Quotes Temple Food Quotes

They did interviews with my wife and daughter-they were genuinely in fear of me having a heart attack, working 20 hours a day, eating fast food.

Willie Aames
American Actor

Another nice thing was that I would type out letters home for the admiral's stewards. They would then feed me the same food the admiral ate.

Jack Adams
Canadian Athlete

Many rock musicians are excellent cooks, I've found, and those that are prefer to eat their own cooking in the studio. I encourage this behavior as I also enjoy the benefits of fresh food.

Steve Albini
American Musician

I went in saying I wanted to be the food guy.

Ted Allen
Entertainer

Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.

Ted Allen
Entertainer

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.

Woody Allen
American Director

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

Walter Bagehot
English Author

I love all kinds of bread. Whenever I crave junk food, I want salty things like peanuts or potato chips.

Tyra Banks
American Model

I love food and feel that it is something that should be enjoyed. I eat whatever I want. I just don't overeat.

Tyra Banks
American Model

For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn.

William Banting
English Celebrity

Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving them raw materials for building body fat.

Neal Barnard
American Author

Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.

Dave Barry
American Journalist

I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning.

John Barrymore
American Actor

Not addicted to gluttony or drunkenness, this people who incur no expense in food or dress, and whose minds are always bent upon the defence of their country, and on the means of plunder, are wholly employed in the care of their horses and furniture.

Giraldus Cambrensis
Welsh Clergyman

Put your nose into the Bible everyday. It is your spiritual food. And then share it. Make a vow not to be a lukewarm Christian.

Kirk Cameron
American Actor

I've talked to some drummers who seem to have a very hard time staying in shape on the road, including some drummers touring with high-profile acts that don't have to live on fast food every night.

Matt Cameron
American Musician

Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.

Elias Canetti
Swiss Author

We cover hamburgers, chicken, veggie burgers, salads, we've got a pretty broad range. To me, McDonald's isn't only about the food. It's about the prices, it's about the way we eat.

Jim Cantalupo
American Businessman

Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.

Truman Capote
American Novelist

The whole action of the laws tended to increase the number of consumers of food and to diminish the number of producers, was due the invention of the Malthusian theory of population.

Henry Charles Carey
American Economist

Food can become such a point of anxiety - not because it's food, but just because you have anxiety. That's how eating disorders develop.

Vanessa Carlton
American Musician

I love good food but I follow strict rules the days I perform.

Jose Carreras
Spanish Musician

I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.

Johnny Carson
American Comedian

The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists.

Edward Dahlberg
American Novelist

Everyone would talk about their diets and working out and what it made me do was go to craft services where all the food for the cast and crew was and I would eat.

Kristin Davis
American Actress

You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all these things, and they will not complain so long as they feel that they have something to die for.

Christopher Dawson
English Writer

I think I was immediately fed, so food became a very important part of my life.

Dom DeLuise
American Actor

It's like spicy food - sometimes you have to tone it down so more people can enjoy it.

Kenneth Edmonds
American Musician

I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves.

Elizabeth Edwards
American Lawyer

I promised her an interesting life and good food, and the rest is history.

Bob Ehrlich
American Politician

I still like being in North of England and I keep a place there. But there are a lot of things about the Continent that are to be preferred. The social institutions work better, women have a better position in society and the food is another thing.

Andrew Eldritch
English Musician

Food is a passion. Food is love.

Hector Elizondo
American Actor

Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food.

Joseph Epstein
American Writer

When the show is over we still have to pay our rent, we have to buy food. We have to do all the same things that you do.

Jamie Farr
American Actor

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.

Henry Fielding
English Novelist

Congress is headed in the wrong direction with this bill which removes any and all incentives from the food industry to improve their products for children.

Bob Filner
American Politician

However, as a parent, as a grandparent, as a former educator, I know that these practices alone when we are dealing with young children are insufficient. We will never control this rising epidemic without greater accountability from the food industry.

Bob Filner
American Politician

I don't believe in depriving myself of any food or being imprisoned by a diet.

Joely Fisher
American Actress

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.

M. F. K. Fisher
American Writer

Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.

M. F. K. Fisher
American Writer

When I go on stage man I just want people to have fun, I don't want people to think about their problems, I want people to get energy and nutrition and food from that so they can go back into the real world and work on their problems.

Jon Fishman
American Musician

If my daughter wants to get into this business, I would support that decision. She's going to have a hard time not being in it. She loves food and she's around it all the time.

