Quotes about eating
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“Hey, Ms. P," Tad called, "what's going on?"
She let out a slow breath before she answered. "You won't believe this… Brian Murrey tried to eat Scott Morgan."
Nick's eyes widened at the unexpected explanation. Had he heard that right?”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Infinity

“She eats grass. Don’t ask.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Strikes

Grass

“What would you prefer? 'What did the Count eat today, children? One helpless villager, two helpless villagers, three helpless villagers….”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Children

“It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is "soporific." I have never felt sleepy after eating lettuces; but then I am not a rabbit.”

Beatrix Potter book The Tale of The Flopsy Bunnies

Source: The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies (1909)

“If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.”

Orson Welles (1915–1985) American actor, director, writer and producer

Women

“I can't sleep, I can't eat, I can't do anything but think about him. At night I dream of him, all day I wait to see him, and when I do see him my heart turns over and I think I will faint with desire.”

Philippa Gregory book The Other Boleyn Girl

Source: The Other Boleyn Girl

Dreams, Thinking, Sleep, Waiting

“When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.”

Agatha Christie (1890–1976) English mystery and detective writer

“Ask me not where I live or what I like to eat… Ask me what I am living for and what I think is keeping me from living fully that.”

Thomas Merton (1915–1968) Priest and author

Source: Thoughts in Solitude

Thinking

“A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.”

Daniel Keyes book Flowers for Algernon

Source: Flowers for Algernon (1966)

Hunger

“A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

Source: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

“I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.”

Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist

School

“Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.”

Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist

Secret, Sleep, Personality

“(Talon pulled another beignet from the sack and held it up for her to eat.)
That stuff is hazardous to your health. (Sunshine)
Baby, life is hazardous to your health. (Talon)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon Night Embrace

Source: Night Embrace

Life, Health, Baby

“In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.”

Thomas Szasz (1920–2012) Hungarian psychiatrist

Source: The Second Sin (1973), p. 20.

Animals

“but back then, in those first days, I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.”

Junot Díaz book This Is How You Lose Her

Source: This Is How You Lose Her

Heart, Sad, Heartbreaking

“Rambo was a Green Beret," Hannah said. "Please. We eat those army boys for breakfast.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Lord of Misrule

Boy

“I blame my dad for my sweet tooth. His motto was 'Life is short; eat dessert first.' How can I argue with that?”

Wendy Mass Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life

Source: Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life

Life

“You can't eat [literature], that's the problem," he said. "I've tried, it's very dry, and not at all nutritious.”

Kenneth Oppel (1967) Canadian children's writer

Literature, Problem

“Now at last I can look at you in peace, I don't eat you anymore.”

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) author

Comment to a fish, after becoming a vegetarian, p. 74 http://books.google.com/books?id=6TNVWo7S6n8C&pg=PA74&dq=kafka+look+peace+eat#PPA74,M1 <br class="br">Franz Kafka: A Biography (1960)

Peace

“Erlking,” I told her. “Big-time bad guy. Wants to eat me.”

“Why?” she asked.

“Well. I met him,” I said.”

Jim Butcher Proven Guilty

Source: Proven Guilty

Guy, Time

“Some kids do drugs. Some kids light stuff on fire. Me, I eat oats.”

Jordan Sonnenblick After Ever After

Source: After Ever After

Light

“Someday is someday, and maybe it will be or maybe it won't. This is a human thing, to worry about things that may or may not come to be. You can't eat meat until you've killed it.”

Robin Hobb book Assassin's Quest

Source: Assassin's Quest

“To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace”

Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)

Peace, Coffee, Drink, Time

“The Bird of Hermes is my name, eating my wings to make me tame.”

Kohta Hirano (1973) Japanese manga artist

Source: Hellsing, Vol. 01

Bird

“At New Year's he had given Anne a present of silver forks with handles of rock crystal. He hopes she will use them to eat with, not to stick in people.”

