Quotes About Reflection

Food for thought, eat my words with your mind: Emcees are grapes, and grapes are crushed to wine.

Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.

I bet you think an egg is something you casually order for breakfast when you can't think of anything else. Well, so did I once, but that was before the egg and I.

What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

The quest for slowness, which begins as a simple rebellion against the impoverishment of taste in our lives, makes it possible to rediscover taste.

The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.'

Everyone eats and drinks; yet only few appreciate the taste of food.

What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms.

We manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do.

One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

I was not created to be occupied by eating delicious foods like tied up cattle.

We old folks have to find our cushions and pillows in our tankards. Strong beer is the milk of the old.

Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.

The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live.

But I, when I undress me Each night, upon my knees Will ask the Lord to bless me With apple-pie and cheese.

Americans threw away their communities in order to save a few dollars on hair dryers and plastic food storage tubs, never stopping to reflect on what they were destroying.

One of the problems with writing a cookbook is that recipes exist in the moment.

Being sober for so many years is getting interesting.

The dinosaurs's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.

Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.

A full Belly makes a dull Brain: The Muses starve in a Cook's Shop.

The best fish in the world are of course those one catches oneself.

I probably grow half my food. It's a good way to keep perspective.

Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is wiser not to stir them.