Meals Quotes - Page 9

• When I do a 30-minute meal, for instance, on Food Network, that's my food you see at the end of the show and it's not perfect. And if sometimes things break or drop or the pasta hits the wall when I'm draining it, they never stop tape. They just kind of let me go with it.

  Rachael Ray

  Wall, Past, Perfect

  "Rachael Ray: 'I Don't Regret a Thing'" by Cynthia McFadden and Sarah Rosenberg, abcnews.go.com. March 2, 2009.

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• Meal isn't over when I'm full. Meal's over when I hate myself.

  Patton Oswalt

  Hate, Stand Up Comedian, Delicious Food

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• My last meal?  The food would be much less significant than the company.

  Mario Batali

  Would Be, Lasts, Significant

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• If I had a time machine I would go back 30 years and show up at my grandmother's apartment before the gargantuan meals she would serve and I would help her.

  Mo Rocca

  Grandmother, Years, Machines

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• The funny thing about Thanksgiving ,or any big meal, is that you spend 12 hours shopping for it then go home and cook,chop,braise and blanch. Then it's gone in 20 minutes and everybody lies around sortof in a sugar coma and then it takes 4 hours to clean it up.

  Ted Allen

  Thanksgiving, Lying, Home

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• He's one fry short of a Happy Meal.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Funny Redneck

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• The hungry men were seen, followed by their valets, roaming the quais and guards' quarters; gleaning from their outside friends all the dinners they could find; for, according to Aramis, in prosperity one should sow meals right and left, in order to harvest some in adversity.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Adversity, Men, Order

  Alexandre Dumas (2006). “The Three Musketeers: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.87, Penguin

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• Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals

  Abraham Verghese

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• You live by yourself for a stretch of time and you get to staring at different objects. Sometimes you talk to yourself. You take meals in crowded joints. You develop an intimate relationship with your used Subaru. You slowly but surely become a has-been.

  Haruki Murakami

  Intimate Relationships, Different, Joints

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Dance Dance Dance”, p.31, Random House

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• Come to think of it, that word (choice) shouldn't be applied to people's destinies. Ever. Choice should be relegated to TV and meals: You could choose NBC over CBS or steak instead of chicken. But take the concept any further than the stove or the remote control and the word just didn't apply. - V

  J.R. Ward

  Destiny, Thinking, Nbc

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• I love music. For me, music is morning coffee. It's mood medicine. It's pure magic. A good song is like a good meal-I just want to inhale it and then share a bite with someone else.

  Hoda Kotb

  Music, Song, Morning

  Hoda Kotb (2010). “Hoda: How I Survived War Zones, Bad Hair, Cancer, and Kathie Lee”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• Also, when on a campaign to convince a stranger that you aren't a few fries short of a Happy Meal, throwing around phrases like "tangentially Swedish" is not the best way to go.

  Maureen Johnson

  Campaigns, Phrases, Way

  John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.26, Penguin

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• But it seems there is more than one way to poison a person's heart, and it doesn't require a meal.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Heart, Poison, Way

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Poison Study”, p.179, Harlequin

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• A thousand recollected lives were passing through her, a thousand stories - of love and work, of parents and children, of duty and joy and grief. Beds slept in and meals eaten, and the bliss and pain of the body, and a view of summer leaves from a window on a morning it had rained; the nights of loneliness and the nights of love, the soul in it's body keeping always longing to be known.

  Justin Cronin

  Summer, Morning, Children

  Justin Cronin (2010). “The Passage”, p.718, Hachette UK

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• Though you did eat all the pizza." "I only had five slices," Simon protested, leaning his chair backward so it balanced precariously on its two back legs. "How many slices did you think were in a pizza, dork?" Clary wanted to know. "Less than five slices isn't a meal. It's a snack." Simon looked apprehensively at Luke. "Does this mean you're going to wolf out and eat me?" "Certainly not." Luke rose to toss the pizza box into the trash. "You would be stringy and hard to digest.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mean, Thinking, Snacks

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.530, Simon and Schuster

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• But Sam turned to Bywater, and so came back up the Hill, as day was ending once more. And he went on, and there was yellow light, and fire within; and the evening meal was ready, and he was expected. And Rose drew him in, and set him in his chair, and put little Elanor upon his lap. He drew a deep breath. ‘Well, I’m back,’ he said

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Yellow, Fire, Light

  J. R. R. Tolkien (1980). “The Lord of the Rings: The return of the King”

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• Psychiatry in this place is like serving an in-flight meal in the middle of a plane crash. If I wanted to make you well, as a doctor, I should be giving you a parachute, not a cheese-and-pickle sandwich.

  Chris Cleave

  Doctors, Giving, Pickles

  Chris Cleave (2012). “Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• The Master said, “A true gentleman is one who has set his heart upon the Way. A fellow who is ashamed merely of shabby clothing or modest meals is not even worth conversing with.” (Analects 4.9)

  Confucius

  Heart, Gentleman, Way

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• The Master said, "Wealth and honor are things that all people desire, and yet unless they are acquired in the proper way I will not abide them. Poverty and disgrace are things that all people hate, and yet unless they are avoided in the proper way I will not despise them. If the gentleman abandons ren, how can he be worthy of that name? The gentleman does not violate ren even for the amount of time required to eat a meal. Even in times of urgency or distress, he does not depart from it."

  Confucius

  Hate, Names, People

  "The Analects". Book by Confucius (Book Four, Section 4.5),

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• I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me, I am not happy, help me -- like a message in a bottle sent in each meal to the eater, and I got it. I got the message.

  Aimee Bender

  Bottles, Messages, Helping

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• It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism.

  Neil Gaiman

  Two, Civilization, Twenties

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• There he got out the luncheon-basket and packed a simple meal, in which, remembering the stranger's origin and preferences, he took care to include a yard of long French bread, a sausage out of which the garlic sang, some cheese which lay down and cried, and a long-necked straw-covered flask wherein lay bottled sunshine shed and garnered on far Southern slopes.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Sunshine, Simple, Long

  Kenneth Grahame (1908). “The Wind in the Willows”, p.206

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• Oh. No wonder I'd been sick. I hadn't eaten anything since then. I'm a girl who likes her meals, so it hadn't been a weight-loss tactic. I'd just been too busy bumping from crisis to crisis. Go on the Sookie Stackhouse Narrow Avoidance of Death Diet! Run for your life, and miss meals, too! Exercise plus starvation.

  Charlaine Harris

  Girl, Running, Loss

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• The life's work of Walt Disney and Ray Kroc had come full-circle, uniting in perfect synergy. McDonald's began to sell its hamburgers and french fries at Disney's theme parks. The ethos of McDonaldland and of Disneyland, never far apart, have finally become one. Now you can buy a Happy Meal at the Happiest Place on Earth.

  Eric Schlosser

  Mcdonalds, Ethos, Circles

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• Maybe my values are outdated, but I come from an old school of thought. I think that men ought to treat women like something other than just shorter, weaker men with breasts. Try and convict me if I’m a bad person for thinking so. I enjoy treating a woman like a lady, opening doors for her, paying for shared meals, giving flowers–all that sort of thing.

  Jim Butcher

  Flower, School, Men

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