Regardless of what our national credit rating is, people will always want a roof over their heads, food on their tables, fuel for their cars, and clothes on their backs.

I was mischievous. I wasn’t bad. I stole food so we could eat. My mother didn’t know. I used to tell her some man gave me $10 to sweep out the yard. I was like Robin Hood. I took from the rich and gave to the poor. Me.

Sometimes, it’s just easier to say yes to that extra snack or dessert, because frankly, it is exhausting to keep saying no. It’s exhausting to plead with our kids to eat just one more bite of vegetables.

I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.

What nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast?

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

I’m very type-A, and many things in my life are about control and domination, but eating should be a submissive experience, where you let down your guard and enjoy the ride.

Wherever I go, as long as I get a hot vegetable dish, I am okay. If I am in Gujarat, I have Gujarati food. If it’s Shillong, it’s northeastern.

The Kobe craze really annoyed me. Most of the practitioners had no real understanding of the product and were abusing it and exploiting it in terrible and ridiculous ways. Kobe beef should not be used in a hamburger. It’s completely pointless.

God never meant that people were to wear clothes. He meant we were to be nude. But we were in a state of innocence. Then sin came into the human race and became a blood poisoning.

The nuclear approach I’m involved in is called a traveling-wave reactor, which uses waste uranium for fuel. There’s a lot of things that have to go right for that dream to come true – many decades of building demo plants, proving the economics are right. But if it does, you could have cheaper energy with no CO2 emissions.

My father opened a restaurant. It’s so amazing… it’s so freaking delicious, but I’m telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there.

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn’t eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Seuss inspired me to try cauliflower!

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

Designers want me to dress like Spring, in billowing things. I don’t feel like Spring. I feel like a warm red Autumn.

I’ve never eaten a strawberry in my life. I have no desire to do that.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

I don’t care if you get up in the morning and don’t wash, don’t put any make-up on, don’t do your hair, even, but you have to have clothes if you want to look different.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

I would never win an award for not loving pizza.

T-shirts for ten dollars are even more fashion today than expensive fashion.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I’m someone else.

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Going to Southeast Asia for the first time and tasting that spectrum of flavors – that certainly changed my whole palate, the kind of foods I crave. A lot of the dishes I used to love became boring to me.

When I’m back in New York – and this is a terrible thing to complain about – I eat a lot more really, really good food than perhaps I’d like to. So many of my friends are really good chefs. It’s kind of like being in the Mafia.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking… is freedom.

If you wear clothes that don’t suit you, you’re a fashion victim. You have to wear clothes that make you look better.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Probably my first couple years in the league, I started paying more attention to what I was wearing. Once I got a few bucks in my pocket and I could afford some nice things, and you get to go, ‚OK, let’s try some of these things.‘ And once you try something you like, you probably don’t change it much.

I’m not a sandwich store that only sells turkey sandwiches. I sell a lot of different things.

The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.

I try to very hard to avoid a situation where I would be eating cat or dog; I’ve managed to gracefully avoid that. It’s hypocritical of me and an arbitrary line, but one that I have managed to avoid crossing.

So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda.

The boys know they’re from Southeast Asia, and they have their food and their music and their friends, and they have a pride particular to them.

The one thing I couldn’t identify with was the blue cowboy outfit he put on.

Britishness is just a way of putting things together and a certain don’t care attitude about clothes. You don’t care, you just do it and it looks great.

The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living in the earth and eating slimy worms are yet as clean as seals or fishes, whose lives are one perpetual wash.

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Ever notice how irons have a setting for permanent press? I don’t get it.

In Italy they take cheap cloth and make it look expensive, but I take expensive cloth and make it look cheap. They just don’t understand.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs; they’re not tacky; they are very professional; the design is made from lots of decisions.

I won’t eat anything green.

In history people dressed much better than we do today.

Wealthy men can’t live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

Fashion is life-enhancing, and I think it’s a lovely, generous thing to do for other people.

I like a good pair of jeans, but I also like putting on a nice tux. I’d rather go around in a good pair of jeans that you don’t wash every day, because they get more and more comfortable.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

Oh yes, there’s lots of great food in America. But the fast food is about as destructive and evil as it gets. It celebrates a mentality of sloth, convenience, and a cheerful embrace of food we know is hurting us.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Never order food in excess of your body weight.

I can’t say this enough – the food that you put into your bodies can actually help you get better grades. And it can also affect your performance in sports and other activities too. You see, when you give your body the best possible fuel, you have more energy, you’re stronger, you think more quickly.