Quotes about eating
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“Cut my pie into four pieces, I don’t think I could eat eight.”

Yogi Berra (1925–2015) American baseball player, manager, coach

Thinking

“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

Food, Time, Waiting, Cooking

“Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”

Diane Duane book So You Want to Be a Wizard

Source: So You Want to Be a Wizard

Books, Reading

“Because that's what you do, you stand up for your best friend. And you eat lunch with him and talk with him and share secrets and laugh a lot and go places and do stuff, and when you wake up in the morning, he's the first person you think of.”

Jerry Spinelli book Loser

Source: Loser

Secret, Thinking, Personality

“Chiron probably wanted me to say, Heck it wa nothing. I eat hellhounds for breakfast. But I didn't feel like lying.”

Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief

Source: The Lightning Thief

Feeling, Lying

“Now she and I sit together in her room and eat chocolate, and I tell her that in a very long time when we both to go heaven, we should try to get chairs next to each other, close to the dessert table.”

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

Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

Time

“Any problems with your flight? (Acheron)
I didn’t eat my pilot if that’s what you mean. And little Nicky here is still breathing and not bleeding. (Zarek)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon Night Embrace

Source: Night Embrace

Problem

“I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.”

Jean Paul Sartre book Nausea

Source: Nausea

Sleep, Tree, Water

“I like to eat crawfish and drink beer. That's despair?”

Walker Percy (1916–1990) Southern philosophical novelist

Drink, Beer, Despair

“Meaning, I need you to focus. If you want to save Madaug, you need to listen to me or the mortents will eat both of you Pop-Tarts for breakfast. (Ambrose)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Infinity

“I feel like I could eat the world raw.”

Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles

World, Feeling

“The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine”

Karl Lagerfeld (1933–2019) German fashion designer

“If a wolf attacks his sheep, the shepard kills the wolf, but he eats the sheep when he's hungry.”

Charlie Higson book The Enemy

Source: The Enemy

Wolf

“A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

George Bernard Shaw, quoted by Hesketh Pearson, George Bernard Shaw: His Life and Personality, 1942
1940s and later

“Anna: “I thought Indians built fires with fiction.”
Charles: “I can do that, but I'd like to eat sometime in the next day or so. Sterno and Bic are much faster.”

Patricia Briggs book Cry Wolf

Source: Cry Wolf

“She liked Victorian novels. They were the only kind of novel you could read while eating an apple.”

Stella Gibbons book Cold Comfort Farm

Source: Cold Comfort Farm

Reading

“The cancer of time is eating us away”

Henry Miller book Tropic of Cancer

Source: Tropic of Cancer

Time

“Life is like a fruit basket. You can eat some of it or wast it and throw some of it out. Only you can chose on wat to do with that fruit basket.”

Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist

Source: Fruits Basket, Vol. 23

Life

“I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?”

Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story

Variant: I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human.
Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story

Sleep, Sad

“Don't eat anything incapable of rotting.”

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

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.”

Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer

Women, Men, Family, Strong

“You know," I told him,"if you don't know how to eat a cupcake, that's nothing to be ashamed of."
Now he did smile. "I know how to eat a cupcake."
"Sure you do."
"I do," he said. "I just don't want one of those."
"Yeah? Prove it.”

Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride

Source: Along for the Ride

Smile

“Damn it," I said. "I don't suppose you have any ideas on how to kill Littleton."

He smiled at me, his teeth very white in the darkness of his face. "Eat him," he said.”

Patricia Briggs book Blood Bound

Source: Blood Bound

Smile, Idea

“I'm worried he's going to… do something crazy."
"He lives in a hole in the ground, dresses funny, and occasionally eats his assistants," Eve said. "Define crazy.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Ghost Town

“If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?”

John Cleese (1939) actor from England

As quoted in W.T.F.? : (What Is Wrong With Tom Faerie?)‎ (2006) by H. M. Leathem

God, Animals, Funny

“Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.
There is no happiness like mine.
I have been eating poetry.”

Mark Strand (1934–2014) Canadian-American poet, essayist, translator

Source: Selected Poems

Happiness

“Life is short… eat desert first!”

Wendy Mass Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life

Variant: Life is short, have dessert first.
Source: Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life

Life

“If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don't.”

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

“Gazzy, man, jeezum!" Fang exclaimed. "What the heck have you been eating for God's sake?"
That was a smoke bomb!" Gazzy defended himself. "Not even i could fill this whole flippin' house!”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Fang

God, Housing

“There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.”

Thomas Hardy Under the Greenwood Tree

Source: Under the Greenwood Tree

Music

“We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Variant: We’re the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, but we eat the little bastards alive.
Source: Ender's Game

“As I examine my life through this book, I can't help but wonder if my mother was right. Maybe I really was what I ate. And maybe if she'd let me eat a little more sugar, I'd have come out sweeter.”

Jen Lancaster (1967) American writer

Source: Pretty in Plaid

Life, Books, Help

“Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.”

Haruki Murakami book 1Q84

Source: 1Q84

Loneliness

“I just look at her and she creeps me out. She looks like she would eat a baby. Not that she's fat. She just looks hungry in some dangerous way that can't be explained. She's always so nice and friendly. Exactly the disposition of a baby killer.”

