

  Erma Bombeck

  Kids, Parenting, Swag

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• There's nothing you can really do to prepare to rock. Do you prepare to eat a delicious meal? Are you hungry? Then you're gonna eat it.

  Jack Black

  Rocks, Hungry, Delicious

  FaceBook post by Jack Black from Jul 30, 2013

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• In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.

  Jose Bergamin

  Literature, French Literature

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• Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.

  George Burns

  Funny, Humor, Good Woman

  "It's a Great Deal, All Three of Me Think So". Book by Bruce A. Rosenblat, 2009.

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• You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

  William S. Burroughs

  Fake People, Quality, Great Writing

  William S. Burroughs (1988). “The Western Lands”, Penguin Group USA

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• I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.

  E. M. Forster

  Men, Two, Play

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• The reason why I hate working in theatre is the tedium of memorisation. But once that is done, then you feast on this never-ending meal. If you play it correctly, every night is fraught with very high stakes that are very difficult to find in everyday life.

  Christopher Meloni

  Hate, Night, Play

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  Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.

  Jim Davis

  Thanksgiving, Food, Zucchini

  Jim Davis (2012). “Garfield Eats His Heart Out: His 6th Book”, p.4, Ballantine Group

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• And strictly forbid that any quarrelling be at your meals.

  Robert Grosseteste

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• After having dispatched a meal, I went ashore, and found no habitation save a single house, and that without an occupant; we had no doubt that the people had fled in terror at our approach, as the house was completely furnished.

  Christopher Columbus

  People, House, Doubt

  Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas (1827). “Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain”, p.55

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• The biggest reason most people fail is that they try to fix too much at once - join a gym, get out of debt, floss after meals and have thinner thighs in 30 days.

  Marilu Henner

  People, Trying, Debt

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• Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and offer meals, housing and some form of education. If we are going to combat extremism then we must educate those very same children.

  Hillary Clinton

  Education, Religious, Children

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• My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.

  Winston Churchill

  Drinking, Beer, Funny Sarcastic

  Uttered during a lunch with the Arab leader, Ibn Saud

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• I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Funny, Humorous, Food

  Quoted in Alpheus T. Mason's Brandies: A Free Man's Life (p. 145)

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• A kaiseki meal is like that, very small courses over a long period of time.

  Thomas Keller

  Long, Periods, Courses

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• Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last.

  Maureen Dowd

  Exercise, Might, Lasts

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• During the day I force myself to at least eat some salads rather than rubbish, and a steak in the evening. In fact, I eat to basically satisfy my hunger. I hardly have the time to appreciate a meal, and I'm everything, but a gourmet.

  Milla Jovovich

  Appreciate, Gourmet, Salad

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• Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal.

  Ray Charles

  Cake, Long, Rays

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• Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Perfect, Interesting, Together

  "On tour with a guerrilla gourmet". BookPage interview, bookpage.com. December 2001.

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• Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Memories, Powerful, Food

  Anthony Bourdain (2010). “A Cook's Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal”, p.6, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of manmade evolution, every dog is still only two meals away from being a wolf.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dog, Years, Two

  "Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch". Book by Neil Gaiman, May 1, 1990.

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