Quotes About A Meal

#1. 'J'eet jet?' is still the standard way for a Pittsburgher to ask if you're ready for a meal, but the meal itself is no longer limited to chipped ham and an Iron City beer.

Bill Dedman

#2. We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body.

Paulo Coelho

#3. I mean the world is a place where it feels like a woman has to go out everywhere in society, you have to buy her and cook her a meal and stuff.

Kool Keith

#4. We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day. I don't care if it's a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath - whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.

Al Pacino

#5. Anything that improves people's expectations of a meal is good for the world. Anything that weans even one kid or one adult away from Chili's or T.G.I. Friday's is definitely a win for the good guys.

Anthony Bourdain

#6. As an athlete, you're brought up with that mentality that you finish everything you start. If you're going to start a meal, you're going to finish it until the plate is clean. I had to change that mentality to one of where, 'I eat until I'm full and leave the rest.'

Michael Strahan

#7. Bread is a staple article of diet in theory, rather than in practice. There are few who are truly fond of bread in its simplest, most pure, and most healthful state ... Is there one person in a thousand who would truly enjoy a meal of simple bread of two days old?

William Alcott

#8. The Uruguayans are losing no time in making a meal around the referee.

Mike Ingham

#9. I think you need someone in your life you can depend on, someone you can confide in when things go to hell at work, someone to massage your tired feet and your stiff shoulders, someone to bring you tea and cook a meal once
in a while. Someone to be there for you.

Pamela Clare

#10. I always befriended animals and have said many a good word for them. Even to the least-loved mosquitoes I gave many a meal, and told them to go in peace.

John Muir

#11. And something chocolate, of course. A meal was not a meal without some sort of chocolate for desert.

Janet Evanovich

#12. To grow a tomato or a pepper and prepare a meal from your labor and care is primordially satisfying.

Nell Newman

#13. However amazing a dish looks, it is always the taste that lingers in your memory. Family and friends will appreciate a meal that tastes superb-even if you've brought the pan to the table.

Gordon Ramsay

#14. To me, working out is literally like eating a meal or drinking water or breathing.

Hilary Swank

#15. Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family.

Roland Joffe

#16. I am a good housekeeper. You can eat off my kitchen floor. Just scoop all the crumbs together and you've got quite a meal.

Janene Murphy

#17. We train in the mornings, and then I go home and rest or sleep, and usually I go for a meal with Abel of a night, as we're the two with no family here, so we tend to hang around together.

Richard Gough

#18. I knew that no matter what door you knock on in a Cretan village, it will be opened for you. A meal will be served in your honor, and you will sleep between the best sheets in the house. In Crete, the stranger is still the unknown god. Before him, all doors and all hearts are opened.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#19. A meal was no more than a fragile defense against the inevitability of the next meal. Food itself could never answer the question of food; it only delayed the moment when the question would have to be asked in earnest.

Paul Auster

#20. I love to cook. I'd hoped by now I'd have a big loft. I have this fantasy that between 12 and 4, if you're in New York, it's known that I'll be serving a meal and you can just show up. You can watch TV, hang out, nap. Once a month. Wouldn't that be nice?

Cara Buono

#21. Before you eat food or drink water, look at what you're about to eat or drink and feel love and gratitude. Make sure your conversations are positive when you are sitting down to a meal.

Rhonda Byrne

#22. Any work done with love - be it a photo or a meal or a painting - always looks so pretty, because love is a master of creating magical beauties!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#23. Naturally, etiquette books order handwashing before as well as after meals, but the practice also appears, with a frequency that borders on obsession, in poetry. Poets found it hard to describe a banquet or even a meal without affirming that everyone washed their hands.

Katherine Ashenburg

#24. Love was really a high priority. You could drive up this road and there'd be open doors. You could actually walk in as a stranger and they'd invite you for a meal.