Augusten Burroughs book Running with Scissors

Source: Running with Scissors

Way, Baby

“It can’t eat him. I forbid it. (Artemis)
She can do as she pleases. I taught her to waste not, want not. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Dance with the Devil

Source: Dance with the Devil

“Okay let's get this over with, no I'm not seasick, yes I've always been green, No I didn't eat grass as a child.”

Gregory Maguire book Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Grass

“Oh, no. We can’t have that. Where you going, Mr. Meanie-Pants? You don’t hurt people then run. That’s just rude. Can the Simi barbecue him, or is he on the ‘No Simi’ eat list?” – Simi”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Invincible

People, Hurt

“He never lets go of Annie's hand. Not when they walk, not when they eat. I doubt he ever plans to.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“Their love as a dragonfly, skimming over echo park, stoppin to visit the lotus. Eating dreams and drinking blue sky.”

Janet Fitch (1955) American writer

Source: Paint it Black

Love, Dreams, Drink

“He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.”

P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) English author

Intelligence

“To eat figs off the tree in the very early morning, when they have been barely touched by the sun, is one of the exquisite pleasures of the Mediterranean.”

Elizabeth David (1913–1992) British cookery writer

Source: An Omelette and a Glass of Wine

Pleasure, Tree, Sun

“I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Life, Music, Parting

“Kill what you can't save
what you can't eat throw out
what you can't throw out bury

What you can't bury give away
what you can't give away you must carry with you,
it is always heavier than you thought.”

Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer

Source: You are Happy

“After I shut the door behind me, I heard Darryl say "of course eating him would work too.”

Patricia Briggs book Blood Bound

Source: Blood Bound

“Calvin: I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple.
p86”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes
Source: The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury

“… you cannot eat every tadpole and frog in the pond, but you can eat the biggest and ugliest one, and that will be enough, at least for the time being.”

Brian Tracy (1944) American motivational speaker and writer

Source: Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

Time

“I knew a transsexual guy whose only ambition is to eat, drink, and be Mary.”

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian

Guy, Drink

“Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love.
I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
I like a pipe for a Christmas present,
or records — Bessie, bop, or Bach.
I guess being colored doesn’t make me not like
the same things other folks like who are other races.”

Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist

"Theme from English B"
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)

Love, Life, Color, Drink

“If you come back to me, I'll never leave you", I whispered into the furry ear. "I'll make you all the pies you could ever eat.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Bleeds

“Strength is the ability to break up a solid piece of chocolate—and then eat just one of the pieces.”

Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer

Source: Lucky in Love

“MS. THOMPSON, it said in heavy block letters, PLEASE KEEP YOUR FELINE OFF MY PROPERTY. IF I SEE IT AGAIN, I WILL EAT IT.”

Patricia Briggs book Moon Called

Source: Moon Called

“Well they're pissed off and they're hungry. I was kind of busy trying not to get my brains eaten. They seemed pretty adamant about the brain-eating thing. Then they're going to IKEA, I guess”

Christopher Moore (1957) American writer of comic fantasy

Source: The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror

Business

“This is the part in the movie where that guy says, "Zombies? What zombies?" just before they eat his brains. I don't want to be that guy.”

Holly Black (1971) American children's fiction writer

Source: Kin

Guy, Parting

“Leo: "So… giants who can throw mountains. Friendly wolves that will eat us if we show weakness. Evil espresso drinks. Gotcha. Maybe this isn't the best time to bring up my psycho babysitter."
Piper: "Is that another joke?”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Source: The Lost Hero

Mountain, Drink, Evil, Time

“It can be exhausting eating a meal cooked by a man. With a woman, it's, Ho hum, pass the beans. A guy, you have to act like he just built the Taj Mahal.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: The Queen of Everything

Guy, Cooking

“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

Food, Dead

“If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.”

Emma Donoghue Room

Source: Room

“… Everyone knows there's only one thing less welcome on a stage than a mime, and that's a clown, because everyone knows that clowns eat people.”

Laurie Notaro American writer

Source: There's a (Slight) Chance I Might Be Going to Hell: A Novel of Sewer Pipes, Pageant Queens, and Big Trouble

People

“Has the industry done to music what McDonald’s has done to eating?”

Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer

Source: How to Kill a Rock Star

Music

“Eating words has never given me indigestion.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

“I'll eat you up!”

Maurice Sendak book Where the Wild Things Are

Variant: I'll eat you up I love you so.
Source: Where the Wild Things Are

“Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience—buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello—become new all over again.”

Anthony Doerr (1973) American writer

Home, Country

“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, Food, Strong

“It was hard to feel the right emotions at the right times. They didn’t come at all when you set a place for them, and they sacked when you weren’t ready, when you were just innocently flossing your teeth, for example, or eating a bowl of cereal.”

Ann Brashares book The Last Summer

Source: The Last Summer

Feeling, Time

“Bang! Now the animal
Is dead and dumb and done.
Nevermore to peep again, creep again, leap again,
Eat or sleep or drink again, oh, what fun!”

