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Quotes About Indulgence

Read anthing, trash or trashier; and listen to thrash. Espceially 83-90 era. They will absorb you. You will be in dire need of beer. Now that's something you must be picky of.
~ William Faulkner
All the meat, he thought, and all it wants.
~ William Gibson
I want to have my cake and eat it too.
~ William Gibson
People smoke, and drink as though it were good for you, and seem to still be in some sort of honeymoon phase with cocaine.
~ William Gibson
But it looks a lot like finding the weirdest shit you can get away with in one night, in San Francisco, if you're willing to blow a metric fuck-ton of money to do it.
~ William Gibson
Babe was candy.
~ William Goldman
had taken it upon herself to sit through as many of the devil's entertainments as she could tolerate, cataloging every sin.
~ William J. Mann
In those late days of summer, as the right ruminated a cleansing, there flourished a millennial indulgence.
~ China Mieville
A single M&M has 4 calories. In order to burn off the calories in a single M&M, you'd have to walk 2 flights of stairs.
~ Chip Heath
Now, for the first time, he looked at me with respect, the way one might gaze at an equal. It made me glow with satisfaction. At the same time, though, I was saddened. What I'd taken as admiration all these years had really been a kind of indulgence, the way one might praise a child for her childish achievements.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Chocolate is like my best friend and the most intense pleasure at the same time, perhaps not the most intense, but the most regular and reliable one.
~ Chloe Doutre-Roussel
Everyone loves something, even if it's only tortillas.
~ Chogyam Trungpa
I think a book that is over 400 pages should be split in two. I don't know that there's anything that interesting that can go on for 700 pages. I think that is a little bit indulgent.
~ Chris Abani
I think I'm speaking for every husband when I saw that women's fashion really should incorporate more junk food. Ladies, dangle a nice cheese blintz around your neck, then see if your love life doesn't just take off.
~ Chris Erskine
The cakes and pies and casseroles beckoned like gastronomic sirens, and there was no one to lash me to the mast.
~ Chris Fabry
Chick and Iggy had never come home the night before, but according to Nina this was a fairly regular occurrence, usually attributable to drugs, women, or both.
~ Christa Faust
Moderators are able to enjoy a small bowl of ice cream and leave it at that. Abstainers find that one bowl of ice cream inevitably leads to finishing off the carton, and one cookie is never enough. Abstainers tend to do best when they abstain from all sugar for five or six days per week, leaving a day or two for eating whatever they want. Are you a moderator or an abstainer?
~ Christiane Northrup
Richard knows a bar that's open until two and they go off in search of it, the two girls tottering on their heels and swaying against the men, who seem all too happy to support them.
~ Christina Baker Kline
Bookshelves of summer houses are filled with dishy nonsense. They indicate how a person understands time is meant to be wasted.
~ Heidi Julavits
Chi trova gusto a mangiare non è ancora perduto
~ Heinrich Boll
I fix myself a hot chocolate because it is a gateway drug to reading.
~ Helen Ellis
I scroll through iPhone photos and see that if I delete pictures of myself with a double chin, I will erase all proof of my glorious life. I fix myself a hot chocolate because it is a gateway drug to reading. I think I couldn't love my husband more, and then he vacuums all the glitter.
~ Helen Ellis
I realize it has become too easy to find a diet to fit in with whatever you happen to feel like eating and that diets are not there to be picked and mixed but picked and stuck to, which is exactly what I shall begin to do once I've eaten this chocolate croissant.
~ Helen Fielding
Do you want this ice cream?" he asked her, whisking the dish all around the tabletop. "I mean, do you truly want it? Would you fight for this ice cream? Would you bear a deep wound in order to possess this ice cream completely? How deep a wound? What if it was as deep as the grave? What does this ice cream really mean to you, Miss Cabrini?
~ Helen Oyeyemi