Linda Perhacs

#25. I had a meal last night. I ordered everything in French, surprised everybody. It was a Chinese restaurant. I said to this Chinese waiter, 'Look, this chicken I got here is cold.' He said, 'It should be, it's been dead two weeks.'

Tommy Cooper

#26. For hunter it's just a meal, but for the prey it's a matter of life and death! -- Same game, different stakes!

Poornima Dhiman

#27. I knew I should believe him, as he taught at Oxford, but his answers did not feel complete. It was like having a meal and not getting quite enough to eat.

Tracy Chevalier

#28. It is a virtue, I came to believe long ago, not to make a meal out of one's emotional life. There's always enough work to do, not to mention that there's world enough outside.

Joseph Brodsky

#29. If you're going out for a meal with friends, and they say they can't afford to go to such and such a place, you can't force them to afford it.

Phyllis Logan

#30. Satchmo was raised on steaming pots of red beans and rice, a meal so familiar that he described it as his "birthmark" - indeed, in adulthood, he often signed off letters with "Red beans and ricely yours.

Fiona Ross

#31. I think that romance sort of coincides with effort, so you can fall flat on your face, but as long as you're making a great effort, I think it comes off as romantic. So it can be something as simple as, like, if you're someone who doesn't cook, you can make a meal.

Ashton Kutcher

#32. It was wonderful, of course
ham with mustard is a meal of glory.

Dodie Smith

#33. Dessert is to a meal what a dress is to a woman.

Beatrice Peltre

#34. I think you live a fuller life with someone else, you know, you're firing on all cylinders. It can be a nightmare at times, we all know that, but nevertheless in the end I think to have someone else's input on anything - a book, a meal, your children, life, a walk - is fantastic.

Francesca Annis

#35. You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together.

Anthony Bourdain

#36. Eating a meal with full awareness can be a powerful, enlightening, and healing experience.

David Simon

#37. How starved you must have been that my heart became a meal for your ego.

Amanda Torroni

#38. I always feel like the editing room is like coming into the kitchen. What kind of a meal do you make from there? It can be anything.

Brit Marling

#39. You're rich if you've had a meal today.

Billy Graham

#40. You can do something as simple as drinking two cups of water before a meal to fill your belly a bit so that you don't overeat, or change up your cheese from dairy to nondairy.

Kathy Freston

#41. The time of getting fame for your name on its own is over. Artwork that is only about wanting to be famous will never make you famous. Any fame is a by-product of making something that means something. You don't go to a restaurant and order a meal because you want to have a shit.

Banksy

#42. Everything becomes closer once you realize that the world is only as far away as a nap and a meal.

Feist

#43. If you added it up, without her there was nothing
but with her even the simplest of gestures of walking a bird dog in the desert, or selecting the ingredients for a meal for two rather than one took on an ineffable charm.
(from the novella, Revenge)

Jim Harrison

#44. In the old patrician world there was a custom once a week you had to eat a meal with your slaves and get to know them as people.

Jared Harris

#45. When Jesus wanted to explain to his disciples what his death was all about, he didn't give them a theory, he gave them a meal.

N. T. Wright

#46. Nobody's ever asked me to pay for a meal before I've eaten it, I've never been pulled over just because I was driving the wrong kind of car in the wrong kind of area at the wrong time of night.

Wentworth Miller

#47. I can taste a meal and tell you every spice that's in there. I have taste buds like Betty Grable's legs - they should be insured with Lloyd's of London.

Lynda Resnick

#48. Fortunately, though she was hungry, she didn't mind missing a meal. Life was full of meals. They took up an enormous proportion of one's time.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#49. Be kind to yourself this evening. Buy something for yourself. Treat yourself to a meal. Look in the mirror and give yourself a smile

Yoko Ono

#50. People get so trapped by their technology now. Real life is so much better. I love talking with my mother and father. We really enjoy staying in and making a meal together. I'm very close with all four of my older sisters as well.

Sammi Hanratty

#51. If you are not hungry for success, you will not make the best use of your time. It is simple and clear. People who are truly hungry for food never play with a meal when they see it.