Walter de la Mare (1873–1956) English poet and fiction writer

Hi!
Source: Rhymes and Verses: Collected Poems for Young People

Drink, Sleep, Animals, Dead

“When someone dies, 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 the nerves are still a little raw.”

Jodi Picoult book House Rules

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

Feeling

“They all ordered massive plates of eggs, pancakes, and reindeer sausage, though Frank looked a little worried about the reindeer. "You think it's okay that we're eating Rudolph?"

"Dude," Percy said, "I could eat Prancer and Blitzen, too. I'm.”

Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune

Source: The Son of Neptune

Thinking

“Every time you drink a glass of milk or eat a piece of cheese, you harm a mother. Please go vegan.”

Gary L. Francione (1954) American legal scholar

Drink, Time

“Loss takes up inside of everything sooner or later and eats right through it.”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

Loss

“Law of the jungle. The betrayee gets to eat the betrayer. (Dante)
Law of my jungle. Kill them all and let Hades sort them out. (Zarek)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Kiss of the Night

Law, Betrayal

“I failed eating, failed drinking, failed not cutting myself into shreds. Failed friendship. Failed sisterhood and daughterhood. Failed mirrors and scales and phone calls. Good thing I'm stable.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

Friendship, Drink

“And not a single mark on the Lamborghini. Ha! Eat steel, you soul-sucking bastards! (Kyrian)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Night Pleasures

Source: Night Pleasures

Soul

“Like anyone nostalgic for a time he didn't live through, I chose to weed out the little inconveniences: polio, say, or the thought of eating stewed squirrel. The world was simply grander back then, somehow more civilized, and nicer to look at.”

David Sedaris When You Are Engulfed in Flames

Source: When You Are Engulfed in Flames

World, Time

“I swear, sometimes it feels like there's this monkey in my head who runs around turning the dials and changing channels on me. One minute I'm sitting around eating chocolate chip cookies and then all of a sudden I'm thinking about bears.”

Michael Thomas Ford (1968) American writer

Source: Suicide Notes

Feeling, Thinking, Change

“Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill.”

Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird

Variant: summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screeneed porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape.
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird

Color, Sleep, Summer, Season

“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

Food, Universe

“Achilles weeps. He cradles me, and will not eat, nor speak a word other than my name.”

Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles

“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

Food, Sleep, Time

“Worry is fear in disguise. And fear will eat you from the inside out if you let it.”

Jim Butcher Captain's Fury

Source: Captain's Fury

Fear

“Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.”

E.M. Forster (1879–1970) English novelist

Books, Way, Time, Reading

“I'm giving serious thought into eating yor wife” - Hannibal Lecter”

Thomas Harris (1940) American author and screenwriter

“I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this.

[, New York Times, April 19, 1992]”

Cormac McCarthy (1933) American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter

Time

“I wanted to kill her and make her eat her fringe. And her knickers.”

Louise Rennison (1951–2016) British writer

Source: Away Laughing on a Fast Camel

“Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world always outweighs the pleasure. If you don't believe it, compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is eating the other.”

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher

Pain, Pleasure, World, Feeling

“There are no bargains between lion and men. I will kill you and eat you raw.”

Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles

Men

“Drake. He liked dangerous pies."
"Why did he join you?"
"Who would eat pie that could take over your life? Why risk it?"
"Focus. Why did he join you?"
"Say no to death pies. Another good motto. I'm getting a headache." p. 432”

Brandon Mull (1974) American fiction writer

Source: A World Without Heroes

Life, Death

“I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it's medically conservative to cut people open or put them on powerful cholesterol-lowering drugs for the rest of their lives … Animal products are the main culprit in what is killing us. We can absolutely live better lives without them.”

Dean Ornish (1953) American physician

Quoted in Roberto Suro, "Hearts and Minds", New York Times Magazine (29 December 1991).

People, Understanding, Animals

“You think it's okay that we're eating Rudolph?"
"Dude," Percy said, "I could eat Prancer and Blitzen, too. I'm HUNGRY.”

Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune

Source: The Son of Neptune

Thinking

“There are two kinds of women--those who eat in a crisis and those who lose their appetite in a crisis.”

Emily Giffin (1972) American writer

Source: Baby Proof

Women

“You don't spell it, son. You eat it.”

John Hughes (1950–2009)

Sixteen Candles Script

Thomas Harris book Hannibal

Source: Hannibal

“I drink blood, you eat tacos, get the f*ck over it!" -Michel Glass”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Drink

“I shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea.”

Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle

Source: I Capture the Castle

Thinking, Tea

“there are things you do because they feel right and they may make no sense and they may make no money and it may be the real reason we are here: to love each other and to eat each other's cooking and say it was good.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

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.

Love, Money, Feeling, Sense

“Oh, I get it," I said. "It's a parable. Cute. Let's go eat.”

Christopher Moore book Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

Source: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

“We eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the fall. We wait for something to grow and then we eat it.”

Shirley Jackson book We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Source: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Spring, Waiting, Summer