Quotes about eating
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Julia Child photo

“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

Jerry Spinelli photo
Rick Riordan photo
Anne Lamott photo
Sherrilyn Kenyon photo
Jean Paul Sartre photo
Sherrilyn Kenyon photo
Karl Lagerfeld photo
Charlie Higson photo
George Bernard Shaw photo

“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

Stella Gibbons photo
Henry Miller photo

“The cancer of time is eating us away”

Source: Tropic of Cancer

Ned Vizzini photo

“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

Michael Pollan photo

“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

Robert Jordan photo
Sarah Dessen photo
Rachel Caine photo
John Cleese photo

“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

Mark Strand photo

“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

“Life is short… eat desert first!”

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

Michael Pollan photo

“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
James Patterson photo
Orson Scott Card photo

“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

Jen Lancaster photo
Augusten Burroughs photo
Sherrilyn Kenyon photo
Sherrilyn Kenyon photo
Suzanne Collins photo
Janet Fitch photo
P.G. Wodehouse photo
Elizabeth David photo
Margaret Atwood photo

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

Langston Hughes photo

“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

Christopher Moore photo
Holly Black photo
Rick Riordan photo
Deb Caletti photo
Woody Allen photo

“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
Emma Donoghue photo

“… 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

“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

Winston S. Churchill photo

“Eating words has never given me indigestion.”

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

“I'll eat you up!”

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

Anthony Doerr photo
Michael Pollan photo
Ann Brashares photo
Walter de la Mare photo

“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

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Source: Rhymes and Verses: Collected Poems for Young People

Jodi Picoult photo

“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.”

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

Rick Riordan photo
Gary L. Francione photo
Sue Monk Kidd photo
Sherrilyn Kenyon photo
Laurie Halse Anderson photo
Sherrilyn Kenyon photo
David Sedaris photo
Harper Lee photo

“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.”

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

Francesca Lia Block photo
Madeline Miller photo
Jim Butcher photo
E.M. Forster photo
Cormac McCarthy photo

“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

Arthur Schopenhauer photo
Madeline Miller photo
Brandon Mull photo
Dean Ornish photo
Rick Riordan photo

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

John Hughes (1950–2009)

Sixteen Candles Script

Brian Andreas photo

“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.

Christopher Moore photo

“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

Scott Westerfeld photo

“so pRetty i hAd to Eat hiM”

Source: Peeps

Michael Pollan photo

“You are what what you eat eats.”

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

Source: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

Michael Pollan photo

“Eating's not a bad way to get to know a place.”

Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

John Boyne photo

“He looked the boy up and down as if he had never seen a child before and wasn't quite sure what he was supposed to do with one: eat it, ignore it or kick it down the stairs.”

John Boyne (1971) Irish novelist, author of children's and youth fiction

Source: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas