Savor the Flavor: Inspiring Quotes About Food

"A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead"

Woody Allen, Director

"The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small"

Woody Allen, Director

"What is food to one man is bitter poison to others"

Lucretius, Poet

"Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"Food is your body's fuel. Without fuel, your body wants to shut down"

Ken Hill, Playwright

"Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums"

Peter De Vries, Novelist

"If music be the food of love, play on"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage"

Woody Allen, Director

"Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences"

Mason Cooley, Writer

"My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food"

David Byrne, Musician

"More die in the United States of too much food than of too little"

John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist

"Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?"

Nikita Khrushchev, Statesman

"We're taking up some science experiments, some crystal growth things, we have a refrigerator that carries up some samples, new samples that go into the station, we bring the old ones home; we have a lot of clothing, we have a lot of food-U.S. and Russian food"

Linda M. Godwin, Astronaut

"Not addicted to gluttony or drunkenness, this people who incur no expense in food or dress, and whose minds are always bent upon the defence of their country, and on the means of plunder, are wholly employed in the care of their horses and furniture"

Giraldus Cambrensis, Clergyman

"I don't believe in depriving myself of any food or being imprisoned by a diet"

Joely Fisher, Actress

"After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated, if capital and population increased, more food would be required, and it could only be procured from land not so advantageously situated"

David Ricardo, Economist

"I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient"

Ornette Coleman, Musician

"No matter where I've been overseas, the food stinks, except in Italy"

Carmen Electra, Actress

"Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music"

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

"I think it's important that, as a matter of course, the brain and spinal column were removed from this cow, and that would be the material that would cause concern in terms of human health. And therefore we're confident in the safety of the food supply"

Ann Veneman, Public Servant

"The automatic stabilizer is unemployment insurance, food stamps, additional coverage of Medicaid"

Franklin Raines, Businessman

"Islands are known to differ in the food supply available to ground finches, mainly seeds"

Peter R. Grant, Scientist

"I recycle. I have a house in the south of France and I have a small garden. My name is Dujardin - 'from the garden.' I grow carrots, peppers, strawberries, green beans, and things for salads, but there are lots of wild boars all around and they steal the food"

Jean Dujardin, Actor

"But once in a while you might see me at In and Out Burger; they make the best fast food hamburgers around"

Thomas Keller, Celebrity

"The public should know that the liability issues here have yet to be resolved, or even raised. If you're a farmer and you're growing a genetically engineering food crop, those genes are going to flow to the other farm"

Jeremy Rifkin, Economist

"Food is not just fuel, it's information. It talks to your DNA and tells it what to do"

Jamie Oliver, Chef

"The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body"

Pat Buchanan, Journalist

"Well, sometimes if I go out to dinner with my family, people will come up to me and put their hand across my plate for me to shake, sometimes when I have a bite of food in my mouth. I find this a bit disturbing"

Abdul Qadeer Khan, Scientist

"Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day"

Ted Allen, Entertainer

"I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table"

Paul Auster, Author

"I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values"

Al Sharpton, Politician

"I never found either this or the Northern Shrike return to such prey for food. I have seen them alight on the same thorn bush afterwards, but never made any use of this kind of food"

John Bachman, Clergyman

"The food was interesting. My background is Russian, so cheese and potatoes are my love. There was plenty of that. And fried cheese! It is really, really, really good. And really, really, really bad for you. It's like an artery on a plate"

Michelle Trachtenberg, Actress

"It has long been known for sure that the sight of tasty food makes a hungry man's mouth water; also lack of appetite has always been regarded as an undesirable phenomenon, from which one might conclude that appetite is essentially linked with the process of digestion"

Ivan Pavlov, Psychologist

"Don't make jokes about food"

David Lean, Director

"I think people are smart enough to sort it out. They know when they're watching one of these food fight shows where journalists sit around and yell and scream at each other, versus serious issue reporting"

Bob Woodward, Journalist

"The prejudice was so bad in the United States at that time that a dark person with a white person would not be served in a restaurant. My father, mother, and I would try it occasionally. We would sit there, and the food would never come"

Amar Bose, Inventor

"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside"

Mark Twain, Author

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