Bobby Flay
American Celebrity

The average housewife goes to the restaurant to relax and enjoy the food. But when Eva walks in, she becomes the center of attention.

Eva Gabor
Hungarian Actress

More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.

John Kenneth Galbraith
American Economist

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
Italian Soldier

I have an enormous fondness for delicious food. It's very comforting.

Teri Garr
American Actress

I like food. I like eating. And I don't want to deprive myself of good food.

Sarah Michelle Gellar
American Actress

And though various organizations in America and England collected money and sent food parcels to these refugees, nothing was ever received by the Spanish.

Martha Gellhorn
American Journalist

If you have good food, people will come to your restaurant.

Mickey Gilley
American Musician

From the first I became convinced that what I must look for was lead dust and lead fumes, that men were poisoned by breathing poisoned air, not by handling their food with unwashed hands.

Alice Hamilton
American Scientist

That's a big goal of mine, to try and grow as much of my own food as possible.

Daryl Hannah
American Actress

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
American Actress

You don't have to live in the country and grow your own food to be green.

Shalom Harlow
Canadian Model

Food, like sex, is one of the principal kinds of human activity that engage people when they wonder about how to account for different kinds of human behaviour.

Marvin Harris
American Scientist

Like most North Americans, I'd been raised on the notion that milk is the first food, and everybody must like it because it's so good and so important for growing up and for being healthy.

Marvin Harris
American Scientist

Pigs eat grass if they are very hungry, but they can't use it as a regular source of food.

Marvin Harris
American Scientist

Unfortunately, the food industry has not yet faced this situation and begun taking measures to avoid exploiting our weakness for not knowing when we have had enough.

Marvin Harris
American Scientist

I used to get criticized for putting food in novels.

Jim Harrison
American Writer

You walk off the plane in Rio, and your blood temperature goes up. The feel of the wind on your face, the water on your skin, the taste of the food, the music, the sexuality; Brazilians are very comfortable in their sexuality.

Amy Irving
American Actress

I fed them every day. So it was a papa that kept food on the table for them. I did that. I did my part.

Joseph Jackson
American Businessman

The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization.

Fredric Jameson
American Critic

Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family.

Roland Joffe
English Director

Food safety involves everybody in the food chain.

Mike Johanns
American Politician

This president has said this has to be a priority for our nation, protecting our food supply from terrorist acts, so he continues to provide the funding that is necessary.

Mike Johanns
American Politician

We're going to do everything possible to make sure that food safety is always paramount, and that we work with the industry as aggressively as we can to make sure that we're paying attention to the food-safety issues.

Mike Johanns
American Politician

Anybody who finds it easy to make money on the horses is probably in the dog food business.

Franklin P. Jones
American Journalist

We'd go out in Larry's hippie van and drive out all around Dallas. He loved Chinese food, he'd go in and say. Remember me Major Nelson, me and my friends here are making this show called Dallas, have you got a table for us? It would work every time.

Steve Kanaly
American Actor

Then you get to be involved with all the people, meet all the beautiful girls, get all the good food, get ready and locked in before all the crowds hit.

Paul Kantner
Musician

One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality.

Anish Kapoor
Indian Artist

America is becoming more and more dependent upon imports from foreign manufacturers than we are exports from our country in all fields: in appliances, in clothing, even food. This year America may become for the first time in its history a net food importer.

Marcy Kaptur
American Politician

The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.

Garrison Keillor
American Writer

But once in a while you might see me at In and Out Burger; they make the best fast food hamburgers around.

Thomas Keller
American Celebrity

Food should be fun.

Thomas Keller
American Celebrity

Hopefully, imparting what's important to me, respect for the food and that information about the purveyors, people will realize that for a restaurant to be good, so many pieces have to come together.

Thomas Keller
American Celebrity

Now the restaurants have begun to catch up with the wine-making; there are numerous great restaurants in Napa Valley, and it's wonderful because the people are there for just that: great food and great wine.

Thomas Keller
American Celebrity

A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food.

John Harvey Kellogg
American Businessman

First I would probably place men at the bottom of the food chain. On a grander scale, I would say they're reacting to change. Feminism has got to be part of that.

Neil LaBute
American Director

I came here because the city has a tradition and is a very respected food city.

Emeril Lagasse
American Celebrity

I guess I feel that I was following my instincts, and at the same time being guided by the best. I became totally intrigued with Louisiana - the people, the food. It is a part of my life. Everything that has happened for me since moving here has just been icing on the cake.

