Quotes about food
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“I live my life you live yours. If you're clear about what u want then you can live anyway you please. I don't give a damn what people say. They can be reptile food for all I care.”

Haruki Murakami book Dance Dance Dance

Source: Dance Dance Dance

Life, People

“Standing in the corridor was a large plastic bin on wheels. He looked inside. Empty tins of dog food. That explained the spaghetti with meat sauce. Oh well, he'd eaten worse.”

Charlie Higson book The Enemy

Source: The Enemy

Dogs

“One time, my mother told me that I always eat like I'll never see food again. And I said, "I won't unless I bring it home." That shut her up.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Home, Time

“The shorter the chain between raw food and fork, the fresher it is and the more transparent the system is.”

Joel Salatin (1957) American environmentalist

Source: Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front

“I worked in a health food store once. A guy asked me, 'If I melt dry ice, can I take a bath without getting wet?”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

Health, Guy

“Danish. I’d come to believe there was no food more depressing than Danish, a pastry that seemed stale upon arrival.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“For a moment, or a second, the pinched expressions of the cynical, world-weary, throat-cutting, miserable bastards we've all had to become disappears, when we're confronted with something as simple as a plate of food.”

Anthony Bourdain book Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

Kitchen Confidential (2000)
Source: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

World

“Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don't forget food. You can go a week without laughing.”

Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film

Forgetting

“The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.”

Julia Child (1921–2004) American chef

Indirect quote on The National (CBC TV), Aug. 13

Time, Waiting, Cooking

“The food in the South is as important as food anywhere because it defines a person's culture.”

Fannie Flagg (1944) American actress, comedian and author

Personality

“Thought: Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.”

Woody Allen Without Feathers

"Selections from the Allen Notebooks".
Source: Without Feathers (1975)

“Any healthy man can go without food for two days--but not without poetry.”

Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) French poet

“Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind; therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.”

Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher

Pearls of Wisdom

“In every friendship, at some point comes a test. Never before in my experience, however, had it involved food.”

Sarah Dessen (1970) American writer

Source: Saint Anything

Friendship

“There were drinks and food in full force, and some Moroi guy had a guitar out and was trying to impress girls with his musical skills—which were nonexistent. In fact, his music was so awful that he might have discovered a new way to kill Strigoi.”

Richelle Mead Blood Promise

Source: Blood Promise

Music, Way, Guy, Girl

“In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold nine hundred billion units. Human beings. Go figure.”

Dan Simmons book Hyperion

Source: Hyperion

Dead

“He liked to read with the silence and the golden color of the whiskey as his companions. He liked food, people, talk, but reading was an inexhaustible pleasure. What the joys of music were to others, words on a page were to him.”

James Salter (1925–2015) American novelist and short-story writer

Source: All That Is

People, Pleasure, Music, Color

“What was that you were saying just before the food arrived? Something about me… no competition… best thing that ever happened to you…”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“What could be more superstitious than the idea that money brings forth food?”

Wendell Berry (1934) author

Money, Idea

“You left me. You made a pet out of me, and then you left me. If love were food, I would have starved on the bones you gave me.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Love

“We have sold ourselves into a fast-food model of education. And it’s impoverishing our spirits and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies.”

Ken Robinson (1950) UK writer

TED Conference 2010 TED Conference http://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_bring_on_the_revolution.html (2010)

Education

“i wish the whole world was dead serious about food instead of silly rockets and machines and explosives using everybody's food money to blow their heads off anyway.”

Jack Kerouac book The Dharma Bums

Source: The Dharma Bums

Money, World, Dead

“If you still persist in writing, "Good food at it's best", you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave.”

Lynne Truss (1955) British writer

Source: Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

“Then a homeless man with a dog approached us and put his hand out. This happens to be something that I have a real problem with: homeless people with pets who approach you for food when they have a perfectly delicious dog standing right there?”

Chelsea Handler book Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea

Source: Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea

People, Dogs, Problem

“Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food.”

Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English writer and humorist

Lovers

“I'd rather hop freights around the country and cook my food out of tin cans over wood fires, than be rich and have a home or work.”

Jack Kerouac book The Dharma Bums

Source: The Dharma Bums

Home, Cooking, Country

“Isn't it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we're doing what were doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Eating Animals

Source: Eating Animals

Children, People, Animals

“When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn't yet know that he needs your wisdom you keep it to yourself. Food only looks good to a hungry man.”

Orson Scott Card book Xenocide

Source: Xenocide

Wisdom, Personality

“More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.”

John Kenneth Galbraith book The Affluent Society

Source: The Affluent Society (1958), Chapter 9, Section II, p. 103

“But there's food if you know how to find it. My father knew and he taught me some before he was blown to bits in a mine explosion. There was nothing even to bury. I was eleven then. Five years later, I still wake up screaming for him to run.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“I just thought of a great theory that explains everything. When I went to that party, I was abducted by aliens. They have created a fake Earth and fake high school to study me and my reactions. This certainly explains cafeteria food.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak

School, Study

“It's a reflex. Hear a bell, get food. See an undead, throw a knife. Same thing, really.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Bites

“It's pitiful to have a life in which junk food is awarded the same high status as sex.”

