110 Pasta Quotes

Following is our list of pasta quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about spaghetti.

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Famous Pasta Quotes

Pasta is the one food I can't live without. It's the food I eat to fuel my running. — Joe Bastianich

Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again. - Yotam Ottolenghi

Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again. — Yotam Ottolenghi

In order to create a little bit of confidence, start cooking with pasta. Pasta is phenomenal. Once you've cooked pasta properly for the first time it becomes second nature. — Gordon Ramsay

Pasta is my favorite comfort food, but sometimes my body really wants a steak, and I'll have one. — Donna Karan

All food starting with p is comfort food: pasta, potato chips, pretzels, peanut butter, pastrami, Pizza, pastry. — Sara Paretsky

It's a comfort to always find pasta in the cupboard and garlic and parsley in the garden. — Alice Waters

You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling. — Agnes Varda

As long as there's pasta and Chinese food in the world, I'm okay. - Michael Chang

As long as there's pasta and Chinese food in the world, I'm okay. — Michael Chang

When an Italian tells me it's pasta on the plate, I check under the sauce to make sure. — Alex Ferguson

Grilled salmon and brown pasta works for me every time. — Steven Gerrard

In heaven, after antipasti, the first course will be pasta. — Steve Albini

When I'm in Italy on a Friday night, my first supper there is a big bowl of fresh pasta and a glass of local wine, sitting outside. There's nothing better. — Alan Titchmarsh

Carbs - especially pasta - are the fuel my body needs to maintain an athletic lifestyle. — Joe Bastianich

Life is a combination of magic and pasta. — Federico Fellini

Ready...set-y...spaghetti! — Dan Wells

Short Pasta Quotes

  • I'd much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0. — Sophia Loren
  • Pasta doesn't make you fat. How much pasta you eat makes you fat. — Giada De Laurentiis
  • Life is not worth living if I cannot have pasta or bread again. — Monica Seles
  • The perfect lover is one who turns into a pizza at 4:00 A.M. — Charlie Pierce
  • What does Karl Marx put on his pasta? Communist Manipesto! — Stephen Colbert
  • I love eating sushi and eating raw and clean - no pasta and bread. Low carbs is what works for me. — Chrissy Teigen
  • Give us this day our daily mask. — Tom Stoppard
  • If you can't pass the ball properly, a bowl of pasta's not going to make that much difference! — Harry Redknapp
  • I can't eat spaghetti. There's too many of them. — Mitch Hedberg
  • I received a shot and broke my tooth. Unfortunately, we Italians only eat pasta al dente. — Roberto Baggio

Pasta Image Quotes

Pasta quote Life is a combination of magic and pasta.
Life is a combination of magic and pasta.

Italian Pasta Quotes

I made lemon spaghetti in an early season of 'Everyday Italian,' and to this day people still come up to me and say they love it. It's very, very simple. Basically, you cook the pasta and mix together Parmesan cheese, olive oil, lemon juice and zest and pour it over the pasta. — Giada De Laurentiis

I eat a little bit of everything and not a lot of anything. Everything in moderation. I know that's really hard for people to understand, but I grew up in an Italian family where we didn't overdo anything. We ate pasta, yes, but not a lot of it. — Giada De Laurentiis

Well, I'm Italian, but my family isn't stereotypical. I mean, I only have one sister and we don't yell or throw pasta at each other. My mother doesn't even have a secret spaghetti sauce recipe. — Jennifer Esposito

If I start feeling down I'll gorge myself on pasta. That usually does the trick. It's the Italian blood in me. — Natalie Imbruglia

I do love Italian food. Any kind of pasta or pizza. My new pig out food is Indian food. I eat Indian food like three times a week. It's so good. — Jennifer Love Hewitt

Life is too short, and I'm Italian. I'd much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0. — Sophia Bush

I am certainly Italian in my love of food! I eat everything, but I love Italian food most of all. Even my daughter does. Her favourite food is pasta and parmigiana. — Monica Bellucci

I did enjoy cooking, I still do really enjoy cooking - I make a nice salmon dish, and Im a huge meat freak, so I love to bang a few steaks on the grill or pasta. Anything Italian, really. — Luke Pasqualino

I've always felt like a foreigner wherever I've lived. I don't feel much towards my Italian or Scottish roots, although I do cook the pasta at home. — Tom Conti

I was one of those fortunate individuals who grew up in a large, passionate, demonstrative Italian family where we were taught to love as naturally as we breathed and ate giant bowls of pasta! — Leo Buscaglia

Spaghetti Quotes

I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them. — John Wayne

Everything you see I owe to spaghetti. - Sophia Loren

Everything you see I owe to spaghetti. — Sophia Loren

Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner. — Sophia Loren

Spaghetti... I can't eat spaghetti, there's too many of them. No matter how hungry I am, 1,000 of something is too many. I'll have 1,000 pieces of noodles. — Mitch Hedberg

I love spaghetti and meatballs... I eat a lot. - Susan Lucci

I love spaghetti and meatballs... I eat a lot. — Susan Lucci

In general I love to eat anything. I enjoy anything that is well prepared, a good spaghetti, lasagna, taco, steak, sushi, refried beans. — Martin Yan

My mom cooked pot roast with noodles and frozen vegetables. Or she'd make spaghetti or hot dogs, or heat up TV dinners. Before I started modeling at age 19, I was 5'8" and weighed 165 pounds. — Carol Alt

Life is like a bowl of spaghetti. Every once in a while, you get a meatball. — Sharon Creech

I did not get my Spaghetti-O's, I got spaghetti. I want the press to know this. — Thomas J. Grasso

