Quotes About Perception

Smell and taste are in fact but a single composite sense, whose laboratory is the mouth and its chimney the nose.

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.

I can't go to a restaurant and order food because I keep looking at the fonts on the menu.

Whoever thought a tiny candy bar should be called fun size was a moron.

If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.

The images we eat are as important as the food we eat. Think of that in terms of television, and a lot of the movies we watch.

All living beings, not just animals, but plants and microorganisms, perceive. To survive, an organic being must perceive - it must seek, or at least recognize, food and avoid environmental danger.

You become what you think. You are what you eat.

I think the lack of critical engagement with the food that we eat demonstrates the extent to which the commodity form has become the primary way in which we perceive the world.

Two women at a resort discussed dinner: "The food here is lousy," the first noted. "You're right! And such small portions!!" the second added

If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.

In my experience of vegan food it tends to be a symphony of beige.

We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles.

Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing.

When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.

I also think it's very important to consider how the food will feel to the person eating it.

How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex?

George Bush doesn't care about black people... They're saying black families are looting and white families are just looking for food... they're giving the (Army) permission to shoot us.

Think of spoiled cat food and ulcerated cankers and expired donor organs. That's how beautiful she looks.

The hippopotamus is a vegetarian and looks like a wall. Lions who eat only red meat are sleek and slim. Are nutritionists on the wrong track?

The hungrier one becomes, the clearer one's mind works— also the more sensitive one becomes to the odors of food.

I think it is true that you can eat extremely healthy food at McDonald's, and you can eat amazingly badly at Chipotle.

Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.

I don't like to generalize but I've had nothing but bad experiences with Mexican food in Europe.