Stomach Quotes - Page 30

• I am a canvas of my experiences, my story is etched in lines and shading, and you can read it on my arms, my legs, my shoulders, and my stomach.

  Kat Von D

  Stories, Legs, Lines

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• Enlightenment isn't found with a full stomach, or on a soft pillow.

  Conrad Anker

  Enlightenment, Found, Pillow

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• Did you love well what very soon you left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away this stomach ache, headache, heartache. Never so full, I never was bereft so utterly. The winter evenings drift dark to the window. Not one work will make you, where you are, turn in your day, or wake from your night toward me. The only gift I got to keep or give is what I've cried, floodgates let down to mourning for the dead chances, for the end of being young, for everyone I loved who really died. I drank our one year out in brine instead of honey from the seasons of your tongue.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Broken Heart, Home, Winter

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• I like to feel the butterflies in the stomach, I like to go home and have a restless night and wonder how I'm going to be able to accomplish this feat, get jittery. That hunger and those butterflies in the stomach are very essential for all creative people.

  Amitabh Bachchan

  Home, Butterfly, Night

  The CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. July 10, 2007.

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• Dear Nintendo, We need a new Mario game, where you rescue the princess in the first ten minutes, and for the rest of the game you try and push down that sick feeling in your stomach that she’s ‘damaged goods’, a concept detailed again and again in the profoundly sex negative instruction booklet, and when Luigi makes a crack about her and Bowser, you break his nose and immediately regret it. When Peach asks you, in the quiet of her mushroom castle bedroom ‘do you still love me?’ you pretend to be asleep. You press the A button rhythmically, to control your breath, keep it even.

  Joey Comeau

  Sex, Regret, Princess

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• The traditional manner of taking psilocybin is to take a very healthy dose, in the vicinity of 15 mg. on an empty stomach in total darkness.

  Terence McKenna

  Healthy, Darkness, Psilocybin

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• Many readers simply can't stomach fantasy. They immediately picture elves with broadswords or mighty-thewed barbarians with battle axes, seeking the bejeweled Coronet of Obeisance ... (But) the best fantasies pull aside the velvet curtain of mere appearance. ... In most instances, fantasy ultimately returns us to our own now re-enchanted world, reminding us that it is neither prosaic nor meaningless, and that how we live and what we do truly matters.

  Michael Dirda

  Axes, Battle, Velvet

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• A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food.
  [Lat., Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit.]

  Horace

  Common, Eating, Empty

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• A true critic, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon what the guests fling away, and consequently is apt to snarl most when there are the fewest bones.

  Jonathan Swift

  Dog, Book, Guests

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1824). “Tale of a tub. Battle of the books. A discourse concerning the mechancial operation of the spirit. Abstract of the history of England ... Letters ... Poems ascribed to Swift”, p.107

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• Eat less than you think you want, eat with your intelligence, not your stomach. Never get up from the table with an inward, silent apology for being a pig.

  Coco Chanel

  Apology, Thinking, Pigs

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• Pronunciation has made many an innocent word sound like a doctor's orders for a stomach pump.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Doctors, Order, Sound

  Zelda Fitzgerald (1992). “The Collected Writings”, New York : Collier Books ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International

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• There's hidden sweetness in the stomach's emptiness.

  Rumi

  Emptiness, Sweetness

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• I quit my day job the day my daughter was born. I remember flying to Cleveland and hitting a thunderstorm, which caused the plane to lose pressure, and the oxygen masks fell from the ceiling. We felt the plane dropping; the pilot was taking it down to regain cabin pressure. My heart was in my stomach. I found out after landing that her mom was in labor. I did the show and came back to New York. By the time I walked into the hospital, my daughter was being born. She was waiting for me. She's a sweet daddy's girl. She's premed. She has her own pie company. She works for Habitat for Humanity.

  J. B. Smoove

  Girl, Mom, Daughter

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• Technique to me is a kind of a ... I'm reluctant to talk about it because it seems so obvious to me what good technique is. I mean, you sit down, you shut up, and you pay attention is basically the good technique. And then the footnotes add; on an empty stomach, in a dark room, feeling comfortable.

  Terence McKenna

  Mean, Dark, Feelings

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• Once abroad, I eat one meal a day picnic-style: Ive learned that no mature stomach can tolerate an endless routine of rich restaurant meals.

  Arthur Frommer

  Style, Meals, Routine

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• A zombie amusement park sounds like fun, but the health code violations alone are enough to turn your stomach.

  Jim C. Hines

  Fun, Zombie, Sound

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• Medication is of course important but do not conclude that a pill dissolving in your stomach is necessarily more powerful than a healing thought in your mind.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Powerful, Healing, Mind

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “The Tough-Minded Optimist”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• A mortgaged home, an empty stomach and a ragged back know no party. We will live to write the epitaphs of the old parties: "Died of general debility, old age, and chronic falsehoods."

  Mary Elizabeth Lease

  Party, Home, Writing

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• Loneliness has little to do with what we do or where we do it, whether we're married or unmarried, optimists or pessimists, heterosexual or homosexual. Loneliness has to do with the sudden clefts we experience in every human relation, the gaps that open up with such stomach-turning unexpectedness. In a brief moment, I and my brother or sister have moved away into different worlds, and there is no language we can share.... It is in the middle of intimacy that the reality of loneliness most dramatically appears.

  Rowan Williams

  Brother, Loneliness, Reality

  Rowan Williams (1995). “A Ray of Darkness”, p.121, Cowley Publications

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• Everyone tells me I've had such an interesting life, but sometimes I think it's been nothing but stomach disturbances and self-concern.

  Cary Grant

  Thinking, Self, Interesting

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The most exciting fight I have called on HBO was the first meeting between Arturo Gatti and Micky Ward. When I stood up to do the post-fight on camera, my stomach muscles were tight and sore from the tension of watching them take their lives into their hands and trade shots.

  Jim Lampley

  Fighting, Hbo, Hands

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• There are two tests in life, more important than any other test. On Monday morning, when you wake up, do you feel in the pit of your stomach you can't wait to go to work? And when you're ready to go home Friday afternoon, do you say, 'I can't wait to go home?'

  Charles Schumer

  Friday, Morning, Monday

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• Working with people who cause your stomach to churn seems much like marrying for money - probably a bad idea under any circumstances, but absolute madness if you are already rich.

  Warren Buffett

  Ideas, People, Causes

  Richard J. Connors, Warren Buffett (2010). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.30, John Wiley & Sons

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• Usually when you do shows you're in the middle of the tour and you're all oiled up and it's just another stop. It's so much pressure for just three minutes. My stomach still hurts.

  Mark Oliver Everett

  Hurt, Three, Pressure

  "Eels: He’s Electric". Interview with David Coggins, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 22, 2009.

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• For all of my life it was the size of my rear that caused me the most hand-wringing, but in this nearly-50 zone it is my stomach that is the problem. It seems to have broken free from its moorings and there is no knowing how far it will roam.

  Marian Keyes

  Hands, Knowing, Broken

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