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I don't feel the need for unusual or glamorous foods like caviar, and I tend more towards ordinary, satisfying food.
Oct 1, 2025
I have had, in my time, memorable meals of scrambled eggs with fresh truffles, scrambled eggs with caviar and other glamorous things, but to me, there are few things as magnificent as scrambled eggs, pure and simple, perfectly cooked and perfectly seasoned.
Caviar used to be my drug of choice, but since my husband is on a no-salt diet, I've kind of given it up. I still have dreams of sitting down and gorging, though. I love it with a good vodka; I don't like it with champagne.
Poireaux vinaigrette aux grains de caviar.” I did a quick translation. “Leeks and fish eggs in vinegar?” He grinned. “It sounds better in French.” Yeah, but did it taste better?
Grab some caviar from the kitchen. You wouldn't believe the muck they feed us in Bartleby's for ten thousand a term.
The caviar was very high quality. I made an acting decision on the spot that Ismay was a big eater.
If you're poor, potato chips are the food of life for you. It's the caviar.
I don't take notes; I don't outline, I don't do anything like that. I just flail away at the goddamn thing. I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami. You can't sell it as caviar.
Pointless. . . . Like giving caviar to an elephant.
My mother certainly loves caviar, but I think that's generational - they grew up thinking it's romantic or sophisticated or something.
I like to work really hard and then earn the good life. I actually enjoy it. If you're eating caviar all the time, it doesn't taste good anymore.
Fame to me certainly is only a temporary and a partial happiness ... fame is not really for a daily diet, that's not what fulfills you. It warms you a bit but the warming is temporary. It's like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have to have it every meal and every day.
I guess, as they say, I never acquired a taste for [caviar].
I hate caviar. Ugh! The freebase of food!
Having a show get canceled is like, 'Oh, you have caviar between your teeth,' you know what I mean? Because you had a show in the first place.
It was part of theTexas ritual? We know about champagne and caviar but we talk hog and hominy.
Pressed caviar has the consistency of chilled tar.
All I know is that you can chop up all the onions and the whatevers you want and put it on top of caviar, but you still can't disguise the fact that you're eating fish eggs. Ugh!
Those things don't happen today. I feel sorry for the kids in the industry today. They have on sunglasses, eat caviar in jet planes, but they'll never know the true feeling that we did.
In nineteenth-century Russia, sauerkraut was valued more than caviar.
In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.
Have caviar if you like, but it tastes like herring to me.
Give me Caviar Kaspia and give me a hamburger. I love the two extremes.
There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle.
Wit is like caviar - it should be served in small portions and not spread about like marmalade.
I lived through the garbage. I might as well dine on the caviar.
Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.
Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress.
Ah, Caviar! I keep on eating it, but can never get my fill. Like olives. It's a lucky thing it's not salty.
If you eat caviar every day it's difficult to return to sausages.
When I go out, I love steak and caviar.
Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.
One can be unhappy before eating caviar, even after, but at least not during.
The most fun I ever had on a movie was working with Albert Brooks. He's the caviar of comedy. I mean, nobody's funnier; nobody is smarter than Albert Brooks.
When a man is starving in the streets he is not thinking of bread and water, but of caviar and champagne!
Impossible. I merely brought the essentials. Clothes, my favorite boots, face cream, makeup, a few books to read, a couple cans of caviar, lingerie, and my coffeepot. Plus a few other things a girl like me just can’t live without but can’t mention in mixed company because it would be indelicate. You know, because they’re sexual.” - at “lingerie,” Hector and Dallas had stood a little straighter. At “sexual,” they’d moaned. Jaxon punched them both in the back of the head.
God didn't bless me with success so I could eat caviar every day.
Those big-shot writers ... could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar.
Sure, this was where her father had planned the De Beers diamond heist when she was three. It was the very room where her uncle had orchestrated the hijacking of eighty percent of the world's caviar when she was seven.
She makes use of the soft of the bread for a napkin. She falls asleep at times with shoes on, on unmade beds. When a little money comes in, June buys delicacies, strawberries in the winter, caviar and bath salts.
Give me a platter of choice finnan haddie, freshly cooked in its bath of water and milk, add melted butter, a slice or two of hot toast, a pot of steaming Darjeeling tea, and you may tell the butler to dispense with the caviar, truffles and nightingales' tongues.
A living body is not a fixed thing but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool: the shape alone is stable, for the substance is a stream of energy going in at one end and out at the other. We are particularly and temporarily identifiable wiggles in a stream that enters us in the form of light, heat, air, water, milk, bread, fruit, beer, beef Stroganoff, caviar, and pate de foie gras. It goes out as gas and excrement - and also as semen, babies, talk, politics, commerce, war, poetry, and music. And philosophy.
For me, true luxury can be caviar or a day with no meetings, no appointments and no schedule.
Mr. Rockefeller is due to entertain munificently at breakfast, and make his pitch. My advice to one invited guest was: Order caviar, and then say No.
French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
All of a sudden I discovered that I'm allergic to caviar. It was the perfect metaphor for my life. When I was only able to afford bad caviar, I could certainly eat my fill of it.
Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.
Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
Denounce useless guilt. Don’t make a cult of suffering. Live in the now(or at least the soon). Always do the things you fear most. Courage is an acquired taste like caviar. Trust all joy. If the evil eye fixes you in its gaze, look elsewhere. Get ready to be 87.
Accents are funny in that they have this odd draw for us, yet we forget we have one, too. No one is without an accent, but the one you’ve got seems like oatmeal to their caviar.