Meat famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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They put arsenic in his meat And stared aghast to watch him eat; They poured strychnine in his cup And shook to see him drink it up.
-- A. E. Housman -
I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.
-- A. J. Jacobs -
Whenever I'm about to eat meat I always see my little dog's eyes.
-- Adele -
I'm not a vegetarian, but I have cut back sharply on the meat that I eat.
-- Al Gore -
So I am living without fats, without meat, without fish, but am feeling quite well this way. It always seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore.
-- Albert Einstein -
It occurred to me that I just didn't see how I could go ahead and continue to eat meat. It just seemed so... cannibalistic to me. And so, I'm a vegetarian, and I have been ever since.
-- Alice Paul -
One must cook a piece of meat a thousand times before one begins to truly understand it.
-- Andre Soltner -
Don't take a butcher's advice on how to cook meat. If he knew, he'd be a chef.
-- Andy Rooney -
I am a hunter of beauty and I move slow and I keep the eyes wide, every fiber of every muscle sensing all wonder and this is the thrill of the hunt and I could be an expert on the life full, the beauty meat that lurks in every moment. I hunger to taste life. God.
-- Ann Voskamp -
Wholesome food is wholesome food anywhere. I may not like something but, generally speaking, if it's a busy, street food stall serving mystery meat in India, they're in the business of serving their neighbors. They're not targeted toward a transient crowd of tourists that won't be around tomorrow. They're not in the business of poisoning their neighbors.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it - not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living. Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
I don't like to see animals in pain. That was very uncomfortable to me. I don't like factory farming. I'm not an advocate for the meat industry.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.
-- Anthony Burgess -
My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.
-- Anthony Hopkins -
I'm not the type of person to eat big hunks of meat. I think people are starting to realize that great things come in small batches.
-- April Bloomfield -
Ostrich is a very lean meat. Bison is a very lean meat. Chicken is a very lean meat. Notice something about my favorite meats?
-- Arlo Guthrie -
Histories used often to be stories: the fashion now is to leave out the story. Our histories are stall-fed: the facts are absorbed by the reflexions, as the meat is sometimes by the fat.
-- Augustus William Hare -
Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
-- B. C. Forbes -
As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.
-- Bear Grylls -
My refusing to eat meat occasioned inconveniency, and I have been frequently chided for my singularity. But my light repast allows for greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
I don't smoke, I don't drink much, I don't eat red meat. I stay out of the sun.
-- Bernadette Peters -
I'm a post-modern vegetarian. I eat meat ironically.
-- Bill Bailey -
All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.
-- Bill Griffith -
I'm a vegetarian, but I don't expect other people not to eat meat.
-- Bjorn Lomborg -
Go vegetable heavy. Reverse the psychology of your plate by making meat the side dish and vegetables the main course.
-- Bobby Flay -
An instant-read thermometer is your best bet for making sure that meat and fish are cooked to the proper temperature.
-- Bobby Flay -
Meat eating and a compassionate religion do not go hand in hand.
-- Bodo Balsys -
The meat in the sausage has got to be Conservative.
-- Boris Johnson -
I would make a poor vegetarian because I adore meat.
-- Britt Ekland -
I've been a vegetarian for so long, I forgot how much I missed meat. You know you don't realize how important meat is to you until you don't have it for long time.
-- Brittany Daniel -
Meat-eaters make every day a 9/11 for animals in slaughterhouses.
-- Brock Chisholm -
Eating meat is not your personal decision, any more than, you know, whether somebody beats their child is their personal decision.
-- Bruce Friedrich -
Innocents, the meat in a ghastly sandwich between an uncaring society and a vengeful state.
-- Bryce Courtenay -
Until a vegan or vegetarian enters the room, people don't see themselves as meat-eaters. They are merely 'eaters', and it is we vegans who have made them aware of what they are doing. Often this is discomforting.
-- Carol J. Adams -
I cannot do the piece-of-talking-meat thing, the 'Here's your money, wear a pretty dress and take the cheque.' I'm not made that way. I have to be as good as I can be at whatever I do.
-- Carol Vorderman -
When people ask me why I don't eat meat or any other animal products, I say, 'Because they are unhealthy and they are the product of a violent and inhumane industry.'
-- Casey Affleck -
I've always wanted to hunt another human being for sport, even though I know his fear will taint the taste of the meat.
-- Catherine Zeta-Jones -
Some people love Sundays; I don't, particularly. I used to rather dread them when I was younger. I was brought up on Sunday roasts, which I've always loathed. If I didn't finish my meat, I had to sit with it for most of the afternoon. No wonder I'm a vegetarian now.
-- Celia Imrie -
You eat meat with your teeth and you kill things that are better than you are, and in the same respect you say how bad and even killers that your children are. You make your children what they are.
-- Charles Manson -
There isn't anything I don't eat, although I'm not too keen on creepy crawly things. Other than that, I'm quite adventurous. I like all types of red meat, and I'm not a fussy eater at all.
-- Cherie Lunghi -
They claim red meat is bad for you. But I never saw a sick-looking tiger.
-- Chi Chi Rodriguez -
Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that's bad for you!
-- Chi Chi Rodriguez -
I want a big fat woman with meat shaking on her bones.
-- Chick Willis -
Making love to a fat woman sure is a treat, because I'm here to tell you that meat hold heat.
-- Chick Willis -
The women who inspired this play deserved to be smacked across the head with a meat ax and that, I flatter myself, is exactly what I smacked them with.