Emeril Lagasse
American Celebrity

I'm working harder than ever now, and I'm putting on my pants the same as I always have. I just get up every day and try to do a little better than the day before, and that is to run a great restaurant with great food, great wine, and great service. That's my philosophy.

Emeril Lagasse
American Celebrity

I've always done food that can work in a set time frame. The message I'm trying to get across is, it doesn't have to take three days to do this. With planning, you can do a lot and really have quality food every day.

Emeril Lagasse
American Celebrity

If somebody has a chance to put my food in their mouth, that tells the story.

Emeril Lagasse
American Celebrity

My philosophy from day one is that I can sleep better at night if I can improve an individual's knowledge about food and wine, and do it on a daily basis.

Emeril Lagasse
American Celebrity

Those other 10 o'clock shows that come on, all you get from them is headaches and nightmares when you go to bed! At least we give you food, know what I mean?

Emeril Lagasse
American Celebrity

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
American Celebrity

Neither does man have gills for living in a water environment; yet it is not sinful to explore the depths of the oceans in search of food or other blessings.

Walter Lang
American Director

Each of us needs something - food, liquor, pot, whatever - to help us survive. Dracula needs blood.

Frank Langella
American Actor

As a consequence while we had a roof over our heads, food on the table, and clothes to wear to school we were constantly conscious of being of modest means.

Robert B. Laughlin
American Physicist

I was eating bad stuff. Lots of sugar and carbs, junk food all the time. It makes you very irritated.

Avril Lavigne
Canadian Musician

In England and America people tend to graze all day long, but I think it's such a waste to be constantly picking at food because you then can't enjoy a proper full meal when the time comes.

Nigella Lawson
British Journalist

Today, there are also buyers and sellers of all these energy commodities, just like there are buyers and sellers of food commodities and many other commodities.

Kenneth Lay
American Businessman

We use competitive markets to arrange for delivery of our food supply.

Kenneth Lay
American Businessman

In Italy, they add work and life on to food and wine.

Robin Leach
English Writer

Don't make jokes about food.

David Lean
British Director

Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.

Denis Leary
American Actor

If you're going to America, bring your own food.

Fran Lebowitz
American Journalist

I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food.

Thomas Malthus
English Economist

We have reduced sales tax on food. Now we want it eliminated.

Joe Manchin
American Politician

I eat whatever I want, junk food included.

Vanessa Marcil
American Actress

Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think.

Holly Near
American Musician

Now, there is always a tremendous fear of science and progressing forward into areas of the unknown and it is a valid fear. Some of the genetic alterations of food are a little edgy.

Nick Nolte
American Actor

Mankind: A quality of life upgrade is available to each and every one of you. It should give you a quality of life upgrade, which means no drugs, no alcohol, no fast food - unless, of course, it's a mallard.

Ted Nugent
American Musician

My idea of fast food is a mallard.

Ted Nugent
American Musician

Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak.

Ted Nugent
American Musician

And on a Canadian set, everybody is equal. You get paid the same. You live together in barracks. You have a communal kitchen. You buy and cook your own food.

Sandra Oh
Canadian Actress

All I ever wanted to do was to make food accessible to everyone; to show that you can make mistakes - I do all the time - but it doesn't matter.

Jamie Oliver
British Celebrity

I do not like onions. It's so funny because I am probably one of the least picky eaters ever. Pretty much any type of new food, I'll try it, I'll eat it. But onions, and pork. Pork and onions.

Stacie Orrico
American Musician

Part of treatment for drugs and alcohol is you abstain from these, but with eating disorders you can't abstain from food so the treatment is longer than drugs and alcohol.

Carre Otis
American Model

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

Carre Otis
American Model

Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction.

John Owen
English Theologian

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.
American Critic

People don't like to feed live mice and rats to their snakes. Now we have a regular meat food that they will eat. Ninety percent of the snakes will eat this food and love it.

Dick Van Patten
American Actor

We donate a lot of food to rescue organizations.

Dick Van Patten
American Actor

We waited until we perfected the dog food, and then we worked on the cat food. Even though it's not going through the roof the way the dog food is, I think it will catch on eventually.

Dick Van Patten
American Actor

I don't always buy organic food. It is more expensive.

Alexandra Paul
American Actress

I've always preferred food be on the blander side.

Alexandra Paul
American Actress

Unless everyone grasps the importance of having only two children per couple, wars won't be over just oil anymore, they will be over water and food.

Alexandra Paul
American Actress

Appetite, craving for food, is a constant and powerful stimulator of the gastric glands.

