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Sherrie would be there, and the last time I’d seen her at a social event she burst into tears when she saw me and ran out of the room. You’re upset, I’d yelled after her, meanly.
— Aimee Bender, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
So often, even when we stop to say a blessing before a meal, we’re mentally preparing to spoon some pasta or potatoes onto our plates. We’re not usually focused on the present moment, simply placing ourselves before our food and entering into the still, slow space where eating is done for eating’s sake and not something we do simply to get to the next thing on our list.
— Mary DeTurris Poust, Cravings: A Catholic Wrestles with Food, Self-Image, and God
prepare your food in keeping with monastic traditions—simple, basic, healthy, balanced.
— Mary DeTurris Poust, Cravings: A Catholic Wrestles with Food, Self-Image, and God
Whether we are feasting or fasting or somewhere in between, food should have a sacred role in our lives. It can be something we sacrifice, something we savor, something we share, and through it all we can remain fulfilled because we are grounded in God, the only One who can satisfy our hungry hearts.
— Mary DeTurris Poust, Cravings: A Catholic Wrestles with Food, Self-Image, and God
Only by emptying ourselves out before God will we find fullness within ourselves.
— Mary DeTurris Poust, Cravings: A Catholic Wrestles with Food, Self-Image, and God
not every breakfast needs to be something worthy of posting to a food blog. Sometimes food is simply fuel, something we eat to live. But with TV ads and billboards and in-store displays saying otherwise—in colorful and provocative ways—that can be a hard case to make.
— Mary DeTurris Poust, Cravings: A Catholic Wrestles with Food, Self-Image, and God
How we prepare our food, how we consume our food really makes a difference in how our food satisfies us and shapes the role we give food in our lives. Is it something we stuff in to satisfy an urge or something we savor to feed us physically and sustain us spiritually?
— Mary DeTurris Poust, Cravings: A Catholic Wrestles with Food, Self-Image, and God
21Most food goes to waste in affluent societies. When we throw leftovers into the garbage, it goes to waste. When we eat more food than we need, it goes to waist.
— Earle Gray
We can’t go from zero to sixty in a day or even a week when it comes to shifting our food-habit gears. We have to take baby steps, starting with an increasing awareness of our habits and a willingness to chip away at the ones that aren’t doing us any good. Slowly, with time and commitment, we move away from the rat-race, multitasking mentality to a place where we want to give our meals and ourselves the time and attention we deserve.
— Mary DeTurris Poust, Cravings: A Catholic Wrestles with Food, Self-Image, and God
yelling while eating was like swallowing anger. It’s simply not good for us. It leaves us unhappy and unsatisfied, as if the meal didn’t count or wasn’t good, and an hour later we’re back looking for something to make us feel better.
— Mary DeTurris Poust, Cravings: A Catholic Wrestles with Food, Self-Image, and God
Just as the Eucharist fuels our soul and our spirit, good healthful meals fuel our bodies for the work God calls each of us to do in his kingdom. Praying before we consume a meal or when we are feeling exhausted and stressed helps to bring this “body and soul” connection into the light
— Mary DeTurris Poust, Cravings: A Catholic Wrestles with Food, Self-Image, and God
I like eating Tahu and Tempe. So what. I don't care what people said about them. They taste good in different way~!
— Eka Prasetyani
There are some things in life that shouldn't be given so much importance, if they don't change what is essential.
— Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate
I am a practical girl, and a life is only so long. It should be spent in as much peace and good eating and good reading as possible and no undue excitement. That is all I am after.
— Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland - For a Little While
Sometimes it's good just to be seduced by the particular cheeses spread out in front of you on a cheese counter.
— Nigella Lawson, How to Eat: The Pleasures and Principles of Good Food
They were almond cookies, although they could have been made of spinach and shoes for all I cared. I ate eleven of them, right in a row. It is rude to take the last cookie.
— Lemony Snicket, Who Could That Be at This Hour?
Hobbits always so polite, yes! O nice hobbits! Smeagol brings them up secret ways that nobody else could find. Tired he is, thirsty he is, yes thirsty; and he guides them and he searches for paths, and they saw sneak, sneak. Very nice friends, O yes my precious, very nice." Sam felt a little remorseful, but not yet trustful."Sorry," he said. "I'm sorry, but you startled me out of my sleep. And I shouldn't have been sleeping, and that made me sharp. But Mr. Frodo, he's that tired, I asked him to have a wink; and well, that's how it is. Sorry. But where HAVE you been to?" "Sneaking," said Gollum, and the green glint did not leave his eyes...."Hullo, Smeagol!" Frodo said. "Found any food? Have you had any rest?"  "No food, no rest, nothing for Smeagol," said Gollum. "He's a sneak." "Don't take names to yourself, Smeagol," Frodo said. "It's unwise, whether they are true or false." "Smeagol has to take what's given to him," answered Gollum. "He was given that name by kind Master Samwise, the hobbit that knows so much.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
When I'm not longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg. Snoop Dogg.
