Quotes about cheese

A collection of quotes on the topic of cheese, likeness, making, thing.

Quotes about cheese

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“all i want… is mac and cheese”

Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist
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“I eat only white foods: eggs, sugar, grated bones, the fat of dead animals; veal, salt, coconut, chicken cooked in white water; fruit mold, rice, turnips; camphorated sausage, dough, cheese (white), cotton salad, and certain fish (skinless).”

Erik Satie (1866–1925) French composer and pianist

Quoted by Rollo H. Myers (1968). Erik Satie, p.135. New York: Dover.
See also Socrate for the context of this quote.
General quotes

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“I'm a grounded person. I don't need security when I'm home as they know who I am. I live with my mum and tour with my dad… I'm just a regular 16-year-old kid. I make good grilled cheese and I like girls.”

Justin Bieber (1994) Canadian singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor

Interview with The Sun, as quoted by MTV http://www.mtv.co.uk/news/justin-bieber/201278-justin-bieber-my-world-20, March 2010

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“In the France of the Third Republic all but a very few of the newspapers could notoriously be bought over the counter like so many pounds of cheese.”

George Orwell (1903–1950) English author and journalist

"The Lion and the Unicorn" (1941)
Context: Is the English press honest or dishonest? At normal times it is deeply dishonest. All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news. Yet I do not suppose there is one paper in England that can be straightforwardly bribed with hard cash. In the France of the Third Republic all but a very few of the newspapers could notoriously be bought over the counter like so many pounds of cheese.

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“The second mouse gets the cheese!”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

Source: The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

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“Because no man wants to be a coward in front of a cheese.”

Source: Wintersmith

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“To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.”

Kitchen Confidential (2000)
Source: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Context: Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn. To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living. Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, and an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food. The body, these waterheads imagine, is a temple that should not be polluted by animal protein. It's healthier, they insist, though every vegetarian waiter I've worked with is brought down by any rumor of a cold. Oh, I'll accommodate them, I'll rummage around for something to feed them, for a 'vegetarian plate', if called on to do so. Fourteen dollars for a few slices of grilled eggplant and zucchini suits my food cost fine. (p. 70).

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“You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.”

Medium Raw (2010)
Source: Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

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“Maybe he was a good a good whitecoat—like Jeb. And maybe the moon was made of cream cheese.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: The Angel Experiment

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“What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?”

Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) German poet, playwright, theatre director
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“The Theory of Evolution has more holes in it than a dam made out of Swiss cheese.”

Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books

Source: The Time Paradox

“Your test had cheese meteor questions?”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

United We Spy

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“Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese you dingus”

Luis Buñuel (1900–1983) film director

Mon Dernier soupir (My Last Sigh, 1983)

“An active mind didn't need distractions in its physical environment. It needed a collection of outstanding books and a good lamp. Maybe some cheese and crackers.”

Variant: See, this was his kind of decorating. An active mind don't need distractions in its physical environment. It needed a collection of outstanding books and a good lamp. Maybe some cheese and crackers
Source: Lover Unbound

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“He is the cheese to my macaroni.”

Diablo Cody (1978) Screenwriter and author

Source: Juno: The Shooting Script

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“I was blown up while we were eating cheese.”

Source: A Farewell to Arms

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“Oh, and I suppose the apples ate the cheese.”

Source: The Hunger Games

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“Don’t eat cheese. There are a million things to eat that are not cheese.”

Courtney Love (1964) American punk singer-songwriter, musician, actress, and artist

On eating habits, Rollerderby fanzine (October 1993)
1991–1995

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“CM Punk, I suggest cashing in your tickets at Chuck E. Cheese for a replica ECW Championship because that’s the closest you’re ever going to get to the gates of paradise.”

John Hennigan (1979) American professional wrestler

Morrison enlightens the Straightedge Superstar http://www.wwe.com/shows/thegreatamericanbash/matches/42789821/results/

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“Under Hitler or Stalin a Góral [Tatra-highlander] could choose to produce oscypek [smoked cheese] however he preferred. Nowadays the EU official is watching him.”

