103 Chili Quotes

Following is our list of chili quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about chili peppers.

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Famous Chili Quotes

If I were a food, I'd be a Chili because you know.. I'm hot. — Louis Tomlinson

Chili is much improved by having had a day to contemplate its fate. - John Steele Gordon

Chili is much improved by having had a day to contemplate its fate. — John Steele Gordon

I love to cook. I make an award-winning turkey chili. - Joely Fisher

I love to cook. I make an award-winning turkey chili. — Joely Fisher

The tomato offers its gift of fiery color and cool completeness. — Pablo Neruda

Although pepper is tiny, its taste is intense. — Hungarian Proverbs

Spice a dish with love and it pleases every palate. — Plautus

You're looking at that chick like you want to roll her up in a taco and put your hot sauce all over her. — J.R. Ward

Taste my tuna casserole - tell me if I put in too much hot fudge. — Woody Allen

Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin. — P. J. O'Rourke

I'm sautéing emcees with fried rice up in the wok without the MSG and chopped celery. — Redman

I reckon I tried everything on the old apple, but salt and pepper and chocolate sauce topping. — Gaylord Perry

Old school new school need to learn though I burn baby, burn like Disco Inferno Burn slow like blunts with ya-yo Peel more skins than Idaho potato — The Notorious B.I.G.

Cheeseburger in paradise! — Jimmy Buffett

I love your sushi roll, hotter than wasabi. I race for your love, Shake-n-Bake, Ricky Bobby — Drake

Khufu carefully picked out everything that ended with-o—Doritos, Oreos, and some chunks of meat. Buffalo? Armadillo? I was scared to even ask. — Rick Riordan

Short Chili Quotes

  • In the Chili Peppers I'm a part of that world in a pretty big world and that's just the way it is. — John Frusciante
  • He who eats chili gets burned and he who touches the pot gets charcoal on his hands. —
  • To pour chili paste into the river. — Thai Proverbs
  • All chili is hot; all women are jealous. — Vietnamese Proverbs
  • If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good. — Al McGuire
  • This Life is More than Just a read through. — Anthony Kiedis
  • The more I see, the less I know. — Michael Franti
  • It's a cold bowl of chili when love lets you down. — Neil Young
  • Take me ham away, take away my eggs, even my Chili, but leave me my newspaper. — Will Rogers
  • I bet you a handful of Chili's coupons that Jesus had a foot fetish. — Corey Taylor

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Hot Chili Quotes

Dropkick Murphys get me going, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana... plus, all the regular hip-hop stuff. — Kobe Bryant

One day, I'll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it's nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day. — J. Cole

This is my dream. I ain't giving up. I see a band like the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and they've had their ups and downs, but they've continued with heart. We look up to that. I see Papa Roach being around for another 15 years. We've always wanted to be a career band. — Jacoby Shaddix

My music is rock. I listen to Red Hot Chili Peppers and I listen to one of my songs, and if I don't give you the same emotion, then I go back and re-spit. — Kanye West

In Point Break, I was the only woman in there, so it was pretty easy to feel like a sex symbol. You've got all the naked, wet, Hot Chili Peppers, right? You've got Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves and then the whole crew. It was me and 50 dudes the whole time. It was awesome! — Lori Petty

When Lollapalooza started, and I was really into Red Hot Chili Peppers and Jane's Addiction, Soundgarden. I went to that Lollapalooza tour twice, I think. — Adam Richman

Metaphors think with the imagination and the senses. The hot chili peppers in them explode in the mouth and the mind. — Jane Hirshfield

A little blue-eyed blonde in a red hot sweater, wants to spice my chili, I think I'll let her. — Toby Keith

Sichuan food would not be Sichuanese without the hot chilies that arrived before 1700 from South America. — Raymond Sokolov

Chili Peppers Quotes

Embarrassment felt a lot like eating chili peppers. It burned in the back of your throat and there was nothing you could do to make it go away. You just had to take it, suffer from it, until it eased off. — Sarah Addison Allen