Sue Grafton (1940–2017) American writer

Life, Sex

“Sex might satisfy, food might fuel, love might sustain, but without coffee, what is the point?”

Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer

Source: Heart of the Sea

Love, Sex, Coffee

“Why are terms of endearment always food? Honey, cookie, sugar, pumpkin. Its not like caring about someone is enough to actually sustain you.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

“I will never hurt you.
I will always help you.
If you are hungry
Ill give you my food.
If you are frightened
I am your friend.
I love you now.
And love does not end.”

Orson Scott Card Songmaster

Source: Songmaster

Love, Help, Hurt

“Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.”

Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes

Source: Eleven Minutes

Suffering, Water, Loneliness

“Maintenance is what you have to do just so you can walk out the door knowing that if you go to the market and bump into a guy who once rejected you, you won't have to hide behind a stack of canned food. I don't mean to be too literal about this.”

Nora Ephron (1941–2012) Film director, author screenwriter

Source: I Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman

Guy

“There is absolutely no substitute for the best. Good food cannot be made of inferior ingredients masked with high flavor. It is true thrift to use the best ingredients available and to waste nothing.”

James Beard (1903–1985) American chef

“It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.”

Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author

Source: Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80's

Law, Sea

“I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

Dead

“I'm starved." -Juli
"How can you be starved? You just ate a huge bowl of popcorn." -Elspeth
"Popcorn isn't food, it's popcorn." -Vicki”

Lynsay Sands Canadian writer

Source: A Quick Bite

“My needs are simple and few, thought Valentine. Food. Clothing. A comfortable place to sleep. And.

But of course a world with no idiots would be lonely. If she herself were even allowed there.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender in Exile

Source: Ender in Exile

World, Sleep, Clothes

“Oh, womanly sympathy, love AND food?" I said, laughing. "Don't want a lot, do you?”

Diana Gabaldon book Dragonfly in Amber

Source: Dragonfly in Amber

Love

“I need voices of reason and of hysteria and of empathy. I need to have an Alanis moment. I need advice from Elizabeth Bennett. I need Tim Tams and comfort food.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Saving Francesca

“Why would you come to Italy to see Spanish steps? That's like going to China for Mexican food, isn't it?”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

“Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There was no sense of performance or judgment, only that the music was breath and food.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

Music, Sense, Singing, Heart

“If you’re concerned about your health, you should probably avoid products that make health claims. Why? Because a health claim on a food product is a strong indication it’s not really food, and food is what you want to eat”

Michael Pollan (1955) American author, journalist, activist, and professor of journalism

Source: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

Health, Strong

“I call it Andskoti, the Adversary. It is woven with the most powerful paradoxes in the Nine Worlds—Wi-Fi with no lag, a politician’s sincerity, a printer that prints, healthy deep-fried food, and an interesting grammar lecture!”

Rick Riordan book The Sword of Summer

Source: The Sword of Summer

World, Sincerity

“If sex were food, Rhage would haven been morbidly obese.”

Jessica Bird book Dark Lover

Variant: If sex were food, Rhage would have been morbidly obese.
Source: Dark Lover

Sex

“if you think they didn't go crazy
in tiny rooms just like you're doing now without women without food without hope then you're not ready.”

Charles Bukowski book Love Is a Dog from Hell

Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell

Women, Hope, Thinking

“Because I’ve got a lot more terms of endearment to use. Honey pie. Sugarplum. Bread pudding."

“Why are they all high-calorie foods?”

Richelle Mead book The Indigo Spell

Source: The Indigo Spell

Cute

“Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.”

Anthony Bourdain book Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

Source: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

“Yes, Horus said. I remember this place.
It’s El Paso, I told him. Unless you went out for Mexican Food, you’ve never been here.”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

“I will not eat cakes or cookies or food. I will be thin, thin, pure. I will be pure and empty. Weight dropping off. Ninety-nine… ninety-five… ninety-two… ninety. Just one more to eighty-nine. Where does it go? Where in the universe does it go?”

Francesca Lia Block book Echo

Source: Echo

Universe

“Maybe I should add some graffiti to spice it up. For a good time call the Consort. Beast Lord eats your food and turns into a lion in his sleep. Mahon has hemorrhoids. Boudas do it better. Warning, paranoid attack jaguar on the prowl…”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Breaks

Sleep, Time

“books are like confort food without the calories”

Elizabeth Berg (1948) American novelist

Source: Home Safe

Books

“Percy: I thought I’d lost my mom forever, and I was stuck on a hill in a thunderstorm fighting this huge bull dude while Grover was passed out wailing. “Food!” It was terrifying, man.”

