3,214 Quotes About Food
- Author Anthony Bourdain
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Everything was different now. Everything. I'd not only survived - I'd enjoyed.
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- Author Henry Miller
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Life," said Emerson, "consists in what a man is thinking all day." If that be so, then my life is nothing but a big intestine. I not only think about food all day, but I dream about it at night.But I don’t ask to go back to America, to be put in a double harness again, to work the treadmill. No, I prefer to be a poor man of Europe. God knows, I am poor enough; it only remains to be a man.
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- Author Émile Souvestre
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The stomach is a slave that must accept everything that is given to it, but which avenges wrongs as slyly as does the slave.
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- Author Mark Schatzker
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Humans look just like livestock now. We achieve a state of buttery plumpness before we've even reached sexual maturity. We experience powerful cravings for food that is slowly making us sick. We are...programmed to eat the wrong food. We aren't born calorie zombies, but that's what we have become.
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- Author Lailah Gifty Akita
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Be thankful that you have clothes to wear, food to eat and a place to sleep.
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- Author Kate DiCamillo
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Not much goes on in the mind of a squirrel.Huge portions of what is loosely termed "the squirrel brain" are given over to one thought: food.The average squirrel cogitation goes something like this: I wonder what there is to eat.
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- Author John Kennedy Toole
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I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.
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- Author Josh Bezoni
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You see, most people gain weight because they give into cravings. But when you easily (and without feeling like you're depriving yourself) gain control, the extra weight comes off.
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- Author Noha Alaa El-Din
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There was no sugar! That was better for our health; no need to taste such a boring thing. Sugar is one of these decorative ingredients; those ingredients that deceive you by changing the bitterness of reality into some dazzling bites of sweetness.
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