Ivan Pavlov
Russian Psychologist

Edible substances evoke the secretion of thick, concentrated saliva. Why? The answer, obviously, is that this enables the mass of food to pass smoothly through the tube leading from the mouth into the stomach.

Ivan Pavlov
Russian Psychologist

From the described experiment it is clear that the mere act of eating, the food even not reaching the stomach, determines the stimulation of the gastric glands.

Ivan Pavlov
Russian Psychologist

It has long been known for sure that the sight of tasty food makes a hungry man's mouth water; also lack of appetite has always been regarded as an undesirable phenomenon, from which one might conclude that appetite is essentially linked with the process of digestion.

Ivan Pavlov
Russian Psychologist

How large and varied is the educational bill of fare set before every young gentleman in Great Britain; and to judge by the mental stamina it affords him in most cases, what a waste of good food it is!

James Payn
English Novelist

Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.

Marcus Fabius Quintilian
Roman Philosopher

The automatic stabilizer is unemployment insurance, food stamps, additional coverage of Medicaid.

Franklin Raines
American Businessman

I hid myself in food.

Gordon Ramsay
Scottish Celebrity

At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.

Oliver Reed
English Actor

You can't very well live in a castle while your kin is on the poor side of town and barely have enough food. Some want you to get to the top and rely on you making it for them, too.

Martha Reeves
American Musician

After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated, if capital and population increased, more food would be required, and it could only be procured from land not so advantageously situated.

David Ricardo
British Economist

The facility of obtaining food is beneficial in two ways to the owners of capital, it at the same time raises profits and increases the amount of consumable commodities.

David Ricardo
British Economist

I have always said there is only one thing that can bring our nation down - our dependence on foreign countries for food and energy. Agriculture is the backbone of our economy.

John Salazar
American Politician

What makes cookbooks interesting is to find out about the people and the culture that invented the food.

Vincent Schiavelli
American Actor

But all that being said about modulation, if you're serving people delicious food, they won't complain.

Sally Schneider
Writer

Confit is the ultimate comfort food, and trendy or not, it is dazzling stuff.

Sally Schneider
Writer

I also think it's very important to consider how the food will feel to the person eating it.

Sally Schneider
Writer

Years down the line, I became a food stylist.

Sally Schneider
Writer

It all comes back to the basics. Serve customers the best-tasting food at a good value in a clean, comfortable restaurant, and they'll keep coming back.

Dave Thomas
American Businessman

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

Hunter S. Thompson
American Journalist

One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off.

William Irwin Thompson
American Philosopher

I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good.

Virgil Thomson
American Composer

There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison; there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together; there are no ideas - the animal does not think of the box or of the food or of the act he is to perform.

Edward Thorndike
American Psychologist

Where's my food? When is it coming? What did I order, anyway?

Lawrence Tierney
American Actor

When we had the infamous mealtime scenes, food fights would inevitably develop.

Charlene Tilton
American Actress

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

J. R. R. Tolkien
English Novelist

If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food.

Eamon de Valera
Irish Statesman

Oh yes, after the war, and we were all starving - we had no proper food or anything - no proper shoes.

Ninette de Valois
Irish Dancer

I also believe that it's the right thing to do, to maintain strong consumer confidence in our food systems. And I believe that the consumer should have strong confidence in our food systems.

Ann Veneman
American Public Servant

I'm confident that we have measures in place. And the additional measures that we announced yesterday will be even more protective of our food supply in this country.

Ann Veneman
American Public Servant

The demand for beef in Canada remains strong because I think people in America, in North America, know that we have a very strong food safety system and that our food is safe to eat.

Ann Veneman
American Public Servant

Somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the food you eat has been touched by immigrant hands, and it is fair to say some of them are not here as they should be here. But if you didn't have these folks, you would be spending a lot more - three, four or five times more - for food, or we would have to import food and have all the food security risks.

Tom Vilsack
American Politician

Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.

Diana Vreeland
American Editor

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

Peter De Vries
American Novelist

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

Peter De Vries
American Novelist

The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.

Peter De Vries
American Novelist

The food in Europe is pretty disappointing. I like fried chicken. But other than that Europe is great.

Donnie Wahlberg
American Actor

For a couple of days after chemotherapy, food tastes really bland, even the best foods. I haven't been sick, but have been a little tired. I haven't lost any weight.

Grete Waitz
Norwegian Athlete

In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.

Alfred Russel Wallace
British Scientist

There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others.

J. Donald Walters
Author