Stomach Quotes - Page 26

• As my exciting story began I was being punched in the stomach.

  John Swartzwelder

  Stories, Exciting

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• The stomach is the seat of all feeling. The heart is the seat of the conscience. The mind is the seat of the ego. Your body is the seat of the soul. When a man goes out in the night and looks up at the universe, he is observing a mirror of himself. The universe within us, is a reflection of the universe we see out our eyes.

  Suzy Kassem

  Eye, Heart, Night

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• (The pig) hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure - and for such a tomb might be content to die.

  Charles Lamb

  Grateful, Pigs, Might

  Charles Lamb (1839). “Essays of Elia: To which are Added Letters, and Rosamund”, p.121

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• I always wanted to be an actor, but with a speech impediment it's kind of tough. I decided to roll the dice and take an acting class, which was very, very nerve-wracking... my stomach would just be in knots.

  Nicholas Brendon

  Class, Acting, Actors

  "Actor gets the word out on stuttering" by Kat Carney, www.cnn.com. April 4, 2003.

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• I had a bad back for a couple of years. I had to do a lot of physiotherapy for it. What I couldn't understand at the time was why the therapists had me doing a lot of stomach work.

  Hugh Jackman

  Couple, Years, Therapists

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• Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

  William Hazlitt

  Friendship, Meat, Cold

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1919, Delphi Classics

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• The thought of somebody pulling and cutting around my face gives me stomach ache. Plastic surgery would be so painful. What if it doesn't look good? What if they made a mistake? I couldn't do it.

  Salma Hayek

  Mistake, Cutting, Giving

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• When I was 21 years old, I had a job playing Santa Claus in a shopping centre in Sacramento. I was rail thin, so it's not like I was a traditional Santa Claus even then. I had a square stomach; that was the shape of the sofa cushion that I had stuffed into my pants.

  Tom Hanks

  Jobs, Years, Shopping

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• What does kissing really mean to me? To me, if you feel, when you kiss a girl, that certain feeling of all those dolphins, like, swimming through your bloodstream, and you get those good tingles inside your stomach, I don't think there's any better feeling.

  Corey Haim

  Girl, Mean, Kissing

  "Me, Myself and I". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• When I wrote 'The Good Body,' I turned 40 and suddenly had this stomach. It seemed like the end of the world. Because I didn't value my body. I was constantly judging it, but I also didn't live in it.

  Eve Ensler

  Judging, Body, End Of The World

  "Eve Ensler on Cancer, Her Body and 'The Body of the World'". Interview with Jean Fain, L.I.C.S.W., M.S.W., www.huffingtonpost.com. April 26, 2013.

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• There is love there. And then there's times when I can't even stomach Simon. You don't have to sit next to him. That's all I have to say.

  Paula Abdul

  Next, I Can

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• I’ll feel that horrible feeling in my stomach you get when you’ve gone over to the Dark Side. But I’ll be fine. That’s the good thing about the Dark Side. Eventually, your eyes adjust.

  James Lileks

  Eye, Dark, Feelings

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• The balancing of the budget will not in itself place a teaspoonful of milk in a hungry baby's stomach, or remove the rags from its mother's back.

  John L. Lewis

  Mother, Baby, Economic Inequality

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• For the first time in weeks, Park didn't have that anxious feeling in his stomach on the way home from school, like he had to soak up enough Eleanor to keep him until the next day.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Home, School, Next Day

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Eleanor & Park”, p.121, Macmillan

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• In both marriage and war you must cut up the things people say like a cake and eat only what you can stomach.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  War, Cutting, Cake

  Catherynne M. Valente (2012). “Deathless”, p.139, Hachette UK

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• Knowing they were in the same city again made the missing him flare up inside her. In her stomach. Why were people always going on and on about the heart? Almost everything Levi happened in Cath’s stomach.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Heart, Missing Him, Flare Up

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl: A Novel”, p.363, Macmillan

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• I will not listen to your verse on an empty stomach!" declared the Vicomte. "You have no soul," said Philippe sadly. "But I have a stomach, and it cries aloud for sustenance." "I weep for you," said Philip. "Why do I waste my poetic gems upon you?

  Georgette Heyer

  Soul, Waste, Poetic

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• I grew up in the South Bronx, raised by my grandmother, who scrapped and scraped to make sure I had a roof over my head and food in my stomach. I was painfully aware of what it was like to live with limited resources and a certain level of uncertainty.

  Joy Bryant

  Grandmother, Limited Resources, Levels

  "Actress + Oxfam Ambassador Joy Bryant". ORIGIN Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. November 17, 2015.

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• It's definitely hard for me watching myself on screen, it's very uncomfortable, but it's just like anything - the more you do it, the more you get used to it. When I first got out I was like, I can't look at all, it makes me sick to my stomach.

  George Stults

  Sick, Looks, Firsts

  Source: www.thestarscoop.com

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• No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Grief, Yawning

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.5, Faber & Faber

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• Keep climbing,' he told himself. 'Cheeseburgers,' his stomach replied. 'Shut up,' he thought. 'With fries,' his stomach complained.

  Rick Riordan

  Climbing, Shut Up, Fries

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• Food is all those substances which, submitted to the action of the stomach, can be assimilated or changed into life by digestion, and can thus repair the losses which the human body suffers through the act of living.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Loss, Suffering, Substance

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2009). “The Physiology of Taste: or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy”, p.74, Vintage

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• When you intercept the ball with your stomach, that is great defense

  Bill Walton

  Defense, Balls

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• I remember clearly that when I was little it was explained to me [that] the way that babies were made was that God put the baby into some lady's stomach, right? And, at some point, I learned how it really happened, and really that was the beginning of the end of my belief in God. Up until that point, it had always been a really weird act of intervention on God's part.

  Ira Glass

  Baby, Littles, Way

  "Ira Glass on doing magic tricks, Brad Pitt, and Emerson, Lake & Palmer". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, August 02, 2016.

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• and I've always known it, the way I love a song I hear for the first time, even before I know all the words, the way I love my favorite color, and the way that the train would speed past my bedroom when it was very quiet and I'd feel it in my stomach rushing through me. I love you in a way that I've never felt needed to be said.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Song, Love You, Past

  FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from Jun 02, 2013

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