105 Lobster Quotes

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Famous Lobster Quotes

A lobster bisque ought to be the crowning glory of the potager. And this one was excellent. Silky as a gigolo's compliment and fishy as a chancellor's promise. — A. A. Gill

A sleeping lobster is carried away by the current. —

Lobster is not going to be as tasty with ice tea unless that ice tea is from Long Island. — Heather McDonald

I'm horrified of lobsters. And shrimp and lobsters are the cockroaches of the ocean. — Brooke Burke

When life gives you lemons, order the lobster tail. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

Remember that a very good sardine is always preferable to a not that good lobster. — Ferran Adria

I'm living on things that excite me, be they pastry, or lobster, or love... - Jimmy Buffett

I'm living on things that excite me, be they pastry, or lobster, or love... — Jimmy Buffett

I'm a huge seafood lover; I could cook it everyday. — Trina

OYSTER, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails! The shells are sometimes given to the poor. — Ambrose Bierce

As soon as I get home, all I want to eat is seafood. — Quvenzhane Wallis

Most seafoods should be simply threatened with heat and then celebrated with joy. — Jeff Smith

Seafood makes you live 10 years more. - Kevin Steele

Seafood makes you live 10 years more. — Kevin Steele

Am I really just a narcissist,
Cause I wake up to a bowl of lobster bisque? - Rick Ross

Am I really just a narcissist, Cause I wake up to a bowl of lobster bisque? — Rick Ross

A typical Irish dinner would be: cream flavored with lobster, cream with bits of veal in it, green peas and cream, cream cheese, cream flavored with strawberries. — Nancy Mitford

I'm on a seafood diet - I see food, I eat it. - Dolly Parton

I'm on a seafood diet - I see food, I eat it. — Dolly Parton

Short Lobster Quotes

  • The world is my lobster. — Keith O'Neill
  • I love you more than anything in the world combined. — Stephenie Meyer
  • Grilling outside with my parents at the Jersey shore. We would grill lobster and corn in the summer. — Bobby Flay
  • CRAYFISH, n. A small crustacean very much resembling the lobster, but less indigestible. — Ambrose Bierce
  • I don't eat friggin' lobster or anything like that. Because they're alive when you kill it. — Nicole Polizzi
  • Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days! — Alexander Pope
  • Man needs to know but little more than a lobster in order to catch him in his traps. — Henry David Thoreau
  • Nice' in a bodyguard is about as useful as the ability to regurgitate whole lobsters. — Neil Gaiman
  • Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster. — D. H. Lawrence
  • I'm very sentimental about lobsters. The last lobster I ate was the only lobster I cooked. — Ann Patchett

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My Lobster Quotes

I'm a big fish eater. Salmon - I love salmon. My sister loves Chinese food and sushi and all that. I'm not as big of a fan, but she likes it so we eat it a lot. So I'm beginning to like it more. I don't like the raw sushi. I liked the cooked crab and lobster and everything. — Elle Fanning

According to my mother, there pretty much wasn't anything I wouldn't eat as a child.... I was even inclined to dig into stuff about which she expressed open disgust... cheap Chinese food with pepper so hot it made your gums feel like a medieval dentist had been at them. — Alice Domurat Dreger

Seafood was always my favorite food. I mean, fried lobster? Come on. Once I found out shrimp, scallops and lobster were my allergic triggers, I had to change my diet. — Adrian Peterson

What if I couldn't read? I wouldn't be able to text my friends movie times or even order cheese biscuits from Red Lobster! — Aziz Ansari

There must be hundreds of unsung heroes and heroines who first tasted strange things growing - and think of the man who first ate a lobster. This staggers the imagination. I salute him every time I take my nutcracker in hand and move the melted-butter pipkin closer. — Gladys Taber

Will you walk a little faster? said a whiting to a snail, "There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my tail! See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance: They are waiting on the shingle--will you come and join the dance? — Lewis Carroll

The thing that has been weighing on my mind this week is that I wanted to go and save all the little live lobsters in restaurants and throw them back in the ocean. Imagine me being arrested for that. — Drew Barrymore

As a boy I was a hermit crab, but I soon came out of my shell. Now I am a pincer crab, and soon I will be at my full power as a deadly nuclear lobster. — Thom Yorke

Actor Mike Warren [was my former teammate], who was in Hill Street Blues. There are more, but it's starting to sound like a team reunion at Red Lobster. They were a great bunch of guys and we accomplished a lot together. That's something you don't forget. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I called Nic Pizzolatto and he said, "No, no. You're in it the whole way through." That was fun to shoot [in The Lobster]. I had a few scenes in that show that were some of my favorite all-time scenes to be in. — Colin Farrell

Eating Lobster Quotes

What good are vitamins? Eat a lobster, eat a pound of caviar - live! If you are in love with a beautiful blonde with an empty face and no brains at all, don't be afraid. Marry her! Live! — Arthur Rubinstein

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands. — Lord Byron

My respect and empathy towards animals includes sea dwellers too--from dolphins to fish to lobsters. So, of course, I wouldn't dream of eating them. — Alexandra Paul

the proper place to eat lobster ... is in a lobster shack as close to the sea as possible. There is no menu card because there is nothing else to eat except boiled lobster with melted butter. — Pearl S. Buck

I prefer sinners and madmen, who can learn, who can change, who can teach-or people like myself, if I may say so, who are not afraid to eat a lobster alone as they take on their shoulders the monumental weight of thirty years — James A. Baldwin

Crab Quotes

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates. — H. L. Mencken

What is the pattern that connects the crab to the lobster and the primrose to the orchid, and all of them to me, and me to you? — Gregory Bateson

Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious. — Bill Meyer

In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory -- horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene -- and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since. — Barbara Ehrenreich

A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab, and can't travel any way but sideways and backways. — Mark Twain

Since someone ate crabs, others must have eaten spiders as well. However, they were not tasty. So afterwards, people stopped eating them. These people also deserve our heartfelt gratitude. — Lu Xun

Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life. — Charles Monroe Schulz

So if anybody wants to get me something, get me 60 crabs - one for each year. I don't want no diamonds, I don't want no shoes, I don't want no party. I want some crabs. — Patti LaBelle

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight. — Aristophanes

I got body lice in Germany! I'd tell you they were crabs, but I wasn't getting laid. — Billie Joe Armstrong

Seafood Quotes

Low omega-3 intake from seafood has been identified as one of the top 6 preventable causes of death & estimated to cause a similar number of deaths per year as eating transfats. New study found higher omega-3 index in midlife protects the brain from shrinkage/preserves cognition. — Rhonda Patrick

When you don't know what you're doing, it's best to do it quickly. — Jase Robertson

Interviewing is tough, especially if you don't know what you're looking for. — Charlyne Yi

Choose wild-caught seafood over farm-raised. — Steven Gundry

I love Japanese and Thai food, especially seafood, and eat out with my wife two or three times a week. — Pierre Dukan

Nothing quenches the thirst like a wheat beer, or sharpens the appetite like an India pale ale. Nothing goes as well with seafood as a dry porter or stout, or accompanies chocolate like an imperial stout. Nothing soothes like a barleywine. These are just a few of the specialty styles of beer. — Michael Jackson

Poseidon can come in too! We will eat you both! Seafood! — Rick Riordan

To save the seas, we can eat sustainably and be conscious of the seafood we eat. — Carl Safina

I think everybody, no matter what they eat, they should eat at least fifty percent raw food. But I eat some seafood. — Brett Dennen

No dish changes quite so much from season to season as soup. Summer's soups come chilled, in pastel colors strewn with herbs. If hot they are sheer insubstantial broths afloat with seafood. In winter they turn steaming and thick to serve with slabs of rustic, crusty bread. — Florence Fabricant

