Quotes About Appetite

I'm starved." -Juli "How can you be starved? You just ate a huge bowl of popcorn." -Elspeth "Popcorn isn't food, it's popcorn." -Vicki

But if you are desperately hungry, a dish of just about anything is hard to turn away. Our souls and our stomachs are alike in this way.

Sin has a horrible appetite. It calls for more and more sin to be set in motion.

We crave what we eat.

In America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us. We are ignorant of flavor. We are as a nation taste-blind.

I had lost the habit of eating for pleasure and ate only to satisfy hunger

The old Romans knew better; to keep people quiet they filled their bellies.

A sharp bolt of hunger hit Luther hard. His knees almost buckled, his poker face almost grimaced. For two weeks now his sense of smell had been much keener, no doubt a side effect of a strict diet. Maybe he got a whiff of Mabel's finest, he wasn't sure, but a craving came over him. Suddenly, he had to have something to eat. Suddenly, he wanted to snatch the bag from Kendall, rip open a package, and start gnawing on a fruitcake.

to the McDover case. She agreed but doubted seriously if she would comply, even though her appetite for risk had been severely diminished. As agreed, Wilton met her near the front entrance and they found a quiet table in a coffee bar at the

everything is carefully designed to make people crave the food that looks far more delicious on the walls than on the tables.

How old is she?" "Ten." Jake's appetite disappeared as the cafe returned to normal

Its burst of grainy sweetness filled my mouth; the skin was downy on my tongue. I had loved figs, once.

But while the color may sap appetite in the most literal sense, it feeds it in others.

Eat dessert first in case you're going to choke to death on your b

Desires are the pulses of the soul; as physicians judge by the appetite, so may you by desires.

To understand a profound thought is to have, at the moment one understands it, a profound thought oneself; and this demands some effort, a genuine descent to the heart of oneself . . . Only desire and love give us the strength to make this effort. The only books that we truly absorb are those we read with real appetite, after having worked hard to get them, so great had been our need of them.

At the start of a new love as its ending, we are not exclusively attached to the object of that love, but rather the desire to love from which it will presently arise (and, later on, the memory it leaves behind) wanders voluptuously through a zone of interchangeable charms -- simply natural charms, it may be, gratification of appetite, enjoyment of one's surroundings -- which are harmonious enough for it not to feel at a loss in the presence of any one of them.

What most enraptured me were the asparagus.

Greedily they plucked The fruitage fair to sight, like that which grew Near that bituminous lake where Sodom flamed; This more delusive, not the touch, but taste Deceived. They, fondly thinking to allay Their appetite with gust, instead of fruit Chewed bitter ashes

at least a couple of these are going to make you feel ravenously hungry. Go ahead and eat all you want, but avoid excessively fatty foods, since one of these is going to tell your body to purge fats in a way that absolutely challenges normal sphincter control." "That's … not great." "It's a mess. Seriously, don't even think about trying to fart for the next eighteen hours. It's not a fart. You will regret it.

There's a capacity for appetite... that a whole heaven and earth of cake can't satisfy

There's a capacity for apetite, Samuel said, that a whole heaven and earth of cake can't satisfy

There's a capacity for appetite," Samuel said, "that a whole heaven and earth of cake can't satisfy.

There's a capacity for appetite,' Samuel said, 'that a whole heaven and earth of cake can't satisfy.