Eating Quotes - Page 35

• Had the cub thought in man-fashion, he might have epitomized life as a voracious appetite, and the world as a place wherein ranged a multitude of appetites, pursuing and being pursued, hunting and being hunted, eating and being eaten, all in blindness and confusion, with violence and disorder, a chaos of gluttony and slaughter, ruled over by chance, merciless, planless, endless.

  Jack London

  Fashion, Men, Hunting

  Jack London (2012). “White Fang”, p.50, Courier Corporation

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• That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating - and then he eats you up.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Heart, Men, Sensitive Man

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “Crime and Punishment”, p.125, Vintage

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• Sucking your thumb without a blanket is like eating a cone without ice cream!

  Charles M. Schulz

  Ice Cream, Thumbs, Cones

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• Two cannibals were eating a comedian, and one of them turns to the other and asks, 'Does this taste funny to you?

  Nicholas Sparks

  Two, Comedian, Doe

  Twitter post from Jun 03, 2013

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• Me. A bad boy. For eating boiled peanuts in the graveyard. Go figure.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Boys, Bad Boy, Peanuts

  Nicholas Sparks (2000). “A Walk to Remember”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• Shane padded back to the couch and flopped, sucking on his own can of soda. Eve shot him an exasperated look. “Yeah, man, thanks for bringing me one, too.” The raccoon eye make-up exaggerated her eye roll. “Dork.” “Didn’t know if you wanted zombie dirt sprinkled on it or anything. If you’re eating this week.

  Rachel Caine

  Eye, Men, Zombie

  Rachel Caine (2006). “Glass Houses: The Morganville Vampires”, p.28, Penguin

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• To protest about bullfighting in Spain, the eating of dogs in South Korea, or the slaughter of baby seals in Canada, while continuing to eat eggs from hens who have spent their lives crammed into cages, or veal from calves who have been deprived of their mothers, their proper diet, and the freedom to lie down with their legs extended, is like denouncing apertheid in South Africa while asking your neighbors not to sell their houses to blacks.

  Peter Singer

  Mother, Dog, Baby

  "Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for Our Treatment of Animals". Book by Peter Singer, 1975.

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• WHEN AUGUSTUS CAME OUT on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake—not a very big one. It had probably just been crawling around looking for shade when it ran into the pigs. They were having a fine tug-of-war with it, and its rattling days were over.

  Larry McMurtry

  War, Blue, Pigs

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “Lonesome Dove: A Novel”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• A poem doesn’t come out and tell you what it has to say. It circles back on itself, eating its own tail and making you guess what it means.

  Franny Billingsley

  Mean, Circles, Tails

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.5, A&C Black

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• I finally understood that by being on a perpetual diet, I had practiced a "disordered" form of eating my whole life. I restricted when I was hungry and in need of nutrition and binged when I was so grotesquely full I couldn't be comfortable in any position by lying down. Diets that tell people what to eat or when to eat are the practices inbetween. And dieting, I discovered, was another form of disordered eating, just as anorexia and bulimia similarly disrupt the natural order of eating.

  Portia de Rossi

  Lying, Order, Practice

  Portia de Rossi (2011). “Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain”, p.244, Simon and Schuster

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• Throughout the years I have set up my own rules about eating food: Never eat anything you can't pronounce. Beware of food that is described as, "Some Americans say it tastes like chicken.

  Erma Bombeck

  Years, Taste, Chickens

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• The next day brought more visitors. Sarah was eating a simple luncheon with Charis, Ariel, and Guinevere and was experiencing for the first time in her life the pleasure of talking freely with other girls she trusted. It wasn't that they talked about anything of importance. Indeed, most of their conversation was hopelessly trivial- Mordecai would have shaken his head sadly over such frivolity, Sarah reflected with an inward smile. But to talk so openly, and to laugh so unrestrainedly, was somehow far more significant than any single thing that was said.

