Eating Quotes - Page 26

• I think if you're against cruelty and you look at what happens to animals in slaughterhouses and on factory farms, you have to be completely against eating meat.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Thinking, Meat

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• I love food. I mean, I really love food. I take pictures of my finest, funniest and most fascinating dishes, post them on Twitter, and send them to friends. I treat menus like classic literature, refusing to skip even one word. I read the description of every item, regardless of whether or not I'm interested in eating it.

  Rachel Nichols

  Mean, Literature, Classic

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• Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Baby, Government, Politics

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut”, p.268, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I'm eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I want to be this really fly 80-90-year old.

  Michelle Obama

  Pain, Exercise, Thinking

  "Michelle Obama on the Move" by Maggie Murphy, Lynn Sherr, communitytable.parade.com. August 15, 2013.

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• Socialists find me too far left; Trotskyites not far enough; ecologists say I am too happy eating foie gras, defending nuclear energy and GM plants; feminists find I am not enough of a woman; anarchists a petit-bourgeois who has sold out because I believe in universal suffrage.

  Michel Onfray

  Believe, Feminist, Energy

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• We don't live by just sleeping and eating. We need pride and dignity in our lives. Work gives you that.

  Yoko Ono

  Sleep, Pride, Giving

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• When I still lived in Manhattan, people-watching was my hobby, and I spent many Sunday afternoons eating up the scene from a window seat at a Starbucks on Broadway.

  Susan Orlean

  Sunday, People, Hobbies

  "On the Wing" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. February 8, 2011.

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• Just because you're a different size doesn't mean you're sitting on the couch eating bonbons all day long watching TV.

  Carre Otis

  Mean, Long, Watching Tv

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• You don't ask people about the immigration policies of the U.K. or their country's agricultural policy. Instead, you talk to them about the meal they're eating or their family, and from that you get the sense of another human being, someone we can all relate to.

  Michael Palin

  Country, People, Immigration

  "Michael Palin's hand of friendship gives asylum seekers a human face" by Jamie Doward, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2009.

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• I do 45 minutes of cardio five days a week, because I like to eat. I also try for 45 minutes of muscular structure work, which is toning, realigning and lengthening. If I'm prepping for something or I've been eating a lot of pie, I do two hours a day, six days a week for two weeks.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Two, Pie, Trying

  "Gwyneth Paltrow's Secrets to Healthy Eating and Her Rockin' Body". www.self.com. May 13, 2011.

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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

  Thinking, Years, Meat Industry

  "‘Nikita’ Star Maggie Q On What’s Ahead In Season 3 And Her New PETA Campaign". Interview with Laura Prudom, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 8, 2013.

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• For many years, I was obsessed about what I was eating, how many calories it had, and how much exercise I'd have to do.

  Dennis Quaid

  Exercise, Years, Obsessed

  'Best Life' magazine Interview, abcnews.go.com. March 2007.

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• Children who reach the age of eighteen with their entire skills set composed on Nintendo and eating Doritos have been neglected. Their parents neglected to give them the character traits necessary to live successfully.

  Dave Ramsey

  Children, Character, Skills

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• I basically eat a lot of proteins, and I've been eating smaller portions of food. I try to eat all locally raised and organic produce.

  Norman Reedus

  Trying, Protein, Produce

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• But, you know, it's still a drag to get your picture taken when you're eating a sandwich. It's a downer.

  Keanu Reeves

  Taken, Sandwiches, Drag

  "Keanu Reeves: 'I would've broken Kubrick'" by Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. January 13, 2011.

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• Would a real man get caught eating a twinkie?

  Andy Rooney

  Real, Men, Caught

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• These days, newish art can be priced between $10,000 and $25,000. When I tell artists that a new painting by a newish artist should go for around $1,200, they look at me like I'm a flesh-eating virus.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Flesh Eating, Viruses

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• Many museums are drawing audiences with art that is ostensibly more entertaining than stuff that just sits and invites contemplation. Interactivity, gizmos, eating, hanging out, things that make noise - all are now the norm, often edging out much else.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Museums, Drawing

  "The Long Slide. Museums as playgrounds." by Jerry Saltz, nymag.com. December 04, 2011.

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• When money and hype recede from the art world, one thing I won't miss will be what curator Francesco Bonami calls the 'Eventocracy.' All this flashy 'art-fair art' and those highly produced space-eating spectacles and installations wow you for a minute until you move on to the next adrenaline event.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Moving, Space

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• I think sometimes what happens is that all of this feeling out of control manifests itself in trying to control your body; whether it's an eating disorder or talking about getting your nose fixed, as if that's going to be the solution to all the pressure.

  Susan Sarandon

  Thinking, Talking, Feelings

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. November 1, 2004.

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• Fast food is popular because it's convenient, it's cheap, and it tastes good. But the real cost of eating fast food never appears on the menu.

  Eric Schlosser

  Real, Taste, Cost

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• I panicked when my son, Jett, stopped eating baby food. He's only two but his food vocabulary is fantastic. He likes my baked tilapia and string beans with chopped garlic. But he really likes pizza. Sometimes every inanimate object to him is pizza.

  Jill Scott

  Baby, Son, Vocabulary

  "Jill Scott: 'In Botswana I ate wopani worms. They were terrible. They crawl and have legs'". Interview with John Hind, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2011.

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• I believe in stopping work and eating lunch.

  L'Wren Scott

  Believe, Lunch, Funny Food

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've been very competitive by nature from a young age, whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else, or always wanting to be the first one in line.

  Maria Sharapova

  Birthday, Age, Pasta

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• I have rules about eating, exercising and rules about staying positive. And these rules are sacred to me.

  Richard Simmons

  Exercise, Stay Positive, Sacred

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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