— Snoop Dogg
World-class cereal-eating is a dance of fine compromises. The giant heaping bowl of sodden cereal, awash in milk, is the mark of the novice. Ideally one wants the bone-dry cereal nuggets and the cryogenic milk to enter the mouth with minimal contact and for the entire reaction between them to take place in the mouth. Randy has worked out a set of mental blueprints for a special cereal-eating spoon that will have a tube running down the handle and a little pump for the milk, so that you can spoon dry cereal up out of a bowl, hit a button with your thumb, and squirt milk into the bowl of the spoon even as you are introducing it into your mouth. The next best thing is to work in small increments, putting only a small amount of Cap’n Crunch in your bowl at a time and eating it all up before it becomes a pit of loathsome slime, which, in the case of Cap’n Crunch, takes about thirty seconds.
— Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
It is easy to think of potatoes, and fortunately for men who have not much money it is easy to think of them with a certain safety. Potatoes are one of the last things to disappear, in times of war, which is probably why they should not be forgotten in times of peace.
— M.F.K. Fisher, How to Cook a Wolf
Perhaps a past of bingeing, restricting, or purging comes back to haunt you from time to time. Maybe you have to fight hard battles against vanity, gluttony, and shame. But with God’s saving power, every new day is a gift, an opportunity to detach yourself from tormenting thoughts about food or how you look and to attach yourself to God. Remember, we all hunger for God, more than we hunger for a big bowl of ice cream or a perfect physique.
— Kate Wicker, Weightless: Making Peace with Your Body
I unwrapped my love for her like one might unwrap leftovers. Gotta eat up the old stuff first, as a cannibal might say in a retirement home. 
— Dark Jar Tin Zoo, Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.
Life is too short to eat food that doesn't taste good.
— Alana Chernila, The Homemade Pantry: 101 Foods You Can Stop Buying and Start Making
How good it is, when you have roast meat or suchlike foods before you, to impress on your mind that this is the dead body of a fish, this the dead body of a bird or pig.
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
You thought you knew what food was, you thought it was elemental. You forgot how much restaurant there was in restaurant food and how much home was in homemade.
— Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
I was lucky to live in the 20th century, when gefilte fish could be purchased in a jar.
— Barbara "Cutie" Cooper, Fall in Love for Life: Inspiration from a 73-Year Marriage
The good news is that there is one kind of food you can never have too much of. The best way to fully recover from a food addiction or body-image problem is to fill up on the Lord.
— Kate Wicker, Weightless: Making Peace with Your Body
Within five minutes of leaving the reunion, I'd undone the double wrapping and eaten all six rugelach, each a snail of sugar-dusted pastry dough, the cinnamon-lined chambers microscopically studded with midget raisins and chopped walnuts. By rapidly devouring mouthful after mouthful of these crumbs whose floury richness - blended of butter and sour cream and vanilla and cream cheese and egg yolk and sugar - I'd loved since childhood, perhaps I'd find vanishing from Nathan what, according to Proust, vanished from Marcel the instant he recognized "the savour of the little madeleine": the apprehensiveness of death. "A mere taste," Proust writes, and "the word 'death' ... [has] ... no meaning for him." So, greedily I ate, gluttonously, refusing to curtail for a moment this wolfish intake of saturated fat, but, in the end, having nothing like Marcel's luck.
— Philip Roth, American Pastoral
Love is a banana. First you peel it, and then you roll on the condom. 
— Dark Jar Tin Zoo, Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.
I did an about-face and veered into the sandwich shop. What I ordered is none of your business, but it was really good.
— Sue Grafton, T is for Trespass
I went down to Safeways, and I bought her a packet of best ground sirloin.
— Neil Gaiman
It is well to remember that the stomach governs the world," wrote Churchill when planning the feeding of his troops on the north-west Indian frontier at the tail-end of the nineteenth century.
— Cita Stelzer, Dinner with Churchill: Policy-Making at the Dinner Table
At this period, too, Leningraders resorted to their most desperate food substitutes, scraping dried glue from the underside of wallpaper and boiling up shoes and belts. (Tannery processes had changed, they discovered, since the days of Amundsen and Nansen, and the leather remained tough and inedible.)
