Food For Thought

Let them eat cake. - Marie Antoinette

Politics is the art of the possible. - Otto von Bismarck

Art is a house that tries to be haunted. - Emily Dickinson

People will travel anywhere for good food. - Rene Redzepi

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate. - Emily Dickinson

There ain't no such thing as wrong food. - Sean Stewart

I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake. - Mary McCarthy

Logic is neither science nor an art, but a dodge. - Benjamin Jowett

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. - Degas

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. - Yoko Ono

Life doesn't imitate art; it imitates bad television. - Woody Allen

What a strange illusion to suppose that beauty is goodness. - Leo Tolstoy

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. - Dale Carnegie

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Because the sweeter the cake, the more bitter the jelly can be. - Lady Gaga

I got food poisoning today. I don't know when I'll use it. - Steven Wright

The Iranians and Persians are excellent at the art of negotiation. - Donald Trump

It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant. - James Joyce

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. - Thomas Merton

Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art. - Wynetka Ann Reynolds

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. - Frederico Fellini

Short of screaming-hot Thai food, everything can be suitable for kids too. - Guy Fieri

Life beats down and crushes the soul, but art reminds you that you have one. - Stella Adler

My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor. - Phyllis Diller

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed. - A.J. Liebling

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers. - James Baldwin

Shopping: The fine art of acquiring things you don't need with money you don't have. - Unknown

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. - JRR Tolkien

The art of art, the glory of expression, and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. - Walt Whitman

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw. - Damien Hirst

Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. - Dwight D Eisenhower

By eating many fruits and vegetables in place of fast food and junk food, people could avoid obesity. - David H Murdock

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself. - Bertrand Russell

What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you. - Nora Ephron

Because of their cuisine, Germans don't consider farting rude. They'd certainly be out of luck if they did. - P.J. O'Rourke

Sea spaghetti looks like dark fettuccine and has a similar texture - you can get it in health food stores or online. - Yotam Ottolenghi

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. - Andre Gide

Humility is becoming a lost art, but it's not difficult to practice. It means that you realize that others have been involved in your success. - Harvey Mackay

Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within. - Claudia Johnson