Food Quotes

“The United Nations four or five years ago put out a study that said the meat industry, meat-eating, growing meat for food is the No. 1 killer of our planet - not No. 2 or No. 3: No 1. You know what's No. 2? Transportation. Everyone thinks that No. 1 is transportation, and goes out and buys a hybrid car. Screw the hybrid cars. Don't eat hamburgers.”

-- Maggie Q

“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