Appetite Quotes

Appetite as it relates to the human being, the person. How do you find appetite for what you do? How do you relate to appetite? How do you get appetite, not only for a meal but also to do the work you do?

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

That's easy to answer: 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.

Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.

No studio in Hollywood wanted 'Cold Mountain.' None. No one wanted 'Ripley,' no one wanted 'The English Patient.' That tells you there isn't really an appetite for ambitious movie-making out there.

Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.

Trash has given us an appetite for art.

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.

To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that.

"Sex" is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.

I was gaining weight very rapidly and read about the idea of restricting carbohydrates as an alternative to going hungry. I had a big appetite, so that was the only thing I would even consider.

It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.

I've got a pretty good appetite right now.

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

My girlfriend Siri is a food blogger, and we both love to entertain and eat. This is what happens when you're in your thirties: what was once a passion and real appetite for nightlife in New York City manifests itself into other things, like entertaining at home.

There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.

Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.

When you're a chef, you graze. You never get a chance to sit down and eat. They don't actually sit down and eat before you cook. So when I finish work, the first thing I'll do, and especially when I'm in New York, I'll go for a run. And I'll run 10 or 15k on my - and I run to gain my appetite.

I always knew that we were going to be successful and accomplish and succeed at our dreams. There was never a doubt in my mind. When we were recording 'Appetite For Destruction,' we all knew.

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.

If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.

Although there's a lot of focus on the Lib Dems, we need to keep our eyes on the far right of the Tories, who I suspect will become increasingly impatient in their appetite for tax cuts, deregulation and shrinking the state even further.

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

The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better.

Aspiring to a souffle, he achieves a pancake at which the reader saws without much appetite.

It is true I gained muscular vigour, but with it a prodigious appetite, which I was compelled to indulge, and consequently increased in weight, until my kind old friend advised me to forsake the exercise.

My curiosity and my appetite for evolving as an actor is one of the main components of me still working today in the business.

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

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.