Stomach Quotes - Page 34

• For as a surfeit of the sweetest things The deepest loathing to the stomach brings, Or as tie heresies that men do leave Are hated most of those they did deceive, So thou, my surfeit and my heresy, Of all be hated, but the most of me!

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Ties, Loathing

  William Shakespeare, Terri Bourus, Peter Holland (2006). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.101, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• No man can be wise on an empty stomach.

  George Eliot

  Wise, Men, Empty

  George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.71

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• Homesickness is a bit like seasickness. You don't know how awful it is unti you get it, and when you do, it hits you right in the top of the stomach and you want to die.

  Roald Dahl

  Want, Awful, Homesickness

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• Although drugs are immoral and must be kept from the young, thousands of schools pressure parents to give the drug Ritalin to any lively child who may, sensibly, show signs of boredom in his classroom. Ritalin renders the child docile if not comatose. Side effects? "Stunted growth, facial tics, agitation and aggression, insomnia, appetite loss, headaches, stomach pains and seizures." Marijuana would be far less harmful.

  Gore Vidal

  Children, Pain, School

  "The Last Empire" by Gore Vidal, www.nytimes.com. November 1998.

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• I'm sorry I let everybody down, I'm fighting just to pay my bills. I don't have the stomach for this anymore... I don't have the desire for it. I feel bad for the people... I wish they could get their money back.

  Mike Tyson

  Sorry, Motivation, Fear

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• Bad Sausage and five bogeys will give you a stomach ache every time.

  Miller Barber

  Golf, Giving, Sausage

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• New Rule: Someone must x-ray my stomach to see if the Peeps I ate on Easter are still in there, intact and completely undigested. And I'm not talking about this past Easter. I'm talking about the last time I celebrated Easter, in 1962.

  Bill Maher

  Easter, Past, Talking

  Bill Maher (2011). “The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass”, p.141, Penguin

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• I have read so many books. And yet, like most Autodidacts, I am never quite sure of what I have gained from them. There are days when I feel I have been able to grasp all there is know in one single gaze, as if invisible branches suddenly spring out of no where, weaving together all the disparate strands of my reading. And then suddenly the meaning escapes, the essence evaporates and no matter how often I reread the same lines they seem to flee ever further with each subsequent reading and I see myself as some mad old fool who thinks her stomach is full because she's been reading the menu.

  Muriel Barbery

  Spring, Book, Reading

  Muriel Barbery (2013). “The Elegance of the Hedgehog”, p.39, Gallic Books

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• There was nowhere to go, but I turned to go and met Atticus's vest front. I buried my head in it and listened to the small internal noises that went on behind the light blue cloth: his watch ticking, the faint crackle of his starched shirt, the soft sound of his breathing. 'Your stomach's growling,' I said. 'I know it,' he said.

  Harper Lee

  Light, Blue, Breathing

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• In the pit of her stomach she realized that everything she raged against on Saturday night-- the restrictions, rules, and guidelines-- was born of an ancient fervor. Every rule ever established, from the beginning of time, invited mutiny.

  Robin Jones Gunn

  Night, Mutiny, Pits

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• I get sentimental over the music of the ’90s. Deplorable, really. But I love it all. As far as I’m concerned the ’90s was the best era for music ever, even the stuff that I loathed at the time, even the stuff that gave me stomach cramps.

  Rob Sheffield

  Stuff, Eras, Sentimental

  Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.7, Crown Archetype

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• Once, when she was six years old, she had fallen from a tree, flat on her stomach. She could still recall that sickening interval before breath came back into her body. Now, as she looked at him, she felt the same way she had felt then, breathless, stunned, nauseated.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Years, Tree, Six Year Olds

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• Literature, real literature, must not be gulped down like some potion which may be good for the heart or good for the brain—the brain, that stomach of the soul. Literature must be taken and broken to bits, pulled apart, squashed—then its lovely reek will be smelt in the hollow of the palm, it will be munched and rolled upon the tongue with relish; then, and only then, its rare flavor will be appreciated at its true worth and the broken and crushed parts will again come together in your mind and disclose the beauty of a unity to which you have contributed something of your own blood.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Real, Taken, Heart

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• Authors of light pieces have, nobody knows why, a genius for getting into minor difficulties: they walk into the wrong apartments, they drink furniture polish for stomach bitters, they drive their cars into the prize tulip beds of haughty neighbors, they playfully slap gangsters, mistaking them for old school friends.

  James Thurber

  Old School, Light, Car

  James Thurber (1996). “James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)”, p.150, Library of America

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• Excuse me?" I said, palms down on the Formica tabletop. "Coffee? I thought we came here for pie." "I don't eat the kind of pie they serve here." I felt a flash of heat go through my stomach. I knew firsthand the kind of pie Ranger liked.

  Janet Evanovich

  Coffee, Pie, Heat

  Janet Evanovich (2008). “To the Nines”, p.125, Macmillan

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• It would be unthinkably bad luck to be betrayed by a rumbling stomach.

  John Flanagan

  Luck, Would Be, Betrayed

  John Flanagan (2011). “The Burning Bridge (Ranger's Apprentice Book 2)”, p.138, Random House

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• The most I would do was use the shadow tool in Photoshop to bring out the muscular rips in my stomach, which were honestly there. Beneath the fat.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Rip, Shadow, Tools

  Augusten Burroughs (2011). “Possible Side Effects”, p.124, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• When we went into the ocean, I watched his body as he dove into the waves, and it gave me a feeling in my stomach that wasn't an ache but something different.

  Nicole Krauss

  Ocean, Feelings, Different

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.137, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I don't always have the stomach muscles I have, and I get cellulite as well like everyone else.

  Elisabetta Canalis

  Muscles, Wells, Cellulite

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