“Cut my pie into four pieces, I don’t think I could eat eight.”
Quotes about eating
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“The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.”
Indirect quote on The National (CBC TV), Aug. 13
Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
“I like to eat crawfish and drink beer. That's despair?”
“A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.”
George Bernard Shaw, quoted by Hesketh Pearson, George Bernard Shaw: His Life and Personality, 1942
1940s and later
Source: Fruits Basket, Vol. 23
“I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?”
Variant: I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human.
Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story
“Don't eat anything incapable of rotting.”
Source: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
“The men in my family are strong because the women in my family kill and eat the weak ones.”
“If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?”
As quoted in W.T.F.? : (What Is Wrong With Tom Faerie?) (2006) by H. M. Leathem
“Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.
There is no happiness like mine.
I have been eating poetry.”
Source: Selected Poems
“Life is short… eat desert first!”
Variant: Life is short, have dessert first.
Source: Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life
“If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don't.”
“We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.”
Variant: We’re the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, but we eat the little bastards alive.
Source: Ender's Game
Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
“I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music.”
“Calvin: I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple.
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The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes
Source: The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury
Source: Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time
“I knew a transsexual guy whose only ambition is to eat, drink, and be Mary.”
"Theme from English B"
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
Source: The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror
“I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.”
Source: There's a (Slight) Chance I Might Be Going to Hell: A Novel of Sewer Pipes, Pageant Queens, and Big Trouble
“Has the industry done to music what McDonald’s has done to eating?”
Source: How to Kill a Rock Star
“Eating words has never given me indigestion.”
Variant: I'll eat you up I love you so.
Source: Where the Wild Things Are
Source: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
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Source: Rhymes and Verses: Collected Poems for Young People
Variant: when you [lose someone], it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, you have plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all nerves are still a little raw
Source: House Rules
“Every time you drink a glass of milk or eat a piece of cheese, you harm a mother. Please go vegan.”
“Loss takes up inside of everything sooner or later and eats right through it.”
Source: The Secret Life of Bees
Source: Suicide Notes
“Achilles weeps. He cradles me, and will not eat, nor speak a word other than my name.”
Source: The Song of Achilles
Source: Magic Breaks
“I'm giving serious thought into eating yor wife” - Hannibal Lecter”
“I wanted to kill her and make her eat her fringe. And her knickers.”
Source: Away Laughing on a Fast Camel
“There are no bargains between lion and men. I will kill you and eat you raw.”
Source: The Song of Achilles
Quoted in Roberto Suro, "Hearts and Minds", New York Times Magazine (29 December 1991).
Source: Baby Proof
“I drink blood, you eat tacos, get the f*ck over it!" -Michel Glass”
Source: I Capture the Castle
Variant: Real Reason:
There are things you do because they feel right & they may make no sense & they may make no money & it may be the real reason we are here: to love each other & to eat each other's cooking & say it was good.
“Oh, I get it," I said. "It's a parable. Cute. Let's go eat.”
Source: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
Source: We Have Always Lived in the Castle
“You are what what you eat eats.”
Source: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
“Eating's not a bad way to get to know a place.”
Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Source: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas