Top 100 Good Meal Quotes
#1. He'd tried fishing, dancing, gambling and drink, allegedly four of life's greatest pleasures, and wasn't sure that he saw the point. Food he was happy with - Death liked a good meal as much as anyone else.
Anonymous
#2. The world was a soup and thought was generally a fork: it seldom resulted in a good meal.
Harry Mulisch
#3. The Bible is to your soul what bread is to your body. You need it daily. One good meal does not suffice for a lifetime.
Billy Graham
#4. Cooking, to me, it's kind of therapeutic. It's completely different from music as well. I'm not amazing at it, but I can cook myself a good meal. And I'm not just saying this, but anytime I'm on the bus or at home, I'm watching Food Network or cooking on TV just 'cause it's interesting to me.
Phillip Phillips
#5. The pleasure of sitting down to a good meal is not limited to just eating what's set in front of you. It can also be about the sensations or memories associated with it.
Dianne Jacob
#6. You guarantee a good meal by picking the recipes well, not by following recipes well.
Timothy Ferriss
#7. I love music. For me, music is morning coffee. It's mood medicine. It's pure magic. A good song is like a good meal-I just want to inhale it and then share a bite with someone else.
Hoda Kotb
#8. He had a white beard and twinkly blue eyes, and all in all gave the impression of what Santa Claus would look like if he'd converted to Christian and gone without a good meal sine last Christmas.
Barbara Kingsolver
#9. After a truly good meal, an outstanding cigar is still the most satisfying after-dinner activity that doesn't involve two human beings.
Brad Shaw
#10. I have a God-given right to pursue happiness, and happiness to me is killing things, skinning them, plucking them, and then having a good meal. What makes me happy is going out and blowing a duck's head off.
Phil Robertson
#11. Lucretia Jane Price. A sweet name for a sweet lady that smelled of roses, spoke with a sweet drawl, and was surely made of all the sweet country things a man who hadn't eaten a good meal in a long time could imagine
molasses, sweet peas, sweet corn, freshly churned butter.
Linda Leigh Hargrove
#12. Clothes are like a good meal, a good movie, great pieces of music.
Michael Kors
#13. A good meal can somewhat repair / The eatings of slight love
Philip Larkin
#14. Some guy invented Vitamin A out of a carrot. I'll bet he can't invent a good meal out of one.
Will Rogers
#15. If I had to describe myself to an alien I'd say I was bigger than the average human, enjoy a drink or two with a good meal and have a bigger head than most. I'd also say I'm really handsome - especially if they were a female alien.
Dwayne Johnson
#16. For me, I don't expect to have a really amazing meal each time I dine out. Having a good meal with your loved ones - that's what makes the experience.
Wolfgang Puck
#17. The Greek side of me definitely loves a good meal, a lot of laughing, loud discussions.
Rita Wilson
#18. What greater restoratives have we poor mortals than a good meal taken in the company of loving friends?
Flora Thompson
#19. When I'm doing shows I don't need much from a city. All I'm looking for is a good meal and a decent spot to have a couple drinks.
Hannibal Buress
#20. You know how you have a good meal and you got gravy left on the plate. The gravy was so good that you don't want to leave it on the plate but you don't want to be a pig about it? So you take your bread and use it to sop up the rest of the gravy. That guy is totally soppable!
Erin Jamison
#21. My mother used to say that a good meal could ease a troubled heart.
Amy Ewing
#22. A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.
Pat Conroy
#23. You have to make entertaining movies. But like a good meal, it's nice to have a little food for thought after you walk out of the theater rather than just wiling away a couple of hours.
Michael Douglas
#24. All around the dining hall, you can feel the rejuvenating effect that a good meal can bring on. The way it can make people kinder, funnier, more optimistic, and remind them it's not a mistake to go on living. It's better than any medicine.
Suzanne Collins
#25. It's all about portion control. Grilled fish, a small amount of wild rice and vegetables is a good meal.
