882 private quotes tagged food

“As long as there's pasta and Chinese food in the world, I'm okay.” — Michael Chang

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“When I'm filming, survival requires movement. You need your energy, and you've got to eat the bad stuff, and survival food is rarely pretty, but you kind of do it. I get in that zone, and I eat the nasty stuff, but I'm not like that when I'm back home.” — Bear Grylls

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“Well mine is not gimmicky - it is the 6 food groups that God made, and exercising every day. Trying to think positively.” — Richard Simmons

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“I don't do yoga. I bite the hella outta my nails. I smoke, I eat all the wrong food, I don't exercise.” — Lisa Marie Presley

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“Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.” — Walter Bagehot

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“Just because the Americans are so good at rattling out accessible and cheap junk food, nobody looks twice when it comes to their food. But there are golden nuggets everywhere.” — Jamie Oliver

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“The music I do is food... that will be your dinner.” — Ziggy Marley

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“You know how you wake up in the morning and sometimes you look gorgeous and other times you look like you got hit by a mack truck? I realized that my mack truck is food. If I have no sugar, yeast or wine, I have no undereye bags and my skin is perfect.” — Mariska Hargitay

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“When women earn the money for the family, everyone in the family benefits. We also know that when women have an income, everyone wins because women dedicate 90% of the income to health, education, to food security, to the children, to the family, or to the community, so when women have an income, everybody wins.” — Michelle Bachelet

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“I love food, I love eating.” — Robin Gibb

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“You know, for 300 years it's been kind of the same. There are restaurants in New Orleans that the menu hasn't changed in 125 years, so how is one going to change or evolve the food?” — Emeril Lagasse

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“In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.” — Michael Pollan

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“Jackie Chan is a very good comedy/martial arts star. He does one kind of martial arts that Jet Li doesn't know how to do and Jet Li does a martial art that Jackie Chan doesn't know how to do. You can both go to two Chinese restaurants, but both can have different kinds of food.” — Jet Li

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“I only like food without color, like potatoes, bread, and pasta.” — Emma Roberts

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“I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.” — Michael Palin

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“A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed.” — Mary Tyler Moore

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“People ask me how I keep my figure, and I tell them it's because I paint. When you're covered in paint, it's quite hard to put food in your mouth!” — Jane Seymour

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“It does kids no favors, and sets them up for a potential lifetime of poor health and social embarrassment, to excuse them from family meals of real food. Everyone benefits from healthy eating, but it is particularly crucial at the beginning of life.” — Andrew Weil

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“I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food.” — Imelda Marcos

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“I love spicy food.” — Cynthia Nixon

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“They're now turning those seeds into intellectual property, so they have a virtual lock on the seeds upon which we all depend for our food and survival.” — Jeremy Rifkin

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“Television in the '80s was very limited. There was no Food Network.” — Wolfgang Puck

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“In my travels, I also noticed that kids in Thailand like spicy food, and kids in India love curry. I'm hoping to introduce my son, Hudson, to lots of veggies and spices when he's young. I say that before he's started on solid foods, so it could be easier in theory than practice!” — Curtis Stone

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“Everyone prefers some foods over others, but some adults take this tendency to an extreme. These people tend to prefer the kinds of bland food they may have enjoyed as children - such as plain or buttered pasta, macaroni and cheese, cheese pizza, French fries and grilled cheese sandwiches - and to restrict their eating to just a few dishes.” — Andrew Weil

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“I've been to therapists my whole life. I find the less attention I pay to food, the healthier I am. Any obsession is dangerous. And a whole country that's obsessed with one thing, unless it's, like, jeans, it's very dangerous. Everyone's obsessed right now with carbohydrates in this country. It's ridiculous.” — Christina Ricci

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