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Quotes About Appetite

Jack Aubrey pushed back his chair, loosened his waistcoat, and said, 'I had no idea I was so hungry: I am afraid I must have eaten like an ogre.' Killick could be seen to smile: Jack's appetite always pleased him - his one deviation into amiability. 'Oh come,' said Maturin. 'Six mutton chops is not at all excessive in a man of your weight: an abstemious ogre would call it moderation.
~ Patrick O'Brian
That's the way it always is, said the old man. It's called the principle of favorability. When you play cards the first time, you are almost sure to win. Beginner's luck. Why is that? Because there is a force that wants you to realize your destiny; it whets your appetite with a taste of success.
~ Paulo Coelho
if we understand how growth happens and are inspired to pursue the path of awakening, we develop an appetite for the things that challenge us. We become increasingly drawn to the places where learning and deepening can happen.
~ Pema Chodron
There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.
~ Paul Gauguin
Art theft gave a guy an appetite.
~ Gordon Korman
The art of Good Eating has two essential points: one must eat only when one is hungry, and one must take small bites.
~ Mary MacLane
side of onion rings, which was all she wanted.
~ Danielle Steel
I'm hungry, he whimpered instead. Food is on its way. No, he said. The other kind of hunger. P198
~ Darren Shan
The hunger inside us must be fed to be controlled.
~ Darren Shan
That's the nature of a fat man, Ce'Nedra." He sighed. "The last meal is history. It's the next one that's important.
~ David Eddings
This appetite to choose death by pleasure if it is available to choose - this appetite of your people unable to choose appetites, this is the death.
~ David Foster Wallace
Fictionally speaking, desire is the sugar in human food.
~ David Foster Wallace
desire is the sugar in human food.
~ David Foster Wallace
The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Therefore, love moderately.
~ William Shakespeare
But she makes hungry Where she most satisfies...
~ William Shakespeare
I may chance have some odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me, because I have railed so long against marriage: but doth not the appetite alter? a man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humour? No, the world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.
~ William Shakespeare
This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit, Which gives men stomach to digest his words With better appetite.
~ William Shakespeare
They are all but stomachs, and we all but food. To eat us hungerly, and when they are full, They belch us.
~ William Shakespeare
Force should be right; or rather, right and wrong, between whose endless jar justice resides, should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then everything includes itself in power, power into will, will into appetite; and appetite, an universal wolf, so doubly seconded with will and power, must make perforce an universal prey and at last eat up himself.
~ William Shakespeare
Those palates who, not yet two summers younger, must have inventions to delight the taste, would now be glad of bread, and beg for it.
~ William Shakespeare
The most important thing about education is appetite.
~ Winston Churchill
So he found that what he had half despised was not despicable, that what had been for him the satisfaction of an appetite, a pleasant but commonplace adventure in disappointment, owned wayward and elusive depths he had not known before, and carried the knowledge of beauty in its heart.
~ Winston Graham
Ã…Å¡niadanie w Hermitage z przypadkowo poznanym A. i jego ?onÄ…. Jedzenie zalatuje - proszÄ™ wybaczy? - bardzo luksusowym klozetem, wÅ'aÅ›ciwie nie wiem dlaczego ale, kiedy zawisÅ'em na krawÄ™dzi tych apetycznych frykasów, w gÄ™stej dystynkcji kelnerów, byÅ'bym przysiÄ…gÅ', ?e to klozet. ZresztÄ… spa? mi siÄ™ chciaÅ'o. Mo?e dlatego.
~ Witold Gombrowicz
Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: Frequently there must be a beverage.
~ Woody Allen