Appetite Quotes:

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.

- A. J. Liebling

source: A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.27, Macmillan

topic: Writing, Culinary, Appetite, Writing Well

Collage-making, for me, is basically an act of painting, allowing me to indulge in an appetite for immediacy.

- Abe Ajay

topic: Painting, Immediacy, Appetite, Collages

I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film.

- Alain Resnais

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Special, Film, Appetite

What is more refreshing than salads when your appetite seems to have deserted you.

- Alexis Soyer

source: Alexis Soyer (1855). “A Shilling Cookery for the People: Embracing an Entirely New System of Plain Cookery and Domestic Economy”, p.155

topic: Salad, Appetite, Refreshing, Deserted

If you feed an appetite, it grows. Satisfying an appetite does not diminish it. It expands it. To diminish an appetite, you have to starve it.

- Andy Stanley

topic: Doe, Appetite, Grows

Good cheer is no hindrance to a good life.

- Aristippus

topic: Cheer, Good Life, Appetite

Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.

- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

topic: Sex, Satisfaction, Appetite

The appetite for power is old and irrepressible in humankind, and in its action almost always destructive.

- Barbara Tuchman

topic: Power, Action, Appetite, Irrepressible

Turtle makes all men equal.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Men, Turtles, Appetite

Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.

- Bernard Berenson

topic: Taste, Appetite, Satisfied

The persistent appetite for human beings for community is what we should all be dedicated to.

- Bob Maguire

topic: Community, Should, Appetite

The appetite for more instant replay in the sport is very low.

- Bud Selig

topic: Sports, Lows, Appetite, Instant Replay, Replay

Existence is Appetite: the gnaw of being; the one attempt of all things to assimilate to some higher attempt.

- Charles Fort

topic: Appetite, Existence, Higher

We all have hometown appetites,

- Clementine Paddleford

topic: Hometown, Appetite

The public's appetite for frothy, flippant blondes has waned, but Paris Hilton still fascinates me.

- Diablo Cody

topic: Paris, Flippant, Appetite

Though my appetite for food grew frail, my hunger for books was constant.

- Diane Setterfield

topic: Book, Hunger, Appetite

The appetites of the body were private battles.

- Elizabeth Strout

topic: Battle, Body, Appetite

For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.

- Felix Dennis

topic: Temptation, Appetite

All things require skill but an appetite.

- George Herbert

topic: Food, Skills, Appetite

I try to feed my hunger rather than my appetite.

- Ginger Rogers

topic: Trying, Hunger, Appetite

Art theft gave a guy an appetite.

- Gordon Korman

topic: Art, Guy, Appetite

Going through life without love is like going through a good dinner without an appetite -- everything seems so flat and tasteless.

- Helen Rowland

source: Helen Rowland (1909). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”

topic: Love Is, Dinner, Appetite, Life Without Love

Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.

- Henrik Ibsen

topic: Food, Medicine, Appetite, Money Happiness, Kernel

The appetite grows for what it feeds on.

- Ida B. Wells

topic: Appetite, Grows

Appetite, craving for food, is a constant and powerful stimulator of the gastric glands.

- Ivan Pavlov

topic: Powerful, Glands, Appetite, Adrenal Glands, Gastric

What is the motive which operates in every man's breast to counteract the impulse towards the gratification of his wants and appetites?

- Jean-Baptiste Say

topic: Men, Want, Appetite

Let not our longing slay the appetite of our living.

- Jim Elliot

topic: Longing, Appetite, Passion And Purity

Tyranny knows no restraint of appetite.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Appetite, Tyranny, Restraint

I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.

- Jimmy Page

topic: Appetite, Worldly

Furthermore I will just have to see what the future will bring me. But a change of food whets the appetite.

- Jonathan Brandis

topic: Appetite

The appetite is sharpened by the first bites.

- Jose Rizal

topic: Food, Firsts, Appetite

I am pleased to tell you that he is finally getting some rest and is regaining his appetite as well.

- LaToya Jackson

topic: Appetite, Wells

...appetite turns common food into the fare of kings.

- Laurel Lea

topic: Kings, Common, Appetite

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.

- Lord Byron

topic: Hilarious, Solitude, Appetite, Socializing, Introverted

I don't starve myself. Anyone who knows me will tell you I have an appetite. I'd much rather work out and not diet than not work out and have to diet.

- Marisa Miller

topic: Work Out, Appetite, Know Me

Calories from protein affect your brain, your appetite control center, so you are more satiated and satisfied.

- Mark E. Hyman

topic: Brain, Appetite, Calories

It seems like there's a real appetite for science fiction in the States.

- Matt Smith

topic: Real, Fiction, Appetite

No sauce equals appetite.

- Muriel Lester

source: Muriel Lester (1937). “It Occurred to Me”

topic: Sauce, Eating, Appetite

Stop short of your appetite; eat less than you are able.

- Ovid

topic: Food, Able, Appetite

Trash has given us an appetite for art.

- Pauline Kael

source: Pauline Kael (1970). “Going Steady: Film Writings, 1968-1969”, Marion Boyars

topic: Art, Appetite, Given

One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success.

