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Quotes About Appetite

China is an old nation with a colourful history. Its booming economy has triggered an appetite and a curiosity around the world for its art and culture, one that continues to grow. I can, however, tell people that it is a show with no actor.
~ Ai Weiwei
What humanity wants most is crude sensation. Really? I thought what humanity wanted most was dignity.
~ Christopher Fowler
Chapter 8, Dinner With the Vampire: Is there something wrong with your food? No, I'm just not very hungry. You're going to break my heart, aren't you?
~ Christopher Moore
You can only eat so much white cake.
~ Christopher Moore
And that continued for quite a while until the adventurer admitted that it IS an accepted fact among monsters and giants of all stripes that Englishmen are delicious.
~ Christopher Moore
What a sweet and succulent morsel: so soft, so salty, so deliciously delectable, it makes me want to wiggle with delight. You should cook for me more often, Roran Stronghammer. Only next time, I think you should prepare several deer at once. Otherwise, I won't get a proper meal.' Roran hesitated, as if unable to decide whether her request was serious and, if so, how he could politely extricate himself froim such an unlooked -for and rather onerous obligation.
~ Christopher Paolini
think it would dismay them to know what it takes to feed you. Not to mention that you could empty their cellars of beer and wine in a single night. I would never, she sniffed, then relented. Maybe in two nights.
~ Christopher Paolini
Saphira pushed her head inside. Meat! she said. I smell meat!
~ Christopher Paolini
El doctor angélico dice que las pasiones en sí mismas no son malas, pero que han de moderarse mediante la voluntad guiada por el alma racional. Sólo que aquella mañana mi alma racional estaba adormecida por la fatiga que refrenaba el apetito irascible, volcado hacía el bien y el mal como metas por conquistar, pero no al apetito concupiscible, volcado hacia el bien y el mal como metas conocidas.
~ Umberto Eco
Hunger is the best sauce. When you always have regular meals, you lose your appreciation for food. Too much of a good thing spoils it.
~ Victor Canning
He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.
~ Victor Hugo
Each of our passions, even love, has a stomach that must not be overloaded. We must in all things write the word finis in time; we must restrain ourselves, when it becomes urgent, draw the bolt on the appetite, play a fantasia on the violin, then break the strings with our own hand.
~ Victor Hugo
She ate life with unapologetic enthusiasm and took as many helpings as she wanted.
~ Kristin Hannah
buy books and we're hungry, and making eyeliner is
~ Kristin Hannah
This is how many today treat GOD and Hip Hop. They seek the hand and not the face. They seek the luxury but not the culture, the food but not the appetite, the house but not the home, the medicine but not the health, the bed but not the rest. They would rather use GOD/Hip Hop than live GOD/Hip Hop.
~ KRS-One
Ja, wir wollen wohl ein bißchen viel: kluge Gespräche und Logik und gutes Aussehen und ein bißchen Treue und dann dieser nie zu unterdrückende Wunsch, von der Frau wie ein Beefsteak gefressen zu werden, daß die Kinnbacken krachen... .
~ Kurt Tucholsky
You should have fed." I shrugged.
~ L.J. Smith
To eat or not to eat, that is the question: whether 'tis Nobler in the stomach to suffer the Slings and Arrows of outrageous Hunger (while keeping mouthparts in pristine kissing condition) or to take Spoon against Slice of cake, and-- "Yes, please," my stomach pipes up.
~ Laini Taylor
As it turned out, everyone wanted a doughnut. Jace wanted two.
~ Cassandra Clare
Do you want any soup?" "No," said Jace. "Do you think Hodge will want any soup?" "No one wants any soup." " I want some soup," Simon said. "No you dont," said Jace. "You just want to sleep with Isabelle.
~ Cassandra Clare
If you knew how to cook, maybe I would eat.
~ Cassandra Clare
Enough of what? Enough of behaving as you do. Oh, I can never get enough. Which, incidentally, is what you sister said to me when
~ Cassandra Clare
It was truly amazing, Clary thought, how much teenage boys were able to eat without ever gaining weight or making themselves sick. -pg.68-
~ Cassandra Clare
I noticed Incy smiling at me as I rounded up my third or fourth doll-size éclair. I mean, I get the whole precious-food thing. But give me a big honking éclair, know what I'm saying?
~ Cate Tiernan