There are three ways you can get along with a girl: one, shut up and listen to what she has to say; two, tell her you like what she's wearing; and three, treat her to really good food...If you do all that and still don't get the results you want, bet...
Jackie Chan is a very good comedy/martial arts star. He does one kind of martial arts that Jet Li doesn't know how to do and Jet Li does a martial art that Jackie Chan doesn't know how to do. You can both go to two Chinese restaurants, but both can h...
A man who calls his kinsmen to a feast does not do so to save them from starving. They all have food in their own homes. When we gather together in the moonlit village ground it is not because of the moon. Every man can see it in his own compound. We...
All these nice clothes, all these jokes and drinks and food, what good does it do? Tomorrow, folk will be poor and starving and dying with a solder's pike in them, and these people will have another celebration, more nice clothes, more jokes, more ge...
Here is a principle to use in all aspects of economics and policy. When you find a good or service that is in huge demand but the supply is so limited to the point that the price goes up and up, look for the regulation that is causing it. This applie...
Mr. Fox: [after animals have dug through the wall] You scared the cuss out of us! Badger: A lot of good animals... [starts screaming] Badger: ... are probably going to die, because of you! Half the woods have been obliterated, nobody can get out, and...
Remy: Look, if we're going to be thieves, why not steal the good stuff in the kitchen, where nothing is poisoned? Django: First of all, we are not thieves. Secondly, stay out of the kitchen and away from the humans. It's dangerous. Remy: [voiceover] ...
My mother's death changed the alchemy of food. Holidays run together now like ungrooved rivers. I forget what they are for. I buy bakery goods. They look dead under the blue lights. I don't do anything the way she taught me but I get fat. I don't loo...
As UC Berkeley economics professor Brad DeLong put it to me: You get famine if the price of food spikes far beyond that of some people's means. This can be because food is short, objectively. This can be because the rich have bid the resources normal...
[Brundle sits at a table full of junk food, and explains his altered digestive system to Veronica and her videocamera] Seth Brundle: How does Brundlefly eat? Well, he found out the hard and painful way that he eats very much the way a fly eats. His t...
Let us hurry and finish up the food; when visitors arrive, the meal will be over.
Three things give us hardy strength: sleeping on hairy mattresses, breathing cold air, and eating dry food.
Taken slowly, or mindfully, even eating an orange or a bowl of soup, or a small piece of dark chocolate for that matter, can take on the flavor or prayer.
The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture.
Eating connects us to our histories as much as it connects our souls to our bodies, our bodies to the earth.
Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.
Alcohol helps you to loosen up to make memories you won’t forget, and then it helps you to forget them completely.
I want to make enough money to buy an island. Something modest, like Australia.
Every sex noise can be converted into a note and frozen in a can of soda. Ask me about menstruation music today!
When she offered me a spot of tea, I said, “No thanks, I’ve already got a spot of tea on my shirt.
A can of tomato juice is not like a can of blood. Still, I drink one daily.