The guy we want to get is the guy who did the Aerosmith album which is coming out in two days, and a Chili Peppers album, and a couple of Pearl Jam albums. We want to get someone that will sort of bring out the high energy aspect more than the dreaminess that was on the last album. — Mike Gordon

The Chili Peppers have a real strict two-week on/two-week off policy - aside from me, everybody has families. — Josh Klinghoffer

I met the guys through a friend of a friend, and their former drummer had quit. I wasn't too familiar with the Chili Peppers before that, so I joined at the end of 88' and we finished recording Mother's Milk at the end of 89', next thing I know I'm in Spin with a sock. — Chad Smith

Chilli Quotes

The heavy spacesuits are spectacular to look at but very hot. Putting one on was like going from chilly London winter weather to the Bahamas in just minutes. — Kathleen Quinlan

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly. - Ambrose Bierce

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly. — Ambrose Bierce

Plutocracy.' It has a perfect nuance: chilly, inaccessible, icy-rich. — Graham Joyce

Not all plants are equal: some have much more polyphenols than others, and as a general rule bright or dark colours are a good sign, including a wide range of berries, beans, artichokes, grapes, prunes, red cabbage, spinach, peppers, chilli, beetroot and mushrooms. — Tim Spector

Better freedom and a chilly road than a warm hearth and servitude. — Fritz Leiber

May and June. Soft syllables, gentle names for the two best months in the garden year: cool, misty mornings gently burned away with a warming spring sun, followed by breezy afternoons and chilly nights. The discussion of philosophy is over; it's time for work to begin. — H. Peter Loewer

Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest. — John Keats

A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting. — James Barrie

A Polish man in a helicopter. Goes up to 800 feet. Down it comes! What happened? "It got chilly up there, so I turned off the fan!" — Henny Youngman

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power. — Amy Tan

Spicy Food Quotes

Haggis is delicious. It is wonderful. It's spicy, it's tasty, and you get vegetarian haggis as well. — Nicola Sturgeon

People ask me all the time, 'What keeps you up at night?' And I say, 'Spicy People ask me all the time, 'What keeps you up at night?' And I say, 'Spicy Mexican food, weapons of mass destruction, and cyber attacks.' — Dutch Ruppersberger

When you eat a lot of spicy food, you can lose your taste. When I was in India last summer, I was listening to a lot of Michael Bolton. — Jimmy Carr

In my travels, I also noticed that kids in Thailand like spicy food, and kids in India love curry. I'm hoping to introduce my son, Hudson, to lots of veggies and spices when he's young. I say that before he's started on solid foods, so it could be easier in theory than practice! — Curtis Stone

I prefer more spicy food to your Italian to be fair. — Peter Shilton

I love spicy food, love it. But wasabi is just painful. — Devon Werkheiser

When I think of my Latina side, I imagine family barbecues with carne asada, rice, beans, tortillas and a jalapeno on my plate along with 'Vicente Fernandez' blaring out the speakers. Spicy food. Salsa. Tamales. Family. — Alicia Sixtos

I definitely love kimchi. The biggest influence that eating so much Korean food growing up had on me was that I have no limit for spiciness. The hotter the better. — Patrick Stump

Spicy food and I have a close relationship—an obsessive one, in fact. If it’s spicy, I want it. I want to sweat and shake and go half blind from the searing pain . . . which, now that I put it that way, seems really suggestive. But spicy stuff is addictive. That’s a known fact of science. — Maureen Johnson

Instead of putting cheese with ranchero sauce, chile is really very good for you. If you put that in, you get flavoring, so you're not eating bland food, especially if you're used to spicy food. — Sandra Cisneros

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More Chili Quotes

Chili is not so much food as a state of mind. Addictions to it are formed early in life and the victims never recover. On blue days in October, I get this passionate yearning for a bowl of chili, and I nearly lose my mind. — Margaret Cousins

