Quotes About Savoring

Appreciate the moment.

Life itself is the proper binge.

Vis le moment présent. Ne prends pas de photos, n'essaye pas de saisir cet instant et de le figer pour l'éternité. Goûte à sa juste valeur le spectacle de ces lucioles.

Trust me, I'm looking forward to it. But it's like cramming a whole ice cream cone in my mouth and swallow it whole. What good is that? It's over and done in a second. I want to really taste it, to lick it slowly. I want to savor the ice cream, you know what I'm saying?

Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey.

I sat back in the corner with a heavy mug of dark beer and an opened glazed-paper package of pretzels and ate the pretzels for the salty flavor and the good way they made the beer taste and read about disaster.

Some people are like a rich chocolate cake, don't you think, Jimmy? You'd only enjoy them in small mouthfuls.

Smell the roses. Smell the coffee. Whatever it is that makes you happy.

Mostly Strike was savoring the pleasure it had given him to hear Robin return his declaration of affection.

They lingered over cups of ersatz coffee.

There was always plenty of fruit that clung stubbornly to the seed. He would nibble and suck at it to get every last shred, making it last for hours.

It ain't what you eat but how you chew it.

Digestion of words as well; I often read aloud to myself in my writing corner in the library, where no one can hear me, for the sake of better savouring the text, so as to make it all the more mine.

Grace is the first mouthful of each course - chewed and chewed until there's nothing left of it. And all the time you're chewing you pay attention to the flavour of the food, to it's consistency and temperature, to the pressures on your teeth and the feel of the muscles in your jaws.

This tea is for people who really appreciate tea. Ordinary tea is for anyone.

Don't drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.

Always eat every meal as though it was your last.

Take twice as long to eat half as much.

My favorite thing to do is eat and eat well.

One of my favourite activities is eating.

One of life's finest things is enjoying your food.

I do quite like rice and beans weirdly, I don't know how or why. For me I always eat my beans first one by one and then savour the rice because it is bloody fantastic.

Why hurry over beautiful things? Why not linger and enjoy them?

Rap and spoken word have reawakened the country to poetry in itself. Texting and Twitter encourage creative uses of casual language, in ways I have celebrated widely. But we've fallen behind on savoring the formal layer of our language.