Quotes About Indulgence

but I felt then the same way Nicky did, that I was getting myself more life. Not necessarily a better life, not a life more promising than the one I already had. But because I thought this life was in addition to and not instead of, I devoured it without a second's hesitation.

J'aime ce qui me nourrit : le boire, le manger, les livres.

Long as I was riding in a big Cadillac and dressed nice and had plenty of food, that's all I cared about.

Be always drunken. Nothing else matters: that is the only question. If you would not feel the horrible burden of Time weighing on your shoulders and crushing you to the earth, be drunken continually. Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken.

Gimme a whiskey—ginger ale on the side. And don't be stingy, baby.

The candy cap was a revelation to me: redolent with the smell of maple, marvelously silky and spongy in texture, earth and meaty and sweet. When you eat a candy cap, your skin smells like maple sugar. When you exercise after eating a candy cap, your sweat smells like maple sugar. When you make love after eating a candy cap . . . well, I leave that to your imagination, but . . . yes.

when I read to her, her quietness, her peacefulness, was what I sought to hear, and it echoed in me as if in an expanding cavern, and often left me trembling with love; and so, then and there, after taking a final gulp of my decaf, I decided to indulge in even more self-pampering: I lifted my legs down from the chair, and, with lightness and celerity, stole upstairs...

After my first movie was released, my wife and I went Bouley. A fantastic meal. The whole thing, getting dressed up, acting very adult-y, a lot of fun.

I relish North Indian and Mughlai food. I'm also a big fan of good steaks and cold cuts.

So I will say it with relish. Give me a hamburger but hold the lawsuit.

When you are starved and something is dropped on your plate you are going to relish every bite.

I remember when we used to come to Delhi, my cousins and I would binge on possibly everything that we craved for back home.

After a gig I always head back to the hotel, remembering granny's words of wisdom. I cancel the late-night pizza and watch the Jonathan Ross show instead.

When you realize the real pleasure in food comes in the first couple bites, and it diminishes thereafter, that's a kind of reminder to focus on the experience, enjoy those first bites, and as you get into the 20th bite, you're talking calories and not pleasure.

Red Lobster reminds me of my dad because he would always get coupons and be like, 'We're going to treat ourselves.'

As anyone who even remotely knows me, I will eat chicken with some chicken, and maybe more chicken. Chicken done any which way, basically.

Paris is a danger for people like me. We spend our rent money in Paris on clothes.

In the kitchen at work I try not eat all day long but sometimes you can't help it. You've just got to taste seven different ice creams and sorbets, or make sure the seasoning is right on a dish.

I never say no to an ice cream.

I eat ice cream. It's better than booze.

Ice cream is my comfort food.

I love ice cream and gulab jamuns.

I love ice cream, and I love chocolate.

I like ice cream, I don't like pain.