Israelmore Ayivor

#52. Real connection and intimacy is like a meal, not a sugar fix.

Kristin Armstrong

#53. I believe that people, regardless of their station in life, should be able to sit down at a table to a meal - inside away from the heat and cold, the rain and the snow.

Michael Nutter

#54. As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal.

Mr. T

#55. It is the technique, above all, that makes a meal Chinese or not.

Bee Wilson

#56. People like to warn you that by the time you reach the middle of your life, passion will begin to feel like a meal eaten long ago, which you remember with great tenderness.

Meg Wolitzer

#57. I don't cook for myself. I eat every meal out. I'm fed by others. I think it's a kind of social thing. I work collaboratively with others. A meal with a friend is my ultimate thing.

Micah Lexier

#58. Creating a meal for my friends and family, sitting together, eating, laughing and talking - that is when I am so happy. Oh my God, if you could see how much food I make - I am the original Jewish mother.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#59. I had a meal in Pizza Hut and the waitress told me I didn't need to pay. So I decided to be a bit cheeky and ask for more pizza and garlic bread.

Gareth Gates

#60. Whenever I eat a meal, I always leave the last bite on my plate. I don't know why, it's just a thing with me.

Gary Hoey

#61. An ideal day for me is a combination of a fun-exciting creative moment with work partners, some laughs and games with my kids, a good surf session, and great conversation with friends around a meal.

Yves Behar

#62. Linda's at her best when she's doing you a meal at home. That's when you see Linda. She cooks, she looks after the kids.

Paul McCartney

#63. Gods ... Nico. Over the past few days, every time Jason sacrificed a portion of a meal to Jupiter, he prayed to his dad to help Nico. That kid had gone through so much, and yet he had volunteered for the most difficult job: transporting the Athena Parthenos statue to Camp Half-Blood.

Rick Riordan

#64. Being a vegan just helps me build up my self-esteem. I feel good about it every time I eat a meal.

Steve-O

#65. Where were the normal people who liked conversations about movies, walks in the park, and trips to nice restaurants where they could eat a meal and not a cock?

Harlem Dae

#66. It's wise to learn how to cook,' Kessligh fumed, 'but a meal prepared over three weeks is inedible! There is wisdom in action! So stop talking, and act!

Joel Shepherd

#67. At Eleven Madison Park, instead of brioche or chocolates, we give our guests a jar of breakfast granola as a gift at the end of a meal. We also make savory granolas.

Daniel Humm

#68. My father always cooks more polenta than he needs for a meal. The excess he spreads on an oiled surface and chills. Next day, he cuts out chunks, fries them in olive oil and serves with salad.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#69. For the mind is capable of dealing with only one kind of food; it lives, grows and is nourished upon ideas only; mere information is to it as a meal of sawdust to the body; there are no organs for the assimilation of the one more than of the other.

Charlotte Mason

#70. A meal can be thought of as a ritual and a work of art, with limits laid down, desires aroused and fulfilled, enticements, variety, patterning and plot. As in a work of art, not only the overall form, but also the details matter intensely.

Margaret Visser

#71. It wasn't as if we were waiting for a train, it wasn't as if we were waiting for a meal - it was just that there were was nothing to wait for. Nothing.

Ford Madox Ford

#72. pay close attention to the timing of your meals, making sure that you eat them about every three to four hours. Your snacks - if you chose to have them - will come between the meals, but no sooner than an hour after eating a meal.

Ian K. Smith

#73. Let the things that happen on the stage be just as complex and yet just as simple as they are in life. For instance, people are having a meal, just having a meal, but at the same time their happiness is being created, or their lives are being smashed up.

Anton Chekhov

#74. A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.

W. H. Auden

#75. He heard the creaking and cracking of wood again, groaning like a living thing, like the hungry stomach of the world growling for a meal. Then

Patrick Ness

#76. You're in the public eye and you just hope that people don't come up and interrupt you while your in the middle of a meal or a conversation or something like that.

