“Just how destructive does a culinary preference have to be before we decide to eat something else?”

“Art is just fraud. You just have to do something nobody else has done before.”

Nam June Paik (1932–2006) American video art pioneer

“We asked the people to decide, they decided... that means we can't come up with something else in Parliament”

Penny Mordaunt (1973) British politician (born 1973)

“You have to eat before you drink! If you remember nothing else I've said tonight, remember to eat before you drink!”

Paul F. Tompkins (1968) American actor

“The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else.”

John Updike (1932–2009) American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic

“Hypothetical: Shipwrecked and eating a penis- …I'll look for something else. We're surrounded by water. Why are we eating knob?”

Karl Pilkington (1972) English television personality, social commentator, actor, author and former radio producer

“You've got to have something to eat, and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.”

Billie Holiday (1915–1959) American jazz singer and songwriter

“Just because this age is full of information and temptations
We should decide on our own
You know
That creation comes after destruction”

Ayumi Hamasaki (1978) Japanese recording artist, lyricist, model, and actress

“Ordinary folk prefer familiar tastes - they'd sooner eat the same things all the time - but a gourmet would sample a fried park bench just to know how it tastes.”

Walter Moers (1957) German comic creator and author

“We are like water, aren’t we? We can be fluid, flexible when we have to be. But strong and destructive, too.” And something else, I think to myself. Like water, we mostly follow the path of least resistance.”

Wally Lamb (1950) american novelist