Rick Riordan book The Demigod Files

Source: The Demigod Files

Moms, Fight

“Humility is my table, respect is my garment, empathy is my food and curiosity is my drink. As for love, it has a thousand names and is by my side at every window.”

Tariq Ramadan (1962) Swiss muslim scholar

Source: The Quest for Meaning: Developing a Philosophy of Pluralism

Love, Drink

“It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little food. No presents. But there was a snowman in their basement.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Christmas

“Most gulls don’t bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight — how to get from shore to food and back again.”

Richard Bach book Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Source: Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970)

Learning

“Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.”

Iris Murdoch book The Sea, the Sea

Source: The Sea, the Sea

God, Thinking, Reading

“The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit. Of course, Tally thought, you’d have to feed your cat only salmon-flavored cat food for a while, to get the pinks right.”

Scott Westerfeld book Uglies

Source: Uglies

Color, Cats, Summer

“I don't believe in making war with food. Food is not the enemy.
Said by Claire in The 5th Horseman”

James Patterson (1947) American author

War

“If love were food, I would have starved on the bones you gave me”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Love

“Five years of destruction and mayhem, lives lost everywhere, shortages of food and fuel and clothing - and the insane mind behind it just urges us all on and on to more destruction. And we all keep playing.”

Elizabeth Wein book Rose Under Fire

Source: Rose Under Fire

Clothes

“The hungrier one becomes, the clearer one's mind works— also the more sensitive one becomes to the odors of food.”

George S. Clason book The Richest Man in Babylon

Source: The Richest Man in Babylon

“I'm the top of the food chain and well… you're the food.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Dance with the Devil

Source: Dance with the Devil

“Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.”

James Beard (1903–1985) American chef

“I still love him so much I'll hide any amount of conjugated estrogen in his food. So much I'll do anything to destroy him.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

Love

“I sipped my own coffee, heavy on the sugar and cream, trying to make up for the late work the night before. Caffeine and sugar, the two basic food groups.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Cerulean Sins

Source: Cerulean Sins

Coffee, Night

“Forks are absurd, he scoffed. They insult your food. They make it think you're killing it twice.”

Clare B. Dunkle book The Hollow Kingdom

Source: The Hollow Kingdom

Thinking

“It is sometimes necessary for each person. Fill up with delicious food, get drunk, sing loudly and chat frivolously.”

Haruki Murakami (1949) Japanese author, novelist

Source: 1Q84 BOOK 3

Singing, Personality

“There are four basic food groups: plain chocolate, milk chocolate, dark chocolate, and white chocolate.”

Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer

Source: Forever and a Day

“I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

Clothes

“And Adam ruled, for he was the King. Until the day his will to be King deserted him. Then he died, food for a stronger. And the strongest was always the King, not by strength alone, but King by cunning and luck and strength together. Among the rats.”

James Clavell book King Rat

Source: King Rat

“There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man's spice-box seasons his own food.”

Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) American folklorist, novelist, short story writer

Nature, Box, Season

“When I was in my twenties and broke, I'd buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life.”

Gabrielle Zevin (1977) American writer

Life, Books

“He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food cake.”

Raymond Chandler (1888–1959) Novelist, screenwriter

Angels

“The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out his nose.”

Garrison Keillor (1942) American radio host and writer

Childhood, Family

“The Chinese say it is better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one.”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Laila, p. 250
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)

Tea

“What do you want, Acheron? (Artemis)
You know what I want. After all I’m the top of the Food Chain and you…you’re the Food. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Dance with the Devil

Source: Dance with the Devil

“There are no insect eggs in my food.” Mrs. White reiterated.
You should use that in your advertising,” Nate suggested.”

Brandon Mull The Candy Shop War

Source: The Candy Shop War

“I don't give a damn about what people say. They can be reptile food for all I care.”

Haruki Murakami book Dance Dance Dance

Source: Dance Dance Dance

People

“I love you, man. You rule! Thanks for the food. It touches me deep in my tender place. (Sway)
I don’t want to know nothing about your tender place, you freak. (Devyn)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Born of Ice

Love

“I have no idea what that is, but yawn, anyway, just on principle. Eat up. Pancakes is brain food.
Apparently not grammar food.
Wow. You college girls are mean.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Bite Club

Girl, Idea

“Eating crappy food isn't a reward -- it's a punishment.”

Drew Carey (1958) American actor, comedian, game show host, libertarian and photographer

“The most dangerous food is wedding cake.”

James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright

Wedding

“And homeless near a thousand homes I stood,
And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.”

William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet

Guilt and Sorrow, st. 41 (1791-1794) Section XLI.
Context: And oft I thought (my fancy was-so strong)
That I, at last, a resting-place had found:
'Here: will I dwell,' said I,' my whole life long,
Roaming the illimitable waters round;
Here will I live, of all but heaven disowned.
And end my days upon the peaceful flood—
To break my dream the vessel reached its bound;
And homeless near a thousand homes I stood,
And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.

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