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" Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water. "

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" 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. "

" If you eliminate the junk food, you don't really run the risk of gaining weight if you've got a good workout routine. "

" Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food. "

" 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

" You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six. "

" They say that our sense of smell is one of the strongest triggers of memories. Of course, our sense of smell is integral to our sense of taste, so it is no surprise, then, that in a life full of moving and traveling, food has always been a source of familiar comfort for me. "

Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

" I think food is getting lighter and healthier because people eat out so often. It's about quality ingredients because that is the root of good food. "

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

" I love really good food and I don't ever want to spend too much for it, but I like hanging out and having really good, tasty, interesting food. "

" Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" Food can be expressive and therefore food can be art. "

" We want kids to value real food and understanding that it isn't just about feeding people but about nourishing the body, the community and the planet. "

" I did skit comedy online for many years, beginning around 2001. Around 2006 I started watching a lot of food television and got re-interested in food. I come from a very food-obsessed family. But I also wanted to do my own thing, which was the comedy. "

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

" If you combine good flavors, food turns into an orchestra. "

" I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting. "

" You can do good work simply staying up all night and eating nothing but junk food, but probably not in the long term. "

" We might be shifting away from a Eurocentric view of the United States into something that's much more multicultural, multinational, and Chinese food is just one slice of that. "

" There is no sincerer love than the love of food. "

George Bernard Shaw

" All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women. "

" Food brings people together on many different levels. It's nourishment of the soul and body; it's truly love. "

Giada De Laurentiis

" The job of uncovering the global food waste scandal started for me when I was 15 years old. I bought some pigs. I was living in Sussex. And I started to feed them in the most traditional and environmentally friendly way. I went to my school kitchen, and I said, 'Give me the scraps that my school friends have turned their noses up at.' "

Tristram Stuart

" There is no one on earth who knew you from the day you were born; who knew why you cried, or when you'd had enough food; who knew exactly what to say when you were hurting; and who encouraged you to grow a good heart. When that layer goes, whatever is left of your childhood goes with her. "

Adriana Trigiani

" I'm Irish, so I'm used to odd stews. I can take it. Just throw a lot of carrots and onions in there and I'll call it dinner. "

" If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant? "

Martin Scorsese

" I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream. "

" Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket. "

" 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. "

" You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it. "

" I would like to see people more aware of where their food comes from. I would like to see small farmers empowered. I feed my daughter almost exclusively organic food. "

Anthony Bourdain

" It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money. "