— Anna Reid, Leningrad: The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944
When he heard there was nothing to eat, he sat down and wept… “Why did I ever wake up!” he cried.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
Hurray', shouted Glokta. 'Porridge again!'He looked over at the motionless Practical. 'Porridge and honey, better than money, everything's funny, with porridge and honey!
— Joe Abercrombie, The Blade Itself
In my experience, anybody besides your mom that feeds you is going to want something in exchange for it.
— Karen Marie Moning, Iced
Garlic is divine. Few food items can taste so many distinct ways, handled correctly. Misuse of garlic is a crime...Please, treat your garlic with respect...Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don't deserve to eat garlic.
— Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
I am not a fan of people who abuse service staff. In fact, I find it intolerable. It’s an unpardonable sin as far as I’m concerned, taking out personal business or some other kind of dissatisfaction on a waiter or busboy.
— Anthony Bourdain, Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
...the winter is kind and leaves red berries on the boughs for hungry sparrows...
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
The myriad of flavors explode on my tongue, shimmy through my mouth, slap my taste buds and call them filthy bastards, and I love it.
— Stacey Jay, Romeo Redeemed
The word God can mean whatever you believe it to mean, for me it is the conscious stream of life from which we all come, and to which we can stayconnected throughout our lives as a source of peace, wisdom, love, support, knowing, inspiration, vitality, security, balance, and inner strength.I think that awareness is paramount, because in awareness we gain understanding, which then enables us to regain our feeling of empowerment.We need to feel empowered to make our choices conciously, about how to deal with changes in life, rather than reacting in fear (which tends to make us blind and weak).If we are aware, we can be realistic yet postive, and we can properly focus our intentions.Awareness can be quite sensual (which can add to your sense of feeling empowered). Think about how your body moves as you live your life, how amazing it is; think about nature, observe the intricate beautiful details of natural thngs, and of things we create, and breathe deeply to soak it all in.. Focus on the taste of food, the feel of textures in cloth, the feel of you partner's hand in yours; smell the sea breeze, listen to the wind in the trees, witness the colours of the leaves, the children playing; and be thankful for this life we are experiencing - this life we can all help to keep wonderful. Feel the wonder of being alive flood into you anytime you want, by taking a deep breath and letting the experience of these things fill you, even just by remembering.We all have that same stream of life within us, so you are a part of everything. Each one of us has the power to make a difference to everything.Breathe in that vital connection to the life source and sensual beauty everywhere, Feel loved and strong.
— Jay Woodman
That’s what you get for being food.
— Margaret Atwood, The Edible Woman
If I ever meet with the man who fulfills my ideal, I shall make it a condition of the marriage settlement, that I am to have chocolate under the pillow.
— Wilkie Collins, I Say No
Poor animals! How jealously they guard their pathetic bodies…that which to us is merely an evening’s meal, but to them is life itself.
— T. Casey Brennan
Hunger of the heart is much stronger than hunger for food.
— Amanda Comer
Relationships, like all human experiences, are transient; they change every day and are meant to be enjoyed in the present. When I hear people say you need to "work" at a relationship, what that often really means is just seeing through the day-to-day; listening to another person, listening to yourself, not getting stuck on hurts from the past, and not getting lost in what might come. To be in a relationship with someone you respect, care about and value is a gift, and when you take that in the day-to-day, you honor yourself and your partner each day. Eating is no different in that you can honor yourself at each meal. So much time in relationships is spent hashing the past, and arguing about things that haven't yet happened. A relationship cannot be "hoarded", just like a meal cannot be prolonged by taking home the leftovers.
— Ramani Durvasula, You Are WHY You Eat: Change Your Food Attitude, Change Your Life
The potatoes were starch grenades. The canned carrots were revolting because that is their nature.
— David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
My Oneness will stop the machine that overtakes people's minds. Do we really need new clothes, or new cars, or new TVs? Should we really ingest food made from chemicals not of this earth? Should we really give our money to people who don't need it but want it to fill the evil greed inside of their body? No, we don't, but people need me to show them how to be free." Jimmy, "The One
— Teresa Lo, The Other Side: a Collection of Short Stories
We pass Tinsley's Fried Chicken with the big sign that reads, TRY OUR BIG, JUICY BREASTS.
— Donna Cooner, Skinny
There you are. A simple commandment. Not ten of them, just one: 'Thou shalt not eat.' (Personally, I wish the very first edict from God hadn't involved dieting, don't you?)
— Liz Curtis Higgs, Bad Girls of the Bible: And What We Can Learn from Them
...having bowed to the inevitability of the dictum that we must eat to live, we should ignore it and live to eat...