Wayne Rogers

#77. If I don't eat veggies with a meal, I feel deprived.

Bruce Ames

#78. The cook in the kitchen preparing a meal from plants and animals at the end of this shortest of food chains has a great many things to worry about, but "health" is simply not one of them, because it is given.

Michael Pollan

#79. You can't get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.

Magic Johnson

#80. I want to get the American people to start sitting at a table together and talking to each other, holding court, and enjoying a meal - and it doesn't have an expense.

Kelly LeBrock

#81. A successful dinner is one that lasts a while and one where everyone leaves happy. It's a meal where we didn't just wolf food down, rather something else happened at the table. That is the goal.

Laurie David

#82. One could have eaten a meal off the ground without overbrimming the proverbial peck of dirt. Mrs.

L.M. Montgomery

#83. When I cook a meal, I like to serve things one by one and keep them separate. I get that from my father - he's such a purist. Some people even put their desserts on the main plate. It's just wrong.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#84. A meal can be an erotic experience in itself.

Alex Comfort

#85. But dinner is dinner, a meal at which not so much to eat - it becomes difficult to eat much at it as you grow older - as to drink, to talk, to flirt, to discuss, to rejoice "at the closing of the day". I do not think anything serious should be done after it, as nothing should before breakfast.

George Saintsbury

#86. If it's a cocktail party, I generally make five or six different things, and I try to choose recipes that feel like a meal: a chicken thing, a fish or shrimp thing, maybe two vegetable things, and I think it's fun to end the cocktail party with a sweet thing.

Ina Garten

#87. I'll piously gather up the crumbs of your feasts and make a meal of them," said Nora. "I'll let you know how they taste.

Henry James

#88. Moss is inconceivably strong. Moss eats stone; scarcely anything, in return, eats moss. Moss dines upon boulders, slowly but devastatingly, in a meal that lasts for centuries. Given enough time, a colony of moss can turn a cliff into gravel, and turn that gravel into topsoil.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#89. My idea of a meal, if I was hungry, was to open a bag of potato chips.

Sandra Cisneros

#90. If I go to your home, and you're cooking me a meal, I will eat whatever you put in front of me.

Bryan Fuller

#91. You know, on the road, I never miss a meal. I eat five, six, seven times a day, depending on when I wake up and when I got to sleep. I never miss a training day. I always get my four days out of my seven.

Warren Cuccurullo

#92. Maddox had been kissed there before. Polite little explorations, tentative tongue flicks, quick forays before the main event. But Ben made a meal out of his ass - a seven-course banquet of sensation and tongue fucking. Like literally, fucking, tongue delving deep. That was new, deliciously so. "God.

Annabeth Albert

#93. If they tell me one more time that I'm using the wrong fork for a part of a meal, I swear I'll show them exactly how multifunctional the utensil can be.

Jennifer Ellision

#94. Just as the Eucharist fuels our soul and our spirit, good healthful meals fuel our bodies for the work God calls each of us to do in his kingdom. Praying before we consume a meal or when we are feeling exhausted and stressed helps to bring this "body and soul" connection into the light

Mary DeTurris Poust

#95. I love my wife dearly, and, therefore, I've never cooked a meal, romantic or otherwise, for her.

Steve Carell

#96. Water is the medicine for indigestion; it is invigorating when the food that is eaten is well digested; it is like nectar when drunk in the middle of a dinner; and it is like poison when taken at the end of a meal.

Chanakya

#97. I have never cooked a meal in my life and always end up paying for dozens of people to eat with me.

Rufus Wainwright

#98. He could not comprehend what was happening to him, but it had to do with the casual cruelty of people who'd never missed a meal or had a gun stuck to their heads.

Ben Fountain

#99. Fear filled his gut like a meal he could not digest.

George R R Martin

#100. Beer is amazing. Nutritional. Medicinal. A beverage, but also a meal.

J.R. Moehringer