-- Clare Boothe Luce -
I feel like a nude little piece of white meat out here.
-- Cody Lundin -
The meat. I'd barbecue it before I put it on
-- Cody Simpson -
God’s Word is the living seed that brings new birth. It is the milk that nurtures the new life of a young Christian and the meat that builds the muscle of a mature believer.
-- Colin S. Smith -
The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live.
-- Confucius -
This dish ain't just called Karate Meat because it's got an Asian kick to it. It's called Karate Meat because it will beat you up like a pigeon in prison.
-- Coolio -
The longest-lived people eat a plant-based diet. They eat meat but only as a condiment or a celebration. Nothing they eat has a plastic wrapper.
-- Dan Buettner -
Meat and poultry is safe. It's safer than it's probably ever been.
-- Dan Glickman -
I've been just eating very healthy, all organic, no sugar, white flour, nothing artificial. I'm being so incredibly strict... not a lot of meat!
-- Danica McKellar -
It's a Tim sandwich. The meat is fresh, but the bread is moldy.
-- Daniel Craig -
I didn't grow up eating meat - I was a vegetarian until I was 18.
-- Daphne Oz -
All the white meat is gone. There's nothin' but necks on the platter.
-- Darrell Royal -
Some people are still going to want to eat meat. We do agree though that vegetarianism is a healthier diet.
-- Dave Stroud -
For me, directing is like writing with meat. I can write live, in real time, and change things and be confident that I'm helping the movie.
-- David Ayer -
The headline is the 'ticket on the meat.' Use it to flag down readers who are prospects for the kind of product you are advertising.
-- David Ogilvy -
Among the earliest forms of human self-awareness was the awareness of being meat.
-- David Quammen -
I grew up in Texas, eating meat five times a day, and I liked meat. But I began being a vegetarian when I was 19 because I found that I felt better.
-- Dean Ornish -
In our house, some of our favourite recipes just happen to be vegetarian, but I still enjoy meat and I believe very much in meat.
-- Delia Smith -
That kind of ball is meat and two drink for the Palace defence.
-- Denis Irwin -
Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.
-- Denis Leary -
The people of the future will say, 'meat-eaters!' in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism.
-- Dennis Weaver -
Years ago on the set of Gunsmoke I read the book The Holy Science. Since then I have not eaten meat.
-- Dennis Weaver -
If you can justify killing to eat meat, you can justify the conditions of the ghetto. I cannot justify either one.
-- Dick Gregory -
I have been heartbroken once and it has affected all my relationships from there on. But now I look at it as a occupational hazard. If you are in the meat market at some point you are gonna get mad cows disease.
-- Dominic Monaghan -
Tofu hot dogs are actually scarier than real hot dogs. It's like wanting the worst possible meat product without even the thrill of it actually being meat.
-- Douglas Coupland -
I quit eating red meat a long time ago. I'm a vegetarian, but not by a moral issue or any kind of stand. I still eat dairy. And I quit eating sugar about the same time I quit eating red meat, but I eat fruit.
-- Dwight Yoakam -
I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.
-- Earl Campbell -
Love is not all; it is not meat nor drink.
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay -
Being a public person doesn't necessarily mean you're a piece of meat for everybody.
-- Elle Macpherson -
Don't you quote Sister White. I don't want you ever to quote Sister White until you get your vantage ground where you know where you are. Quote the Bible. Talk the Bible. It is full of meat, full of fatness. Carry it right out in your life, and you will know more Bible than you know now.
-- Ellen G. White -
I think many cooks are afraid of undercooked meats. A good thermometer is a cook's best friend.
-- Emeril Lagasse -
How terribly hard and almost impossible it is to tell the truth. More than anything else, the artist in us prevents us from telling aught as it really happened. We deal with the truth as the cook deals with meat and vegetables.
-- Eric Hoffer -
If we each had to butcher our own meat, there would be a great increase in the number of vegetarians.
-- Ernest Howard Crosby -
I kill flies, I eat meat, you know, whatever.
-- Ethan Hawke -
But I love fish, cheese and meat, and I eat everything, but only in small quantities if it's rich.
-- Eva Herzigova -
Our food system takes abundant grain,which people can't afford,and shrinks it into meat,which better-off people will pay for.
-- Frances Moore Lappé -
We got hooked on grain-fed meat just as we got hooked on gas guzzling automobiles. Big cars made sense only when oil was cheap; grain-fed meat makes sense only because the true costs of producing it are not counted.
-- Frances Moore Lappé -
When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or something like that, but still, to me, the thrill, or the meat of the thing, is the actual painting. I don't get any thrill out of laying it out.
-- Frank Stella -
It's like a prehistoric reflex, you know, going out and getting the meat and bringing it back to the cave. You feel you're supposed to make it better, but more than likely she's asking you to tell her how you feel.
-- Fred Ward -
The English will agree with me that there are plenty of good things for the table in America; but the old proverb says: 'God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.'
-- Frederick Marryat -
Meat is necessary when there is hard physical work to be done, or in a very cold climate, or when edible plants cannot be found...Animal flesh provides all the substances we need, both for the intensive working of our organism and for maintaining a normal temperature in cold climates.
-- G. I. Gurdjieff -
You know what’s more insane than [slaughterhouses]? Meat eaters. Walking around, acting like their lifestyle isn’t causing any harm.
-- Gary Yourofsky -
If people want to be real meat eaters, I'd love to see people eat raw flesh from the bone, down to the bone with nothing left but the bones, day after day after day.
-- Gary Yourofsky