Elizabeth Hurley
#26. When we sit at the table, there is more going on than satisfying hunger. It is sad to think of those who eat simply to satisfy their hunger and who do not permit themselves to linger under the many spells offered by a good meal - the satisfaction of our hearts, our minds and our spirits.
Leo Buscaglia
#27. When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
#28. Are bacon and chocolate the foundation of a good meal? No, everybody knows
that is a deep fryer and/or gravy. However, I have long held the notion that you can't name a food that I can't improve by adding either bacon or chocolate.
Aaron Blaylock
#29. The key to a good meal is simplicity and the right seasoning.
Buddy Valastro
#30. Life should always be like this ... Like lingering over a good meal.
Janet Fitch
#31. A good meal is very important to me. When I have a bad meal, especially out, it's like I'm sitting in an airport during a flight delay. It's a part of my life I can't get back.
Josh Elliott
#32. To her lover a beautiful woman is a delight; / To a monk she's a distraction; / To a mosquito, a good meal. It makes the point well: how things seem depends on the lens or filter through which we look at them.
Tara Bennett-Goleman
#33. A good meal, a good talk, a good fuck
what better way to pass the day?
Henry Miller
#34. A good meal soothes the soul as it regenerates the body.
From the abundance of it flows a benign benevolence.
Frederick W. Hackwood
#35. When I feel well and in a good humour, or when I am taking a drive or walking after a good meal, or in the night when I cannot sleep, thoughts crowd into my mind as easily as you could wish.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
#36. I'm not a pop artist. For me pop never was ... Pop is concerned with exteriors. I'm concerned with interiors. When I use objects, I see them as a vocabulary of feelings. I can spend a lot of time with objects, and they leave me as satisfied as a good meal. I don't think pop artists feel that way.
Jim Dine
#37. Oddly enough, I'm not religious but I'm also very fond of St Peter's in Rome. When I'm there, I always know there's a good meal not far away.
Jonathan Pryce
#38. The fact is that it takes more than ingredients and technique to cook a good meal. A good cook puts something of himself into the preparation - he cooks with enjoyment, anticipation, spontaneity, and he is willing to experiment.
Pearl Bailey
#39. A good meal must be as harmonious as a symphony and as well-constructed as a Norman cathedral.
Fernand Point
#40. I love spending time with my friends and family. The simplest things in life give me the most pleasure: cooking a good meal, enjoying my friends.
Cindy Morgan
#41. I'm tired of females who order a salad, then look as if they deserve a medal. A good meal is a gift.
Jennifer Probst
#42. One learned to take time to savor life, much as one took time to savor a good meal or glass of wine. The French called it "l'entente de la vie," the harmony of life.
David McCullough
#43. She's just trying to make sure Anthony gets a good meal - Antonio.
George W. Bush
#44. This is the sort of thing we should say by the fireside in the winter-time, as we lie on soft couches after a good meal, drinking sweet wine and crunching chickpeas: Of what country are you, and how old are you, good sir? And how old were you when the Mede came?
Herodotus
#45. Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.
George Burns
#46. America's craft brewers know that beer, not wine, is the best beverage for accompanying a good meal.
Nancy Johnson
#47. It's very clear that there's a lot of double standards going on. Should there be a 30mph speed limit? Of course there bloody should. And certainly with kids and school food, kids need to be nannied for sure. So give them a bloody good meal at school.
Jamie Oliver
#48. I will tell you, I'm a lousy cook, but I think I'm a pretty good judge of a good meal.
Barney Frank
#50. When I say I want to possess a woman for a day, maybe a whole weekend, it's like I'm inviting her to a dinner party. I'm making exactly the food I want, serving the drinks I like, planning everything. But she's the guest. Just because I'm in charge doesn't mean I won't serve her a damn good meal.
Cara McKenna
#51. [Bachelors'] approach to gastronomy is basically sexual, since few of them under seventy-nine will bother to produce a good meal unless it is for a pretty woman.
