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Quotes About Appetite

A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way of life.
~ Robert Maclver
I think our love was all the better for being stretched out by our necessity to study hard to keep up with our work. To have all the time in the world to devote to love may be idyllic for a summer, but linked sweetness long drawn out is the greater luxury. [...] During these summer absences, I longed for her, and wrote to her, and loved her more than ever, abstinence sharpening the appetite.
~ Robertson Davies
I suppose you really like them dirty, said Miss Vyner. That's it. Dirty and full of divine mystery, said Cobbler, rolling his eyes and kissing his fingers. "Sheer connoisseurship, I confess, but I've always preferred a bit of ripened cheese to a scientifically packaged breakfast food.
~ Robertson Davies
She laughed at him then, because he sounded like a small boy, not like a very large grown-up Beast with a voice so deep it made the hair on the back of your neck stir when you heard it. 'But vegetables are good for you,' she said, and added caressingly, 'They make you grow up big and strong.' He smiled, showing a great many teeth. 'You see why I wish to eat no more vegetables.
~ Robin McKinley
wanting it for its beauty is not wanting to inspect it: it is wanting to contemplate it—and that is something more than a search for information or an expression of appetite. Here is a want without a goal: a desire that cannot be fulfilled since there is nothing that would count as its fulfilment.
~ Roger Scruton
Alaska Airlines would have been cheaper, but Reacher hated Alaska Airlines. They put a scripture card on their meal trays. Ruined his appetite.
~ Lee Child
The assimilation of taboo images to the everyday language of doing business produces a strange effect. It domesticates the taboo while at the same time making the everyday transactional world more porous, more open to the forbidden. The wolf of unbridled appetite slips into everyday convention in the sheep's clothing of commercial language.
~ Lee Siegel
Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
I'm really not hungry," she repeated, lifting the coffee cup and inhaling the fragrant steam before sipping. "Just a few bites," he cajoled, taking his own place beside her. "You need to keep up your strength for tonight." She gave him a heated, slumberous look, remembering her fantasy. "Why? Are you planning something special?" "I suppose I am," he said consideringly. "It's special every time we make love.
~ Linda Howard
Society is composed of two great classes: those who have more dinners than appetite and those who have more appetite than dinners.
~ Sebastien Chamfort
The more intense a spiritual leader's appetite for power, the more he is concerned to limit it to others.
~ Emile M. Cioran
Como me gustaría comerme una buena verga
~ Albert Einstein
Most lead lives at worst so painful, at best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of the principle appetites of the soul.
~ Aldous Huxley
The urge to transcend self-conscious selfhood is, as I have said, a principal appetite of the soul.
~ Aldous Huxley
Most men and women lead lives at the worst so painful, at the best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of the principal appetites of the soul.
~ Aldous Huxley
The fitchew nor the soiled horse goes to't with a more riotous appetite.
~ Aldous Huxley
I ate civilization.
~ Aldous Huxley
A man gets an appetite when he starts to eat.
~ Alexander Dumas
James sniffed at the soup. "I love porcini to bits," he said. "They're the only mushroom I'd go out of my way for." "What about chanterelles?" said Matthew. "Porcini are delicious, but so are chanterelles.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Well then,' said Femworth as he came to his feet, 'let's go. Sounds like a delightful challenge before supper. Stimulate the appetite, or kill it. Interesting either way.
~ Donita K. Paul
The more you eat, the more you poop.
~ doofus
With love, you don't even need butter on your bread; without it, an elaborate feast is necessary to make you come to the table.
~ Dorothy Whipple
Lorne confessed that he hadn't done as much as he might have to help John curb his appetite for drugs. "Part of the problem of my generation was a morality that said you don't tell people how to live," he said. "That was garbage. It was just a way to avoid taking responsibility.
~ Doug Hill