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More Lobster Quotes

When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters on the grill, get the ice-cold beer and the cigars - that's heaven here on earth. — Bernie Mac

All of us are born with a set of instinctive fears - of falling, of the dark, of lobsters, of falling on lobsters in the dark, of speaking before a Rotary Club, and of the words "Some Assembly Required". — Dave Barry

Poetry is not efficient. If you want to learn how to cook a lobster, it’s probably best not to look to poetry. But if you want to see the word lobster in all its reactant oddity, its pied beauty, as if for the first time, go to poetry. And if you want to know what it’s like to be that lobster in the pot, that’s in poetry too. — Dean Young

Each of us, when our day's work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves. — O. Henry

I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing. I called him over and told him about it. He told me that in the back there's a tank they keep the lobsters in and while they're in there, they fight and sometimes one loses a claw. I told him 'then bring me a winner.' — Al McGuire

Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development. — Dorothy L. Sayers

If you see a thing that looks like a cross between a flying lobster and the figure of Abraxas on a Gnostic gem, do not pay it the least attention, never mind where it is; just keep quiet and hope it will go away - for that's your best chance; you have none in a stand-up fight with a good thorough-going African insect. — Mary Kingsley

Why should a lobster be any more ridiculous than a dog? ... or a cat, or a gazelle, or a lion, or any other animal one chooses to take for a walk? I have a liking for lobsters. They are peaceful, serious creatures. ... Goethe had an aversion to dogs, and he wasn't mad. They know the secrets of the sea, they don't bark. — Gerard De Nerval

I was in the Virgin Islands once. I met a girl. We ate lobster, drank piña coladas. At sunset, we made love like sea otters. That was a pretty good day. Why couldn't I get that day over and over and over? — Bill Murray

I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone. — Salvador Dali

[A]ll the ingenious men, and all the scientific men, and all the fanciful men, in the world,... could never invent, if all their wits were boiled into one, anything so curious and so ridiculous as a lobster. — Charles Kingsley

I couldn't make ends meet. I tried Red Lobster. I tried Wal-Mart. I tried all these places and I couldn't make it. I couldn't. So, I tried this gentlemen's club, and, you know, I worked there, and it was just awful in those places. It was terrible. — Anna Nicole Smith

If you listen to a song and get an image in your head, and then you go home and watch mtv and the image they're showing is the same as the one in your head, kill yourself. You're better off coming back as a lobster. — Lewis Black

When I get through tearing a lobster apart, or one of those tender West Coast octopuses, I feel like I had a drink from the fountain of youth. — Joseph Mitchell

I consider the 3 most cruelly produced foods to be from lobsters, dropped alive into boiling water, veal from calves separated from their mothers and kept in crates, and pate de foie gras. — Cleveland Amory

When you serve lobster, you've taken a being's life away. Therefore if you create a recipe, you have to be very dedicated to elevate the lobster, to make it good and tasty of course, but at the end of the day it's a matter of paying homage. — Eric Ripert

If a lobster didn't look like a sci-fi monster, people would be less able to drop him alive into boiling water. — George Carlin

Doing abominations is against the law, particularly if the abominations are done while wearing a lobster bib. — Woody Allen

I'm at the round table, where your seat at? Where your plate, where your lobster, where your sea bass? — Gunplay

the more i live, the more i realize what strange creatures human beings are. some of them might just as well have a hundred legs, like a centipede, or six, like a lobster. the human consistency and dignity one has been led to expect from one's fellow-man seem actually non-existent. one doubts if they exist to any startling degree even in oneself. — D. H. Lawrence

On New York's Palm restaurant: Their steaks are often good, but the lobsters-with claws the size of Arnold Schwarzenegger's forearms-are as glazed and tough as most of the customers. — Malcolm Forbes

I'm a menace to society, But girls in biker shorts are so fly to me. After the date, I'mma want to do the wild thing... You're talkin' lobster? I'm thinkin' Burger King. — Ice Cube

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