  Gerald Morris

  Girl, Simple, Talking

  Gerald Morris (2004). “The Princess, the Crone, and the Dung-cart Knight”, p.235, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Those dreams I have at night are going to drive me crazy. Last night I dreamed that little red-haired girl and I were eating lunch together... But she's gone... She's moved away, and I don't know where she lives, and she doesn't know I even exist, and I'll never see her again... And... I wish men cried.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Girl, Dream, Crazy

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• My ex—may he soon discover tiny worms have invaded his body and are slowly eating him alive—once told me God made men so perfect because He'd wanted to make up for the inadequacies of women.

  Gena Showalter

  Men, Perfect, Alive

  Gena Showalter (2012). “Animal Instincts”, p.118, Harlequin

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• Danger comes in many forms, I suppose. For some people, it might be jumping off a bridge or climbing impossible moutains. For others, it could be a tawdry love affair or telling off a mean-looking bus driver because he doesn't like to stop for noisy teenagers. It could be cheating at cards or eating a peanut even though you're allergic. For me, danger might be getting out from the protective cloak of my family and venturing into the world more of my own, even though I don't know what- or who- awaits me.

  David Levithan

  Cheating, Teenager, Mean

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.145, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Since I’ve been on my own, I’ve been eating a lot of popcorn, cereal, instant noodles, and snack bars. I have a hot plate in my bedroom, a microwave, and a small fridge. That’s the kind of kitchen I know how to get around in.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Cereal, Snacks, Kitchen

  Karen Marie Moning (2008). “Faefever: Fever Series”, p.39, Delacorte Press

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• I might be a wicked girl who'd think nothing of eating a baby for breakfast, but I'd never allow myself to get expelled. It's far too public.

  Franny Billingsley

  Girl, Baby, Thinking

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.18, A&C Black

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• Like anyone nostalgic for a time he didn't live through, I chose to weed out the little inconveniences: polio, say, or the thought of eating stewed squirrel. The world was simply grander back then, somehow more civilized, and nicer to look at.

  David Sedaris

  Weed, Squirrels, Looks

  "This Old House" by David Sedaris, www.newyorker.com. July 9, 2007.

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• Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that's eating me alive.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Alive, Useless, Emotion

  A. J. Jacobs (2011). “A.J. Jacobs Omnibus: The Know-It-All, The Year of Living Biblically, My Life as an Experiment”, p.623, Simon and Schuster

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• There's always hand-to-hand combat. All you need is to come up with a knife, and you'll at least stand a chance. If I get jumped, I'm dead!" I can hear my voice rising in anger. "But you won't! You'll be living up in some tree eating raw squirrels and picking off people with arrows.

  Suzanne Collins

  Squirrels, Hands, Knives

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.85, Scholastic Inc.

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• You humans, always eating. I'll make you soup. You can eat it while you keep working." Myrnin set aside his book and walked into the back of the lab. "Don't use the same beaker you used for poisons!" Claire yelled after him. He waved a pale hand. "I mean it!

  Rachel Caine

  Book, Mean, Hands

  Rachel Caine (2010). “Ghost Town”, p.77, Allison & Busby

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• Basil Stag Hare tut-tutted severely as he remarked to Ambrose Spike, 'Tch, tch. Dreadful table manners. Just look at those three wallahs, kicking up a hullaballoo like that! Eating's a serious business.

  Brian Jacques

  Three, Kicking, Looks

  Brian Jacques (2013). “Redwall”, p.160, Random House

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• The practice of diplomacy, I have found, is sometimes like eating soup with a fork: much activity yielding little nourishment.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Practice, Soup, Littles

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• Cutting off fundamental, curiosity-driven science is like eating the seed corn. We may have a little more to eat next winter but what will we plant so we and our children will have enough to get through the winters to come?

  Carl Sagan

  Children, Cutting, Winter

  Carl Sagan (2011). “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.400, Ballantine Books

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• OH KYO KUN! Isn't it said that eating pink noodles turns you into a horny pervert?!

  Natsuki Takaya

  Horny, Noodles, Said

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