“England and all civilised nations stand in deadly peril of not having enough to eat. As mouths multiply, food resources dwindle. Land is a limited quantity, and the land that will grow wheat is absolutely dependent on difficult and capricious natural phenomena... I hope to point a way out of the colossal dilemma. It is the chemist who must come to the rescue of the threatened communities. It is through the laboratory that starvation may ultimately be turned into plenty... The fixation of atmospheric nitrogen is one of the great discoveries, awaiting the genius of chemists.” WayMayEnoughScienceNationsGrowsDifficultCommunityNaturalLandFoodGeniusMouthsDiscoveryResourcesEnglandPlentyDependentQuantityRescueThreatenedPerilLaboratoryDilemmaStarvationWheatChemistColossalCapriciousCivilisedFixationNatural PhenomenaNitrogen Author:William Crookes
“Compilers resemble gluttonous eaters who devour excessive quantities of healthy food just to excrete them as refuse.” FoodHealthyWasteRefuseQuantityHealthy Food Author:Franz Grillparzer
“Some hours after eating this dish [lièvre à la royale, which contains 20 cloves of garlic and twice that quantity of shallots], there is a peculiar sensation of liberation in the head. and it is sensation of smell.” HoursFoodEatingSmellLiberationSensationsPeculiarQuantityDishesGarlic Author:Patience Gray
“If a body could just find oot the exac' proper proportion and quantity that ought to be drunk every day, and keep to that, I verily trow that he might leeve for ever, without dying at a', and that doctors and kirkyards would og oot o' fashion.” IfsBodyMightDyingFashionFoodOughtDoctorsCookingDrunkProportionCulinaryQuantity Author:James Hogg
“A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible. I wondered if they might be used-metaphorically, of course-to demonstrate the existence of God. Does naming a sphere of nothingness transmute it into being?” IfsDoeMightUsedCoursesSpaceExistenceFoodEmptyHolesParadoxSpheresQuantityNothingnessEmpty SpaceMinusExistence Of GodDoughnut Book:The Blind Assassin: A Novel Source: The Blind Assassin: A Novel
“It is disgusting to note the increase in the quantity of coffee used by my subjects and the amount of money that goes out of the country in consequence. Everybody is using coffee. If possible, this must be prevented. My people must drink beer.” PeopleIfsCountryUsedSubjectsFoodAmountDrinkConsequenceIncreaseNotesCoffeeBeerQuantityDisgusting Author:Frederick The Great
“I shall content myself with merely declaring my firm conviction that, for the seeker who would live in fear of God and who would see Him face to face, restraint in diet both as to quantity and quality is as essential as restraint in thought and speech.” FacesQualityFoodSpeechEssentialsConvictionFirmDietsQuantityRestraintSeekersFace To FaceDeclaringQuantity And Quality Book:All Men Are Brothers Source: All Men Are Brothers
“Pepper is small in quantity and great in virtue.” VirtueFoodCookingCulinaryQuantityPeppers Author:Plato