Food Quotes

Small: I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller
"I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller"
Michael Palin, Comedian
Small: Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul
"Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul"
Dorothy Day, Activist
Small: People who shop in health food stores never look healthy
"People who shop in health food stores never look healthy"
Amy Sedaris, Actress
Small: I couldnt care less about actors trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act
Chow Yun-Fat
"I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act"
Chow Yun-Fat, Actor
Small: Be curious, learn and read as much as you can about food. Dont worry about making money. Focus on learning at
"Be curious, learn and read as much as you can about food. Don't worry about making money. Focus on learning at various venues before you settle down for a steady position"
Rocco DiSpirito, Celebrity
Small: What Ive enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them.
Jamie Oliver
"What I've enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn - I love it!"
Jamie Oliver, Chef
Small: I do adore food. If I have any vice its eating. If I was told I could only eat one food for the rest of my lif
"I do adore food. If I have any vice it's eating. If I was told I could only eat one food for the rest of my life, I could put up with sausage and mash forever"
Colin Baker, Actor
Small: We sing a little song before we eat, a little blessing before we eat, and its really - were thanking the Lord
"We sing a little song before we eat, a little blessing before we eat, and it's really - we're thanking the Lord and the Earth for the food that we eat, and it really brings you together in a profound kind of way"
Phil Lesh, Musician
Small: God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest
"God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest"
J. G. Holland, Novelist
Small: There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need fo
"There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others"
J. Donald Walters, Author
Small: No mans brain is so dull, and no mans eye so blind, that they cannot catch food for dreams
"No man's brain is so dull, and no man's eye so blind, that they cannot catch food for dreams"
Donald G. Mitchell
Small: But I dont begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it happen, whether o
"But I don't begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it happen, whether or not it's just to put a roof over your head and food on the table"
Carol Burnett, Actress
Small: Everyone would talk about their diets and working out and what it made me do was go to craft services where al
"Everyone would talk about their diets and working out and what it made me do was go to craft services where all the food for the cast and crew was and I would eat"
Kristin Davis, Actress
Small: Not like Chinese food, where you eat it and then you feel hungry an hour later
"Not like Chinese food, where you eat it and then you feel hungry an hour later"
Ray Liotta, Actor
Small: There are apothecaries shops, where prepared medicines, liquids, ointments, and plasters are sold barbers shop
"There are apothecaries' shops, where prepared medicines, liquids, ointments, and plasters are sold; barbers' shops, where they wash and shave the head; and restaurateurs, that furnish food and drink at a certain price"
Hernando Cortes, Leader
Small: I was well warned about English food, so it did not surprise me, but I do wonder sometimes, how they ever mana
"I was well warned about English food, so it did not surprise me, but I do wonder sometimes, how they ever manage to prise it up long enough to get a plate under it"
Margaret Halsey, Author
Small: I used to get criticized for putting food in novels
"I used to get criticized for putting food in novels"
Jim Harrison, Writer
Small: The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to mak
"The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization"
Fredric Jameson, Critic
Small: You know, nobody eats in England. Three or four pints of English beer a night fills you. I cant say Im very im
"You know, nobody eats in England. Three or four pints of English beer a night fills you. I can't say I'm very impressed with the food in America. it's all sort of bland. Like turkey sandwiches"
Anne Dudley, Composer
Small: Were going to do everything possible to make sure that food safety is always paramount, and that we work with
"We're going to do everything possible to make sure that food safety is always paramount, and that we work with the industry as aggressively as we can to make sure that we're paying attention to the food-safety issues"
Mike Johanns, Politician
Small: Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table
"Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table"
Diana Vreeland, Editor
Small: I thought, you know the food and the diet thing is one way to start yourself onto a healthy lifestyle, but if
"I thought, you know the food and the diet thing is one way to start yourself onto a healthy lifestyle, but if you don't move, if you don't start exercising you're gonna deteriorate"
Warren Cuccurullo, Musician
Small: I love food and feel that it is something that should be enjoyed. I eat whatever I want. I just dont overeat
"I love food and feel that it is something that should be enjoyed. I eat whatever I want. I just don't overeat"
Tyra Banks, Model
Small: A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung u
"A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food"
John Harvey Kellogg, Businessman
Small: I got into shape because I took kick-boxing lessons every day to prepare for a fight scene with Taylor Lautner
"I got into shape because I took kick-boxing lessons every day to prepare for a fight scene with Taylor Lautner. I really wanted to lie down and eat Chinese food, but I kick-boxed every morning and ran. If someone was filming you with your kit off, you'd do the same thing"
Jason Isaacs, Actor
Small: Talking up a storm about food is so easy for me, its second nature
"Talking up a storm about food is so easy for me, it's second nature"
Rocco DiSpirito, Celebrity
Small: I came literally to the table with a wealth of knowledge by simply understanding how food should taste
"I came literally to the table with a wealth of knowledge by simply understanding how food should taste"
Rocco DiSpirito, Celebrity
Small: Its almost seems as though theres a battle going on between the public and all the fast-food establishments, a
"It's almost seems as though there's a battle going on between the public and all the fast-food establishments, and, believe me, I think it's very tasty food"
Regis Philbin, Entertainer
Small: Australia is so cool that its hard to even know where to start describing it. The beaches are beautiful so is
Mary-Kate Olsen
"Australia is so cool that it's hard to even know where to start describing it. The beaches are beautiful; so is the weather. Not too crowded. Great food, great music, really nice people. It must be a lot like Los Angeles was many years ago"
Mary-Kate Olsen, Actress
Small: A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan u
"A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit"
Lakhdar Brahimi, Public Servant
Small: Oh yes, after the war, and we were all starving - we had no proper food or anything - no proper shoes
"Oh yes, after the war, and we were all starving - we had no proper food or anything - no proper shoes"
Ninette de Valois, Dancer
Small: Food safety involves everybody in the food chain
"Food safety involves everybody in the food chain"
Mike Johanns, Politician
Small: The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, w
"The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them"
Mary Antin, Activist
Small: We must oppose programs that would take food from the mouths of younger generations to buy prescription drugs
"We must oppose programs that would take food from the mouths of younger generations to buy prescription drugs for old people, and we must do it... for the children"
L. Neil Smith, Writer
Small: Well mine is not gimmicky - it is the 6 food groups that God made, and exercising every day. Trying to think p
Richard Simmons
"Well mine is not gimmicky - it is the 6 food groups that God made, and exercising every day. Trying to think positively"
Richard Simmons, Celebrity
Small: Sometimes Ive looked at a plate of food and wondered if it wouldnt look better as a hat
"Sometimes I've looked at a plate of food and wondered if it wouldn't look better as a hat"
Janet Street-Porter
Small: Ive always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized an
"I've always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labeled, and I think labels are for food. Canned food"
Michael Stipe, Musician
Small: Simply because my people are hungry, that is no justification to give them poison, to give them genetically mo
"Simply because my people are hungry, that is no justification to give them poison, to give them genetically modified food that is intrinsically dangerous to their health"
Levy Mwanawsa
Small: I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they
"I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later"
Susan George, Activist
Small: Edible substances evoke the secretion of thick, concentrated saliva. Why? The answer, obviously, is that this
"Edible substances evoke the secretion of thick, concentrated saliva. Why? The answer, obviously, is that this enables the mass of food to pass smoothly through the tube leading from the mouth into the stomach"
Ivan Pavlov, Psychologist