— M.F.K. Fisher, An Alphabet for Gourmets
Dad says that everyone invented baklava.” It occurs to me now to wonder what that means. Aunt Aya rolls her eyes.“Your father? He is the worst of the worst. He thinks he cooks and eats Arabic food but these walnuts were not grown from Jordanian earth and this butter was not made from Jordanian lambs. He is eating the shadow of a memory. He cooks to remember but the more he eats, the more he forgets.
— Diana Abu-Jaber, The Language of Baklava: A Memoir
In my mother's book, a vegetarian is somebody who is not concern with his or her diet and health. "Someone who prefer bush and grass, as if they is sheeps and cows, is somebody who don't have enough food to put in his mouth," she always say.Only vegetarians eat dryfood regularly—and like to eat it, too. It is not considered normal for a person to cook food that doesn't have some amount o' meat or fish to go with it. Only someone who is starving, who don't have money to buy a fish head or a single flying fish or even the head of a dolphin—in other words, a person who is "catching his arse"—has to eat dryfood. A person at this stage is a person one remove from having to cook bakes for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
— Austin Clarke, Pig Tails 'n Breadfruit
Would you pour sand into the gas tank of your car? Of course not, your car was meant to run on good gasoline. Well, your body works the same way. Your body was meant to run on good food: fruits, vegetables, lean protein, and lots of water. Eat good food!
— Tom Giaquinto, Be A Good Human
If you are going to go to the trouble of choosing healthy food for your plate, shouldn't you also choose healthy people for your life?
— Ramani Durvasula, You Are WHY You Eat: Change Your Food Attitude, Change Your Life
Dinner is not what you do in the evening before something else. Dinner is the evening.
— Art Buchwald
What smells good may not always taste good, I leaned this the day I tried to eat a scented candle.
— Kenny D. Eichenberg
I think this goat must have been fed on old boots,' Stubble complained as he chewed the last scraps of flesh from the bones littering his stew.
— Carl Sargent, Firestorm
We have had for breakfast, toasts, cakes, a yorkshire pie, a piece of beef about the size and much the shape of my portmanteau, tea, coffee, ham and eggs...
— Charles Dickens
Integrating the beauty of seasonal change into the residence was a concept that remains true even today even in the more cramped, inner city machiya.
— Judith Clancy, Kyoto Machiya Restaurant Guide: Affordable Dining in Traditional Townhouse Spaces
Eating connects us to our histories as much as it connects our souls to our bodies, our bodies to the earth.
— Evan D.G. Fraser, Empires of Food: Feast, Famine, and the Rise and Fall of Civilization
Anybody have any money?”Frank checked his pockets. “Three denarii from Camp Jupiter. Five dollars Canadian.”Hedge patted his gym shorts and pulled out what he found. “Three quarters, two dimes, a rubber band and—score! A piece of celery.”He started munching on the celery, eyeing the change and the rubber band like they might be next.
— Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena
We look up to see if it is day or night. If stars burn cool and moon does shine, we take to smoke divine and wine. If breath of sun does belch its heat, we boil coffee and prepare to eat.
— Roman Payne
Reading is food for the brain.
— Maribel C. Pagan
Some people just don't have what it takes to appreciate a cookie.
— James Patterson, The Angel Experiment
The value of the myth is that it takes all the things we know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by ‘the veil of familiarity.’ The child enjoys his cold meat, otherwise dull to him, by pretending it is buffalo, just killed with his own bow and arrow. And the child is wise. The real meat comes back to him more savory for having been dipped in a story…by putting bread, gold, horse, apple, or the very roads into a myth, we do not retreat from reality: we rediscover it.
— C.S. Lewis, On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
Soon they were all sitting on the rocky ledge, which was still warm, watching the sun go down into the lake. It was the most beautiful evening, with the lake as blue as a cornflower and the sky flecked with rosy clouds. They held their hard-boiled eggs in one hand and a piece of bread and butter in the other, munching happily. There was a dish of salt for everyone to dip their eggs into.‘I don’t know why, but the meals we have on picnics always taste so much nicer than the ones we have indoors,’ said George.
— Enid Blyton, Five Go Off in a Caravan
To live, a man needs food, water, and a sharp mind.
— Louis Zamperini, Devil at My Heels
I would love a sandwich,' said Tybalt, with enough gravity to make it sound like a formal proclamation. Resolved: that we will have ham and cheese sandwiches.
— Seanan McGuire, Ashes of Honor
I thank you for calling them off, young ser. I promise you, they would have found me indigestible.
