Eating Quotes

They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.

Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience--buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello--become new all over again.

Having bowed to the inevitability of the dictum that we must eat to live, we should ignore it and live to eat.

Your body is incredible at 'detoxing'. It's called pooping & sweating. Best 'detox diet' = regular exercise, eating more veggies, fruit, healthy fats, lean meat, some grains and drinking more water.

Work before eating, rest after eating. Eat not ravenously, filling the mouth gulp after gulp without breathing space.

I was told to stay away from pasta and bread for two weeks. Not eating pasta? That'll kill me. Anything else, but why pasta?

I like our ads. I like beautiful women eating burgers in bikinis. I think it's very American.

Once I learned how to be a healthy vegan by eating the right foods my performance improved dramatically.

I like any cereal. I like the idea of just eating and drinking with one hand without looking.

Grab your pig's feet, bread, and gin, there's plenty in the kitchen. I wonder what the poor people are eating tonight?

Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials.

Celery, raw, Develops the jaw

Rebus was eating breakfast in the canteen and wishing there was more caffeine in the coffee, or more coffee in the coffee come to that.

Theres no guilt in eating fruits, vegetables, nuts and grains.

Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.

There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.

It's a Vietnamese soup that answers the question, 'What happens when a former child soldier pours hot rain water over fish nightmares.' It's delicious and I can't stop eating it, that's what happens.

Reading was like eating alone, with that same element of bingeing.

Prayer, even more than eating or sleeping, is not a luxury but a necessity, and we are only fully human when we remember this and arrange our life accordingly.

I'm cool with whatever. I'll just keep eating my bread, sipping my soup and serving my time. But the chicken is going to lay some more eggs one day.

My ultimate research goal is to transform our human existence to just eating, sleeping, drinking, playing - nevermind.

There was an old man of Orleans, Who was given to eating of beans; Till once out of sport, he swallowed a quart, That dyspeptic old man of Orleans.

I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking a beer.

L.A., its nice, but I think of sunshine and people on rollerblades eating sushi. New York, I think of nighttime, I think of Times Square and Broadway and nightlife and the city that never sleeps.

Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking.

What does this patch-sewing mean you ask? Eating and drinking. The heavy cloak of the body is always getting torn. You patch it with food and other ego-satisfactions.

... the way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world. Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds.

Well they're pissed off and they're hungry. I was kind of busy trying not to get my brains eaten. They seemed pretty adamant about the brain-eating thing. Then they're going to IKEA, I guess

Two cannibals were eating a comedian, and one of them turns to the other and asks, 'Does this taste funny to you?

Television is like a great monster, eating your gags as fast as you say them.

To avoid causing terror to living beings, let the disciple refrain from eating meat.

One's palate is reborn every morning!

In the book of things people more often do wrong than right, investing must certainly top the list, followed closely by wallpapering and eating artichokes

Learning is a deep human need, like mating and eating, and like all such needs it is meant to be deeply pleasurable to human beings.

As I get older every year, I'm eating better. As a kid, who can turn down chips and candy? But I'm getting better.

Eating animals is not our God-given right, but being kind to them is.

What a shame it is for a nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.

I've always been into working out and eating healthy. That's just who I am.

Pear Drops were exciting because they had a dangerous taste. All of us were warned against eating them, and the result was that we ate them more than ever.

There were two Irishmen eating sandwiches in a pub and the landlord said: "You can't eat your own food in here." So they swapped sandwiches.

Without the assistance of eating and drinking, the most sparkling wit would be as heavy as a bad soufflé, and the brightest talent as dull as a looking-glass on a foggy day.

Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry.

There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

It is almost certain that excess in eating is the cause of almost all the diseases of the body, but its effects on the soul are even more disastrous.

You are what what you eat eats.

It was 100,000 years before we figured out what to do with fire. Imagine cavemen, sitting in front of a fire, eating raw meat for 100 thousand years.

Looking to biology to explain the low prevalence of eating disorders among men is like looking to genetics to explain why nonsmokers do not get lung cancer as often as smokers.

I am a glutton. I'll eat whatever is there. Pizza. I love hot dogs anywhere. I've got nothing against any of that. If I feel like eating, I eat. I don't feel guilty about it at all.

The person I enjoyed interviewing the most was Elmo from Sesame Street because he is so unpredictable and he is always eating my hair and my face.

Street Photography is like fishing. Catching the fish is more exciting than eating it.