His meals were always punctual. Whether she cooked well or badly he did not know; it was a matter of total indifference to him. During his meals, which he ate at his writing desk, he was busy with important considerations. As a rule he would not have been able to say what precisely he had in his mouth. He reserved consciousness for real thoughts; they depend upon it; without consciousness, thoughts are unthinkable. Chewing and digestion happen of themselves. Elias Canetti
Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.
-
Ruth Reichl
There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read–unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you will see if you think the matter over.
-
E. Nesbit
We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.
-
David Mamet
When you walk a tightrope, you don't want to be eating buttered popcorn.
-
Anthony T. Hincks
When you mature in your relationship with God you realize how suffering and patience are like eating your spiritual vegetables.
-
Criss Jami
More Quotes By Elias Canetti
All things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages
The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation, and it seems most true when it eschews artistic devices of any sort.
For I believe that part of knowledge is its desire to show itself and its refusal to put up with a merely hidden existence. I find mute knowledge dangerous, for it grows ever more mute and ultimately secret, and must then avenge itself for being...
There are books, that one has for twenty years without reading them, that one always keeps at hand, that one takes along from city to city, from country to country, carefully packed, even when there is very little room, and perhaps one leafs through them...
