Quotes About Appetite

Two days' hunger made a fine sauce for anything.

The killing of Steven Tuomi may have been unintentional, but it whetted Dahmer's appetite for murder.

Once government got a taste of money, the appetite grew.

If you know your appetite will be sated, pleasure is more about the appetite than about the sating.

If you're working to restrict your food intake, a milkshake just makes you want another one.

our frequent human tragedy is that the more we consume, the hungrier we get.

Lois looked edible, and you know it was tender all the way through, a kind of mystic combination of filet mignon and a Georgia peach aching for the tongue and ready to bleed gold.

The problem was that the government's appetite for money was so great that taxes soon needed to be levied on the middle class, and from there it kept trickling down.

Desire grows by what it feeds on.

also many of them were, to Augustus's way of thinking, excessively pious. Some kept no liquor in their houses at all, and, on several occasions when he had been invited in for a meal, the grace was said at such length that he had all but lost his appetite before anyone was allowed to eat.

Cuando se habla de comer, hecho por demás importante, sólo los necios o los enfermos no le dan el interés que merece.

I want the drumstick! I want the drumstick!

I hoped what little dinner I'd eaten wasn't something my new baby-rich body didn't like. I didn't want to throw up all over the bad guys, or then again maybe I did. It would certainly be distracting.

I was hungry, and the corn dogs smelled good. Should I eat first or accuse the Master of the City of murder? Choices, choices. I

I'm just crying because when you eat a five-year-old, the portions are so small.

Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine;——they are the life, the soul of reading;—take them out of this book, for instance,—you might as well take the book along with them;—one cold eternal winter would reign in every page of it; restore them to the writer,——he steps forth like a bridegroom,—bids All hail, brings in variety, and forbids the appetite to fail.

I wanted a coffin made of wood from trees not yet planted my appetite for time was growing.

There is one good thing about not eating," I said. "What would that be?" Greenlaw asked. "We've got nothing to fart with.

I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite.

I suppose we couldn't realize, or could realize but couldn't accept, that the logic of business is not a logic in that sense. It's not only a narrow consideration of profits and losses, but a larger logic of, well, appetite. To buy something is to assert oneself, and to sell it, for whatever reason, is to collaborate in one's own diminishment.

What suckling craved the creature, born full-fanged?

which even Bash?, at the peak of his powers, would have struggled to describe as convincingly as the menu's scribe: Warm grilled chicken slices, Smoked bacon, crisp lettuce, And a warm ciabatta roll on a bed of sea-salted fries

It was almost a side-effect that this caused me to educate myself to a degree which was beyond anything a school could hope to achieve. My own appetite for knowledge and reading and connection had led me, and that is how education works, not by spoon-feeding, but by stimulating the appetite so that children cannot wait to feed themselves.

Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.