Stomach Quotes - Page 8

• I am 1952. I masticate. I am like a big stomach.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Ego, Bigs

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• Whole plants differ in their effects from refined drugs (:)...Plants are dilute preparations (of) the active principles...Plants usually go into the body through the mouth and stomach, whereas purified chemicals can be put...by snorting or injecting...directly into...bloodstreams without giving...bodies a chance to process them. Other compounds in drug plants...may modify the active principles, making them safer.

  Andrew Weil

  Dark, Giving, Drug

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• Focus your attention on the center of your stomach, in the area of your naval. Feel that this is an area of tremendous strength.

  Frederick Lenz

  Focus, Attention, Naval

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• When I fell out of the light, I entered The stomach of indifference, the wordless cupboard.

  Sylvia Plath

  Light, Numbness, Emptiness

  Sylvia Plath (2010). “The Colossus”, p.72, Faber & Faber

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• When we talk about democracy, if the people's stomach is empty, democracy is also empty. Democracy can not be installed by fiat; it must be achieved by the people themselves.

  Y. C. James Yen

  People, Democracy, Kindergarten

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• As for the topsy-turvy tangle known as soixante-neuf, personally I have always felt it to be madly confusing, like trying to pat your head and rub your stomach at the same time.

  Helen Lawrenson

  Sex, Confusing, Trying

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• Not only should we observe moderation with food, but we must also abstain from every other sin so that just as we fast with our stomach, we should fast with our tongue. Likewise, we should fast with our eyes; i.e. not look at agitating things, not allow your eyes freedom to roam, not to look shamelessly and without fear. Similarly, arms and legs should be restrained from doing any evil acts.

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Spiritual, Eye, Evil

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• When you have the baby, there is no BlackBerry, no computer; you just have the baby on your stomach, and your heart is beating the same time as the baby's. It's very nice.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Baby, Nice, Heart

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• An artist should remain true. Otherwise his talent, like his stomach, grows fat and stuffy.

  Norman Reilly Raine

  Artist, Talent, Should

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• It was the kind of crying that comes from the pit of the stomach and brings a headache with it. The kind that makes a person snort and gasp, and no matter how idiotic you feel or how hard you try, you can't stop.

  Robin Jones Gunn

  Trying, Pits, Matter

  Robin Jones Gunn (2011). “Christy Miller Collection”, p.15, Multnomah

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• When I arrived in America, though I had left the war physically far behind, in my mind, the soldiers were still chasing to kill me, my stomach was always hungry, and my fear and distrust kept me from opening up to new friendships. I thought the war was over when I left Cambodia, but I realize now that for survivors and all those involved, the war is never over just because the guns have fallen silent.

  Loung Ung

  War, Gun, Opening Up

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• Edible substances evoke the secretion of thick, concentrated saliva. Why? The answer, obviously, is that this enables the mass of food to pass smoothly through the tube leading from the mouth into the stomach.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Substance, Answers, Mouths

  Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1957). “Experimental psychology, and other essays”

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• I was often humiliated to see men disputing for a piece of bread, just as animals might have done. My feelings on this subject have very much altered since I have been personally exposed to the tortures of hunger. I have discovered, in fact, that a man, whatever may have been his origin, his education, and his habits, is governed, under certain circumstances, much more by his stomach than by his intelligence and his heart.

  Francois Arago

  Heart, Science, Animal

  François Arago, Robert GRANT (F.R.A.S.), Baden Powell, William Henry SMYTH (Rear Admiral.) (1857). “Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men ... Translated by ... W. H. Smyth ... the Rev. Baden Powell ... and R. Grant”, p.36

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• Whether we force the man's property from him by pinching his stomach, or pinching his fingers, makes some difference anatomically; morally, none whatsoever.

  John Ruskin

  Men, Differences, Pinching

  John Ruskin (1872). “The Two Paths: Being Lectures on Art, and Its Application to Decoration and Manufacture, Delivered in 1858-9”, p.186

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• If there is one thing that will make a man peculiarly and insufferable self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day at sea, when nearly all his comrades are seasick.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Conceited, Sea

  The Innocents Abroad Ch. III

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• That Quantity that is sufficient, the Stomach can perfectly concoct and digest, and it sufficeth the due Nourishment of the Body.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Body, Quantity, Dues

  Benjamin Franklin (1931). “The Ingenious Dr. Franklin: Selected Scientific Letters of Benjamin Franklin”, p.33, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Heart, Eating, Carrie

  "Don Quixote". Book by Miguel de Cervantes, II. 6, 1605-1615.

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• When you have a stomach ache you don't tell your stomach to go away.

  Nhat Hanh

  Going Away, Ache

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• Ten times must you laugh during the day, and be cheerful; otherwise your stomach, the father of affliction, will disturb you in the night.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Father, Night, Laughing

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2013). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”, p.17, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume, but a good stomach excels them all; to which nothing contributes more than industry and temperance.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Volume, Temperance, Cookery

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• Though your threshing floor grind a hundred thousand bushels of corn, not for that reason will your stomach hold more than mine.

  Horace

  Corn, Grind, Eating

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 210-15, Satires, I. 1. 45, 1922.

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• A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach.

  Seneca the Younger

  Food, History, Independence

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• Fernando Vargas may have had a 6-pack in his stomach, but he didn't have a six-pack on his chin.

  Larry Merchant

  Boxing, May, Six Packs

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• Take risks ... be willing to put your mind and your spirit, your time and your energy, your stomach and your emotions on the line. To search for a safe place, to search for an end to a rainbow, is to search for a place that you will hate once you find it. The soul must be nourished along with the bank account and the resume. The best nourishment for any soul is to create your own risks.

  Jim Lehrer

  Hate, Rainbow, Soul

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• [The oyster] accepts algae and detritus in one end - and through this beautiful, glamorous set of stomach organs, out the other end comes cleaner water.

  Kate Orff

  Beautiful, Motivation, Ocean

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