“And yet I do love a kind of light, melody, fragrance, food, embracement when I love my God; for He is the light, the melody, the fragrance, the food, the embracement of my inner self - there where is a brillance that space cannot contain, a sound that time cannot carry away, a perfume that no breeze disperses, a taste undimisnished by eating, a clinging together that no saiety will sunder. This is what I love when I love my God.” KindSelfLightTogetherSoundSpaceTasteEatingMelodyPerfumeBreezeFragranceInner SelfClinging Author:Saint Augustine
“Being from Staten Island and Brooklyn, I'm used to eating pasta and meatballs every single day.” UsedEatingIslandsBrooklynPastaMeatballs Author:Theo Rossi
“I'm pretty healthy so I think that helps a lot. I've been that way for a long time - 20 solid years of eating vegetarian/vegan and taking care of myself. That probably helps the preservation process.” ThinkingWayYearsLongHelpingCareProcessHealthyEatingLong TimeVegetarianVeganPreservation Author:Jared Leto
“Once when we were fifteen, River (Phoenix) and I went out for this fancy dinner in Manhattan and I ordered soft-shell crabs. He left the restaurant and walked around on Park Avenue, crying. I went out and said, "I love you so much. Why?" He had such a pain that I was eating an animal, that he hadn't impressed on me what was right. I loved him for that. For his dramatic desire that we share every belief, that I be with him all the way” WaySaidPainDesireBeliefLeftAnimalShareLove YouCryEatingRiversDinnerDramaticFancyParksRestaurantsShellsFifteenImpressedAvenuesManhattanPhoenixCrabsLove You So MuchI Love You So Much Author:Martha Plimpton
“I'm close to being a vegan, but I'm not one, technically. I don't eat eggs, or nearly any dairy - no cheese or milk. I do eat honey, and a piece of milk chocolate here and there. It's never really been that hard for me. I've never had any desire to eat meat. In fact, when I was a kid I would have a really difficult time eating meat at all. It had to be the perfect bite, with no fat or gristle or bone or anything like that. I don't judge people who eat meat - that's not for me to say - but the whole thing just sort of bums me out.” PeopleHardWholeFactsKidsDesireDifficultPerfectPiecesJudgingEatingBonesFatsMeatEggsChocolateVeganBitesHoneyMilkCheeseDifficult TimesHere And ThereDairyEating Meat Author:Tobey Maguire
“The King is in his Tower, eating bread and honey. The Breakers in the basement, making all the money.” KingsEatingBreadHoneyTowersBasementsEating Bread Book:Black House: A Novel Source: Black House: A Novel
“On a train, why do I always end up sitting next to the woman who's eating the individual fruit pie by sucking the filling out through the hole in the middle?” EndsNextIndividualMiddleEatingSittingTrainFruitHolesPieFilling Author:Victoria Wood
“I'm from South Jersey: The idea of eating a roll with olive oil and anchovies or some kind of sardine and drinking mint tea definitely comes from reading Paul Bowles.” KindIdeasReadingEatingDrinkingSouthOilTeaJerseyOlivesMintOlive OilSardines Author:Patti Smith
“As young girls we grow up with the idea that life is going to be a bit of a fairytale. But at some point reality hits and we realise that's not what life is about. Many of us are faced with eating disorders and mental health struggles, bad relationships and heartbreak, low self-esteem and confused sexualities and more. Life is very much real.” IdeasRealSelfRealityYoungLife IsGirlGrowsBitsStruggleGrowing UpSelf EsteemEatingLowsMental HealthSexualityEsteemConfusedRealisingDisorderLow Self EsteemFairytaleEating DisorderBad Relationship Author:Darren Fletcher
“My husband regarded my prison past as a dirty secret and never asked me one single question about it. But what I had experienced and witnessed was eating at me and I needed to "tell somebody."” PastSecretNeededHusbandEatingPrisonDirtyMy HusbandDirty Secrets Author:Patricia McConnell
“When it comes to wheat, my main goal is to inform people, including farmers, that the prevailing notion that cutting fat and eating whole grains will make you healthy is not only wrong, it's destructive.” PeopleWholeGoalCuttingHealthyEatingNotionIncludingFatsDestructiveFarmersGrainWheatPrevailingWhole Grains Author:William Davis
“think a lot of people knew I was into healthy eating and exercising. When Disney approached me with this [Pass the Plate] I was really excited about it because I love to cook. It's a great message to send to kids that there are so many different ways to eat really healthy foods. It doesn't have to be boring and blah all the time.” PeopleThinkingWayDifferentKidsExerciseHealthyEatingMessagesExcitedBoringCooksDifferent WaysPlatesHealthy FoodBlahHealthy Eating Author:Brenda Song