The mind knows not what the tongue wants. — Howard Moskowitz

Italian Food Quotes

A fruit is a vegetable with looks and money. Plus, if you let fruit rot, it turns into wine, something brussel sprouts never do. — P. J. O'Rourke

The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it. — Mario Batali

I love making Italian food. And coconut chicken. — Sayings

We were raised in an Italian-American household, although we didn't speak Italian in the house. We were very proud of being Italian, and had Italian music, ate Italian food. — Francis Ford Coppola

I can't stand people that do not take food seriously. — Oscar Wilde

I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook. — Robert Mondavi

The Italians were eating with forks when the French were still eating each other. — Mario Batali

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

You try to come up with new ideas, but in the end, people just want to eat Italian food. — Stephen Starr

A meal without wine is like a day without sun — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Spaghetti Sauce Quotes

On hitting a shaken opponent - His legs turned to spaghetti and I was all over him like the sauce. — Vinny Paz

There is no perfect spaghetti sauce. There are perfect spaghetti sauces. — Howard Moskowitz

My sisters like cooking at my place. It has a bit more room, and the food tastes a little bit better. A big pot of spaghetti and sauce, some warm French bread - works all the time. I think I've been eating pasta for 26 years. — Tom Brady

My favorite thing is Spaghetti with white clam sauce anywhere on the Amalfi Coast or the Tuscan Coast. — Todd English

Danger is to adventure what garlic is to spaghetti sauce. Without it, you just end up with stewed tomatoes. — Tom Robbins

The spaghetti sauce is a good thing to think about. Morning, noon, and night, think about the spaghetti sauce. Think about hustling other people to buy the spaghetti sauce. — Paul Newman

Standing in the corridor was a large plastic bin on wheels. He looked inside. Empty tins of dog food. That explained the spaghetti with meat sauce. Oh well, he'd eaten worse. — Charlie Higson

I think my character's getting to the point where he can't even eat spaghetti with red sauce anymore, where he has horrible nightmares, he can't sleep anymore. — George Eads

I was in a supermarket and I saw Paul Newman's face on salad dressing and spaghetti sauce....I thought he was missing. — Bob Saget

To a worm in horseradish, the world is horseradish! — Howard Moskowitz

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More Pasta Quotes

I wouldn't exactly call it 'cooking' but I can make noodles. That means I can boil water, put the pasta in and wait until it's done. — Devon Werkheiser

A man, a plan, a canoe, pasta, heros, rajahs, a coloratura, maps, snipe, percale, macaroni, a gag, a banana bag, a tan, a tag, a banana bag again (or a camel), a crepe, pins, Spam, a rut, a Rolo, cash, a jar, sore hats, a peon, a canal - Panama — Guy Steele

My grandfather's family used to own a pasta factory in Naples and they would go door-to-door selling their pasta. So his love of food came from his parents, which was then passed down to my mother and then again to me. — Giada De Laurentiis

Going round and around inside a dryer can be fatal, whereas pasta is rarely fatal. Unless Isabelle makes it. — Cassandra Clare

The grass-fed cow in my freezer is more vegan than your pantry full of whole grain pasta. One animal died to produce my cow. Hundreds of field mice and rabbits and gophers died to produce your fusilli. — Mark Sisson

My favourite food at the moment is Pasta, “with tons of shaved Parmesan on the side. Not crumbly but like the hunks, you know what I meanwhen you get the thin slices. — Kirsten Dunst

Food was always a big part of my life. My grandfather was one of 14 kids, and his parents had a pasta factory, so as a kid, he and his siblings would sell pasta door to door. After he became a movie producer, he opened up De Laurentiis Food Stores - one in Los Angeles and one in New York. — Giada De Laurentiis

I've been very competitive by nature from a young age, whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else, or always wanting to be the first one in line. — Maria Sharapova

I cannot starve myself. I'm a foodie! I make fabulous pastas, Indian food, parathas and club sandwiches! — Preity Zinta

I love spaghetti and sex, sometimes together. My dream of heaven is walking naked through fields of pasta fazool. — Mel Brooks

Everyone prefers some foods over others, but some adults take this tendency to an extreme. These people tend to prefer the kinds of bland food they may have enjoyed as children - such as plain or buttered pasta, macaroni and cheese, cheese pizza, French fries and grilled cheese sandwiches - and to restrict their eating to just a few dishes. — Andrew Weil

Here is a tip for all you young people drinking wine. With pasta, drink white wine. With steak, drink red wine. And if you're vegan, you're annoying. — Demetri Martin

When I was a kid, for my birthday every year, my mother made me pasta bechamel, which is rigatoni with a white cream sauce. — Giada De Laurentiis

I love pasta with the homemade marinara sauce I had as a kid. — Bernadette Peters

I don't put cream in any pasta noodles ever. I would use a little butter, but I don't ever use cream. — Mario Batali

I want to see people dance, and I would like to guess what kind of people they are. I don't want to know the recipe for their pasta. — Mikhail Baryshnikov

I eat a lot of whole grains for breakfast, a lot of dried fruit. And my big thing is pasta. I do a lot of simple pasta, with great ingredients. — Joe Bastianich

It used to be standard practice that the pre-match meal consisted of egg, steak and chicken. But I talked them into changing to complex carbohydrates. So now they will sup on porridge, pasta or rice. — Craig Johnston

I love eating it - grilled chicken, pasta, rice, and other foods that give me long term energy. Every once in a while, my sweet tooth gets the best of me and I have to snack on some candy. Beverage wise, I stick to sports drinks, water, milk, and juice. — Derrick Rose

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