— George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
Well, Kessa, I am glad to see that you're taking your body seriously. I shudder when I see the girls leaving class and heading for the nearest hamburger, coke, and French fry station.The thought of them pouring all those dead calories into themselves makes me want to cry. You'd think after a rigorous dance class they'd have more respect for their bodies.
— Steven Levenkron, The Best Little Girl in the World
I'm going on a diet.  (Crud, I know)I am going to be cranky. I am going to be irritable.I am going to be moody and sad and mean. And, yes, I am going to be hungry. Please don't feed me, even if I try to bite you. Please don't tease me, I may hurt you.Please don't try to encourage me, I may growl and snap at you. Please don't help me, I may blame you for everything aggravating in the known universe.  Please don't be offended by my scowl, I cannot smile.  But most importantly, please keep your distance until this trial is over to prevent any unnecessary casualties. Thank you for your understanding. 
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
A block of blood should not have the word "cake" after it...they might as well say "shite gateau
— Karl Pilkington, An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington
To me, chocolate was the sole reason we on this earth.
— Esi Edugyan
I don't believe vegans (or vegetarians) who still get their (packaged, preservative/chemical-ridden) food from industrial food systems have any righteous ground to stand on, nor do I think a deep look at the sentient life of plants or the true environmental impact of agriculture permits them any comfortable distance from cruelty. Everything in this world eats something else to survive, and that something else, whether running on blood or chlorophyll, would always rather continue to live rather than become sustenance for another. No animal wants to be penned up and milked, or caged and harvested, and you've never seen plants growing in regimented lines of their own accord.
— Brian Awehali
Few of us are aware that the act of eating can be a powerful statement of commitment to our own well-being, and at the same time the creation of a healthier habitat. Your health, happiness, and the future of life on earth are rarely so much in your own hands as when you sit down to eat.
— John Robbins
Will you dance for me? Let your breasts roam for a moment -- I need to see how they dance.''Okay.' She danced, and as she danced, she tried to think of the most delicious salads she could imagine -- with artichokes and sundried tomato and blue cheese dressing, and beets, lots of beets.
— Nicholson Baker, House of Holes
Don't eat bear balls. Eat healthy, delectable, plant-based foods so that you will never fall over on your cat.
— Rip Esselstyn, The Engine 2 Diet: The Texas Firefighter's 28-Day Save-Your-Life Plan that Lowers Cholesterol and Burns Away the Pounds
His high spiced wares were made to sell, and they sold; and his thousands of readers could as rationally charge their delight in filth upon him, as a glutton can shift upon his cook the responsibility of his beastly excess.
— Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit
t smells in. Let the smell of hot tarmac in the summer remind you of a meal you ate the first time you landed in a hot place, when the ground smelled like it was melting. Let the smell of salt remind you of a paper basket of fried clams you ate once, squeezing them with lemon as you walked on a boardwalk. Let it reach your deeper interest. When you smell the sea, and remember the basket of hot fried clams, and the sound of skee-balls knocking against each other, let it help you love what food can do, which is to tie this moment to that one. Then something about the wind off the sea will have settled in your mind, and carried the fried clams and squeeze of a lemon with it.
— Tamar Adler, An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace
Food didn't kill people, for God's sake, people killed people. With their harping, and criticizing, and careful living.
— Nina Killham, How to Cook a Tart
The French have the right respect for dogs--in France we chiens get to go to lunch and dinner anytime, anywhere.
— Sheron Long
If life gives you the wobbles make jelly.
— Magdalena VandenBerg
I always tell my kids to cut a sandwich in half right when you get it, and the first thought you should have is somebody else. You only ever need half a burger.
— Louis C.K.
Tell me what you do with the food you eat, and I'll tell you who you are. Some turn their food into fat and manure, some into work and good humor, and others, I'm told, into God. So there must be three sorts of men. I'm not one of the worst, boss, nor yet one of the best. I'm somewhere in between the two. What I eat I turn into work and good humor. That's not too bad, after all!'He looked at me wickedly and started laughing.'As for you, boss,' he said, 'I think you do your level best to turn what you eat into God. But you can't quite manage it, and that torments you. The same thing's happening to you as happened to the crow.''What happened to the crow, Zorba?''Well, you see, he used to walk respectably, properly - well, like a crow. But one day he got it into his head to try and strut about like a pigeon. And from that time on the poor fellow couldn't for the life of him recall his own way of walking. He was all mixed up, don't you see? He just hobbled about.
— Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
This for many people is what is most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill but to take a certain pleasure in killing. It's not as though the rest of us don't countenance the killing of tens of millions of animals every year. Yet for some reason we feel more comfortable with the mechanical killing practiced, out of view and without emotion by industrial agriculture.
— Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
If 22 bushels (1,300 pounds) of rice and 22 bushels of winter grain are harvested from a quarter acre field, then the field will support five to ten people each investing an average of less than one hour of labour per day. But if the field were turned over to pasturage, or if the grain were fed to cattle, only one person could be supported per quarter acre. Meat becomes a luxury food when its production requires land which could provide food directly for human consumption. This has been shown clearly and definitely. Each person should ponder seriously how much hardship he is causing by indulging in food so expensively produced.
— Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution
The way I saw it, one of the single greatest advantages of being in a relationship was that you got to eat off the other person's plate.
— Nicole Peeler, Tempest’s Fury
I have gone into town to buy a few last things we need for the expedition: Peruvian wasp repellent, toothbrushes, canned peaches, and a fireproof canoe. It will take a while to find the peaches, so don't expect me back until dinnertime. Stephano, Gustav's replacement, will arrive today by taxi. Please make him feel welcome. As you know, it is only two days until the expedition, so please work very hard today. Your giddy uncle, Monty
— Lemony Snicket, The Reptile Room
It's woman's power, food is. You be sure you know where'n the hook is before swallerin' it, Dru. You mind me, now.
— Lili St. Crow, Jealousy
So you, too, like fruitcake? (RW on meeting Lenin in Zurich during World War I.)
— Robert Walser
According to analyses conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 100 grams of fresh tomato today has 30 percent less vitamin C, 30 percent less thiamin, 19 percent less niacin, and 62 percent less calcium than it did in the 1960s. But the modern tomato does shame it's counterpart in one area: It contains fourteen times as much sodium.
— Barry Estabrook, Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit
A burrito is a delicious food item that breaks down all social barriers and leads to temporary spiritual enlightenment.
— Lisi Harrison, Monster High
Get out of bed and feed me already, person!
— Rachel Cohn
Sashimi is velvet dust, verging on silk, or a bit of both, and the extraordinary alchemy of its gossamer essence allows it to preserve a milky density unknown even by clouds.... my cheeks recalled the effects of its profound caress.
— Muriel Barbery
There is more food in a pennyworth of bread than in a gallon of ale.
— Joseph Livesey, A Lecture on Malt Liquor
I would like to coin the phrase alimentary theology, a theology that is more attentive to and welcoming of the multiple layers contained and implied in the making of theology. This is a theology that not only pays closer attention to matters related to food and nourishment, and the many ways they can relate, inspire, and inform theological reflection. Most importantly, it is an envisioning of theology as nourishment: food as theology and theology as food. Alimentary theology is envisioned as food for thought; it addresses some of the spiritual and physical hungers of the world, and seeks ways of bringing about nourishment.
— Angel F. Mendez Montoya, The Theology of Food: Eating and the Eucharist
This is the body's nurse; but since man's witFound the art of cookery, to delight his sense,More bodies are consumed and kill'd with itThan with the sword, famine, or pestilence.
— John Davies of Hereford
Big food companies make hot dogs with mechanically separated meat (msm) that, as described matter-of-factly by the [USDA], is "a paste-like and batter-like meat product produced by forcing bones with attached edible meat under high pressure through a sieve or similar device to separate the bone from the edible meat tissue.". I read that and wanted to unread it.
— Jennifer Reese, Make the Bread, Buy the Butter: What You Should and Shouldn't Cook from Scratch -- Over 120 Recipes for the Best Homemade Foods
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.
— Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
I decided it is better to scream. Silence is the real crime against humanity.
— Nadezhda Mandelstam, Hope Against Hope
I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.
— Chaim Potok, The Chosen
Silence is so freaking loud
— Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
I don't think..." then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter.
— Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.
— Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?
— Lawrence Durrell, Justine
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
— Elbert Hubbard
Silence is a source of Great Strength.
— Lao Tzu
You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
— Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes
The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.
— Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
— Leonardo da Vinci
Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven't the answer to a question you've been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause of a room full of people when someone is just about to speak, or, most beautiful of all, the moment after the door closes and you're alone in the whole house? Each one is different, you know, and all very beautiful if you listen carefully.
— Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
— William S. Burroughs, The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs
Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.
— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.
— Virginia Woolf, The Waves
On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.
— Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.
— John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
— George Eliot, Impressions of Theophrastus Such
You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No.
— Alison McGhee, All Rivers Flow To The Sea
For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others... and this self having shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures.
— Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.
— Jalaluddin Rumi
I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.
— Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
— Audre Lorde
I have never heard a more eloquent silence.
— Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game
If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
— George Eliot, Middlemarch
Stay with me tonight. Let me hold you even if that's all it is. Let me keep you safe.
