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Quotes About Desire

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Tis not the meat, but 'tis the appetite makes eating a delight.
~ John Suckling
I eat at this German-Chinese restaurant and the food is delicious. The only problem is that an hour later you're hungry for power.
~ Dick Cavett
Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational, and habitual preference for all objects which flatter the sense of taste.
~ Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.
~ Ambrose Bierce
I wasn't passionate about food until I'd been cooking for a while. I started long before food became part of the mainstream media. I just wanted to cook, period.
~ Bobby Flay
I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I'd trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.
~ Tom Waits
I'd go without food if I could have a flower.
~ Caryl Churchill
Some people have food, but no appetite; others have an appetite, but no food. I have both. The Lord be praised.
~ Oliver Cromwell
We know that the body needs bread, therefore we seek for bread for it: so must we seek for the food of the soul.
~ Lancelot Andrewes
Gluttony is not a secret vice.
~ Orson Welles
I'm a big buffet dude, or I'm a big cheap-food-and-order-more-when-I-need-it dude.
~ Patrice O'Neal
Food is my drug of choice.
~ Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
She knows no difference 'twixt head and privities who devours immense oysters at midnight.
~ Juvenal
My mind says one thing, but my body says another. Thanks a lot, Indian food and beer.
~ Demetri Martin
Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?
~ William Shakespeare
Alcohol is the devil and I need Chinese food.
~ Rihanna
Animal crackers, and cocoa to drink That is the finest of suppers, I think When I'm grown up and can have what I please, I think I shall always insist upon these.
~ Christopher Morley
Hunger is the best sauce.
~ Proverbs
I swear I want to be a food model.
~ Amy Sedaris
The best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.
~ Socrates
Hunger never saw bad bread.
~ Benjamin Franklin
I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero