Appetite Quotes

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old - somebody who takes good care of things and of people.

The internet creates more of an appetite for media - it doesn't replace physical books, radio or TV.

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.

Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood.

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

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.

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.