- Paulo Freire

topic: Manipulation, Individual, Appetite, Pedagogy Of The Oppressed, Personal Success

We remain unconvinced that consumer appetite for mobile TV services exists outside of niche segments.

- Phil Taylor

topic: Tvs, Niche, Appetite

They are only safe That know to soothe the prince's appetite, And serve his lusts.

- Philip Massinger

topic: Lust, Safe, Appetite

the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites.

- Phyllis Bottome

topic: Rewards, Appetite, Sophistication, Unfortunate Things, Worldliness

In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it is our ideals we have consumed, and we have not been enlarged by the feasts but only diminished.

- Pico Iyer

topic: Gossip, Too Late, Appetite

Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Food, Meat, Appetite, Savory, Eating Food

When secularization has had its full sway, it will leave a generation devoid of shame. And if you show me a generation that lacks shame, I will show you a generation that is monstrous in its appetite... never satisfied.

- Ravi Zacharias

topic: Generations, Shame, Appetite, Modernisation, Secularism

I have a very commercial appetite. I don't like to do high-brow things.

- Sigourney Weaver

topic: Appetite, Brows

... the stomach is near the heart and one appetite ***** on another.

- Storm Jameson

topic: Heart, Stomach, Appetite

We each after a while have to become reconciled to what it is that our talents and appetites lead us to.

- Tobias Wolff

topic: Talent, Appetite

When I think about fashion I think women will never lose that appetite for fashion.

- Tory Burch

topic: Fashion, Thinking, Appetite

I've got a pretty good appetite right now.

- Tracey Gold

topic: Appetite

I have an enormous appetite to see life as I know it presented in front of my eyes.

- Wallace Shawn

topic: Eye, Appetite, Enormous

I have a voracious appetite for images I can translate.

- Wanda Koop

topic: Desire, Appetite, Translate

I have a healthy appetite for solitude. If you don't, you have no business being a writer.

- Will Self

source: Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2007.

topic: Healthy, Solitude, Appetite

Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.

- William Ruckelshaus

source: Business Week, June 18, 1990.

topic: Lunch, Environment, Appetite, Free Lunch, One With Nature

Now, good digestion wait on appetite, and health on both!

- William Shakespeare

topic: Waiting, Digestion, Appetite, Good Digestion

What you feed your mind determines your appetite.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Mind, Appetite, Determine

The best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.

- Socrates

topic: Hunger, Drink, Appetite, Seasoning

The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.

- Charles Baudelaire

topic: Biographies, Appetite, Immense

I ate 'umble pie with an appetite.

- Charles Dickens

source: Charles Dickens (1866). “Works of Charles Dickens: The Pickwick papers”, p.143

topic: Humility, Pie, Appetite

You can fill my appetite without me taking up a bite.

- Paul McCartney

source: Song: What's That You're Doing?, Album: Tug of War

topic: Compliment, Appetite, Bites

The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied.

- Francois Fenelon

topic: Art, Want, Appetite, Importunate, Poisoning

The appetite grows with eating.

- Francois Rabelais

topic: Food, Eating, Appetite

I had a healthy appetite [being pregnant]. I got more healthy as time goes on, and they grew. I never let myself go.

- Jennifer Lopez

topic: Healthy, Goes On, Appetite, Time Goes On

Success only feeds the appetite of aggression.

- Lyndon B. Johnson

source: Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.794, Best Books on

topic: Appetite, Aggression

A true Brahmachari will not even dream of satisfying the fleshly appetite

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mahatma Gandhi (1970). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

topic: Dream, Appetite, Satisfying

Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification.

- George Bernard Shaw

source: George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.1701, e-artnow

topic: Love Is, Moments, Appetite

Appetite, n. An instinct thoughtfully implanted by Providence as a solution to the labor question.

- Ambrose Bierce

source: Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.16, University of Georgia Press

topic: Hunger, Instinct, Appetite

In order that knowledge be properly digested it must have been swallowed with a good appetite.

- Anatole France

source: Anatole France (2016). “The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard”, p.119, Anatole France

topic: Order, Appetite, Has Beens

Do not blame the food because you have no appetite.

- Rabindranath Tagore

topic: Blame, Appetite

Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them.

- Andre Gide

source: Andre Gide (2012). “The Counterfeiters: A Novel”, p.228, Vintage

topic: People, Share, Appetite

The value of all things contracted for, is measured by the appetite of the contractors, and therefore the just value is that which they be contented to give.

- Thomas Hobbes

source: Thomas Hobbes (2016). “The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition”, p.83, Hackett Publishing

topic: Giving, Appetite, Contractor

I find no abhorring in my appetite.

- John Donne

source: John Donne (1839). “The works of John Donne”, p.540

topic: Appetite

My soul tasted that heavenly food, which gives new appetite while it satiates.

- Dante Alighieri

source: "Divine Comedy". Poem by Dante Alighieri. Purgatorio, Song XXXI, 128, 1321.

topic: Giving, Soul, Appetite

I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.174, Penguin

topic: Passion, Appetite, Nationalism

Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.