M.F.K. Fisher
#52. When you start one of these programs, school lunch programs, in a country that heretofore had nothing of that kind, immediately school enrollment jumps dramatically. Girls and boys get to the classroom with the promise of a good meal once a day.
George McGovern
#53. Hi Allan, it's Harry'
'Which Harry?'
'Truman, Allan. Harry S. Truman, the president, damn it!'
'How nice! That was a good meal we had Mr President, thank you. I hope you weren't required to fly the plane home?
Jonas Jonasson
#54. I believe in eating. I think women especially have this fear of eating, and I think there is a whole euphoric plane you can rise to when you have a good meal. You sit down and with every bite you honestly just say thank you.
Tori Amos
#55. Craft can be practiced by anyone, regardless of the skill or artistry that has come to be demanded by those who preach craft. Like a good meal, a good Crafternoon shouldn't need much - a few quality ingredients, a couple of good friends, and a little bit of creativity.
Maura Madden
#56. I am convinced that we as adults must constantly cling to, affirm, and celebrate with our children those things we love, sunsets, laughter, the taste of a good meal, the warmth of a hickory fire shared by real friends, the joy of discovery and accomplishment, the constant surprises of life.
Eliot Wigginton
#57. It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it.
M.F.K. Fisher
#58. Next to a good meal and possibly a long night's sleep the greatest morale builder ... is clothes.
Ilka Chase
#59. Any free meal is a good meal, you know?
Joe Sakic
#60. These days it's hard to look at a poodle without thinking what a good meal he would make.
Steve Martin
#61. [T]ea, that uniquely English meal, that unnecessary collation at which no stimulants
neither alcohol nor meat
are served, that comforting repast of which to partake is as good as second childhood.
Angela Carter
#62. I like to have my hand on every single plate that goes out. It's really a good feeling when someone compliments your meal, and you had everything to do with making it. It's very rewarding.
Bill Dickey
#63. prefer married women and expensive whores. You have a nice meal, a few laughs, a good fuck, and then you each go back to your own lives. It's better that way." So
Don Winslow
#64. Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.
Oscar Wilde
#65. Well, I look at it like this: When you go to a restaurant, the less you know about what happens in the kitchen, the more you enjoy your meal. If the soup tastes good, everything's cool, and you don't necessarily want to know what's in it. The same thing holds true with movies.
Jeffrey Wright
#66. I love to cook a meal for the so-called holidays. You always need the turkey. I like making a good BBQ brisket as well.
Action Bronson
#67. It was a good thing I recognized you or I might have had a lovely meal of you with some parsley. And potatoes.
G.A. Aiken
#68. Beans, beans, they're good for your heart," I said cheerily, seizing the opening. "The more you eat, the more you fart. The more you fart, the better you feel - so let's have beans for every meal!
Diana Gabaldon
#69. The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal, or two friends talking over a pint of beer, or a man alone reading a book that interests him ...
C.S. Lewis
#70. I eyed her and shrugged my shoulders, wondering how on earth she thought this meal was good, but her wafer-thin body gave her away; not once in her life had she eaten good-tasting food.
Gwyn Hyman Rubio
#71. When I was in my twenties and broke, I'd buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life.
Gabrielle Zevin
#72. Reading is like cooking. It can take hours to prepare, and then the meal is over in minutes. Good, that means you've done your job well.
Gabe Berman
#73. Never underestimate the power of being popular in pop culture. You have to be able to do something. You can have a good seat at the restaurant, but you still have to pay for the meal. Fame is important, but to be rich is more important.
Gene Simmons
#74. Good families always ritualize the table. You can say, "This is a Christmas meal; this is a birthday meal."
Henri Nouwen
#75. The guardian and arbiter of superlative eating, with every meal an unforgettable experience in pleasure, starting with the soup, which he said, 'must be the agent provocateur of a good dinner.'
