Food Quotes

“Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish festival without food. Instead it is a day of fasting and prayer, introspection and self-judgment when, collectively and repeatedly, we confess our sins and pray to be written into God's Book of Life.”

-- Jonathan Sacks

“You have to find a balance with food in your life - you can't take out food. It can be absolutely terrifying.”

-- Carre Otis

“If I'm making a movie and get hungry, I call time-out and eat some crackers.”

-- Carol Alt

“And if you look at the reality in the United States, where you have more than 40 million people below the poverty line and 42 million on food stamps, and then you look at poverty around the world, clearly the way we're running the engine of capitalism is not serving us well.”

-- Simon Mainwaring

“I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.”

-- Alex Kapranos

“I don't categorize food as bad or a guilty pleasure.”

-- Rachael Ray

“Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.”

-- William Hazlitt

“There is great food in Vegas.”

-- Eric Ripert

“While weight loss is important, what's more important is the quality of food you put in your body - food is information that quickly changes your metabolism and genes.”

-- Mark Hyman

“The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill.”

-- Bryan Miller