Meals Quotes - Page 31

• A salad is not a meal, it is a style.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Style, Salad

  1978 Metropolitan Life,'Food For Thought and Vice Versa'.

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• For my last meal I'd want an Irish breakfast with soda bread and one of my dad's omelettes with three or four eggs.

  Erin O'Connor

  Dad, Eggs, Three

  "Erin O'Connor: 'I burnt my parents' lovely new kitchen down. But they forgave me in the end'". Interview with John Hind, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2011.

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• For the mind is capable of dealing with only one kind of food; it lives, grows and is nourished upon ideas only; mere information is to it as a meal of sawdust to the body; there are no organs for the assimilation of the one more than of the other.

  Charlotte Mason

  Ideas, Mind, Sawdust

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “Towards a Psychology of Education”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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• I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a dayspare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote.

  Sylvia Plath

  Cooking, Routine, Three

  1949 Diary entry,13 Nov. Collected in Aurelia Schober Plath (ed) Letters Home by Sylvia Plath,'Diary Supplement' (1949).

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• Book tours are such a little tapas meal of where I could live.

  Sloane Crosley

  Book, Littles, Tapas

  "Sloane Crosley Adjusts to the Writerly Life". Interview with Shane Ferro, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 22, 2011.

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• A verbose, prosaic review which mentions whistling winds and the timeless feeling of jade doesn't mean anything to me; I don't need a novella telling me about how an album is like a fine meal.

  David Cross

  Mean, Wind, Feelings

  "David Cross Disses Album Reviews, Notorious B.I.G, Dane Cook, Religion". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. May 21, 2010.

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• Christianity has enriched the erotic meal with the appetizer of curiosity and spoiled it with the dessert of remorse.

  Karl Kraus

  Erotic, Curiosity, Dessert

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• My, I get so depressed after a poor meal; that's why I can never stay in England for more than a week.

  Julia Child

  England, Week, Poor

  Letter to Avis DeVoto, January 30, 1953.

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• Scandal has made wine and popcorn seem like a viable, even healthful, meal.

  Lena Dunham

  Wine, Popcorn, Scandal

  "Lena Dunham Opens Up: The 10 Women Who Changed Her Life". www.glamour.com. February 16, 2015.

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• Food trucks give creative entrepreneurs the ability to cook with freedom and make what they love, meaning that they can create highly specialized meals without having the high overhead costs of running a restaurant.

  Homaro Cantu

  Running, Giving, Entrepreneur

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• I once worked it out - after $12 million, all millionaires are the same. That's because we're all humans, confined to human scale. How many homes can you live in? How many meals can you eat? You can have a living room the size of a cathedral, but you won't live in it. It's too big.

  Ricardo Semler

  Home, Rooms, Size

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• My husband is the cook at our house. I can make dessert and salad, but I stay away from meals. He makes amazing omelets, fish, and grilled vegetables like Brussels sprouts and cauliflower.

  Dylan Lauren

  Husband, Vegetables, House

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• Whether we're conscious of it or not, our work and personal lives are made up of daily rituals, including when we eat our meals, how we shower or groom, or how we approach our daily descent into the digital world of email communication.

  Chip Conley

  Communication, Email, World

  "What’s Your Daily Offering?" by Chip Conley, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 29, 2011.

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• Life is sacred. Life is art. Life is sacred art. The art of sacred living means being a holy actor, acting from the soul rather than the ego. The soul is out of space and time and hence always available, an ever-present potential of our being. It is up to each of us to celebrate and to actualize our being and to turn each meal, conversation, outfit, letter, and so on, into art. Every mundane activity is an opportunity for full authentic self-expression. The soul is our artistic self, our capacity for transforming every dimension of our lives into art and theater.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Art, Mean, Opportunity

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• But dinner is dinner, a meal at which not so much to eat - it becomes difficult to eat much at it as you grow older - as to drink, to talk, to flirt, to discuss, to rejoice "at the closing of the day". I do not think anything serious should be done after it, as nothing should before breakfast.

  George Saintsbury

  Flirting, Thinking, Done

  George Saintsbury (1922). “A Scrap Book”

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• You never get bored ... when you have the probabilities of your next meal to speculate on, pro and con.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Bored, Next, Pros And Cons

  Samuel Hopkins Adams (1917). “Our Square and the People in it”

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• Nature hath meal and bran, contempt and grace.

  William Shakespeare

  Grace, Contempt, Contrast

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Cymbeline”, p.93, Palgrave Macmillan

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• I always befriended animals and have said many a good word for them. Even to the least-loved mosquitoes I gave many a meal, and told them to go in peace.

  John Muir

  Animal, Mosquitoes, Said

  John Muir (1972). “Trails of wonder: writings on nature and man”

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• Drama is a complete meal, vitamins, proteins, carbohydrates. It's a slow burn thing. It's got an arc. Comedy is more like coke.

  Eddie Izzard

  Drama, Coke, Vitamins

  2004 In The Guardian, 17 May

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• If you know where your next meal is coming from, you are not poor.

  Michael Oher

  Next, Poor, Knows

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• Sauces comprise the honor and glory of French cookery. They have contributed to its superiority, or pre-eminence, which is disputed by none. Sauces are the orchestration and accompaniment of a fine meal, and enable a good chef or cook to demonstrate his talent.

  Curnonsky

  Honor, Sauce, Chef

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• Water is the medicine for indigestion; it is invigorating when the food that is eaten is well digested; it is like nectar when drunk in the middle of a dinner; and it is like poison when taken at the end of a meal.

  Chanakya

  Taken, Medicine, Drunk

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• There is no occasion when meals should become totally unimportant. Meals can be very small indeed, very inexpensive, short times taken in the midst of a big push of work, but they should be always more than just food.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Taken, Midst, Should

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• Nearly everyone wants at least one outstanding meal a day.

  Duncan Hines

  Want, Outstanding

  Duncan Hines (1959). “Adventures in Good Eating”

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• Life is too short for cuisine minceur and for diets. Dietetic meals are like an opera without the orchestra.

  Paul Bocuse

  Life Is Too Short, Orchestra, Opera

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