“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
Source: Shyam Sundar Vattam "Gowda Lives on Ragi Mudde on the Campaign Trail".
“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
Wesley Willis (1963–2003) American singer-songwriter
I'm Sorry That I Got Fat (I Will Slim Down)
Lyrics, Spookydisharmoniousconflicthellride (1996)
“I can’ t go to a restaurant and order food because I keep looking at the fonts on the menu.”
Donald Ervin Knuth (1938) American computer scientist
[Knuth, Donald, 2002, All Questions Answered, Notices of the AMS, 49, 3, 321, http://www.ams.org/notices/200203/fea-knuth.pdf, PDF]
John Banville (1945) Irish writer
John Banville: Using words to paint pictures of "magical" Prague (2006)
Michael Kurland book The Unicorn Girl
Source: The Unicorn Girl (1969), Chapter 9 (p. 130)
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Quoted by Lord Normanbrook in Action This Day: Working With Churchill. Memoirs by Lord Norman Brook (And Others) http://books.google.com/books?id=qxchAAAAMAAJ&q=%22in+the+course+of+my+life+I+have+often+had+to+eat+my+words+and+I+must+confess+that+I+have+always+found+it+a+wholesome+diet%22&pg=PA28#v=onepage (1968) <br class="br">Often misquoted as: Eating my words has never given me indigestion. http://books.google.com/books?id=vbsU21fEhLAC&q=%22Eating+my+words+has+never+given+me+indigestion%22&pg=PA486#v=onepage. <br class="br">Post-war years (1945–1955)
“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
“When I'm getting ready for a movie, let's just say my diet is 'The Antisocial Diet.'”
Jason Statham (1967) English actor, film producer, martial artist and former diver
I don't go to restaurants. I don't eat what I really want to eat. I don't eat much. I eat small things frequently. Lots of protein and greens. And I don't eat with people, because there's a tendency to get social and then to overeat.