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" He was a bold man that first ate an oyster. "

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" Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food. "

Robert M. Pirsig

" A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour. "

" The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. "

" The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill. "

Bryan Q. Miller

" It distresses me when I take my seven-year-old nephew out. I cook healthy food, and he wants to go to McDonald's. He doesn't even like the food; he just wants the toys, the Happy Meals. I can't stand to see people walking down the street eating fast food. "

" The only break I ever took was to eat. That's all I did. Work, and then quickly eat something. It became my main pleasure, having access to my comfort food. "

" A nanny is a woman who lives in an apartment, but the apartment is not her own. She raises children, teaches them how to walk, how to speak; she gives them food - but these children are not her children. So she is in a very ambiguous place. "

" Our deep respect for the land and its harvest is the legacy of generations of farmers who put food on our tables, preserved our landscape, and inspired us with a powerful work ethic. "

James H. Douglas, Jr.

" You have an impeccable argument if you said that Singapore, Hong Kong, and Tokyo are food capitals. They have a maximum amount of great stuff to eat in the smallest areas. "

Anthony Bourdain

" It's easy for people in an air-conditioned room to continue with the policies of destruction of Mother Earth. We need instead to put ourselves in the shoes of families in Bolivia and worldwide that lack water and food and suffer misery and hunger. "

" Food, in the end, in our own tradition, is something holy. It's not about nutrients and calories. It's about sharing. It's about honesty. It's about identity. "

" As the graying of the country continues its march forward, many retirees are now relocating to dense urban centers for the cultural and social opportunities, access to public transportation, and the ability to shop nearby for food and household needs without depending unduly on others. "

" I'm a bit of a gourmet chef. I love cooking - mostly Thai food. "

" There's nothing very exotic about classic Chilean street food. Imagine a hot dog hidden beneath an explosion of mayonnaise and ketchup. Cost? Twenty-five to 30 pence. This is the completo, an all-purpose solution to breakfast, lunch or, once, the curiously English teatime snack enjoyed by Chileans of all ages. "

Jonathan Franklin

" It's fun for me to go on other folks' talk shows. When you've endured the ups and downs and tensions and pitfalls of hosting, being a guest is a piece of angel food. "

" I like to say, jazz music is kind of like my musical equivalent of comfort food. You know, it's always where I go back to when I just want to feel sort of grounded. "

" In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. "

" My favorite food from my homeland is Guinness. My second choice in Guinness. My third choice - would have to be Guinness. "

" The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again. "

" Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world. "

" We're all moving at such a high rate that we have to grab the frozen dinners and the McDonald's. We can't make it a way of life - we have to get back to real, simple, clean good foods. It will save our lives on so many levels; not just spina bifida, but obesity, diabetes, everything. Food is our medicine. "

Nicole Ari Parker

" I love hotel rooms, so I take pictures of the room and the way out and the lobby, the food and drink. "

Geoffrey Zakarian

" I could never give up Mexican food. Nachos are usually my go-to if I'm courtside at an NBA game. I always, always get my picture taken with my mouth wide open and a tortilla chip sticking out of it! "

" When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor. "

" You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans. "

" We farm workers are closest to food production. We were the first to recognize the serious health hazards of agriculture pesticides to both consumers and ourselves. "

" We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry season or spring onions during spring onion season. For us, food was part of the fabric of our day. "

" Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room. "

" I follow my own advice: eat less, move more, eat lots of fruits, vegetables, and grains, and don't eat too much junk food. It leaves plenty of flexibility for eating an occasional junk food. "

" I love the masochistic aspect of eating seething, real Sichuan food in Sichuan Province. "

Anthony Bourdain