Every food column that I author at Monterey County Weekly's Edible Complex column includes a quote.
It functions as a form of a back-up plan: If you find no inspiration in the words I serve, perhaps you'll draw meaning from the philosophical dessert at the end of the buffet.
With that in mind, here are more to build on those dished out this week with "Good food makes you think. Thinking burns calories. Which means more eating."
• “When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength,” Tecumsehsaid. “Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.”
• Cartoonist Scott Adams: “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”
• Baptist preacher Charles Spurgeon: “It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.”
• “Ideas are like pizza dough,” journalist and author Anna Quindlen said. “Made to be tossed around.”
• “Feeling gratitude and not expressing it,” William Arthur Ward said, “is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”
• “Eating is really one of your indoor sports,” pioneering American designer Dorothy Draper said. “You play three times a day, and it’s well worthwhile to make the game as pleasant as possible.”
• Willi Hastings: “Eating an artichoke is like getting to know someone really well.”
• Leonard Nimoy, who passed away Feb. 27 at age 83, and was stationed at Fort Ord in the ’50s, beam us out: “The miracle is this,” he once said. “The more we share the more we have.”
• Marvin Gaye: “I wish that being famous helped prevent me from being constipated.”
• Henry Rollins: “Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.”
• Will Tuttle: “Martin Luther King, Jr. said, ‘Violence anywhere hurts everyone, everywhere.’ I believe when we show compassion and kindness anywhere it blesses everyone everywhere.”
• Robin Williams: “No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.”
• John Madden: “Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something.”
• Take it away, Tony Robbins: “It’s not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.”
•“I am not young enough,” Oscar Wilde said, “to know everything.”
• “I do not weep at the world,” Zora Neale Hurston said. “I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.”
• Ben Franklin: “Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.”
• French painter and poet Francis Picabia: “Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction.”
• “I was never really insane,” Edgar Allan Poe said, “except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
• “Trials and tribulations are transportation,” former Warriors Coach Mark Jackson said, “for where you’re going.”
• ”When we are no longer able to change a situation,” Viktor E. Frankl said, “we are challenged to change ourselves.”
• “In wine,” said Pliny the Elder, “there’s truth.”
• Like Han Solo says in The Empire Strikes Back, after C-3PO gives him the chances of surviving an asteroid field (3,720 to 1): “Never tell me the odds.”
• “A life is not important,” Jackie Robinson said, “except in the impact it has on other lives.”
• “Those who cannot change their minds,” Irish playwright-socialist George Bernard Shaw said, “cannot change anything.”
• ”One belongs to New York instantly,” Tom Wolfe said. “One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.”
•“We must,” said sociologist Ivan Illich, “rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.”
• “Tip the world over on its side,” Frank Lloyd Wright said, “and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.”
• “The Earth does not belong to us,” Chief Seattle said. “We belong to the Earth.”
• “To eat is a necessity,” François de La Rochefoucauld said, “but to eat intelligently is an art.”
• “When engaged in eating,” Agatha Christie said, “the brain should be the servant of the stomach.”
• Mike Dooley: “It’s not knowing what the solution is, but simply knowing that there is one, which brings it forth.”
•“National parks are the best idea we ever had,” Wallace Stegner said in 1983.“Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst.”
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