“If you spend enough time reading or writing, you find a voice, but you also find certain tastes. You find certain writers who when they write, it makes your own brain voice like a tuning fork, and you just resonate with them. And when that happens, reading those writers ... becomes a source of unbelievable joy. It’s like eating candy for the soul. And I sometimes have a hard time understanding how people who don’t have that in their lives make it through the day.” PeopleIfsWritingSoulSometimesHardEnoughHappensJoyCertainReadingUnderstandingVoiceBrainSourceTasteEatingHard TimesUnbelievableCandyEnough TimeForksTuningReading Or Writing Author:David Foster Wallace
“You ought to try eating raw oysters in a restaurant with every eye focused upon you - it makes you feel as if the creatures were whales, your fork a derrick and your mouth Mammouth Cave.” IfsFeelsTryingEyeOughtCreaturesEatingMouthsFocusedRestaurantsCavesWhalesForksOystersEating Raw Author:Lillian Russell
“If I am incapable of washing dishes joyfully, if I want to finish them quickly so I can go and have dessert, I will be equally incapable of enjoying my dessert. With the fork in my hand, I will be thinking about what to do next, and the texture and flavor of the dessert, together with the pleasure of eating it, will be lost. I will always be dragged into the future, never able to live in the present moment.” IfsThinkingWantI CanMomentsHandsAbleTogetherNextLostEnjoyPleasureEatingPresent MomentDishesIncapableFlavorTextureWashingDessertLive In The PresentForksWashing Dishes Author:Nhat Hanh
“As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible.” StillsEatingCooksKnivesForks Author:Mario Batali
“The practice of diplomacy, I have found, is sometimes like eating soup with a fork: much activity yielding little nourishment.” LittlesSometimesFoundPracticeActivityEatingSoupDiplomacyNourishmentForks Author:Sheri S. Tepper
“At least, you two have decent manners," says Effie as we're finishing the main course. "The pair last year ate everything with their hands like a couple of savages. It completely upset my digestion." ... My mother taught Prim and me to eat properly, so yes, I can handle a fork and knife. But I hate Effie Trinket's comment so much I make a point of eating the rest of my meal with my fingers. Then I wipe my hands on the tablecloth. This makes her purse her lips tightly together.” YearsI CanTwoHandsTogetherLastsMotherHateCoursesTaughtCoupleEatingI HateFingersLipsHandleMannersUpsetMealsDecentPairsCommentKnivesLast YearSavagesWipeFinishingPursesForksDigestionTrinketsYes I CanMain CourseEffie Trinket Author:Suzanne Collins