Quotes About Perception

It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.

I was anorexic in the 60s and 70s, although it wasn't called anorexia then. I thought people would be nicer to me if I looked very small and delicate, so food wasn't high on my agenda. But it is now.

You cannot sell a blemished apple in the supermarket, but you can sell a tasteless one provided it is shiny, smooth, even, uniform and bright.

Cabbages, whose heads, tightly folded see and hear nothing of this world, dreaming only on the yellow and green magnificence that is hardening within them.

Dog's listen, or appear to listen. I think they hear blah, blah, blah, FOOD, blah, blah, blah. They appear to be listening to you.

My favorite word is 'pumpkin.' You can't take it seriously. But you can't ignore it, either. It takes ahold of your head and that's it. You are a pumpkin. Or you are not. I am.

Champagne had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife.

I don't categorize food as bad or a guilty pleasure.

Food cannot cause you to put on weight, unless you think it can.

Works of art are viewed by people. They are heard by people. They are felt by people. They are not just the fodder of a close-knit group of initiates. They are the soul food of all people.

I've liked lots of people 'til I went on a picnic jaunt with them.

Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.

No matter how thin you slice it it's still baloney.

Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.

I feel like a midget with muddy feet had been walking over my tongue all night.

If you think cat food is for cats, how come it doesn't come in mouse flavor?

I sometimes feel like when you're talking to boys, they just hear certain keywords… But if you had a bubble above their head, they'd be thinking about game scores, masturbation and food.

People don't think that bread is part of Asian culture or Asian food culture, but it's quite prevalent in Northern China, and you see it throughout Japan and as you go to Taiwan.

'It is very small for its age,' said Gnathaena.

I didn't say the meat was tough. I said I didn't see the horse that is usually outside.

The masses are brainwashed to the point that they believe if an American grocery store or restaurant offers a particular food, it must be good and safe.

I can be singing about cat food and I'll make you think that I mean it.

Anyone, any type of story, it doesnt have to be a crime victim, you dont have to let yourself be food for the media.

I really get pursued by men in their 20s, like, a lot. They probably know there's food in the fridge and that somebody's going to talk to them and ask them how their day was.