Appetite Quotes
Finally, the lessons of impermanence taught me this: loss constitutes an odd kind of fullness; despair empties out into an unquenchable appetite for life.
Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted.
Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess
I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it, then I stop, At the time that I am bored or understand - I use those words interchangeably - another appetite has formed.
I think there's an appetite for seriousness. Seriousness is voluptuous, and very few people have allowed themselves the luxury of it.
Estrogen is a powerful if vengeful hormone affecting a woman's fertility, moods, sleep patterns, appetite. Estrogen is the household heating oil of womanhood.
A person has to get fed up with the ways of the world before he, before she acquires an appetite for the world of grace.
One of the qualities that all the leaders have is a voracious appetite to learn whatever they do not as yet know and understand, coupled with an openness to new experiences.
Appetite has really become an artificial and abnormal thing, having taken the place of true hunger, which alone is natural. The one is a sign of bondage but the other, of freedom.
We ought not to extract pernicious honey from poison blossoms of misrepresentation and mendacious half-truth, to pamper the course appetite of bigotry and self-love.
There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.
Some people have food, but no appetite; others have an appetite, but no food. I have both. The Lord be praised.
I have a healthy appetite for solitude. If you don't, you have no business being a writer.
I fear that we are such gods or demigods only as fauns and satyrs, the divine allied to beasts, the creatures of appetite, and that, to some extent, our very life is our disgrace.
The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness, And in the taste confounds the appetite: Therefore love moderately— long love doth so.
The internet creates more of an appetite for media - it doesn't replace physical books, radio or TV.
The man of culture finds the whole past relevant; the bourgeois and the barbarian find relevant only what has some pressing connection with their appetite.
There was a much more self-destructive nature in 'Appetite.' It was a going-for-it-at-all-cost thing that worked then.
The British press has an insatiable appetite for making public things that should be private. It's a prurience that I've never understood.
I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.
Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith.
A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.
I hate with a bitter hatred the names of lentils haricots - those pretentious cheats of the appetite, those tabulated humbugs, those certified aridites calling themselves human food!
I get bored very easily. I have a voracious appetite and I do not feel alive if I'm repeating something I'm good at. So I'm always looking for new challenges.
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
Furthermore I will just have to see what the future will bring me. But a change of food whets the appetite.
Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite.
You can cultivate taste, as you can the intellect. Full understanding whets the appetite and desire, and, later, sharpens the enjoyment of possession.
Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.
Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.
I've entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
A healthy appetite for righteousness, kept in due control by good manners, is an excellent thing; but to hunger and thirst after it is often merely a symptom of spiritual diabetes.
