“Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God.”
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“I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.”
“I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders.”
“A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.”
“Men do not have to cook their food they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.”
“Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it's a subject below their social standing.”
“It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life.”
“Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.”
“Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.”
“I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.”
“I'd like to be rich. I'd like a lot of money to put into my physicals and to buy food for all my friends.”
“Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.”
“People love their animals so much so that they put little clothes on them and necklaces and booties and things like that. And if you love your animal, then you should feed them something that's not dangerous for them. There's a lot of poisonous stuff that they're putting in a lot of that food, those by-products.”
“Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs.”
“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.”
“If I like a food, I'll eat it, even if I know it's not good for me.”
“Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.”
“Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.”
“You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.”
“I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn't even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then.”
“I say grace. I'm a big believer in grace. I happen to believe in a God that made all the food and so I'm pretty grateful for that and I thank him for that. But I'm also thankful for the people that put the food on the table.”
“What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.”
“Baking cookies is comforting, and cookies are the sweetest little bit of comfort food. They are very bite-sized and personal.”
“We are not hungry... Why foist this food upon us? We don't want to be choked. We have enough.”