I love that whole princess mentality, but I also like throwing my hair in a ponytail and just wearing jeans, going on a hike and then eating a big chili-cheesebur ger. — Jennifer Love Hewitt

Next to jazz music, there is nothing that lifts the spirit and strengthens the soul more than a good bowl of chili. — Harry James

All this talkin' about eatin' is makin' me awful hungry. I'll have two chili burgers with an order of fries, onion rings and a chocolate milk shake. And a Strawberry Ice Cream Sundae-with pickles. — George Lindsey

The chili I ate made for an explosive bathroom experience. I don't know how to put this delicately, but I missed the toilet entirely. — Seth Green

Any man that eats Chili and Cornbread can't be all bad — Carroll Shelby

From 1973 to 1982 I ate the exact same lunch everyday . Turkey chili in a bowl made out of bread . Bread bowl George. First you eat the chili then you eat the bowl . There's nothing more satisfying than looking down after lunch and seeing nothing but a table. — George Steinbrenner

Chili is one of the great peasant foods. It is one of the few contributions America has made to world cuisine. Eaten with corn bread, sweet onion, sour cream, it contains all five of the elements deemed essential by the sages of the Orient: sweet, sour, salty, pungent, and bitter. — Rex Stout

I once absent-mindedly ordered Three Mile Island dressing in a restaurant and, with great presence of mind, they brought Thousand Island Dressing and a bottle of chili sauce. — Terry Pratchett

On Hillary Clinton, who was an ardent Goldwater supporter in 1964: 'If he'd let his wife run business, I think he'd be better off. ... I just like the way she acts. I've never met her, but I sent her a bag of chili, and she invited me to come to the White House some night and said she'd cook chili for me. Someday, maybe.' — Barry Goldwater

I like chili, but not enough to discuss it with someone from Texas. — Calvin Trillin

Tension translates to your guests. They'll have a much better time having chili and baked potatoes than they would if you did roast duck with a wild cherry sauce and then had to lie down and cry for a while. — Nigella Lawson

She looks uptown, but she ain't really. She's into football, she likes my chili. — John Anderson

Ontologically, chocolate raises profoundly disturbing questions: Does not chocolate offer natural revelation of the goodness of the Creator just as chilies disclose a divine sense of humor? Is the human born with an innate longing for chocolate? Does the notion of chocolate preclude the concept of free will? — David W Augsburger

Chili dogs, funnel cakes, fried bread, majorly greasy pizza, candy apples, ye gods. Evil food smells amazing -- which is either proof that there is a Satan or some equivalent out there, or that the Almighty doesn't actually want everyone to eat organic tofu all the time. I can't decide. — Jim Butcher

My dad gave me a haircut... and it wasn't a very good one. When I went out of the house, my friends got on my case and said it looked like someone put a chili bowl over my head and cut around it. — Chili Davis

If you are a bad putter, you will not make a putt. If you have a tendency to chili-dip wedges, you'll be chili-dipping them all over the place for sure. Whatever your weakness, it will come up in spades during the Ryder Cup. — Johnny Miller

I set up stations, buy a big vat of chili, and then guests do what they want to do - and I still get to party. — Emily Henderson

If you want to make a chili, you're going to break some cows. — Merlin Mann

Early readers assumed the Book of Mormon people ranged up and down North and South America from upstate New York to Chili. A close reading of the text reveals it cannot sustain such an expansive geography. — Richard Bushman

It stinks of trains and that chili with the chocolate in it. Ooooh, books!" he exclaimed suddenly, making a beeline for the small library. (Al) — Kim Harrison

Every December, I host a tree-trimming party. I serve chili with cornbread and lots of good wine. It's a wonderful party, and it shows how much adults like to play. — Maya Angelou

When I'm doing a book tour in the States, I'll wake up in the room sometimes in an anonymous chain hotel, and I don't know where I am right away. I'll go to the window, and it doesn't help there either, especially if you're in an anonymous strip and it's the usual Victoria's Secret, Gap, Chili's, Applebee's. — Anthony Bourdain

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