Food Commercial Quotes

#1. Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. It's like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest change in the sunlight, or at the first notes of a jingle for a dog food commercial, will flick the memory switch, bringing tears to your eyes.

Meghan O'Rourke

#2. I was a complete unknown when I did 'Karate Kid.' I'd just done a pilot for a TV show called 'Call to Glory.' And I sat down with John Avildsen and brought still pictures from the show. I brought pictures! At that point, I would've been happy to be in a dog-food commercial.

Elisabeth Shue

#3. A year after winning the Oscar, almost to the day, I was directing a dog food commercial.

Peter Capaldi

#4. You're like this leopard who's pretending to be a house cat.

Holly Black

#5. The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.

Mark Twain

#6. Almost every single commercial on television for shampoo, sports shoes, drinks, food, clothes, perfume, cars, etc., is a short fairy tale, for they are given magical qualities.

Jack Zipes

#7. The value of the beans for oil production, as well as for human food, has become recognized so quickly and so generally during the past year that the crop has acquired a commercial standing far in excess of its previous status.

David F. Houston

#8. In modern America, food is abundant everywhere except aboard commercial airplanes.

Dave Barry

#9. The most staggering linguistic turnabout for me is the one that equates green economy with 'sustained economic growth.'

Tim Jackson

#10. The key to eating healthy is not eating any food that has a TV commercial.

Mike Birbiglia

#11. Prospecting for oil is a dynamic art ... The greatest single element in all prospecting, past, present and future, is the man willing to take a chance

Everette Lee DeGolyer

#12. You learn to kid around and joke and not take things too seriously because somehow its all gonna work out for the best - or you're gonna make it work out.

Jack Youngblood

#13. Did you know David Letterman was offered millions of dollars to do a commercial for dog food?

Tracey Ullman

#14. You think your children are better than mine? Ha! When yours were out playing with gold, mine were out fighting for survival. You taught your children to roll in money when I taught mine what it means to be strong.

S.R. Crawford

#15. I went to high school in the highlands of Scotland.

Lily Nicksay

#16. Each year-in the fields, commercial kitchens, markets, stores, and restaurants-millions of pounds of food go to waste ... We need to find ways to get this food into the mouths of the hungry and not into the mouth of the dumpster.

Dan Glickman

#17. When one cultivates to the utmost the principles of his nature, and exercises them on the principle of reciprocity, he is not far from the path.

Confucius

#18. In the wake of the tax bonanzas for new commercial projects, roadside strips boomed. Private developers responded to the lack of planned centers, public space, and public facilities in suburbs by building malls, office parks, and industrial parks as well as fast-food restaurants and motels.

Dolores Hayden

#19. How can you describe anyone, really? The inside and outside can be so different.

Dan Bar-el

#20. Food that is necessary for man's existence is as sacred as life itself. Everything that is indispensable for its preservation is the common property of society as a whole. It is only the surplus that is private property and can be safely left to individual commercial enterprise.

Maximilien Robespierre

#21. Not even Fanny had tears for aunt Norris, not even when she was gone for ever.

Jane Austen