Appetite Quotes - Page 11

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

  Harrison Ford

  Nice, People, Anticipate

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

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• Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and invites us to them, not only by Reason, but also by Appetite: and ’tis Injustice to infringe her Laws.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Nature, Law, Action

  Michel de Montaigne (1947). “Essays of Michel de Montaigne”

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• Commercial society regards people as bundles of appetites, a conception that turns human beings inside out, leaving nothing to be regarded as inherently private.

  George Will

  People, Leaving, Privacy

  George F. Will (1978). “The pursuit of happiness, and other sobering thoughts”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.

  Andre Gide

  People, Age, Woe

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.101, Routledge

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• A huge part of acting in movies is appetite. You do your best work when you've got a lot of appetite and you really want to embrace something. When you get tired, you don't have that hunger.

  Clive Owen

  Tired, Acting, Want

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• Medical science has oppressed us with a new huge burden of longevity. It is in that last undesired decade, when passion is cold, appetites feeble, curiosity dulled and experience has begotten cynicism, that accidia lies in wait as the final temptation to destruction.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Lying, Passion, Waiting

  Evelyn Waugh (1983). “The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh”, Methuen

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• The event of falling in love... in one high bound it has overleaped the massive wall of our selfhood; it has made appetite itself altruistic, tossed personal happiness aside as a triviality and planted the interests of another in the centre of our being.

  C. S. Lewis

  Falling In Love, Wall, Events

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.126, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Sex, Satisfaction, Collecting

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1997). “An Accidental Autobiography”, Mariner Books

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• Nothing in the world is so incontinent as a man's accursed appetite.

  Homer

  Men, Greed, World

  Homer (1983). “The Odyssey”, Outlet

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• I'm very short, so I just have to watch my weight because I have a big appetite.

  Dolly Parton

  Watches, Weight, Bigs

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• Freedom without virtue is not freedom but license to pursue whatever passions prevail in the intemperate mind; man's right to freedom being in exact proportion to his willingness to put chains upon his own appetites; the less restraint from within, the more must be imposed from without.

  Edmund Burke

  Passion, Men, Mind

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• Appetites have only one word in their vocabulary - MORE. Appetites are never fully and finally satisfied. Even after the most satisfying meal imaginable, we eventually find ourselves rummaging through the pantry for a snack.

  Andy Stanley

  Vocabulary, Snacks, Meals

  Source: paulsohn.org

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• Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Reason, Vain, Checks

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IX, (7), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• Confronted with this double madness of the labourers killing themselves with over-production and vegetating in abstinence, the great problem of capitalist production is no longer to find producers and to multiply their powers but to discover consumers, to excite their appetites and create in them fictitious needs.

  Paul Lafargue

  Needs, Madness, Problem

  Paul Lafargue (1984). “Selected Marxist Writings of Paul Lafargue”

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• To be a human being is to be in a state of tension between your appetites and your dreams, and the social realities around you and your obligations to your fellow man.

  John Updike

  Dream, Reality, Men

  "Why Updike delved into suicide killers' psyches", www.today.com. June 28, 2006.

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• The idea that freedom is merely the ability to act upon one's whims is surely very thin and hardly begins to capture the complexities of human existence; a man whose appetite is his law strikes us not as liberated but enslaved.

  Theodore Dalrymple

  Men, Law, Ideas

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• People don't want novelty - they want the reassurance of familiarity. No-one wants to be challenged, no-one wants to have their minds blown. There is an insatiable appetite for affirmation.

  Lauren Beukes

  People, Mind, Want

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• The public, as a whole, does not demand or appreciate the pure expression of beauty. Its cultured members expect to find in poetry, if anything, repose from material and nervous anxiety; an apt or chiselled phrase strokes the appetites and tickles the imagination. The more general public merely enjoys its platitudes and truisms jerked on to the understanding in line and rhyme; truth put into metre sounds overwhelmingly true.

  Harold Monro

  Art, Expression, Appreciate

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• I don't think people are averse to thinking about things in a deep way, but we have limited time and opportunity to think about things in a deep way. I think that's why there is an appetite for non-fiction - it gives people the opportunity to reexamine ordinary experience and be smarter about it.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Opportunity, Thinking, People

  Interview with Donna Bowman, www.avclub.com. November 17, 2008.

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• Everyone nowadays lives through too much and thinks through too little: they have a ravenous appetite and colic at the same time so that they keep getting thinner and thinner no matter how much they eat.--Whoever says nowadays, "I have not experienced anything"--is a simpleton.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Thinking, Experience, Littles

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• It is just this rage for consideration that has betrayed the dog into his satellite position as the friend of man. The cat, an animal of franker appetites, preserves his independence. But the dog, with one eye ever on the audience, has been wheedled into slavery, and praised and patted into the renunciation of his nature. Once he ceased hunting and became man's plate-licker, the Rubicon was crossed. Thenceforth he was a gentleman of leisure; and except the few whom we keep working, the whole race grew more and more self-conscious, mannered and affected.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Dog, Cat, Eye

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “Memories and Portraits: Stevenson's Vol. 21”, p.65, VM eBooks

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• Women have their heads in their hearts. Man seems to have been destined for a superior being; as things are, I think women generally better creatures than men. They have weaker appetites and weaker intellects but much stronger affections. A man with a bad heart has been sometimes saved by a strong head; but a corrupt woman is lost forever.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Strong, Women, Heart

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge, Kathleen Coburn, Bart Keith Winer, Carl Woodring (1990). “Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Table Talk (2 v.)”, Bollingen Foundation

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• There is a plain distinction to be made betwixt pleasure and happiness. For tho' there can be no happiness without pleasure--yet the converse of the proposition will not hold true.--We are so made, that from the common gratifications of our appetites, and the impressions of a thousand objects, we snatch the one, like a transient gleam, without being suffered to taste the other.

  Laurence Sterne

  Happiness, Gleam, Taste

  Laurence Sterne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Laurence Sterne (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this starving and sinning world. One turns half away, musingly, from certain beautiful useless things.

  Henry James

  Beauty, Beautiful, Useless Things

  Henry James (2016). “Italian Hours”, p.192, Youcanprint

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• What is more refreshing than salads when your appetite seems to have deserted you, or even after a capacious dinner - the nice, fresh, green, and crisp salad, full of life and health, which seems to invigorate the palate and dispose the masticating powers to a much lorger duration.

  Alexis Soyer

  Nice, Salad, Green

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

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