Hilary Mantel book Wolf Hall

Source: Wolf Hall

People, Hope

“Should I eat first or accuse the Master of the City of murder? Choices, choices. -Anita”

Laurell K. Hamilton (1963) Novelist

Source: Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series, Danse Macabre (2006), Chapter 1, pp. 4-5
Context: [Talking to friend Veronica, Anita Blake worries she may be pregnant. ]
Ronnie: I could ask, who's the father, but that's just creepy. If you are, then it's this little tiny, microscopic lump of cells. It's not a baby. It's not a person, not yet.
Anita: We'll have to disagree on that one.
Ronnie: You're pro-choice.
Anita: Yep, I am, but I also believe that abortion is taking a life. I agree women have the right to choose, but I also think that it's still taking a life.
Ronnie: That's like saying you're pro-choice and pro-life. You can't be both.
Anita: I'm pro-choice because I've never been a fourteen-year-old incest victim pregnant by her father, or a woman who's going to die if the pregnancy continues, or a rape victim, or even a teenager who made a mistake. I want women to have choices, but I also believe that it's a life, especially once it's big enough to live outside the womb.

“Grover started to sniffle and I figured if I didn't cheer him up he'd either start bawling or chewing up my mattress. He tends to eat household objects whenever he gets upset.”

Rick Riordan book The Titan's Curse

Source: The Titan's Curse

“Life is not so idiotically mathematical that only the big eat the small; it is just as common for a bee to kill a lion or at least to drive it mad.”

August Strindberg Miss Julie

Source: Miss Julie

Life, Mathematics, Bee, Madness

“… from what he knew about the Creatures of the Dark they wouldn't waste their time laying elaborate traps. They'd just eat someone.”

Mercedes Lackey book The Phoenix Unchained

Source: The Phoenix Unchained

Time

“Ironically, the utterly unselective omnivore -- "I'm easy; I'll eat anything" -- can appear more socially sensitive than the individual who tries to eat in a way that is good for society.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Eating Animals

Source: Eating Animals

Way, Appearance

“It's a fairly accurate portrait of me at eighteen, minus a few quirks like reckless driving and eating binges. It's accurate but it isn't profound.”

Susanna Kaysen book Girl, Interrupted

Source: Girl, Interrupted

“Eating next to a twenty-foot-long crocodile took some getting used to, but Philip was well trained. He only ate bacon, stray waterfowl, and the occasional invading monster.”

Rick Riordan book The Serpent's Shadow

Source: The Serpent's Shadow

Training

“Privacy — like eating and breathing — is one of life's basic requirements.”

Katherine Neville (1945) American novelist

A Calculated Risk: A Novel (1992) https://books.google.com/books?id=ZRDGCQAAQBAJ&lpg=PT56&ots=olyqo4o6dc&dq=%E2%80%9CPrivacy%20-%20like%20eating%20and%20breathing%20-%20is%20one%20of%20life%27s%20basic%20requirements%22&pg=PT56#v=onepage&q=%E2%80%9CPrivacy%20-%20like%20eating%20and%20breathing%20-%20is%20one%20of%20life's%20basic%20requirements%22&f=false

Life

“Collect adventures and experiences to reminisce about…go to far places, meet new people, eat exotic foods, enjoy all varieties of women, look on unfamiliar landscapes, see new things.”

Gary Jennings (1928–1999) Novelist

Women, People, Food

“Bubba there zombies….. and there trying to eat me!"
-Nick Gautier”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Infinity

“I bet you can't eat ten bananas!"
"I bet you're right.”

Sarah Dessen book This Lullaby

Source: This Lullaby

“Yay!' he said. 'Now we can eat peanut butter sandwiches and ride fish ponies! We can fight monsters and see Annabeth and make things go BOOM!”

Rick Riordan book The Titan's Curse

Source: The Titan's Curse

Fish, Fight

“Salmon. Salmon, salmon, salmon, salmon. I eat so much salmon at these weddings, twice a year I get this urge to swim upstream.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

Wedding

“Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

“Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals the way we do.”

Michael Pollan book The Omnivore's Dilemma

Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (New York: The Penguin Press, 2006), p. 333.
Context: The industrialization — and brutalization — of animals in America is a relatively new, evitable, and local phenomenon: No other country raises and slaughters its food animals quite as intensively or as brutally as we do. No other people in history has lived at quite so great a remove from the animals they eat. Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals the way we do.

Way, Animals

“Breathe properly. Stay curious. And eat your beets.”

Tom Robbins book Jitterbug Perfume

Source: Jitterbug Perfume

“When carrying a jar of honey to give to a friend for his birthday, don't stop and eat it along the way.”

