Quotes About Appetite

I love food: biscuits and gravy, cheese grits, spaghetti and meatballs, chicken-fried steak with white gravy... but my favorite dish is my wife's beanie weenie cornbread casserole. It's so good. It sounds stupid, but if you eat it, it's heaven. Of course, it's only something you can eat if you've got a lot of money.

Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food.

I love food and feel that it is something that should be enjoyed. I eat whatever I want. I just don't overeat.

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

A woman's appetite is twice that of a man's; her sexual desire, four times; her intelligence, eight times

The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Hunger, when there is something to cure it with, is easy to cure.

She felt she had been created by the demands of others, by their insatiable appetite for something beyond ordinary life. They craved a world without death and they had spotted her, in their hunger, like wolves alert to any poor sheep that might stray from the fold and stand gazing ignorantly up at the stars.

Why have a cake if I can't eat it?

Some people prefer eating dessert to the main course. These people have never been really hungry.

In most parts of the world people eat because they will die if they don't. The French, in contrast, live to eat. Many people take little or no pleasure from the food they consume. The French extract every possible pleasure from eating.

The best things beyond their measure cloy.

Everybody loves something, even if it's only tortillas.

Yet the stomach for war breeds an appetite for money.

What is called gluttony in one man is a healthy appetite in someone else.

People are usually pretty hungry after a funeral. I guess it's because we all realize that time is running out and we better eat all we can. Please don't mention that to my mother.

Early assemblages pointed up a maniacal (or horrifying) California appetite for conglomerates. Hard Edge arose out of Los Angeles's desert air, youthful cleanliness, spatial expanse, architectural tradition . . . and . . . optimism.

When we are sick, we lose our sense of taste and our appetite. Taste, appetite, and power of digestion are related. Lack of taste indicates fever, disease, low agni, high ama. To improve agni and eliminate disease, it is necessary to improve our sense of taste. This is why spices are such important Ayurvedic herbs. Desire for tasty food indicates hungry agni or disease. The problem is that we have perverted our sense of taste with artificial substances.

I don't want eternal life. I want a little joy, a large amount of pleasure, and a swift death once I lose the appetite for either.

You made me lose my appetite, Boomer. My mom tells me that all the time. Your family must be just like mine!

Their appetite for government spending and class conflict is insatiable, and their contempt for Trump precludes their support for his policies regardless of how effective they are.

If a person who constantly reads is labeled a bookworm, then I was quickly becoming what might be called a tapeworm.

Then one day you wake up normal, restored to health—a miracle. At first you're incredibly grateful—your appetite's back, and your energy level. There's a bit of you, though, that misses the razor's edge, the terrible thrill that at any moment you might lose control fo yourself and finally know what total disgrace feels like.

Yeah, and piss is just like honey if you're hungry enough.