Appetite Quotes - page 2

Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read a book. (Madonna (entertainer))
He had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite, such impatience for the story to begin. View quote
Ian McEwan
Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
The more intense a spiritual leader's appetite for power, the more he is concerned to limit it to others. View quote
Emil Cioran
Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin. View quote
Emil Cioran
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite. View quote
Quintilian
After any disturbance (such as two world wars coinciding with a period of growing economic and monetary incomprehensibility) we find our old concepts inadequate and look for new ones. But it unfortunately happens that the troubled times which produce an appetite for new ideas are the least propitious for clear thinking. View quote
Rebecca West
Neither nature, experience, nor probability informs these lists of 'entitlements', which are subject to no constraints except those of the mind and appetite of their authors. View quote
Jeane Kirkpatrick
In Hollywood there's a great openness, almost a voracious appetite for new people. In England there's a great suspicion of the new. In cultural terms, that can be a good thing, but when you're trying to break into the film industry, it's definitely a bad thing. View quote
Christopher Nolan
I have a healthy appetite for solitude. If you don't, you have no business being a writer. View quote
Will Self
Evil, however powerful it seemed,could be undone by its own appetite. (Clive Barker)
All things require skill but an appetite. View quote
George Herbert
I have learned that you can't have good advertising without a good client, that you can't keep a good client without good advertising, and no client will ever buy better advertising than he understands or has an appetite for. View quote
Leo Burnett
I was a peaceful sedentary man, a lover of a quiet life, with no appetite for perils and commotions. But I was beginning to realise that I was very obstinate. View quote
John Buchan
Nothing can discourage the appetite for divinity in the heart of man. View quote
Albert Camus
Taste begins when appetite is satisfied. View quote
Bernard Berenson
The one rule for pleasing: whet the appetite, keep people hungry. View quote
Baltasar Gracián
Desire, to know why, and how, CURIOSITY; such as is in no living creature but Man; so that Man is distinguished, not only by his Reason; but also by this singular Passion from other Animals; in whom the appetite of food, and other pleasures of Sense, by predominance, take away the care of knowing causes; which is a Lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of Knowledge, exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal Pleasure. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
Sandwich outdoors isn't a sandwich anymore. Tastes different than indoors, notice? Got more spice. Tastes like mint and pinesap. Does wonders for the appetite. View quote
Ray Bradbury
My appetite comes to me while eating. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth. (Democritus)
It has long been known for sure that the sight of tasty food makes a hungry man's mouth water; also lack of appetite has always been regarded as an undesirable phenomenon, from which one might conclude that appetite is essentially linked with the process of digestion. View quote
Ivan Pavlov
Existence is Appetite: the gnaw of being; the one attempt of all things to assimilate to some higher attempt. View quote
Charles Fort
The popularity of the paranormal, oddly enough, might even be grounds for encouragement. I think that the appetite for mystery, the enthusiasm for that which we do not understand, is healthy and to be fostered. It is the same appetite which drives the best of true science, and it is an appetite which true science is best qualified to satisfy. View quote
Richard Dawkins
The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite,a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm By thoughts supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye. View quote
William Wordsworth