Stomach Quotes - Page 17

• Fame is a food that dead men eat, I have no stomach for such meat.

  Henry Austin Dobson

  Food, Men, Cooking

  'Fame is a Food' (1906)

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• The zest for life of those unusual men and women who make a great zealous success of living is due more often in good part to the craftiness and pertinacity with which they manage to overlook the misery of others. You can watch them watch life beat the stuffing out of the faces of their friends and acquaintances, although they themselves seem to outwit the dense delays of social custom, the tedious tick-tock of bureaucratic obfuscation, accepting loss and age and change and disappointment without suffering punctures in their stomach lining.

  Edward Hoagland

  Life, Disappointment, Loss

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• What does a river like the Vistula carry away with it? Everything that goes to pieces: wood, glass, pencils, pacts ... chairs, bones, and sunsets too. What had long been forgotten rose to memory, floating on its back or stomach, with the help of the Vistula.

  Gunter Grass

  Memories, Sunset, Glasses

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• The first prerequisite of elaborate mental exercise was a full stomach.

  Mark Frost

  Exercise, Firsts, Prerequisites

  Mark Frost (2013). “The List of 7”, p.39, Open Road Media

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• For most of us, the classic test of willpower is resisting temptation, whether the temptress is a doughnut, a cigarette, a clearance sale, or a one-night stand. When people say, "I have no willpower," what they usually mean is, "I have trouble saying no when my mouth, stomach, heart, or (fill in your anatomical part) wants to say yes.

  Kelly McGonigal

  Heart, Mean, Night

  Kelly McGonigal (2011). “The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It”, p.14, Penguin

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• Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. It becomes a kind of personal weather system. Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity. Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs. The heart fills with warm rain that turns to mist and evaporates through a colder artery.

  Adam Rapp

  Grief, Rain, Heart

  Adam Rapp (2002). “Nocturne: A Play”, p.79, Macmillan

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• The reaction to death is sometimes as violent as death itself. Shock throws a cautious coolness over your senses, but your stomach still has knots, your skin stings as if the Reaper is glaring at you as well.

  Tim Lebbon

  Over You, Skins, Sometimes

  Tim Lebbon (2003). “Fears Unnamed”

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• Herat, 8 December. What a day it was! God save me from any more adventures on a drained stomach.

  Robert Byron

  Adventure, December, Save Me

  1937 The Road to Oxiana.

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• The great mistake of the reformers is to believe that life begins and ends with health, and that happiness begins and ends with a full stomach and the power to enjoy physical pleasures, even of the finer kind.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Mistake, Believe, Kind

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• Some animals on Earth regurgitate as opposed to vomit, i.e., stomach contents flow up into the esophagus without any forceful abdominal contractions. What I experienced in zero gravity was similar to this, expulsion without the heaves.

  Vanna Bonta

  Zero, Animal, Earth

  Zero Gravity Interview (2006), as quoted in Laura S. Woodmansee "Sex in Space" (p. 31), August 1, 2006.

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• I came out of my mom's stomach thinking I was going to own America.

  Caprice Bourret

  Mom, Thinking, America

  Chat show "Live from Studio Five", Channel 5 (UK) television, November 18, 2009.

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• Dad decided not to vote for Donner after all. He didn't vote for anyone. He said politicians turned his stomach.

  Octavia Butler

  Dad, Vote, Politician

  Octavia E. Butler (2017). “Earthseed: The Complete Series”, p.38, Open Road Media

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• When no food is given to the ear,
  Then let a little be given to the stomach.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Ears, Littles, Given

  "Tirukkural". Book by Thiruvalluvar, 1840.

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• I am a man by virtue of my hands and my feet, my belly, my heart of meat, my stomach whose knots reunite me to the putrefaction of life.

  Antonin Artaud

  Heart, Men, Hands

  Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.94, Univ of California Press

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• A bit of a stomach give a chap a position in society.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Giving, Chaps, Position

  Christopher Hitchens (2015). “And Yet...: Essays”, p.170, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• When I was small, I would refuse to drink when I ate fish because I thought the fish would reconstitute itself in my stomach

  Peter Ustinov

  Drink, Fishes, