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Quotes About Stomach

Get down here before you're recognized." "Playing hide-and-seek under the table? Crouching in the dirt? Typical of your kind, but far beneath my dignity." He laughs unsteadily, like he expects I am going to laugh, too. I don't. I ball up my fist and punch him in the stomach, right where I know it will hurt. He staggers to his knees. The goblet drops to the dirt, making a hollow clanking sound. "Ow!" he shouts, and lets me tug him under the table.
~ Holly Black
I think I'm in love with her. Either that, or I have a stomach disease with a side effect of uncontrollable sweating.
~ Lisa Kleypas
I used to have, and I still do have, really bad acid reflux. I had a surgical procedure done... that repaired a valve at the top of my stomach that had completely burned away.
~ David Draiman
I've been complimented enough and asked to run for various offices out here in Utah, but right now, I'm not interested. I don't know that I have the stomach for it.
~ Dale Murphy
Symbiosis can fail in various different ways: if there's too much stomach bacteria in my stomach, I might have some problems. If there's too little, I might have some problems. There's a sort of dynamic system there.
~ Timothy Morton
Once again, as seemed to be the case so often in my life, my stomach finally settled things; it growled, reminding me that life goes on, and even more so with a good dinner. And so, rather than risking the wrath of my digestive system, which was much more relevant than the wrath of my nonsister, I straightened up, clutched the custody papers firmly in my left hand, and moseyed up to the door.
~ Jeff Lindsay
We are but the veriest, sorriest slaves of our stomach.  Reach not after morality and righteousness, my friends; watch vigilantly your stomach, and diet it with care and judgment.  Then virtue and contentment will come and reign within your heart, unsought by any effort of your own; and you will be a good citizen, a loving husband, and a tender father, a noble, pious man.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
We are but the veriest, sorriest slaves of our stomach. Reach not after morality and righteousness, my friends; watch vigilantly your stomach, and diet it with care and judgment. Then virtue and contentment will come and reign within your heart, unsought by any effort of your own; and you will be a good citizen, a loving husband, and a tender father - a noble, pious man.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
Dyspepsia is the remorse of a guilty stomach.
~ Unknown
I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
~ Upton Sinclair
I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
~ Upton Sinclair
I thought for a change I would give up drinking, and it was a great mistake, and, although I reduced the size of my nose and improved my beauty, my stomach suffered.
~ Winslow Homer
And he always has a fantastic body, shown at its best on the cross, which—face it—was practically designed to make a man's stomach and shoulders look good.
~ David Sedaris
I'd do an exercise video because there are so many gay men with these perfect abs and they do exercise videos. So I did an exercise video where my stomach looked like my water's about to break.
~ Leslie Jordan
Hair spills through my dreams, sprouts from my stomach, thickens my heart, and tangles the brain. Hair ties the tongue dumb. Hair ascends the tree. of my childhood -- the willow I climbed one bare foot and hand at a time, feeling the knuckles of the gnarled tree, hearing my father plead from his window, Don't fall!
~ Li-Young Lee
I think of a Flannery O'Connor quote: "The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
~ Lori Gottlieb
A sickening hope, like a gall in her stomach. 7 November 4, 2000 London Helen was stiff with chill.
~ Rachel Kadish
He said the wicked know that if the evil they do is of sufficient horror men will not speak against it. That men have only stomach for small evils and only these will they oppose.
~ Unknown
Looking at his horses," I said, putting a hand over my stomach in hopes of suppressing the resounding borborygmi occasioned by the sight of food.
~ Diana Gabaldon
I don't want to work, but I have buoys of cork in my stomach. They won't let me go down, will they?
~ Unknown
Edible substances evoke the secretion of thick, concentrated saliva. Why? The answer, obviously, is that this enables the mass of food to pass smoothly through the tube leading from the mouth into the stomach.
~ Ivan Pavlov
Oh, there you are, Albus,' he said. 'You've been a very long time. Upset stomach?' 'No, I was merely reading the Muggle magazines,' said Dumbledore. 'I do love knitting patterns.
~ J. K. Rowling
invented Pepsi-Cola in New Bern, North Carolina. He called it Brad's Drink at first and changed it to Pepsi-Cola in 1898. Why? Because "dyspepsia" means indigestion, and Pepsi was supposed to calm the stomach.
~ Dan Gutman
When I was 5 and my sister was 3, we went on a family trip, and she ate cheese off the floor at an airport. My mother, a germaphobe, got very upset. My sister, of course, got a stomach virus, and ever since then, I have an aversion to cheese.
~ Scott Stossel