Food Quotes

“I wanted to be a great white hunter, a prospector for gold, or a slave trader. But then, when I was eight, my parents sent me to a boarding school in South Africa. It was the equivalent of a British public school with cold showers, beatings and rotten food. But what it also had was a library full of books.”

-- Wilbur Smith

“I used to hang out by the food table at parties because you don't have to talk to anybody. If you do then you can talk about the food.”

-- Jennifer Jason Leigh

“Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.”

-- Robert M. Pirsig

“Attitudes toward food have completely changed.”

-- Giada De Laurentiis

“We had the best food any battlefield ever had.”

-- William Westmoreland

“Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?”

-- Nikita Khrushchev

“Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.”

-- Sai Baba

“I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.”

-- Rodney Dangerfield

“He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.”

-- Raymond Chandler

“The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that's what's happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.”

-- Michelle Obama