Stephen Graham Jones Quotes

The idea behind fast food is great - people want convenience.

Like Hollywood movies, MTV and blue jeans, fast food has become one of America's major cultural exports.

Subway is a real point of pride. We have influenced the way people eat.

The bottom line - customers want delicious food served quickly in an interactive format, and they are increasingly unwilling to compromise.

We're not living in a school-of-Paris world, you know, and the things we really see in America are like this. It's McDonald's, it's not Le Corbusier.

We cover hamburgers, chicken, veggie burgers, salads, we've got a pretty broad range. To me, McDonald's isn't only about the food. It's about the prices, it's about the way we eat.

McDonald's revolutionized fast food. They introduced a way to eat food without knives, forks or plates. Most fast foods can be eaten while steering the wheel of a car and the restaurants are usually drive through.

Grease and starch just always win over protein. In food as in so many things. Look around you, that's what our whole country is based on. It's amazing that Michael Jordan can be an iconic figure because he's basically just protein.

I'm the voice of a Chipotle Burrito. The world has changed.

I act like a native in North America. I eat sliders in Detroit.

It's not food if it arrived through the window of your car.

Society is fast - fast food, fast cars, fast everything.

Like many other chef-entrepreneurs, I am convinced that fast food does not mean bad food.

Shake Shack is good, but it's no In-N-Out.

There was a Burger King in Hamilton, N.Y., where Colgate is, that had three sizes: Small, Medium, and Liter. I would go in there and order a large. And they'd say, 'We don't have large; we have liters.' So they'd make us order liters of cola, which I found to be just anti-American.

As a culture, we really like our food passive.

Well, I wasn't a big Chick-fil-A fan, I guess, I never really knew about them because I'm from Philly and they don't have them there.

America is definitely something I'm pretty excited about.

Boy, a drive-through liquor store. God bless America! A place where you can drive through and buy whiskey, beer... just the thing for that drunk driver who's constantly on the go. Cant stop now! I've got places to go, people to hit!

The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled not only by the guarantee of the Good but also by the shudder of the Bad.

In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold nine hundred billion units. Human beings. Go figure.

The American mirror, said the voice, the sad American mirror of wealth and poverty and constant useless metamorphosis, the mirror that sails and whose sails are pain.

Competition's always been a product of American lifestyle

Clarity and perseverance are difficult in American society because the basis of capitalism is greed and dissatisfaction.

The United States was a big country where everybody wore funny t-shirts and ate too much.