Marie-Antoine Careme
#76. Yelling while eating was like swallowing anger. It's simply not good for us. It leaves us unhappy and unsatisfied, as if the meal didn't count or wasn't good, and an hour later we're back looking for something to make us feel better.
Mary DeTurris Poust
#77. My nephew. He was a law student. A good Christian. He never kept girlfriends. He never missed a ceremonial meal.
S.A. David
#78. Bologna sandwiches on white bread with one slice of American cheese and doused with mustard will stop any thought of additional food for a good six hours, and what is a meal for if not that?
Ed Baldwin
#79. I hope when I'm ninety-five the only things I want are free: love, family, a good home-cooked meal.
Karen Marie Moning
#81. Talking about unpleasant things during a meal is not good for digestion, not good for health.
Betty Jamie Chung
#82. There's something amazing about tea. It's good before a meal, after a meal, when drunk, when taking drugs, while playing football and after being called a poof in the street.
Noel Fielding
#83. It is said that the hallmark of a gentleman is that he is only ever rude intentionally. Arthur Bryant was no gentleman. His rudeness came from an inability to cloak his opinions in even the most cursory civility. He believed in good manners at the meal table and bad manners almost everywhere else.
Christopher Fowler
#84. I recently have gotten into juicing as an in-between-meals snack. I think the more vegetable ingredients the better, especially if they are green. I find that a good juice can really curb my appetite when I need to wait for the next meal.
Noureen DeWulf
#85. A meal becomes good by starting with quality instructions. It becomes great when you add a quality chef.
Erica Ariel Fox
#86. Fame to me certainly is only a temporary and a partial happiness ... fame is not really for a daily diet, that's not what fulfills you. It warms you a bit but the warming is temporary. It's like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have to have it every meal and every day.
Marilyn Monroe
#87. O meal is good enough to justify all the money and effort wasted in preparing it. It is an illusion and an expense. Live as I do, undeceived.
Peter S. Beagle
#88. The perfect gadget would somehow allow me to fly. Isn't that what everybody wants? It would also cook a damn good microwave pizza. So while in flight you had something to eat - an in-flight meal. Where would I go? Well, nowadays, it would probably just take me to work a lot quicker.
John Krasinski
#89. Anything is possible on a train: a great meal, a binge, a visit from card players, an intrigue, a good night's sleep, and strangers' monologues framed like Russian short stories.
Paul Theroux
#90. Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal.
Ray Charles
#91. I believe that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, if you don't have a good breakfast, then what are you going to do with the rest of your day. I get scared when I don't have a good breakfast!
Maisie Williams
#92. The ideal pre-show meal I think is pho, the Vietnamese soup. It's very light and good for you, and then the broth is great for the throat.
Kevin Morby
#93. It's possible to go to the market, buy good ingredients, and make yourself a healthy meal for less than it costs to buy a value meal at McDonald's.
Eric Schlosser
#94. I am home for good like a tiny shoot. The tiny shoots in my mother's garden. I have a passion for idle chatter about books, language and literature. Preparing a meal together, that can be romantic.
Abigail George
#95. I am well aware that a chef is only as good as his last meal.
Gordon Ramsay
#96. The memory of that day in the dump made him a little sentimental for his father - they had had some good times together, and Buddy had made a decent meal in the end. Really, what else could you ask from a parent?
Joe Hill
#97. (Nothing is) really as good as a meal made 'from scratch' or a picture created with your own hands.
Mitsumasa Anno
#98. Pleasure is a good thing. But it is the dessert of life, not the meal.
Dan Baker
#99. Dating is like trying to make a meal out of leftovers. Some leftovers actually get better when they've had a little time to mature. But others should be thrown out right away, No matter how you try to warm them up, they're never as good as when they were new.
Lisa Kleypas
#100. Delivering a speech or presentation is like cooking a meal; as long as the chef is good the cuisine doesn't matter.
Jack Canfield
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