Janusz Korwin-Mikke (1942) polish politician

Polish: Nawet za Hitlera czy Stalina, góral mógł sobie robić oscypki, jakie chciał, a dzisiaj stoi nad nim urzędnik unijny.
Source: Blog of the autor, 21 March 2009 http://korwin-mikke.blog.onet.pl/2009/03/21/w-wirtualnej-goscinie-u-kaszubow/

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“It was during the war, and they thought Kraft was too Teutonic, and they said I would be compared to Kraft cheese if I were bad.”

Virginia Christine (1920–1996) actress

Explaining why she changed her name.
A Character Star Gets Her Perks Playing Coffee's Mrs. Olson (April 30, 1979)

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“When you look like I do, it's hard to get a table for one at Chuck E Cheese.”

Zach Galifianakis (1969) American actor and comedian

Live at the Purple Onion (2007)

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“The moone is made of a greene cheese.”

John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs

Part II, chapter 7.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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“I'm not mad at you I'm mad a the cheese-steak.”

Radio From Hell (June 9, 2006)

“I'm looking nothing like ya poppa, I wouldn't give a chick ten cents, to put cheese on a whopper.”

Big L (rapper) (1974–1999) American rapper

"No Endz No Skinz", Lifestylez ov da Poor and Dangerous, (1995)

“Apple pie without the cheese is like a kiss without the squeeze.”

Henry Schriver (1914–2011) American politician

Cows, Kids, and Co-ops

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“Butter, bread, and green cheese: whoever cannot say that is not a true Frisian.”

Pier Gerlofs Donia (1480–1520) Frisian warrior, pirate, and rebel

Quoted in: The Linguist: Journal of the Institute of Linguists. Volumes 42-43, The Institute, 2003. p. 192
According to legend, Pier forced his captives to repeat this shibboleth to distinguish Frisians from Dutch and Low Germans.

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“Gives him the high cheese.”

Dan Patrick (1956) American sportscaster

Catch Phrases

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“I grow dauntless as I grow old, I believe any one that plods on in any one way, especially if that one way will bring him bread & cheese, will grow the same.”

Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788) English portrait and landscape painter

Quote in: Undated letters to Jackson, in The Letters of Thomas Gainsborough, ed. Mary Woodall, 1961
undated, Undated letters to William Jackson

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“What is this "mac and cheese"? Is that a black thing?”

Pat Robertson (1930) American media mogul, executive chairman, and a former Southern Baptist minister

Is that a black thing? 2011-11-23 The 700 Club Television CBN, quoted in * 2011-11-23 Quoted: Pat Robertson on Condi Rice’s mysterious Thanksgiving dish The Reliable Source Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/reliable-source/post/quoted-pat-robertson-on-condi-rices-mysterious-thanksgiving-dish/2011/11/23/gIQAT9o0oN_blog.html after an interview segment where guest Condoleezza Rice named it as her favorite Thanksgiving dish

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“I'm like a good cheese. I'm just getting mouldy enough to be interesting.”

Paul Newman (1925–2008) American actor and film director

Quoted in "Saint Paul," interview with John Aldridge, The Guardian (2005-04-10)

“What is a harp but an over-sized cheese-slicer with cultural pretensions?”

Denis Norden (1922–2018) British comedy scriptwriter and television presenter

You can't have your Kayak and heat it

Robert M. Price photo

“Various hearers of Jesus may well be imagined as unwittingly embellishing their Lord’s teachings as they meant to do nothing but pass them along. I cannot be too severe with the man in Monty Python's Life of Brian (of Nazareth) who thought he had heard Jesus say, “Blessed are the cheese makers,” nor of his neighbor who glossed the saying to include “any manufacturers of dairy products.””

Robert M. Price (1954) American theologian

[Price, Robert M., w:Robert M. Price, James K. Beilby, Paul Rhodes Eddy, The Historical Jesus: Five Views, https://books.google.com/books?id=O33P7xrFnLQC&lpg=PA227&pg=PA227#v=onepage&q&f=false, 4 February 2010, InterVarsity Press, 978-0-8308-7853-6, 227, Response to James D. G. Dunn]

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“When a peasant gives me his bit of cheese he's making me a bigger present than the Prince of Làscari when he invites me to dinner. That's obvious. The difficulty is that the cheese is nauseating. So all that remains is the heart's gratitude which can't be seen and the nose wrinkled in disgust which can be seen only too well.”