“The thing about superheroes is that they don't have problems, right? A feminist hooker superhero wouldn't have to worry about assault, or pregnancy, or poverty, or disease, or eating and shelter, or police. In order to make her a superhero, you have to divorce her of the very context that makes her story possible. You have to gloss over the trauma.” StoriesProblemOrderPovertyWorryDiseaseEatingPoliceFeministDivorceTraumaPregnancyShelterAssaultSuperheroGloss Author:Daphne Gottlieb
“I'm on a constant yo-yo of health. I will go a week eating incredibly clean, but then I'll follow that up with a month's worth of binge eating. Then I hit the gym and eat clean, and then I mix it up with core exercises, yoga, Pilates, and sitting on an incline bench while checking my phone.” WeekMonthsExerciseEatingYogaSittingConstantCleanPhonesCoreGymBenchesPilatesInclineBingeBinge Eating Author:Josh McDermitt
“I am extremely active and conscious of not eating any processed foods.” EatingConsciousActiveProcessed Food Author:Sebastian Roche
“Eating is not one of the things that I do now to deal with pain, because I don't ever want to do that. But I isolate myself, that's what I do.” WantPainDealsEating Author:India.Arie
“Aspects that we consider normal today could very well be repugnant in the future - eating animals, for one thing, or abundant choice, or invasive surgery. I was simply trying to demonstrate that what is acceptable today may not be acceptable forever, and vice-versa.” TryingWellsMayTodayChoicesAnimalForeverOne ThingNormalEatingAspectVicesAcceptableSurgeryVice VersaEating Animals Author:Jasper Fforde
“When we travel for research our strategy is to simply move from kitchen to kitchen. It's truly a wonderful way to travel - food shopping, cooking and eating in one home for lunch and then another for dinner. The process of cooking takes us immediately into the rituals and rhythms of daily life and also places us firmly in the position of learners. We were meet with incredible generosity by all of the families we ate with.” WayHomeMovingProcessWonderfulPositionEatingResearchCookingStrategyIncrediblesDinnerRhythmGenerosityKitchenDaily LifeRitualLunchShoppingLearnersCooking And Eating Author:Jon Rubin
“I learned a lot of details about 1920s clothes, cars, kitchen appliances, and food. I had a character eating peanut butter in one scene until I learned that peanut butter wasn't commercially packaged and sold until 1924.” CharacterCarSceneEatingClothesDetailsKitchenPeanutsPeanut ButterAppliances Author:Laura Moriarty
“Many people will first be attracted to veganism for their health but find themselves far more open to learning about the animal issues when they don't have to block them out three times a day in order to enjoy eating. Then once people learn, it is hard to forget and go back. Come for the body, stay for the soul.” PeopleFirstsSoulHardBodyOrderThreeEnjoyForgetAnimalIssuesEatingBlockThree TimesVeganism Author:Karen Dawn
“Some people feel that humans have a right to eat other animals but not to trash the earth. They may choose veganism because a vegan's ecological footprint is light, but once they are not invested in eating animals, they are more likely to be willing to learn the details of what happens to them. That learning will encourage compassionate people to stick with a plant-based diet.” PeopleFeelsHumansMayLightHappensEarthAnimalWillingEatingPlantSticksDetailsDietsVeganCompassionateTrashVeganismEcologicalFootprintEating AnimalsPlant Based DietWilling To LearnEcological Footprints Author:Karen Dawn
“I think anything we do - eating, walking down the street, online shopping - gives you another perspective on writing stories.” ThinkingGivingWritingStoriesStreetsPerspectiveWalkingEatingOnlineShoppingWriting StoriesOnline Shopping Author:Peter Orner
“With any video you see online, like with YouTube, you gotta watch an ad, and that's gotta stop. And I think it'll stop by...the shitty network shows they put out will just have the ads in the shows. The characters will be eating Cheetos or whatever.” ThinkingCharacterShowsWatchesEatingVideoOnlineAdsYoutube Author:Derek Waters
“I want them [people] to feel open and comfortable to share the messy, dirty, shameful parts of themselves. Those are the parts I wanna see. And that eating disorders aren't just about "being thin."” PeopleWantFeelsShareComfortableEatingDirtyDisorderMessyShamefulEating Disorder Author:Jessie Kahnweiler
“Because I make films about eating disorders and sexual assault, people always come up to me and are like, "Are you okay?" like I'm a broken-down shell of a woman.” PeopleFilmBrokenEatingOkayCome UpDisorderShellsAssaultEating DisorderSexual AssaultBroken Down Author:Jessie Kahnweiler
