Quotes · Skopia

35 quotes

Treasure Island · 1882

★ 1.3

Essay · Feminist literature

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

Virginia Woolf

A Room of One's Own · 1929

★ 1.3

Film · Neo-noir · Crime (film) · Crime

Hamburgers! The cornerstone of any nutritious breakfast.

Jules Winnfield

Pulp Fiction · 1994

★ 1.4

Personal journal · Travel writing

My definition of Man is, "a Cooking Animal." The beasts have memory, judgment, and all the faculties and passions of our mind, in a certain degree; but no beast is a cook... Man alone can dress a good dish; and every man whatever is more or less a cook, in seasoning what he himself eats.

James Boswell

1773

★ 1.8

Cookbook

Good food is always a trouble and its preparation should be regarded as a labour of love.

Elizabeth David

1951

★ 1.9

Novel

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

Peter De Vries

1956

★ 1.9

Food writing

Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

1825

★ 1.9

Film · Drama (film) · Drama

Anyway, like I was sayin', shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, sauté it. Dey's uh, shrimp-kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich. That—that's about it.

Bubba

Forrest Gump · 1994

★ 1.9

TV program · Comedy (TV) · Comedy

Just give me all the bacon and eggs you have. Wait, wait. I worry what you just heard was, "Give me a lot of bacon and eggs." What I said was, "Give me all the bacon and eggs you have." Do you understand?

Ron Swanson

Parks and Recreation · 2011

★ 1.9

Play · Comedy (play) · Romantic comedy (play)

I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit.

William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night · 1602

★ 2.0

Play · Comedy (play)

One should eat to live, and not live to eat.

Moliere

1669

★ 2.0

Play · Comedy (play)

It's good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.

Moliere

1672

★ 2.0

TV program · Crime (TV) · Drama (TV) · Crime · Drama

All our food: pizza, calzone, buffalo mozzarella, olive oil. These fucks had nothin'. They ate pootsie before we gave them the gift of our cuisine.

Paulie "Walnuts" Gualtieri

The Sopranos · 1999

★ 2.0

Film · Crime (film) · Crime

Medium rare. Hmmm...an aristocrat.

Johnny Dio

Goodfellas · 1990

★ 2.1

Film · Neo-noir · Crime (film) · Crime

Any time of the day is a good time for pie.

Fabienne

Pulp Fiction · 1994

★ 2.1

TV program · Sitcom · Comedy (TV) · Comedy

Look, I got a few good years left. If I want a Chip Ahoy, I’m having it.

Morty Seinfeld

Seinfeld · 1996

★ 2.1

TV program · Sitcom · Comedy (TV) · Comedy

It’s the best part. It’s crunchy, it’s explosive, it’s where the muffin breaks free of the pan and sort of does its own thing. I’ll tell you. That’s a million-dollar idea right there. Just sell the tops.

Elaine Benes

Seinfeld · 1997

★ 2.1

TV program · Comedy (TV) · Comedy

We need to remember what's important in life: friends, waffles, work. Or waffles, friends, work. Doesn't matter, but work is third.

Leslie Knope

Parks and Recreation · 2011

★ 2.1

TV program · Comedy (TV) · Comedy

There has never been a sadness that can't be cured by breakfast food.

Ron Swanson

Parks and Recreation · 2014

★ 2.1

Almanac

Eat to live, and not live to eat.

Benjamin Franklin

1733

★ 2.2

Almanac

To lengthen thy Life, lessen thy Meals.

Benjamin Franklin

1733

★ 2.2

He was a bold Man that first eat an oyster.

Jonathan Swift

1738

★ 2.2

Film · Spy (film) · Thriller (film) · Spy · Thriller

Red wine with fish. Well, that should have told me something.

James Bond

From Russia with Love · 1963

★ 2.2

TV program · Sitcom · Comedy (TV) · Comedy

Food and sex. Those are my two passions.

George Costanza

Seinfeld · 1997

★ 2.2

Comedy special · Comedy (stand up)

We got so much food in America we allergic to food. Allergic to food! Hungry people ain't allergic to shit! You think anybody in Rwanda's got a fuckin' lactose intolerance?

Chris Rock

Bring the Pain · 1996

★ 2.9

Food writing

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a star.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

1825

★ 3.5

Essay · Food writing

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.

M.F.K. Fisher

1949

★ 3.5

Personal journal

Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.

Samuel Pepys

1665

★ 3.6

Food writing

Cooking is the most ancient of arts, for Adam was born hungry.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

1825

★ 3.6

Autobiography and memoir

A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good.

Andy Warhol

The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again) · 1975

★ 3.6

Essay · Magazine

Is it all right to boil a sentient creature alive just for our gustatory pleasure?

David Foster Wallace

Gourmet · 2004

★ 3.6

Film · Historical drama (film) · Drama (film) · Historical drama · Drama

Fried chicken just tend to make you feel better about life.

Minny Jackson

The Help · 2011

★ 3.9

History (play)

Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.

William Shakespeare

1595

★ 4.9

Play · History (play)

He hath eaten me out of house and home.

William Shakespeare

Henry IV, Part 2 · 1597

★ 5.5

Play · Comedy (play)

Eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath.

William Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night's Dream · 1599

★ 7.2

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