Un contadino che mi dà il suo pezzo di pecorino mi fa un regalo più grande di Giulio Làscari quando m’invita a pranzo. Il guaio è che il pecorino mi dà la nausea; e così non resta che la gratitudine che non si vede e il naso arricciato dal disgusto che si vede fin troppo.
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Il Gattopardo (1958)

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“They call it cocaine, Cociana, Yayo, Coca, Cheese, Whatever you wanna say yo”

Bun B (1973) American rapper from Texas; 1/2 of UGK

Cocaine Feat. Rick Ross
Too Hard to Swallow (1992), Underground Kingz (2007)

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“Bernie wants us to live under the heavenly socialist–communist system like China. We never hear the left criticize that Mao Tse-Tung killed over 80 million people—the Chinese government admits—biggest mass murder in history. That's why there's so many liberal trendy places in Austin, in Denver, in New York, in LA, and San Francisco named after Mao. And people go and love play on their iPhones and the free market and their Chinese slave goods, and they drink beer and expensive wine and giggle about how fun it is to wear red stars. You couldn't put more bad luck on you, you couldn't trash your mojo better. Wearing swastika armbands, you stupid snot-nosed crud! That live off the backs of everybody that fought Nazism and Communism. You need to have your jaws broken! Don't you worry, reality is gonna crash in on you, trash! Who lowered our defenses and brought the Republic down; oh, we're already gone! And you celebrate it like you've joined the globalists mounting America's head on the wall, your great victory! A mass rape of women across Europe. The national draft coming in for women! The families falling apart! Women degraded into nothing but sexual objects! ALL in the name of Gloria Steinem and the Central Intelligence Agency program! And a Bernie Sanders with his fake Einstein hair, and his 'I'm a man of the people!' We go out and talk to Bernie Sanders' supporters, they can hardly talk—they're like him—'Free! Free! I want free stuff!' As if the New World Order is gonna give you anything free! Oh, it's free like a piece of cheese. And a little mouse comes out and it smells it and goes to bite it and, WA BAM! Breaks your neck. But your stupider than the little mouse. You can see all the countries and all the people caught in the mouse traps, caught in the big bear traps. You know what you do? You go into a trendy shop. On some capitalist strip. And you go in and you snuggle in with that credit card that daddy put money in for the trust fund. And you put on that little fur-rimmed coat and you're all sexy with your hammer and sickle on, and your Che Guevara and, you know, shirt from Rage Against the Machine, and the whole capitalist record company system selling it to you, and you go out on the street and you walk into McDonald's and you have yourself a double latte, oh yeah. Pathetic! Scum! Oh, how you'll burn in the camps, later. Wishing you had done something; I mean, you are the ultimate chumps, the ultimate buffoons, the ultimate schmucks!… But the public had so much freedom! They were so wealthy, even our poorest, they had no idea that what they were replacing it with was abject slavery.”

Alex Jones (1974) American radio host, author, conspiracy theorist and filmmaker

"Sanders Supporters are Pathetic Scum" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooNxJnf_UAI, February 2016

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“Class, conservatives insist, is not really about money or birth or even occupation. It is primarily a matter of authenticity, that most valuable cultural commodity. Class is about what one drives and where one shops and how one prays, and only secondarily about the work one does or the income one makes. What makes one a member of the noble proletariat is not work per se, but unpretentiousness, humility, and the rest of the qualities that our punditry claims to spy in the red states that voted for George W. Bush. The nation’s producers don’t care about unemployment or a dead-end life or a boss who makes five hundred times as much as they do. No. In red land both workers and their bosses are supposed to be united in disgust with those affected college boys at the next table, prattling on about French cheese and villas in Tuscany and the big ideas for running things that they read in books.This sounds like a complicated maneuver, but it should be quite familiar after all these years. We see it in its most ordinary, run-of-the-mill variety every time we hear a conservative pundit or politician deplore "class warfare"”

meaning any talk about the failures of free-market capitalism — and then, seconds later, hear them rail against the "media elite" or the haughty, Volvo driving "eastern establishment."
Part II: The Fury Which Passeth All Understanding, Chapter Six: Persecuted, Powerless, and Blind (pp. 113-114).
What's the Matter with Kansas? (2004)

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