Marcel Wanders Quotes

Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat.

I think it would be a bit miserable going out with somebody who was totally uninterested in food.

Food not only connects us at the idyllic dinner table setting with family and friends: it is also part of our mundane, daily transit to and from work.

This thing happened where I noticed anytime I got together with four friends or more, the conversation goes to food.

We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation.

Literally, I just love food and I like going to dinner with big groups of people so you can try everything.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

The average person is gregarious; there is something in the spirit of the crowd that adds to the enjoyment of entertainment.

Too many people just eat to consume calories. Try dining for a change.

Eating without conversation is only stoking.

Talking about food is like talking about your dreams. Everyone has something to say. We all have to eat, it's just what we eat which differs. Some people eat for fuel and I feel bad for them.

I could party in a cardboard box with people who are funny and don't care. For me, it's really about who I surround myself with, so I just try to always be with hilarious people.

People come to my places to eat dinner with their friends, not with me.

If you are what you eat, then you are shaped by what you share as you eat.

It's human nature to want to be with other people.

I think that it is important to be gregarious, and that friendships are not just a leisure pursuit, that they are an integral part of what it is to be human, and one does better work if one has a circle of friends that is active.

I miss people. I miss going anywhere and meeting a random person and saying 'Hi' and having a conversation about life. I love people.

Connections with other people affect not only the quality of our lives but also our survival.

We're social beings, and food is one of the things we can use three times a day to connect with family or with friends.

When you sit down to eat at a table, you are ready to take in nourishment - we all need to eat to live. Even in primal tribes, people ate together. It's the opening for friendship.

I think that lunch is one of the most enjoyable and important things in the day. But you need to create the space and the time to do just that. And in Italy, we do that.

When I'm in L.A., I have salads, sandwiches, and soups all the time. Eating in New York, I feel like I have to have pizza and bagels while I'm here!

I do quite like rice and beans weirdly, I don't know how or why. For me I always eat my beans first one by one and then savour the rice because it is bloody fantastic.

A lot of the things that we do in life are to find connection.

I love seeing what people are eating. It's a great way of looking at what is similar and what is different about people. It's sociology and anthropology and history rolled into one.