Hamburger Quotations

I'm always down to try a new burger, but Shake Shack is still my top. What makes them so special is for the bread they use Martin's potato rolls which is just the best hamburger buns ever.

If you are going to be serving a living thing, you have to honor that living thing with some kind of care and thought and preparation to rationalize the taking of that life in some way. Where if you're just grinding up hamburger at McDonald's, I see that as a bit of an affront to living things.

I lived at the Gramercy Park Hotel for about 10 years. It was terrific. It was a pleasantly run-down hotel of the '70s and '80s with a mix of older, rent-controlled apartment dwellers, Europeans and new wave and punk bands. The room service was great, the hamburger was terrific, and they had a doctor who made house calls.

Hindered by asthma since I was six weeks old, I had begun experimenting with my diet and discovered a disquieting correlation. When I stopped eating the normal American diet of sugar, fats, alcohol, chemicals, and additives, I felt better. I could breathe freely. When I tried to sneak in a hamburger and a Coke, my body rebelled.

I always admired Ray Kroc, the man who invented McDonald's. Ray had a vision of the most commonplace thing - a hamburger and fries to go - but to him it was just the greatest thing ever, and he was going to make it the greatest thing ever for everybody else, and he did.

Whenever possible, I use local, fresh ingredients, just because it tastes and feels better to eat an egg or a tomato or a hamburger that wasn't flown halfway around the world, that didn't travel on a truck and get stuck in traffic jams, that hasn't been sitting in a supermarket's refrigerator case for days.

I want to keep fighting because it is the only thing that keeps me out of the hamburger joints. If I don't fight, I'll eat this planet.

I was tagging along and it was lunchtime, so my dad took me into the Busy Bee. I had a hamburger and a Coca-Cola. It was the first hamburger I remember.

If only meat weren't so delicious! Sure, meat may pave the way to a heart attack. Yes, factory farms torture animals. Indeed, producing a single hamburger patty requires more water than two weeks of showers. But for those of us who are weak-willed, there's nothing like a juicy burger.

He's a true entrepreneur. He had this tremendous energy, juggling many balls at once. He did all this and was a great, normal guy you could have a hamburger with and tell a dirty joke to. And that was an amazing thing.

I sat down to meet him at Islands, a froufrou hamburger place in L.A.,'' Silver recalls.

Really, the only way to face the biggest problems we have is for the government to change the way they subsidize food. The way we subsidize food makes it cheaper to go to McDonald's and get a hamburger than a salad, and that's insane.

I was the tallest kid in the class, and the play was about food. The kid who was playing the hamburger forgot his lines, and I said them, and there was all this laughter. When I came out for my bows, there was this burst of applause, and I loved it.

You can buy ice cream for two cans and hamburger and chips for six cans.

That was a high in all ways. Andre was tested, he was put on the hot plate. ... We just needed to go find a hamburger somewhere.

When you're doing that you lose your focus on the discipline of the business, and how you train people at Hamburger University, and everybody gets on a bigger, different vision, and they're not on the same page.

The reality is that the economy is in great shape. It's created lots of good jobs?not bad jobs. We haven't created a whole bunch of hamburger flipping jobs.

What is it with these hamburger chains? Are they so desperate to pump up lagging sales that they're resorting to vulgarity and strip teases to gain attention? ... It's like Carl's Jr., Hardee's and Burger King have perverted seventh-grade boys running their ad campaigns.

Tucking into a hamburger and fries is perfectly fine as a treat, as part of a balanced, active lifestyle.

Sometimes people don't know these workers exist. They don't really look at how that hamburger appeared on their plate. It comes from agricultural work that these undocumented immigrants do, to washing the dishes, to preparing the food.

This information on the package is useful, but it doesn't offer people an opportunity to compare products, ... Having it on the menu board would spur a lot of people to switch to a smaller order of fries, a diet soda, or a regular hamburger instead of a cheeseburger, for instance.

Your life gets geometrically worse the more you travel for business. The truth is that you often end up eating a bad hamburger after a long day of travel--that's if you're lucky enough to find room service open after 11 p.m. A child would only be an unwanted distraction.

This is not a grocery story or a place to stop once a week and pick up a few aspirin, six pounds of hamburger and some frozen food. Public markets are really about impulse purchases. You tasted some incredible Italian sausage so you head to the market, but then you see some tomatoes or taste some cheese and say 'Gosh, this is really incredible cheese, and it's made by a local farmer so give me a pound of that.' That's what happens.

I'm a neighborhood-bar kind of guy, anyway. I'd just as soon have a hamburger and fries as have a steak or a fancy meal. I like to be around people I consider my friends, and I've made a lot of friends in my four years here.

In the wild, we've seen whales end up looking like hamburger meat.

It tastes like something you would use with Hamburger Helper, ... It's a very neutral flavor. In some ways, it's like tofu. Tofu is something with so little character that if you eat it by itself, it'd put you to sleep.

If you take this to its logical extreme, no Cuban can stay at any American hotel in the world and no Cuban can buy a McDonald's hamburger anywhere.

The growth in chicken has not been at the expense of our hamburger sales, it's been in addition to them. Hamburger sales are up slightly over that period, too.

The major Jewish dietary laws rest on a single premise: Eating meat is a moral compromise. There is a difference between eating a hamburger and eating a bowl of cereal. For one of them, a living creature had to be killed. Should we ever become so casual about the eating of meat that we lose sight of that distinction, a part of our humanity will have shriveled and died.

Although Dave was widely popular, he was never very comfortable as a celebrity. He kept reminding us he was simply a hamburger cook.

The first Ruby Tuesday opened in 1972. In those days, the number one item people ordered when they went out was a hamburger and french fries. Today, the number one items people order when they go out are a hamburger, french fries and chicken tenders.

You can't take a congressman to lunch for $25 and buy him a hamburger or a steak or something like that. But you can take him to a fund-raising lunch and not only buy him that steak, but give him $25,000 extra and call it a fund-raiser - and have all the same access and all the same interactions with that congressman.

You know, movies are often made by tying up the hamburger rights and rubber-doll rights before the script is even approved.

They are probably not super healthy, but my guess would be that they are a better choice. I mean it's not a hamburger and fries from one of the fast food chains.

Those that have to have them for a product like a hamburger certainly can get what they need.

I assured them that I was HIM and proceeded to order a hamburger as Professor Dumbledore: 'I think I'd rather like a cheeseburger -- well done, with onions on the side,' ... The girls were amazed.