Charles Stuart Calverley Quotes

There are daily stresses on the road, but when everyone gets fed, everyone gets happy. Simple.

Dinner was ready. Professor Lidenbrock did full justice to it, for his compulsory fast on board had turned his stomach into an unfathomable gulf.

Sitting down and sharing a meal together combines two of my favorite loves: eating great food and talking about great food.

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

Anyone who's a chef, who loves food, ultimately knows that all that matters is: 'Is it good? Does it give pleasure?'

I've got a pretty good appetite right now.

Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

Food makes me happy. Make me work round the clock, but just feed me first!

In anticipation of a meal - supposing we are with the ideal companion at the best table in the perfect restaurant - we might indeed postpone sadness. And maybe even halfway through, we will remain in tolerably high spirits, with dessert still to come. But as we near the end of eating, we begin to feel anticipatory twinges of anticlimax.

I love salad, but I have to have something 'solid' with it because I don't feel satisfied without carbs.

I'm not a big fan of food, but when I do eat, I like to eat.

When I sit down to eat, the greatest spice of all is hunger.

I like food. I like eating.

Sure, I eat because I have to. But I also eat because I want to. It is one of life's few pleasures.

Have you eaten?' I asked Diesel. When?' Recently.' No.

Hunger makes dinners, pastime suppers.

However amazing a dish looks, it is always the taste that lingers in your memory. Family and friends will appreciate a meal that tastes superb-even if you've brought the pan to the table.

While you fear missing a meal, you aren't fully aware of the meals you do eat.

To him who is stinted of food a boiled turnip will relish like a roast fowl.

If thou rise with an Appetite, thou art sure never to sit down without one.

You ask me what I'd like to do that I haven't done and I say 'Nothin'!' I haven't any mountains to climb or oceans to swim. I've been an extremely blessed individual. ... I'm not clamorin' for more trinkets. If I were to die tomorrow, I could say I've had a good life.

I've never stayed at a bed and breakfast. If I did, I figure you would start to get hungry! "Is that all you got around here? Well, maybe you can direct me to a chair lunch dinner."

Eat every meal as if it's your last; when the last one comes, you probably won't be very hungry.

I poke around in the pile, about to settle on some cod chowder, when Peeta holds out a can to me. “Here.” I take it, not knowing what to expect. The label reads LAMB STEW.