“At least when the Emperor Justinian, a sky-god man, decided to outlaw sodomy, he had to come up with a good practical reason, which he did. It is well known, Justinian declared, that buggery is a principal cause of earthquakes, and so must be prohibited. But our sky-godders, always eager to hate, still quote Leviticus, as if that looney text had anything useful to say about anything except, perhaps, the inadvisability of eating shellfish in the Jerusalem area.” IfsMenWellsStillsReasonHateCausesKnownSkyEatingAreasDecidedCome UpPracticalsPrincipalWell KnownEmperorEarthquakesJerusalemOutlawMonotheismLeviticusShellfishJustinian Author:Gore Vidal
“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
“I would go to the craft services table and have Oreos or whatever, and a grown woman would come up to me and look at what I was eating and sigh and go, "I remember the days when I could eat like that." And I never knew what to say that, because I was 9.” LooksRememberEatingTablesCome UpCraftsSighOreosGrown Women Author:Mara Wilson
“The people who are making a lot of money and eating at McDonald's and watching MTV and have square eyeballs, they're over there. And then maybe there's like five other people left in America and I'm just waiting for them to come up with something interesting.” PeopleAmericaLeftWaitingInterestingFiveEatingCome UpSquaresLots Of MoneyMcdonaldsMtvSomething InterestingEyeballs Author:Chrissie Hynde
“People come up to me all the time and say, 'Oh, I love to watch Food Network,' and I ask them what they cook, and they say, 'I don't really cook.' They're afraid, they're intimidated, they know all about food from eating out and watching TV, but they don't know where to start in their own kitchen.” PeopleKnowsAsksWatchesTvsEatingCome UpCooksKitchenIntimidatedWatching TvEating OutFood Network Author:Michael Symon
“There's always hand-to-hand combat. All you need is to come up with a knife, and you'll at least stand a chance. If I get jumped, I'm dead!" I can hear my voice rising in anger. "But you won't! You'll be living up in some tree eating raw squirrels and picking off people with arrows.” PeopleIfsNeedsI CanHandsVoiceChanceTreeEatingCome UpRisingCombatKnivesArrowsSquirrelsEating Raw Book:The Hunger Games Source: The Hunger Games