Food Quote by Gary Shteyngart

“I prepared for my meal in the usual fashion: fork in my left hand; my dominant right clenched into a fist on my lap, ready to punch anyone who dared take away my food.” quote by Gary Shteyngart — Download Open image

““I prepared for my meal in the usual fashion: fork in my left hand; my dominant right clenched into a fist on my lap, ready to punch anyone who dared take away my food.””

Gary Shteyngart

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (8 ratings)

Clenched Clenched Fist Fist Lap Food Left hand Prepared Meal Right Clenched

More by Gary Shteyngart

“These are all good things, I said. But no one knows where your country is or who you are. You don't have a familiar…

Gary Shteyngart

Image

Italy has sun and tomatoes, and Russia just has real problems.

Gary Shteyngart

Image

Don't be pretentious is my first advice to young writers. This is the big problem - just because you're getting an MFA doesn't mean…

Gary Shteyngart

Image

I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do to support my…

Gary Shteyngart

Image

Russia tried to introduce beer as kind of the new vodka - and it's working with younger people in major cities - but you…

Gary Shteyngart

Image

“There's something outrageously simple about extending yourself toward a goal the way a plant seeks the sun's rays or a gopher the crunch of…

Gary Shteyngart

Image

Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of another person.…

Gary Shteyngart

Image

“This red-fading-into-brown defines Queens for me; it is quiet and melancholy and postsuccessful, vaguely British in its disposition.”

Gary Shteyngart

Image

If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.

Gary Shteyngart

Image

“The fact that my sexual awakening peripherally involves Steve Guttenberg I have gradually accepted.”

Gary Shteyngart

Image

“The simple trill of her laugh has not declined over the years; if anything it's been buffeted by her endless sorrows and disappointments.”

Gary Shteyngart

Image

“We know summer is the height of of being alive. We don't believe in God or the prospect of an afterlife mostly, so we…

Gary Shteyngart

Image

Explore all 179 Gary Shteyngart quotes

More Food quotes

On Sundays, that's my pig out day and I do the pizza and the beer.

Victoria Silvstedt

Image

Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the…

Benjamin Franklin

Image

By eating many fruits and vegetables in place of fast food and junk food, people could avoid obesity.

David H. Murdock

Image

“The global population of Earth are involved in the following corporate government experiments: The long term effects of - 1. Nuclear bomb fallout radiation.…

Steven Magee

Image

“My God, Joseph, your toasted sandwiches are the fucking shit. You do know that right?”

Beth Ashworth

Image

I feel like I could eat the world raw.

Madeline Miller

Image

To me, Caribbean food is about fresh, seasonal produce - using what's in season to create vibrant and great tasting food. The spicing is…

Ainsley Harriott

Image

“[S]ometimes, when you are a food person, the possible irrelevance of what you are doing doesn’t cross your mind until it’s too late. (Once,…

Nora Ephron

Image

“if you cannot control your hunger and appetite, good luck managing your blood chemistry, metabolism, waistline, and, in the bigger picture, the prospect of…

David Perlmutter