Food Quotes

"You can be enticed by food, wooed by food, sex, money, or instruments"

"I don't let it bother me too much if someone doesn't like me. I just figure there's no accounting for taste. It's not me, it's my acting. It's like if someone doesn't like someone's food, they just don't like my acting"

Anna Chlumsky, Actress

"As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor"

Barry Commoner, Scientist

"I think the average citizen is going to see no less than a $1,500 or more increase in what it's going to cost for basic living next year,... Taking sales tax off food isn't going to take care of all of that, but I think it's a way that we can help"

Ann Robinson, Actress

"When I tour, it's like, well, like a food tour as much as a comedy tour. I try to eat at all the weird places, the obscure barbecue joints, burger places. There are a few spots in L.A. that I'm obsessed with - one of them is the Taco Zone taco truck on Alvarado. There are secret off-menu items that are amazing"

Aziz Ansari, Comedian

"I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina"

Al Lewis, Actor

"I kept thinking, 'Somebody has to make a food show that is actually educational and entertaining at the same time... a show that got down to the 'why things happen.' Plus, I hated my job - I didn't think it was very worthwhile"

Alton Brown, Entertainer

"A lot of food shows need only to tempt. Some food shows only need to inspire, to empower. And there are a lot of shows that do that"

Alton Brown, Entertainer

"From the first I became convinced that what I must look for was lead dust and lead fumes, that men were poisoned by breathing poisoned air, not by handling their food with unwashed hands"

Alice Hamilton, Scientist

"I left General Magic in 1996 to become an Internet hobbyist - got a T-1 line to my house. At one point I had all four food banks of the Bay Area hosted from this house here"

Andy Hertzfeld, Inventor

"For a couple of days after chemotherapy, food tastes really bland, even the best foods. I haven't been sick, but have been a little tired. I haven't lost any weight"

Grete Waitz, Athlete

"My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order"

Dolly Parton, Musician

"As a consequence while we had a roof over our heads, food on the table, and clothes to wear to school we were constantly conscious of being of modest means"

Robert B. Laughlin, Physicist

"I'd like to be rich. I'd like a lot of money to put into my physicals and to buy food for all my friends"

Syd Barrett, Musician

"Another nice thing was that I would type out letters home for the admiral's stewards. They would then feed me the same food the admiral ate"

Jack Adams, Athlete

"I'm nutty for nutrition. I've become one of those people who can't stop talking about the connection between food and health. Now that I know how much changing what you eat can transform your life, I can't stop proselytizing"

Robin Quivers, Celebrity

"The only think I like better than talking about Food is eating"

John Walters, Musician

"I've always liked Atlanta. And not just for the strip clubs, but the shopping and the food"

Jon Stewart, Entertainer

"If I've got food and water, as long as I can exercise my mind and keep it nimble, then I'll be okay"

Rob Walton, Athlete

"Customers want good value, but they care more than ever how food and clothing products are made"

Stuart Rose, Businessman

"Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction"

John Owen, Theologian

"Animal substance seems to be the first food of all birds, even the granivorous tribes"

William Bartram, Environmentalist

"Although even when I am being idle I have plenty of food for thought both early and late - thoughts both about and not about art"

Gustav Klimt, Artist

"Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry"

Norman Borlaug, Scientist

"Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless"

Norman Borlaug, Scientist

"Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply"

Norman Borlaug, Scientist

"I am but one member of a vast team made up of many organizations, officials, thousands of scientists, and millions of farmers - mostly small and humble - who for many years have been fighting a quiet, oftentimes losing war on the food production front"

Norman Borlaug, Scientist

"Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world"

Norman Borlaug, Scientist

"Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply"

Norman Borlaug, Scientist

"Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind"

Norman Borlaug, Scientist

"I was a really picky eater as a child. Because I was obsessed by Popeye, my mum and aunts would put my food in a can to represent spinach and we'd hum the Popeye tune and then I'd happily eat it"

Paul O'Grady, Comedian

"I live in a kind of gay bubble. I live in a gay house, I drive a gay car. I eat gay food"

Julian Clary, Comedian

"I would like to have you quote me, Erich von Stroheim, as having said on this day of this month of this year this one thing: you Americans are living on baby food"

Erich von Stroheim, Actor

"They did interviews with my wife and daughter-they were genuinely in fear of me having a heart attack, working 20 hours a day, eating fast food"

Willie Aames, Actor

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