“It is hard eating a little kangaroo knob.”
Karl Pilkington (1972) English television personality, social commentator, actor, author and former radio producer
Podcast Series 1 Episode 3
On Nature
Podcast Series 1 Episode 3
On Food
“It is hard eating a little kangaroo knob.”
Karl Pilkington (1972) English television personality, social commentator, actor, author and former radio producer
Podcast Series 1 Episode 3
On Nature
Karl Pilkington (1972) English television personality, social commentator, actor, author and former radio producer
Podcast Series 3 Episode 3
On Food
“I read like a wolf eats.
I read myself to sleep every night.”
Gary Paulsen (1939) American writer and musher
“I feel like I could eat the world raw.”
Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles
Source: The Song of Achilles
“I think I could eat one of Bellamy's mutton pies.”
William Pitt the Younger (1759–1806) British politician
Also "I think I could eat one of Bellamy's meat pies." Both in Rosebery, Pitt https://archive.org/stream/pittrose00roseuoft/pittrose00roseuoft_djvu.txt. Rosebery wrote that this story was related to him by Disraeli, who heard it as a young member of Parliament by a "grim old waiter of prehistoric reputation, who was supposed to possess a secret treasure of political tradition." According to Rosebery, "Disraeli mentioned the meat -- veal or pork I think, but I have forgotten." Reported in Rosebery, Pitt https://archive.org/stream/pittrose00roseuoft/pittrose00roseuoft_djvu.txt.
“Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.”
William Blake book The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Source: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 41
Shirley Jackson book We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Source: We Have Always Lived in the Castle