Quotes About Appetite

My companion, with that look of concentration which comes over French faces when a meal is in the offing, did not wait to hear any of this.

There are men who are wolves inside, and want to eat up other people to fill their bellies.

I ate it all she gave me another piece and when I ate all of that she gave me another with honey. My stomach was so full I could feel it with my hand.

There are hungers for a nameless bread out of the dust of the hard earth, out of the blaze of the calm sun.

The concept of genes driving people's appetite caused them to lose some control of their own.

men, as is more than evident, respond, contrariwise, to the dictates of their genital and digestive organs.

Cuántas almas perdidas necesitas, Señor, para saciar tu apetito?, preguntaba el sombrero. Dios, en su infinito silencio, le miraba sin pestañear.

el hombre, como nos enseña Perogrullo, obedece por contra al dictado de su aparato genital o digestivo.

Oh, you were the dessert. The Rattrays were the meal.

I don't go to any sexy places to eat where they give you half a lamb chop and one bean. I like going, 'Uhhh, I'm done' when I eat.

I'll order anything that has the word 'fig' or 'crusted' in the menu description.

If you want to lose weight, you must make sure your appetite for life is far bigger than your appetite for mere food.

It would be nice if I had a faster metabolism, because I love food.

I am a burger guy, but actually I'm more of a Mexican food guy.

People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my Jamaican jerk or my Jamaican curry chicken. They love the jerk, though. And they love my Mexican food.

As if it were Injustice to sell dearer than we buy; or to give more to a man than he merits. The value of all things contracted for, is measured by the Appetite of the Contractors: and therefore the just value, is that which they be contented to give.

Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man: so that man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals; in whom the appetite of food, and other pleasures of sense, by predominance, take away the care of knowing causes; which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

T]he value of all things contracted for, is measured by the Appetite of the Contractors: and therefore the just value, is that which they be contented to give.

I think that if there is one truth that people need to learn, in the world, especially today, it is this: the intellect is only theoretically independent of desire and appetite in ordinary, actual practice.

concupiscence

You're hungry, Denis?" "Really. Hey, like Godzilla always sez to Mothra–why don't we go eat some place?

I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my purse.

but my stomach rebelled anew at the sight of the separated chicken leg on my plate, the white knob of bone glistening through the cooked tendons. It didn't look like food. It looked like a piece of a dismembered corpse. Eating it, I knew, was a practical impossibility.

Hunger is the best seasoning.