Belly Quotes - Page 12

• Why are some people born with a fire in the belly, while others need something to get their pilot light lit?

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Fire, Light, People

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• The reason is they failed to learned the primary lesson we should have learned from when Long Term Capital Management went belly up ten years ago. That is, investments that seem uncorrelated can be correlated simply because we're interested in it.

  Richard Thaler

  Should Have, Years, Long

  "Big Think Interview With Richard Thaler". bigthink.com. June 19, 2009.

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• Egyptian President Sadat had a belly dancer entertain President Nixon at a state dinner. Mr. Nixon was really impressed. He hadn't seen contortions like that since Rose Mary Woods.

  Johnny Carson

  Rose, Dancer, President

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• It doesn't matter if a character is a lawyer, a cop or a geography teacher. If there's a story in there, where the character has a passion and a fire in his belly and story to tell, then it's enough for an actor to get excited about.

  Clive Standen

  Teacher, Passion, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• Too many times I've heard records from bands who were obviously, like, 'Well, we're at least gonna do half as well as we did on our last record. At least we can count on that.' You really have to keep that initial hunger that made some of your first best songs your first best songs. You have to keep that fire in the belly.

  Chad Kroeger

  Song, Fire, Band

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• Maybe I'll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.

  Al Yankovic

  Color, Social Taboos, Buttons

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• I want to travel on a train that smells like snowflakes. I want to sip in cafes that smell like comets. Under the pressure of my step, I want the streets to emit the precise odor of a diamond necklace. I want the newspapers I read to smell like the violins left in pawnshops by weeping hobos on Christmas Eve. I want to carry luggage that reeks of the neurons in Einstein's brain. I want a city's gases to smell like the golden belly hairs of the gods. And when I gaze at a televised picture of the moon, I want to detect, from a distance of 239,000 miles, the aroma of fresh mozzarella.

  Tom Robbins

  Distance, Moon, Hair

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• War is a bloody, killing business. You've got to spill their blood, or they will spill yours. Rip them up the belly. Shoot them in the guts.

  George S. Patton

  War, Rip, Blood

  Speech to the Third Army on June 05, 1944. "The Unknown Patton". Book by Charles M. Province, p. 32, www.pattonhq.com. 1983.

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• You put the life in your belly and you live.

  Hannibal

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• A man can gasp out his life beside you-and you feel none of it. Pity, Sympathy, sure-but you don't feel the pain. Your belly is whole and that's what counts. A half-yard away someone's world is snuffled out in roaring agony-and you feel nothing. That's the misery of the world.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Pain, Men, Agony

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• The truth seems to be that they [teachers of grammar] were victims of a mighty hoax, one of those true belly-rumbling impostures which a workaday world can but seldom afford.

  Charlton Laird

  Teacher, World, Hoaxes

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• Tis not the belly's hunger that costs so much, but its pride

  Seneca the Younger

  Pride, Cost, Hunger

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• Hungry bellies have no cars.

  Francois Rabelais

  Car, Hunger, Hungry

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• I don't want a lot of strangers looking down at my wrinkles and my big fat belly when I'm dead.

  Clark Gable

  Wrinkles, Want, Stranger

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• A man must go on a quest / to discover the sacred fire / in the sanctuary of his own belly / to ignite the flame in his heart / to fuel the blaze in the hearth / to rekindle his ardor for the earth

  Sam Keen

  Heart, Men, Fire

  Sam Keen (2010). “Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man”, p.9, Bantam

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• Most men worry about their own bellies and other people's souls, when we all ought to be worried about our own souls and other people's bellies.

  Yisroel Salanter

  Helping Others, Men, People

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• The belly (i.e. necessity) is the teacher of art and the liberal bestower of wit.

  Aulus Persius Flaccus

  Teacher, Art, Eating

  "The Satires". Book by Aulus Persius Flaccus, Prologue, 10,

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• I am nothing but a miserable, crushed worm, whom no one wants, whom no one loves, a useless creature with morning sickness, and abig belly, two rotten teeth, and a bad temper, a battered sense of dignity, and a love which nobody wants and which nearly drives me insane.

  Sophia Tolstaya

  Morning, Two, Insane

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• I can't wait for the time when curves and a little belly fat will be sexy again!

  Shakira

  Sexy, Curves, Waiting

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• Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.

  Samuel Johnson

  Food, Healing, Weight Loss

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 1, p. 467 (5 August 1763)

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• If it were not for the Belly, the Back might wear Gold.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Food, Gold, Might

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.73, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Indigestion: A disease which the patient and his friends frequently mistake for deep religious conviction and concern for the salvation of mankind. As the simple Red Man of the Western Wild put it, with, it must be confessed, a certain force: 'Plenty well, no pray; big belly ache, heap God.'

  Ambrose Bierce

  Religious, Mistake, Food

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.128, University of Georgia Press

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• If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.

  Diogenes

  Food, Cooking, Hunger

  "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book 6: The Cynics". Book by Diogenes Laërtius translated by R. D. Hicks, 1925.

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• I have a crumble baby belly, boobs are worse for wear after two kids...I'm doing all right. I'm 33. I don't look in the mirror and go, "Oh, I look fantastic!". Of course I don't. Nobody is perfect. I just don't believe in perfection. But I do believe in saying, "This is who I am and look at me not being perfect!". I'm proud of that.

  Kate Winslet

  Inspiring, Beauty, Baby

  "Kate Winslet is ‘still haunted’ by nude Titanic scene". closeronline.co.uk. April 4, 2014.

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• Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Eye, Hands

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 1, sc. 2, l. [206]

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