“When you consider the many ways in which people have to make a living every day when they wake up, I figure that eating 20 eggs isn't that bad.” PeopleWayFiguresEatingWake UpEggs Author:Casey Affleck
“The dangers of eating animal products occur after the age of reproduction. If people developed cardiovascular disease that was fatal by the age of twelve or thirteen, eating animals would have died out long ago. You get it after you've already reproduced.” PeopleIfsLongAgeAnimalDangerProductsDiseaseEatingDiedTwelveLong AgoReproductionThirteenEating AnimalsCardiovascularCardiovascular Disease Author:Neal Barnard
“In China, because China is gaining wealth, rice consumption is way down. Rice is a poor person's food, and they're eating less of it. To wait in line at a fast food chain is cool. And they haven't historically had weight problems. So they don't have this culture of, "I need to lose weight."” WayNeedsPersonsProblemCultureWaitingLosesLinesWealthPoorHavensEatingWeightChinaChainsConsumptionRiceFast FoodLose WeightFood ChainWeight ProblemsEating Less Author:Neal Barnard
“If some people think, "Why am I eating a dead bird soaked in poop?" I think if some people get disgusted by that, it's all to the good. Their coronary arteries will be healthier.” PeopleIfsThinkingEatingBirdDisgustedPoopArteries Author:Neal Barnard
“Curiously, the balance seems to come when writing is woven into every aspect of my life, like eating or exercising - one flows constantly into the next: I'll wake up and have coffee, read the news, then write a letter or two (always in longhand), then go teach, and after teaching write a bit in a journal - dreams, what I had for breakfast and lunch and why I had it, what's on the iPod, sexual habits, etc. - then read a bit, then work on a real bit of writing...you get the idea.” WritingTwoIdeasRealDreamSeemsNextBitsTeachTeachingHabitBalanceExerciseEatingNewsAspectFlowLettersWake UpCoffeeEtcBreakfastLunchJournalWovenIpods Author:Kevin Keck
“I don't even do anything super crazy when it comes to eating. The most I would ever do is eat some kind of sushi raw. I keep it real light when it comes to food.” KindRealLightCrazyEatingSushiKeeping It Real Author:Deon Cole
“I just feel like everyone (including myself) on the planet is a little confused; we are all so driven by consumption - shopping, eating, getting high, whatever - anything to not "feel" what is really going on.” FeelsLittlesPlanetsEatingIncludingDrivenConfusedShoppingConsumptionGetting High Author:Princess Superstar
“My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.” PolicyEatingBirthdayCakeDessert Author:Boris Johnson
“The more years I go, the more experience I have, the more that nutrition and eating the right foods is important for recovery and things like that.” YearsImportantEatingRecoveryNutrition Author:Stephen Curry
“A lot of narrative films leave you no space for anything else but eating popcorn. I want to go in the complete opposite direction. I have to evacuate all psychology, to be less a protagonist and more a presence.” WantFilmSpacePsychologyEatingOppositesNarrativeProtagonistsPopcornComplete Opposites Author:Elia Suleiman
“If a person just takes what is socio-political and geographical from the themes of my films then that's not enough. But if the person goes out of the theatre and, for example, makes the dinner he's eating later on, extra nice then I feel that I have succeeded. We have this urge to anaesthetize the moment we're living in.” IfsFeelsPersonsEnoughMomentsFilmPoliticalNiceExampleEatingDinnerTheatreExtrasThemeUrges Author:Elia Suleiman
“Probably my eating disorder [is the hardest obstacle]. It ruled my life for years, and I didn't know how I could live with it forever, but I didn't know how I could live without it. It was a struggle to recover from, and it's only a daily reprieve, but as long as I stay spiritually centered, I don't veer off track or get tempted.” KnowsYearsLongKnow HowStruggleForeverEatingTrackObstaclesHardestDisorderTemptedEating DisorderReprieve Author:Ashley Rickards
“Sometimes it's binge eating as a method to handle emotional pain. I'll also write very sporadically - music, lyrics - to identify the problem. There are a few cathartic processes I've alternated randomly. There's no default. Each emotional experience elicits a different, possibly new response.” WritingDifferentSometimesProblemPainProcessEmotionalEatingMethodResponseHandleEmotional PainDefaultBingeCatharticBinge Eating Author:Brendan Dooling