— Becca Fitzpatrick, Silence
I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams...
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
you’d think that silence would be peaceful. but really, it’s painful.
— David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
I get tired of talking when I want to be silent.
— Henry Rollins, The Portable Henry Rollins
All I want is blackness. Blackness and silence.
— Sylvia Plath
Sometimes there aren't words. The silence between us is flung wide as an ocean. But I manage to reach across it, to wrap my arms around him.
— Jodi Picoult
Quit calling me Grey. It makes me sound like I’m a boy. Like Dorian Gray.”“Dorian who?”I sighed. “Just think up something else. Plain old Nora works too, you know.”“Sure thing, Gumdrop.”I grimaced. “I take that back. Let’s stick with Grey.
— Becca Fitzpatrick, Silence
This isn't your fight, Patch," I said qu
— Becca Fitzpatrick, Silence
I could get you to smile like that, and without sales tax." I whirled around to find the real Patch standing in the fitting room behind me. He was wearing jeans and a snug white tee. His arms were folded loosely over his chest, and his black eyes smiled down at me. Heat that wasn't entirely uncomfortable flushed through my body. "I could make all kinds of pervert jokes right now," I quipped.
— Becca Fitzpatrick, Silence
But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question.
— Thomas Merton
Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
— Muhammad Ali
There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.
— Arundhati Roy
We don't have to go back to my place, Angel. I can take you home, if that's what you want. Or, if you decide you want to sleep at my place, on opposite sides of my bedroom with a Do Not Cross line drawn down the middle, I'll do it. I won't like it, but I'll do it.
— Becca Fitzpatrick
In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.
— Robert Lynd
Secret to what?""Secret to shutting you up," he said. "I just have to beat you till you're half-dead, then give you chicken soup and"--he raised his hands--"blessed silence.
— Ilona Andrews, Magic Burns
My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear — a care-woven garment that protects me from thy questionings and thee from my negligence. The "I" in me, my friend, dwells in the house of silence, and therein it shall remain for ever more, unperceived, unapproachable.
— Kahlil Gibran, The Madman
Silence is pure and holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking.
— Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
There’s an organic grocery store just off the highway exit. I can’t remember the last time I went shopping for food.” A smile glittered in his eyes. “I might have gone overboard.”I walked into the kitchen, with gleaming stainless-steel appliances, black granite countertops, and walnut cabinetry. Very masculine, very sleek. I went for the fridge first. Water bottles, spinach and arugula, mushrooms, gingerroot, Gorgonzola and feta cheeses, natural peanut butter, and milk on one side. Hot dogs, cold cuts, Coke, chocolate pudding cups, and canned whipped cream on the other. I tried to picture Patch pushing a shopping cart down the aisle, tossing in food as it pleased him. It was all I could do to keep a straight face.
— Becca Fitzpatrick, Silence
But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you.
— Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response.The gray area between yes and no.Silence.
— Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code
It does not do to rely too much on silent majorities, Evey, for silence is a fragile thing, one loud noise, and its gone. But the people are so cowed and disorganised. A few might take the opportunity to protest, but it'll just be a voice crying in the wilderness. Noise is relative to the silence preceding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations, Evey and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.
— Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
We switch to another language-- not our invented language or the language we've learned from our lives. As we walk further up the mountain, we speak the language of silence. This language gives us time to think and move. We can be here and elsewhere at the same time.
— David Levithan, Boy Meets Boy
Silence fell between us. This was a common occurrence whenever we’re alone. When you’re comfortable with someone, you don’t need to always fill the void with noise. I liked it when we would just be.
— Elizabeth Eulberg, Better off Friends
All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others.
— Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
We refuse to turn off our computers, turn off our phone, log off Facebook, and just sit in silence, because in those moments we might actually have to face up to who we really are.
— Jefferson Bethke, Jesus > Religion: Why He Is So Much Better Than Trying Harder, Doing More, and Being Good Enough
Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.
— Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable
I believe in destiny Angel. I believe every choice I've made has brought me closer to you. I looked for you for a very long time. I may have fallen from heaven, but I fell for you.
— Becca Fitzpatrick
Sure thing, Gumdrop.
— Becca Fitzpatrick, Silence
May my silences become more accurate.
— Theodore Roethke
I have heard the languages of apocalypse, and now I shall embrace the silence.
— Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: Endless Nights
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
— Charles Caleb Colton
She extended a hand that I didn't know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Silence can often be more disturbing than noise, it reveals the complicated mechanism of our thoughts
— José Rodrigues Miguéis
Try it on.""It's probably a little snug. Marcie tends to buy down when it comes to sizing." He merely smiled."It has a slit up the thigh." His smile depened."Zip it up?"Patch's eyes made a slow assessment of me, sharpening to vivid black. "I'm going to have a hard time sending you off with Scott in that dress. Just a heads-up, if you come home and the dress looks even slightly tampered with, I will track Scott down, and when I find him, it won't be pretty.
— Becca Fitzpatrick, Silence
You're staying here, Angel.""You're taking this one alone?""First, Hank can't see us together. Second, I don't like the idea of dragging you into something that could get messy fast. If you need one more reason, I love you.
— Becca Fitzpatrick, Silence
I gave up something I wanted for something I need. And I need you, Angel.
— Becca Fitzpatrick
Be leery of silence. It doesn't mean you won the argument. Often, people are just busy reloading their guns.
— Shannon L. Alder
The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.
— Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet.
— W.B. Yeats, The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore
A heart worth loving is one you understand, even in silence.
— Shannon L. Alder
Surely silence can sometimes be the most eloquent reply.
— Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
Vee never needed a reason to do something stupid. Sad thing was, most of the time I didn't either.
— Becca Fitzpatrick, Silence
There are in life a few moments so beautiful,that even words are a sort of profanity.
— Diana Palmer
...silence is sometimes the most costly of commodities.
— Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Human beings can't bear silence. It would mean that they would bear themselves.
— Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon
There are many men in London, you know, who, some from shyness, some from misanthropy, have no wish for the company of their fellows. Yet they are not averse to comfortable chairs and the latest periodicals. It is for the convenience of these that the Diogenes Club was started, and it now contains the most unsociable and unclubbable men in town. No member is permitted to take the least notice of any other one. Save in the Stranger's Room, no talking is, under any circumstances, allowed, and three offenses, if brought to the notice of the committee, render the talker liable to expulsion. My brother was one of the founders, and I have myself found it a very soothing atmosphere.
— Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter
Space and silence are two aspects of the same thing. The same no-thing. They are externalization of inner space and inner silence, which is stillness: the infinitely creative womb of all existence.
— Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
I'm a master of speaking silently—all my life I've spoken silently and I've lived through entire tragedies in silence.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gentle Spirit
When words don't come easy, I make do with silence and find something in nothing." ~ Strider Marcus Jones, Poet
— Strider Marcus Jones
Then we had the irises, rising beautiful and cool on their tall stalks, like blown glass, like pastel water momentarily frozen in a splash, light blue, light mauve, and the darker ones, velvet and purple, black cat's ears in the sun, indigo shadow, and the bleeding hearts, so female in shape it was a surprise they'd not long since been rooted out. There is something subversive about this garden of Serena's, a sense of buried things bursting upwards, wordlessly, into the light, as if to point, to say: Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.
— Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
Such a deep silence surrounds me, that I think I hear moonbeams striking on the windows.
— Lucian Blaga
….Nothing was inevitable. She had not chosen this way. It was her fate. It had been decided since before time began. It had been decided before she began. Nothing could be done. There was no point in trying. It was way too late. The inevitability of nothing was totally supreme, overriding everything. No way out. No way through. She could only accept the unacceptable. She could only endure the unendurable. Nothing was wrong!Nothing was wrong and the wrongness of this awesome nothing seeped from her. Some people, only a few, saw it. Some people, only a few felt it. Some people, only a few, recognised it and in recognising it for what it was, raged against it. Through the nothingness, these few reached out for her.She could not reach back. Through the nothingness, these few fought for her. She could not fight back for herself. Through the nothingness, these few cared for her. She could not care back for herself. Through the nothingness, these few spoke out for her, shattering the frozen silence over and over again. She could not speak out for herself…. “*I hope this may give some comfort to people who need it. There are good, caring people (whether outside or within yourself, if need be) and you do deserve to be cared for and supported as much as anyone else does."From “Nothing”, one of the short stories in “Fight! Rabbit! Fight!
— Laurie Matthew, Fight! Rabbit! Fight!
Let silence take you to the core of life.
— Jalaluddin Rumi
The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence.
— Marianne Moore
Never say anything that doesn't improve on silence.
— Richard Yates, A Good School
Your very silence shows you agree.
— Euripides
What we can't speak, we say in silence.
— Hillary Jordan, Mudbound
Silence, too, can be torture.
— Justina Chen, North of Beautiful
To the everlasting credit of the people of District 12, not one person claps. Not even the ones holding betting slips, the ones who are usually beyond caring. Possibly because they know me from the Hob, or knew my father, or have encountered Prim, who no one could help loving. So instead of acknowledging applause, I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone. All of this is wrong.
— Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games