882 private quotes tagged food

“Most small business owners are not particularly sophisticated business people. That's not a criticism they're passionate about cutting hair or cooking food, and that's why they got in the business, not because they have an MBA.” — Andrew Mason

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“Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role in our decisions about food, but it's rarely driving the car.” — Jonathan Safran Foer

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“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

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“I live in a kind of gay bubble. I live in a gay house, I drive a gay car. I eat gay food.” — Julian Clary

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“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

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“I just like food too much, and I don't want to change. I spent so much of childhood trying to change, and I just got sick of it... I don't want to look like Britney Spears, I just don't want to. She's hideous.” — Beth Ditto

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“Some argue that now isn't the time to push the green agenda - that all efforts should be on preventing a serious recession. That is a false choice. It fails to recognise that climate change and our carbon reliance is part of problem - high fuel prices and food shortages due to poor crop yields compound today's financial difficulties.” — Lucy Powell

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“I first became a vegetarian when I was nine, in response to an argument made by a radical babysitter. My great change - which lasted a couple of weeks - was based on the very simple instinct that it's wrong to kill animals for food.” — Jonathan Safran Foer

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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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“I moved to New York last year and I love it. It's a huge change and I've always wanted to spend time there. It's like a more intense London, and everything's up a few notches. The lights are brighter, the pace is faster and the food's better.” — Rachel Weisz

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“Too many people just eat to consume calories. Try dining for a change.” — John Walters

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“Finishing food is about the tiny touches. In the last seconds you can change everything.” — Mario Batali

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“Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak.” — Ted Nugent

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“Australia is so cool that it's hard to even know where to start describing it. The beaches are beautiful so is the weather. Not too crowded. Great food, great music, really nice people. It must be a lot like Los Angeles was many years ago.” — Mary-Kate Olsen

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“I was always the new kid in school, I'm the kid from a broken family, I'm the kid who had no dad showing up at the father-son stuff, I'm the kid that was using food stamps at the grocery store.” — Dave Mustaine

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“As it has been told to me, my Dad had some kind of deal with Dick Clark. But when we got here, that fell through. So we were out here with no job, no furniture, no food.” — Danny Bonaduce

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“The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.” — E. M. Forster

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“I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.” — Giuseppe Garibaldi

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“I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.” — Rachel McAdams

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“If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk.” — Jamie Oliver

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“I thought, you know the food and the diet thing is one way to start yourself onto a healthy lifestyle, but if you don't move, if you don't start exercising you're gonna deteriorate.” — Warren Cuccurullo

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“People who shop in health food stores never look healthy.” — Amy Sedaris

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“Health food makes me sick.” — Calvin Trillin

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“High-quality food is better for your health.” — Michael Pollan

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“I don't believe in depriving myself of any food or being imprisoned by a diet.” — Joely Fisher

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