“I try not to overeat (which is my biggest problem), and I find that when I'm eating quality foods from good sources, I don't need to overeat to feel satisfied. I cook with healthy oils (olive, coconut) and stay away as much as possible from overly processed foods. When I do indulge, I enjoy it. For that moment. And then I balance it with exercise.” NeedsFeelsTryingMomentsProblemEnjoyQualitySourceBalanceExerciseHealthyEatingOilSatisfiedCooksThat MomentIndulgeOlivesCoconutsProcessed Food Author:Adam Rodriguez
“I eat vegetarian. I am just drawn to clean eating, and although I do not deprive myself of sweets or French fries once in a while, my body just feels better if I give it good fuel to work with.” IfsGivingFeelsBodySweetEatingCleanFuelVegetarianFeel BetterFriesFrench Fries Author:Tricia Helfer
“I am running on fumes, so it's time to get centered again. I start with eating healthier and cutting out caffeine - at least cutting back on caffeine. I exercise and get outside to play. I reconnect with my spiritual practice, which is daily meditation and prayer. Most importantly, I reconnect with my family and friends. If all else fails, a few deep breaths.” IfsPlayRunningSpiritualPrayerPracticeMeditationCuttingFailingExerciseEatingMy FamilyBreathsFamily And FriendsDeep BreathSpiritual PracticeCaffeineDaily MeditationMeditation And Prayer Author:Amber Valletta
“I believe that a healthy lifestyle isn't just a regular exercise routine or your eating habits, but a synergy of a healthy mind and body. To fuel my body, I am relentless about never eating anything that isn't of this Earth. I have no interest in putting stuff in my body that's made in a lab. Movement is vital. Whether it's running, cross training, hiking with the dogs, or walking the streets of New York, I am constantly active.” MindBelieveMadeBodyRunningEarthI BelieveStuffInterestStreetsDogNew YorkMovementHabitWalkingExerciseHealthyEatingTrainingCrossesActiveLifestyleFuelRoutineHikingMind And BodyRelentlessHealthy LifestyleLabsSynergyHealthy MindEating HabitsRegular Exercise Author:Theo Rossi
“Fitness has always been a big part of my life, so I train twice a day, every day, as I always have done, but also eating very healthfully. I don't eat sugar, I don't have caffeine, I don't eat wheat - I look after my body outside and inside. It's just a part of who I've always been.” LooksDoneBodyBigsEatingTrainSugarWheatCaffeine Author:Neil Jackson
“Luckily, I didn't get too beaten up before someone gave me a shot, but there were times when I was living on friends' couches and eating five-dollar subs from Subway almost every meal.” FiveEatingShotsDollarsMealsBeatenCouchesLiving OnSubway Author:Robbie Amell
“There's going to be a lot of eating. My listeners have tweeted me and said "You've just got to keep eating, keep your energy up and have someone on duty to give you a massage if you need it." It will be a case of getting it done and making sure I don't get too cold, because that's crucial for the muscles. So that's all going to be taken care of. But really there's not much you can do - if you start cramping up you've just got to get on with it.” IfsNeedsGivingSaidDoneCareEnergyCan DoCasesTakenDutyColdEatingMusclesCrucialListenersMassage Author:Greg James
“Dr. Lecter would have more sustenance on the spacecraft from Alien because there are more people to eat. I think he'd get hungry after a while in the Overlook - I can't imagine him eating canned food.” PeopleThinkingI CanImagineEatingHungryAliensDrsSustenanceSpacecraftCanned Food Author:Bryan Fuller
“I'm just trying to eat healthy. That's my biggest thing right now. Staying away from fried foods, eating more greens and grilled food, just keeping my body right.” TryingBodyHealthyRight NowEatingStayingFried Food Author:Calvin Pryor
“All people want on this earth is to connect with others. Other than eating and sleeping. Human beings need to connect with other human beings. Otherwise, they lose their mind.” PeopleWantNeedsMindHumansEarthLosesHuman BeingsSleepEating Author:Sally Field
“The perfect Sunday morning is the family at home, staying in pajamas for half the day and eating a late breakfast.” HomePerfectHalfMorningLateEatingStayingSundayBreakfastPajamasSunday Morning Author:Christine Taylor
“The spiritual traditions of all the religions have certain similarities that are unmistakable. They share many of the same basic practices like sacred reading, spiritual guidance, moderation in eating, drinking and sexual expression, and above all, trying to be aware of the presence of God in other people and in everyday life.” PeopleTryingSpiritualCertainReadingPracticeShareExpressionEatingTraditionSacredDrinkingEverydayGuidanceEveryday LifeModerationSimilarityPresence Of GodSpiritual Guidance Author:Thomas Keating