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Quotes About Appetite

It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will...in a dull man.
~ Tom Jones
Man has an infinite capacity to rationalize - especially when it comes to what he wants to eat.
~ Cleveland Amory
Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.
~ Emile M. Cioran
Americans are like Pac Man. We just eat our way through the day. There's always something going into the mouth.
~ Diane Lane
A man who has never been hungry may possess a more refined palate, but he has no idea what it means to eat.
~ Harry Mulisch
Fame is a food that dead men eat, I have no stomach for such meat.
~ Henry Austin Dobson
I have an enormous fondness for delicious food. It's very comforting.
~ Teri Garr
The drugs they take suppress their appetite: the nausea induced by heroin inhibits the desire to eat, while cocaine and its derivatives suppress it altogether.
~ Theodore Dalrymple
Moreover, virtue is not concerned with the amount of pleasure experienced by the external sense, as this depends on the disposition of the body; what matters is how much the interior appetite is affected by that pleasure.
~ Thomas Aquinas
Eating is a necessity but a pleasure as well.
~ Robert Battle
When I'm nervous, I can't eat or sleep.
~ Andreja Pejic
I will never forget the hunger I used to feel.
~ Rivaldo
The public's appetite for what sensible newspapers call 'personality journalism' and what I call gossip is insatiable. It will never, ever stop growing because everybody dreams.
~ Robin Leach
I may eat nine bowls of dog food, because eight isn't enough.
~ Dick Van Patten
I'm asking. What's the joke?" "Two cannibals were eating a comedian, and one of them turns to the other and asks, 'Does this taste funny to you?
~ Nicholas Sparks
Hmmm. I want some... uh... pancakes... and some bacon... and pickle
~ Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
Influential books are often a disappointment, if they're properly influential, because influence cannot guarantee the quality of the imitators, and your appetite for the original has been partially sated by its poor copies.
~ Nick Hornby
Travel is wishing for one more bite of whatever that just was.
~ Nick Miller
I think of myself as a healthy person with a strong sex drive, but it's never occurred to me to forgo meals.
~ Nora Ephron
I was fascinated by the story. I couldn't believe that anyone would be so sexually driven that he might actually skip lunch- and after an auction. I think of myself as a healthy person with a strong sex drive, but it's never occurred to me to forego meals.
~ Nora Ephron
I couldn't believe that anyone would be so sexually driven that he might actually skip lunch—and after an auction! I think of myself as a healthy person with a strong sex drive, but it's never occurred to me to forgo meals.
~ Nora Ephron
I couldn't believe that anyone would be so sexually driven that he might actually skip lunch-and after an auction! I think of myself as a healthy person with a strong sex drive, but it's never occurred to me to forgo meals.
~ Nora Ephron
He's been very distracted the last few days." "Has he now?" "And short-tempered." Brenna found her appetite coming back. I'm delighted to hear it. I hope he suffers, the donkey's ass." Brenna went through the rest of her workday whistling, her mood bright and her hands nimble. She supposed it wasn't very charitable of her to take pleasure in the idea of another's unhappiness, but she was human, after all.
~ Nora Roberts
Can you cook? No. Drawing her brows together, she grabbed both of his ears and drew his head up. Not at all? That's remarkably chauvinistic for a man whose policies primarily reflect the feminist viewpoint. Alan lifted a brow. I don't expect you to be able to cook either. Amusement shot into his eyes. Can you? Shelby struggled with a grin. Barely. I find that odd for someone with your appetite. I eat out a lot.
~ Nora Roberts