Lobster Quotations

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.

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.

My ideal meal varies, depending on the time of year. Lobster on a deck overlooking a beach at sunset is one - but all my kids have to be there, because they are all lobster-lovers. Making a bolognese sauce over pappardelle for my husband on a winter evening, because he loves my bolognese sauce and it's his comfort food.

I've eaten lion, leopard, crocodile, python. I don't recommend lion. It tastes exactly like when a tomcat comes into your house and sprays. Snake and crocodile are great - a cross between lobster and chicken.

I think in France, for example, we can say whatever we want about the French, but going out and dining is more about the intellectual moment to share with the people you dine with than trying to figure out what the chef did with that little piece of salmon or lobster and all that.

Hey, we all have our fear. Mine is bugs and lobsters!

I'm really into food; it's one of my favourite things - everything from potato waffles to lobster.

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

[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.

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.

Casual dining chains are more attractive than fast food companies. You don't find the lines at McDonald's that you do at places like Olive Garden and Red Lobster on a Friday night. There is room for more restaurants in casual dining.

I got a B.A. from Hunter College, worked as a school teacher, a lobster salesman, and a literary agent before being published.

Our chefs come up with wonderful specials all the time. Thursdays are lobster night ($13.95) and Wednesdays are prime rib night ($12.95). We have different specials throughout the week.

We think this is a first in the history of business. We've selected a product spokesperson without even knowing the person's identity, age, gender, marital status or occupation. What matters to us is that the winner represents what our new Buttered Lobster Bites are all about - that everyone in America can enjoy a taste of the good life.

We are viewing the lobster as a live creature rather than a commodity that deserves no concern.

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.

Once we did that, he saw that people here are genuine and real. Everything that is good about the team is personified by the people here. He didn't go before the Legislature, and Sara didn't get a mink coat. We took him to Red Lobster for lunch, and we rode around the city in a four-wheel-drive vehicle in the snow.

A lot of people do come here for lobster. My four brothers, they all lobster . . . along with my dad, my two nephews, my grandson and a couple of friends.

I loved 'Rock Lobster.' I probably heard 'Rock Lobster' first at a party or dance. Then we would do the Rock Lobster - get down on the floor and do the whole dance. I thought that was really cool and exciting, that there was actually a band that had their own dance at that point.

I love lobster. Everyone raves about my lobster casserole.

I'm more of a seafood guy. If they had a Lobster Bowl I might be looking like Santa Claus.

I'm from Manchester, Mass., so it was lobster, lobster and more lobster! Also, lots of fish that we caught in the summers, clam chowder and roast beef sandwiches. But my mom was pretty healthy; we had a lot of chicken and broccoli and rice as well.

I had a costume suit made from someone who works with the Washington Opera. I'm a six-foot lobster with a tuxedo.

If you work on a lobster boat, sneaking up behind someone and pinching him is probably a joke that gets old real fast.

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?

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

I don't need music, lobster or wineWhenever your eyes look into mine;The things I long for are simple and few:A cup of coffee, a sandwich--and you!

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.

I don't eat friggin' lobster or anything like that. Because they're alive when you kill it.

Raw lobster tail, freeze dried, is amazing.

He looks much more like a lobster than most lobsters do.

Nice' in a bodyguard is about as useful as the ability to regurgitate whole lobsters.

These kids could all grow up and be rich and eat lobster the rest of their lives. And nothing will taste better than those french fries.

You don't have to be a millionaire to eat like a millionaire, thanks to our new Buttered Lobster Bites. What better person to share that message than America's newest everyday-citizen-turned-millionaire?

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.

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.

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.

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

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?

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.

There is no one of-woman-born who does not like Red Lobster cheddar biscuits. Anyone who claims otherwise is a liar and a Socialist.

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

I love you more than anything in the world combined.

CRAYFISH, n. A small crustacean very much resembling the lobster, but less indigestible.

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

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

And like a lobster boiled, the morn From black to red began to turn

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

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