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Quotes About Appetite

However far back I go into my childhood, nothing seems to me more characteristic of, or more familiar in, my interior economy than the appetite or irresistible demand for some 'Unique all-sufficing and necessary reality.'
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
I love filet mignon. I love French and Italian cuisine.
~ Maryse Mizanin
I like eating Mughlai, Chinese and Italian cuisines, but Chinese cuisine is one which I can have any day, any time!
~ Sanjeeda Sheikh
We are foodies, we love to eat, my dad's a chef, and coming from an Italian family, we love to eat.
~ Mandy Rose
I just love Italian, and I think, from being Italian, I just love Italian food.
~ Jessie James Decker
I just really, really love food, so I don't have a favourite. But if I had to pick one to eat every day, it would be Italian. But I also love Chinese and Japanese food.
~ Daniel Humm
I think that there's a real appetite for opinion-driven satire, not just generic making jokes about what's in the news but actually point-of-view-driven stuff.
~ Nish Kumar
The thought of gaining weight was all she needed to lose her appetite completely. Not that Jessica – a model-slim, perfect size-six – ever had to worry about her weight.
~ Francine Pascal
Damson plums were a favorite Elizabethan fruit and "eaten before dyner, be good to provoke a mans appetyde." They were also popular dried into prunes. It is unclear why, perhaps because they allegedly inflamed men's appetites, but stewed prunes were a favorite dish at Elizabethan brothels and also were a synonym for prostitutes. Shakespeare mentions prunes in that context in King Henry IV, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and Measure for Measure.
~ Francine Segan
I can go years thinking that it seems impossible that I will ever satisfy that appetite again and then it is easy to satisfy and no one notices or cares, nor does it make me happy, when loneliness surrounds me like water I've already drowned in without dying.
~ Francisco Goldman
People have declaimed against luxury for 2000 years, in verse and in prose, and people have always delighted in it.
~ Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
In the United States at the end of the twentieth century, the greatest luxury is to live a life in which the work that one does to earn a living, and what one has the appetite to make, coincide--by a kind of grace are the same, one.
~ Frank Bidart
Ernest. Oh, I can't eat any more. Hans. Just this shining muscatelle! Ernest. My elasticity has its limit.
~ Frank Wedekind
Ita fit ut ratio praesit, appetitus obtemperet.
~ Frederic M. Wheelock
Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one's belt buckled.
~ Frederic Raphael
Verstehe. Nach meiner Krankenschwester verging mir auch der Appetit.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
Don't eat more than you want," Grandma said. Kendra realized she had been toying with her pancakes, procrastinating the next bite. "I'm kind of tense," Kendra confessed, eating another forkful, hoping her face looked pleasant as she chewed. "I'll have hers," Seth offered, having almost finished his stack. "When
~ Brandon Mull
Men often described the girl as having hair the color of wheat. Others called it the color of caramel, or occasionally the color of honey. The girl wondered why men so often used food to describe women's features. There was a hunger to such men that was best avoided.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Cats don't stop hunting because they're full, Tress. They're like people in that regard.
~ Brandon Sanderson
He says he wants more carrots and bread crumbs!
~ Breehn Burns
And now we eat. The eponymous eating. Don't want butter, don't want salt. Dinner is thinner but it's not my fault.
~ Brenda Shaughnessy
When you are twenty-five and are a natural heavyweight, missing a meal makes you very hungry. But it also sharpens all of your perceptions, and I found that many of the people I wrote about had very strong appetites and a great taste and desire for food, and most of them were looking forward to having a drink.
~ Hemingway Ernest
Not that food which entereth into the moth defileth a man, but the appetite with which it is eaten. It is neither the quality nor the quantity, but the devotion to sensual savors; when that which is eaten is not a viand to sustain our animal, or inspire our spiritual life, but food for the worms that possess us.
~ Henry David Thoreau
A puritan may go to his brown-bread crust with as gross an appetite as ever an alderman to his turtle. Not that food which entereth into the mouth defileth a man, but the appetite with which it is eaten. It is neither the quality nor the quantity, but the devotion to sensual savors;
~ Henry David Thoreau