What does a man need — really need? A few pounds of food each day, heat and shelter, six feet to lie down in, and some form of working activity that will yield a sense of accomplishment. That's all — in the material sense. And we know it. But we are brainwashed by our economic system until we end up in a tomb beneath a pyramid of time payments, mortgages, and preposterous gadgetry, playthings that divert our attention from the sheer idiocy of the charade. —Sterling Hayden More about this quote Tags: accomplishment work food payment activity shelter mortgage gadgets Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Never eat more than you can lift. —Miss Piggy More about this quote Tags: strength food eating gluttony Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Our noses too, and our eyes and ears, are political instruments, protesters. An aesthetic response is a political action. . . . We know instinctively, aesthetically, when a fish stinks, when the sense of beauty is offended. Standing for these moments — and these moments occur each day, within every airless office building, seated in each crippling chair, inundated by senseless noise and fattened on industrial food — standing for our responses, these aesthetic reverberations of truth in the soul, may be the primary civic act of the citizen, the origin of caution and of the precautionary principle itself, with its warnings to stop, look, and listen. —James Hillman More about this quote Tags: truth politics action food control caution Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
This was the dawn of plastic eating in America. . . . We doted on Velveeta. Spam. Canned ravioli. Instant puddings. Instant anything. The farther a thing was from the texture, flavor, and terrifying unpredictability of real food, the better. —Shirley Abbott More about this quote Tags: reality USA America food better flavor Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Fake food — I mean those patented substances chemically flavored and mechanically bulked out to kill the appetite and deceive the gut — is unnatural, almost immoral, a bane to good eating and good cooking. —Julia Child More about this quote Tags: morality nature deception food eating Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I want nothing to do with natural foods. At my age I need all the preservatives I can get. —George Burns More about this quote Tags: age food preservatives Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine gun. —George Orwell More about this quote Tags: health food guns Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you're condemned to death they have to give you one last meal of your choice. What is that all about? A group of people plans to kill you, so they want you to eat something you like? Do they think the food part will take your mind off the dying part? Or do they prefer to kill you when you're just coming off a peak experience and full of positive energy? —George Carlin More about this quote Tags: mind death food energy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage. —Erma Bombeck More about this quote Tags: family food gravy drink Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why the poor were hungry, they called me a communist. —Dom H. Camara More about this quote Tags: politics poverty food communism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese. —Luis Bunuel More about this quote Tags: importance age food cheese Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat. —Joyce Carol Oates in Faithless More about this quote Tags: hunger loneliness food eating starvation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
And what, for instance, would have happened had Romeo and Juliet lived to middle age, their silhouettes broadened by pasta? —Anita Loos More about this quote Tags: love romance food middle age fatness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still. —Calvin Trillin More about this quote Tags: food eating Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me. —Sarah Bernhardt More about this quote Tags: words food wine Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email