A.A. Milne (1882–1956) British author

Source: Pooh's Little Instruction Book

Way, Birthday, Birthday

“Only when we eat up this planet will God give us another. We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

God

“I was very strict on that point. No devouring classmates." Jeremy rolled his eyes. "Other parents warn their kids not to talk to strangers. I had to warn mine not to eat them.”

Kelley Armstrong book Stolen

Source: Stolen

Parent

“Like letting spiders live because they eat mosquitoes,
Clary thought. "So they're good enough to let live, good enough to make your food for you, good enough to flirt with-but not really good enough? I mean, not as good as people.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

People, Food

“You can't eat books, sweetheart.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Books

“Thank Artemis, it is you! That little scar on your lip--you tried to eat a stapler when you were two!"
…
Hedge nodded like he approved of Jason's taste. "Staplers--excellent source of iron.”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Source: The Lost Hero

“Jews wait for the Lord, Protestants sing hymns to him, Catholics say mass and eat him.”

Walker Percy book Love in the Ruins

Source: Love in the Ruins

Singing, Waiting

“Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.”

Nelson Algren book A Walk on the Wild Side

In jail, Cross-Country Kline to Dove Linkhorn.
Source: A Walk on the Wild Side (1956)
Context: But blow wise to this, buddy, blow wise to this: Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own. Never let nobody talk you into shaking another man's jolt. And never you cop another man's plea. I've tried 'em all and I know. They don't work. / Life is hard by the yard, son. But you don't have to do it by the yard. By the inch it's a cinch. And money can't buy everything. For example: poverty.

Moms, Sleep

“Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.”

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755–1826) French lawyer, politician and writer

Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es. <br class="br"> Aphorism #4 http://books.google.com/books?id=enUTAAAAQAAJ&q=%22Dis-moi+ce+que+tu+manges+je+te+dirai+ce+que+tu+es%22&pg=PA13#v=onepage, Physiologie du Goût (1825)

“Good food isn't just about the taste.

It's about where and with whom you eat it.”

Natsumi Ando (1970) Manga artist

Source: Kitchen Princess, Vol. 03

Food

“But I'm really enjoying my retirement. I get to sleep in every day. I do crossword puzzles and eat cake.”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: Mortal Coil

Sleep

“It is the good children, Madame, who make the most terrible revolutionaries. They say nothing, they do not hide under the table, they eat only one sweet at a time, but later on, they make Society pay dearly for it!”

Jean Paul Sartre Dirty Hands

Jessica, Act 3, sc. 1
Dirty Hands (1948)

Children, Time

“Even if he doesn’t eat, he knows the cookies. I’ll bet his mother stuffed him full as a kid. (Tory)
Not really. My mom wasn’t the Betty Crocker kind. (Acheron)
(Not unless it involved napalm or plagues.)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

Moms

“The crowd quieted as a whole, but more than one creature cursed under his breath, "Not Regin."
A drunk hunched over the bar muttered, "That glowing one made me eat a transistor radio once.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Dark Needs at Night's Edge

“It's salt. Why don't you sprinkle some on me, honey? Aren't I just good enough to eat?”

Grant Morrison (1960) writer

Source: Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth

“I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread.”

Bill Cosby (1937) American actor, comedian, author, producer, musician, activist

“Remember that any meal can be your last. You chose to travel with us, so tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die.”

Robert Jordan The Dragon Reborn

Source: The Dragon Reborn

Travel, Fish

“At the age of 25 most people were finished. A whole god-damned nation of assholes driving automobiles, eating, having babies, doing everything in the worst way possible, like voting for the presidential candidate who reminded them most of themselves.”

Charles Bukowski book Ham on Rye

Ham On Rye (1982)
Source: Ham on Rye
Context: The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little more off you, until there was nothing left. At the age of 25 most people were finished. A whole goddamned nation of assholes driving automobiles, eating, having babies, doing everything in the worst way possible, like voting for the presidential candidate who reminded them most of themselves. I had no interests. I had no interest in anything. I had no idea how I was going to escape. At least the others had some taste for life. They seemed to understand something that I didn't understand. Maybe I was lacking. It was possible. I often felt inferior. I just wanted to get away from them. But there was no place to go.

God, People, Age, Way