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Quotes About Appetite

Mens gryten koker lægger jeg mig litt og ser på bålet og sovner. Jeg tar min middagssøvn før maten. Og når jeg våkner er gryten kokt, det lukter kjøt og tyri i gammen.
~ Knut Hamsun
Are you so very hungry? asked Dorothy, in wonder. You can hardly imagine the size of my appetite, replied the Tiger, sadly. It seems to fill my whole body, from the end of my throat to the tip of my tail. I am very sure the appetite doesn't fit me, and is too large for the size of my body. Some day, when I meet a dentist with a pair of forceps, I'm going to have it pulled. What, your tooth? asked Dorothy. No, my appetite, said the Hungry Tiger.
~ L. Frank Baum
On school culture: It's hard to eat something you've had a relationship with.
~ Andy Hargreaves
It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause
~ David Hume
If there is anything we are serious about, it is neither religion nor learning, but food.
~ Lin Yutang
You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.
~ Yogi Berra
There is a difference between dining and eating. Dining is an art. When you eat to get most out of your meal, to please the palate, just as well as to satiate the appetite, that,my friend, is dining.
~ Yuan Mei
What do you want?" I ask. "A large slice of humble pie?" "We don't serve that here." "Sure we do," Dan calls. "But you ate it all." I glance over my shoulder at him. "Do you mind?
~ Yvonne Collins
Wouldn't it be wonderful if our mind growled like our stomach does when it is hungry?
~ Zig Ziglar
This bag is filled with nourishment for the mind and soul. What I have here, Tangy, are promises and hopes, as well as scattered disillusionments. It's like filling your plate with ham, green beans, and potato salad, only to have someone come along and spoon lumpy, dried-out oatmeal on the side. Wouldn't that spoil your appetite?
~ Delores Phillips
All men hear is blah, blah, blah, blah, SEX, blah, blah, blah, FOOD, blah, blah, blah, BEER.
~ Denis Leary
I've had the immense pleasure of knowing Thaddeus for over 4 years now. In that time I have experienced his incredible powers of observation, his wisdom, and his wonderful sense of humor. Yet he is quick to remind me that he is a dragon and therefore is prone to look at things differently. Oh, and his appetite for ...300+ Krispy Kreme donuts every morning can be a bit trying at times.
~ Derek Hart
Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
~ John Locke
Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.
~ Emile M. Cioran
An unsatisfied appetite for knowledge means progress and is the state of a normal mind.
~ David O. McKay
In order that knowledge be properly digested it must have been swallowed with a good appetite.
~ Anatole France
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Love makes us instinctively reach out to God and other people. Lust, on the other hand, is anything but godly and celebrates self-indulgence. Love comes with open hands and open heart; lust comes with only an open appetite.
~ Jeffrey R. Holland
Be subtle. "Slow eating is good," she agreed. "Like the way I eat chocolate-covered strawberries. The big, pointed ones that I can barely get my lips around. I like to suck them real slow.
~ Jennifer Ashley
All I knew was that Skye had been right. Jameson was hungry. And so am I.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.
~ Emil Cioran
Sometimes I wish I were a cannibal – less for the pleasure of eating someone than for the pleasure of vomiting him.
~ Emil Cioran
The Russians had a great taste for her, owing to her embonpoint.
~ Émile Zola
That brute of a lad has warmed me nicely. Next time, Master Edgar, take the law into your own fists it will give you an appetite!
~ Emily Bronte