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Quotes About Food

bread makes you fat??
~ Bryan Lee O'Malley
The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill.
~ Bryan Miller
Judging from the molten aspect of the diarrhea, it'd probably been something Mexican
~ Bryan Smith
The revolution of consciousness is connected to the food revolution.
~ Bryant McGill
As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices take it, or leave it.
~ Buddy Hackett
Mock-turtle soup, salmon, fricasseed guillemot, spiced musk-ox tongue, crab-salad, roast beef, eider-ducks, tenderloin of musk-ox, potatoes, asparagus, green corn, green peas, cocoanut-pie, jelly-cake, plum-pudding with wine-sauce, several kinds of ice-cream, grapes, cherries, pineapples, dates, figs, nuts, candies, coffee, chocolate.
~ Buddy Levy
the whale would by all hands be considered a noble dish, were there not so much of him; but when you come to sit down before a meat-pie nearly one hundred feet long, it takes away your appetite.
~ Herman Melville
Hold the steak in one hand, and show a live coal to it with the other; that done, dish it; d'ye hear?
~ Herman Melville
That mortal man should feed upon the creature that feeds his lamp, and, like Stubb, eat him by his own light, as you may say; this seems so outlandish a thing that one must needs go a little into the history and philosophy of it.
~ Herman Melville
CHAPTER 64 Stubb's Supper
~ Herman Melville
though once broiled, judiciously buttered, and judgmatically salted and peppered, there is no one who will speak more respectfully, not to say reverentially, of a broiled fowl than I will.
~ Herman Melville
hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling;
~ Herman Melville
food disciplines are part of every great religion. Psychologically they're almost inevitable, and extremely practical....Religious discipline is nothing but a permanent psychic shelter.
~ Herman Wouk
Por qué el desayuno difiere de las demás cosas, hasta el punto de que los griegos lo llamaron lo mejor del mundo?
~ Hilaire Belloc
Flushed with the explosive shit of a sumo wrestler who ate Mexican food.
~ Hillary Frank
As a food writer, I've found myself both annoyed and a bit mystified that the social-media value of our breakfasts, lunches, and dinners is considered almost as important as their gustatory properties. While the nose never lies—and neither do the taste buds—the eyes do, all the damn time. I
~ Holly Hughes
around the country, fill your belly well Ã¢â'¬â€
~ Homer
Then the guests620 entered the palace, bringing lamb and wine that gives one confidence.
~ Homer
My story—the whole truth—I'm glad to tell it all. If only the two of us had food and mellow wine to last us long, here in your shelter now, for us to sup on, undisturbed, while others take the work of the world in hand, I could easily spend all year and never reach the end of my endless story, all the heartbreaking trials I struggled through.
~ Homer
The dividing eukaryote could not aggressively seek food. Nor could it avoid predatory one-celled creatures whipping through the water in search of someone to eat. The solution: to concentrate spirochetic propellers on the outside of one cell, then to generate an attached cell whose spirochetes could stay inside directing the dance of twining and dividing chromosomes. This, according to Margulis, would start the run-up to another massive leap in the evolution of networks: multicellularity.
~ Howard Bloom
Why will you take by force what you may have quietly by love? Why will you destroy us who supply you with food? What can you get by war?
~ Howard Zinn
A hunter-gatherer familly shares what it has, whether that is information or food. To give to others is to be able to receive from others. Knowledge and food are stored, as it were, by being shared.
~ Hugh Brody
As your attorney I advise you to get the chiliburger. It's a hamburger with chili on it.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Sharif gave instructions to his staff regarding snacks he wanted served to all of us—Sharif often asked for specific food items during meetings, as if it helped him concentrate his mind.
~ Husain Haqqani