- John Locke

topic: Children, Curiosity, Appetite

This appetite to choose death by pleasure if it is available to choose - this appetite of your people unable to choose appetites, this is the death.

- David Foster Wallace

source: "Infinite Jest". Book by David Foster Wallace, 1996.

topic: People, Pleasure, Appetite

We are more than a collection of appetites - we are of God.

- John Piper

topic: Appetite, Collections

It's hard to overestimate the teenage appetite for high drama.

- David Nicholls

topic: Teenage, Drama, Appetite, Overestimate

The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

source: Mary Wollstonecraft (1988). “A vindication of the rights of woman: an authoritative text, backgrounds, the Wollstonecraft debate, criticism”, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Mind, Appetite, Vacant

Fear regulates. Appetite impels.

- Mason Cooley

topic: Fear, Appetite

The soul is no longer honored as it once was, but it still keeps appetite from being the measure of all things.

- Mason Cooley

topic: Soul, Appetite, Stills

Denial of one appetite sharpens the others.

- Mason Cooley

topic: Denial, Abstinence, Appetite

Listen to some good poetry. You see? It keeps us from thinking we are only what our blatant appetites describe us as.

- Maya Angelou

source: Source: www.psychologytoday.com

topic: Thinking, Appetite, Good Poetry

It's always nice to anticipate working in something that you know people will have an appetite for.

- Harrison Ford

source: "Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher Reprise Iconic Roles in "Star Wars: The Force Awakens". Interview with Angela Dawson, frontrowfeatures.com. December 16, 2015.

topic: Nice, People, Appetite

I never trust people with no appetite. It's like they're always holding something back on you.

- Haruki Murakami

source: Haruki Murakami (1993). “Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel”, Vintage

topic: People, Never Trust, Appetite

... privation is the source of appetite.

- Juana Inés de la Cruz

topic: Source, Appetite

I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.

- Benedict Cumberbatch

topic: Abnormal, Appetite, Wells, Normal And Abnormal

My appetite comes to me while eating.

- Michel de Montaigne

source: Michel de Montaigne, Bayle St. John (1866). “Essays [tr. by Cotton”, p.282

topic: Eating, Appetite

It is unnatural for a Christian not to have an appetite for the impossible.

- Bill Johnson

topic: Christian, Impossible, Appetite

The stock market has spoiled more appetites than bad cooking.

- Will Rogers

source: Paula Love, Will Rogers (1972). “The Will Rogers book”, Texian Pr

topic: Cooking, Spoiled, Appetite

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

- Edmund Burke

source: Edmund Burke (1791). “A Letter from Mr. Burke, to a Member of the National Assembly: In Answer to Some Objections to His Book on French Affairs”, p.69

topic: Society, Liberty, Appetite, Civil Liberties, Controlling Power

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.409

topic: Love, May, Appetite, Palate, Liver

Read o'er this And after, this, and then to breakfast with What appetite you have.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 2, l. 203

topic: Breakfast, Appetite

Illness isn't the only thing that spoils the appetite.

- Ivan Turgenev

source: A Month in the Country Act IV (transl. Constance Garnett)

topic: Food, Illness, Appetite

There's no denying the public's appetite for cosmic discovery.

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

topic: Discovery, Appetite, Cosmic

No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

- Emile M. Cioran

source: Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

topic: Suffering, Belief, Appetite, Martyred, Martyrdom

Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.

- Emile M. Cioran

source: "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

topic: Ruins, Irritated, Appetite

Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.

- Emile M. Cioran

topic: Men, Needs, Appetite

I have an appetite for silence.

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Silence, Appetite

The appetite for silence is seldom an acquired taste.

- Emily Dickinson

source: Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.927, Harvard University Press

topic: Silence, Taste, Appetite, Acquired Taste

There are two kinds of women--those who eat in a crisis and those who lose their appetite in a crisis.

- Emily Giffin

source: Emily Giffin (2010). “Baby Proof: A Novel”, p.146, Macmillan

topic: Two, Kind, Appetite

Sexual appetite, like any other appetite, grows by indulgence

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Appetite, Grows, Indulgence

You have no idea what an appetite it gives one, being executed.

- C. S. Lewis

source: C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol II: Prince Caspian”, p.24, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

topic: Ideas, Giving, Appetite

The British press has an insatiable appetite for making public things that should be private. It's a prurience that I've never understood.

- Niall Ferguson

source: "Niall Ferguson: 'Westerners don't understand how vulnerable freedom is" by William Skidelsky, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2011.

topic: Should, British, Appetite

Appetite for food and sex is nature.

- Laozi

topic: Sex, Appetite

I have a wonderfully hedonistic appetite, and if I wasn't really strict with myself, I'd weigh 300 pounds. I'm not good with moderation.

- Nick Offerman

source: "Ron Swanson of Parks & Rec vs. Nick Offerman: The Food Interview". Interview with Elina Shatkin, www.laweekly.com. November 22, 2011.

topic: Pounds, Moderation, Appetite, Hedonistic