#eating

Psycholinguists argue about whether language reflects our perception of reality or helps create them. I am in the latter camp. Take the names we give the animals we eat. The Patagonian toothfish is a prehistoric-looking creature with teeth like needles and bulging yellowish eyes that lives in deep waters off the coast of South America. It did not catch on with sophisticated foodies until an enterprising Los Angeles importer renamed it the considerably more palatable "Chilean sea bass. ↗

— Hal Herzog

#food #foodie #language #linguistics #names

The reason prescription drugs are so important at the state level is because they're eating up the Medicaid budget. ↗

— John Kitzhaber

#budget #eating #important #level #medicaid

And it's tough traveling. You know, the hotels and the airports and all that. That part, eating and getting around to the hotel room and then going on. ↗

— Harvey Korman

#eating #getting #going #hotel #hotel room

I have, in my partner George Roberts, a person who is the most wonderful man in the world to me. He's like a brother to me. Creating with him, being side by side with him, in whatever we try to do, is a real pleasure to me. ↗

— Henry Kravis

#brother #creating #george #him #i

Governments enjoying surpluses have a very strong temptation to splash money around, and while tax cuts are always appealing, cutting taxes at the top of a boom runs the real risk of creating a structural deficit when the boom subsides. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#appealing #around #boom #creating #cuts

I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#country #crow #desire #eat #eating

But as far as the concept of HAL, who HAL was, his character - I had no role in creating him. ↗

— Douglas Trumbull

#character #concept #creating #far #had

Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#big #bites #broadcasters #contempt #down

I think people should be proud of the work they do, whatever it is. I have this other arty side that loves creating homes. I can be happy going to the hardware store. ↗

— Aida Turturro

#be happy #creating #going #happy #hardware

I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me. ↗

— Len Wein

#characters #creating #i #jew #me