Food Quotes
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If you have good food, people will come to your restaurant.
Mickey Gilley
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I mind my own business. And I don't eat junk food.
Besse Cooper
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When there is enough food to feed everyone, why are 870 million people going hungry? We must learn to share what we have; no one race or nation has a greater right to life than another.
David Harewood
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I love 'Top Chef.' I think it rewrote the book on how food shows are presented on TV.
Andy Cohen
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When I go to a restaurant, I eat three-quarters of the food in front of me. That cuts my calorie intake by 25 percent.
Bobby Flay
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I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.
Alex Kapranos Franz Ferdinand
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Music is one of those things that is constantly going in my head all the time. It's sort of like the evolution and creation of doing food, or my philosophy about wine. It's always beating in my head, so it keeps the spirit moving.
Emeril Lagasse
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Good cookery is not an extravagance but an economy, and many a tasty dish is made by our Continental friends out of materials which would be discarded indignantly by the poorest tramp in Whitechapel.
William Booth
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No food or drug will ever do for you what a fresh supply of oxygen will.
Anthony Robbins
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Many a man in his hour of trial has turned to the Book of Mormon and been enlightened, enlivened, and comforted. The psalms in the Old Testament have a special food for the soul of one in distress.
Ezra Taft Benson
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Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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Chefs get sucked into the trap of 'fine dining' because some guides make it central to their ratings system and because some customers have been trained to focus their expectations on the trappings and not on the food. It's all a gigantic waste of energy.
John Lanchester
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Really connect to food and know what you're eating.
Anna Getty
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I'm from Canada, so Thanksgiving to me is just Thursday with more food. And I'm thankful for that.
Howie Mandel
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In general, I think, human beings are happiest at table when they are very young, very much in love or very alone.
M. F. K. Fisher
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If we don't focus on when we eat - like, let's say we watch television or something - you eat much more. If you focus on the food - you smell it, you cook it - you're enjoying it already.
Lidia Bastianich
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The most important thing about expedition food is that there is some.
Eric Shipton
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And you stagger down to break your fast. Greasy bacon and lacquered eggs And coffee composed of frigid dregs.
Ogden Nash
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God isn't separate from us, because He's the love inside our minds. Every problem, inside and out, is due to a separation from love on someone's part. Thirty-five thousand people a day die of hunger on earth, and there's no dearth of food. The question is not 'what kind of God would let children starve?' but rather, 'What kind of people let children starve?'
Marianne Williamson
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While I may never be in remission from cancer, I am currently in remission from an unhealthy relationship to food.
Kris Carr
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I'm doing my best to not be too rude about it, but oh my God that Czech food...
John Banville
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[On peanut M&Ms:] It is the eggness of them. A shell, chocolate placenta, proteiny peanut baby. Life shape, birth shape, cell shape, protoplasmic-ooze shape. A shape that calls straight through civilization to our reptilian brains.
Cynthia Heimel
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We as consumers really do have the right to know what's in our food.
Gary Hirshberg
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A human being at rest runs on 90 watts. That's how much power you need just to lie down. And if you're a hunter-gatherer and you live in the Amazon, you'll need about 250 watts. That's how much energy it takes to run about and find food.
Geoffrey West