Quotes of: Junk-food Keyword

Much of our food system depends on our not knowing much about it, beyond the price disclosed by the checkout scanner; cheapness and ignorance are mutually reinforcing. And it's a short way from not knowing who's at the other end of your food chain to...

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Jeremy would be a handsome groom. He looked like a Ken doll come to life. Probably has the same plastic lack of parts as his tiny counterpart. Did she mention that I probably brought her to more orgasms than your plastic junk could ever dream of givi...

Turn Me On

M. Gustave: [Gustave and Zero are examining "Boy With Apple" in Dmitri's study] This is van Hoytl's exquisite portrayal of a beautiful boy on the cusp of manhood. Blond, smooth skin as white as that milk, of impeccable provenance. One of the last in ...

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Dean McCoppin: Sorry about the crowbar, kid. You'd be surprised how many people want to steal scrap. But, man, once I make it into art, I can't give it away. I mean, what am I? A junkman who makes art or an artist who sells junk? You tell me.

The Iron Giant

Helen: I'm calling to celebrate a momentous occasion. We are now *officially* moved in. Bob: That's great, honey. And the last three years don't count because... Helen: Because I finally unpacked the last box. Now it's official! Ha ha ha! Why do we h...

The Incredibles

Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: Heroin had robbed Renton of his sex drive, but now it returned with a vengeance. And as the impotence of those days faded into memory, grim desperation took hold of his sex-crazed mind. His post-junk libido, fuelled by alcohol...

Trainspotting

That eating should be foremost about bodily health is a relatively new and, I think, destructive idea-destructive not just the pleasure of eating, which would be bad enough, but paradoxically of our health as well. Indeed, no people on earth worry mo...

In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

One of the most important distinctions found within these pages is the fact that all foods are not created equal. Some foods are deficient in minerals and key nutrients, while other foods are packed with a powerhouse of valuable nutrients that can ch...

Longevity Now: A Comprehensive Approach to Healthy Hormones, Detoxification, Super Immunity, Reversing Calcification, and Total Rejuvenation

People think that food cheers you up, that a doughnut cures all ills, but this only works for trivial complaints. When real disaster strikes, food chokes you.

The Count

You thought you knew what food was, you thought it was elemental. You forgot how much restaurant there was in restaurant food and how much home was in homemade.

The Corrections

It's not just a matter of poor willpower on the part of the consumer and a give-the-people-what-they-want attitude on the part of the food manufacturers. What I found, over four years of research and reporting, was a conscious effort... to get people...

Michael Moss

I have experienced some amazing food! Yet when I think about the most luxurious and exquisite meals I have had, visions of simple food made from a few natural ingredients are what most excite me.

Mark Hyman

I like food that speaks to me. Food like French toast, English muffins, and Deviled eggs. Oh, oval embryonic spawn of chicken, why hast thou deceived me?

$3.33

Why don't you like the foods I like?" he asks sometimes. "Why don't you like the foods I make?" I answer.

Almost No Memory

Medicine is not a science; it is empiricism founded on a network of blunders.

How Nature Cures Comprising a New System of Hygiene; Also the Natural Food of Man

I pee whilst seated. But it’s hard to focus with people honking at me.

If you bring the booze and food, I'll bring the thirst and hunger

The four years I spent in college were the best five years of my life.

If you bring the booze and food, I'll bring the thirst and hunger

Men lie to get laid, women lie about orgasms, and hermaphrodites lie to themselves. 

If you bring the booze and food, I'll bring the thirst and hunger

Word of mouth—it’s more powerful, more convincing, and more audible than word of hand.

If you bring the booze and food, I'll bring the thirst and hunger

The longest 60 seconds in the world occur when someone says, “I’ll be there in a minute.

If you bring the booze and food, I'll bring the thirst and hunger

There was no experience, I thought, quite as wonderful as being an American in Paris.

Mastering the Art of French Eating: Lessons in Food and Love from a Year in Paris