{"quotes":[{"text":"There he got out the luncheon-basket and packed a simple meal, in which, remembering the stranger's origin and preferences, he took care to include a yard of long French bread, a sausage out of which the garlic sang, some cheese which lay down and cried, and a long-necked straw-covered flask wherein lay bottled sunshine shed and garnered on far Southern slopes.","author":"Kenneth Grahame","tags":["baskets","bread","food","meals","picnics","sausage","slopes","sunshine"],"id":12820,"author_id":"Kenneth+Grahame"},{"text":"They prefer their meals alive and terrified, for fear is their favorite sauce.","author":"Donald G. Firesmith","tags":["demonic","demonic-attack","demons","devils","evil","evilness","fear","hell","hell-on-earth","meals","terrified","tortured","torturer","war"],"id":18460,"author_id":"Donald+G.+Firesmith"},{"text":"A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","compassion","compassionate","deep","dictum","dictums","dustbin","dustbins","eat","eating","epigram","epigrams","food","garbage","garbage-can","garbage-cans","gnome","gnomes","hobo","hobos","homeless","humor","humour","insightful","leftovers","made-me-think","make-you-think","maxim","maxims","meal","meals","philanthropist","philanthropists","philanthropy","pity","poor","portion","poverty","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","quotes","rich","satire","satirical","saying","sayings","sincere","sincerity","sympathetic","sympathy","thought-provoking","thoughtful","trash","trash-can","trash-cans","truly"],"id":26095,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"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.","author":"Elias Canetti","tags":["consciousness","eating","meals"],"id":67297,"author_id":"Elias+Canetti"},{"text":"Soon they were all sitting on the rocky ledge, which was still warm, watching the sun go down into the lake. It was the most beautiful evening, with the lake as blue as a cornflower and the sky flecked with rosy clouds. They held their hard-boiled eggs in one hand and a piece of bread and butter in the other, munching happily. There was a dish of salt for everyone to dip their eggs into.‘I don’t know why, but the meals we have on picnics always taste so much nicer than the ones we have indoors,’ said George.","author":"Enid Blyton","tags":["eating","eggs","evening","food","indoors","meals","nature","outdoors","picnics"],"id":100977,"author_id":"Enid+Blyton"},{"text":"For breakfast to be called ‘in bed’ instead of ‘on top of a bed,’ the house in which it is about to be eaten has to have at least two rooms (excluding the kitchen); (at least) three, if it has a bathroom.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["anniversary","ate","b-b","bathroom","bathrooms","bed-and-breakfast","breakfast","breakfast-in-bed","breakfasted","breakfasts","chase","court","courtship","eat","eaten","food","hit-on","hitting-on","house","houses","kitchen","kitchens","marriage","marriages","meal","meals","morning","nutrition","poor","poverty","pursue","restroom","restrooms","romance","romantic","room","rooms","toilet","toilets","wedding","weddings","woo"],"id":115200,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"It is childish to eat primarily or only to please your tongue.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["child","childish","children","cook","cooking","dead","death","dish","dishes","drink","eat","feed","food","immature","immaturity","mature","maturity","meal","meals","nourish","nourishment","nutrition","please","recipes","starvation","starve","survival","survive","sustenance","tongue","vitamins"],"id":115405,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Cooking is great, but the meal that has been prepared for you with love is the best.","author":"Stephen Richards","tags":["cooking","happy-eating","love","meals","self-help","stephen-richards","stephen-richards-"],"id":169142,"author_id":"Stephen+Richards"},{"text":"If you can eat with mates or friends or family, I mean, it's such a brilliant thing isn't it? If you feel really rubbish and you have a nice bit of food it makes you feel good, you know?","author":"Jamie Oliver","tags":["eating","food","friendship","meals","togetherness"],"id":171400,"author_id":"Jamie+Oliver"},{"text":"Would it really be so bad if you slowed your life down even a teensy bit? If you took charge of the ingredients of your food instead of letting corporations stuff you and your family, like baby birds, full of sugar, corn products, chemicals, and meat from really, really unhappy animals?","author":"Catherine Friend","tags":["cooking","food","health","meals"],"id":202913,"author_id":"Catherine+Friend"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":26,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}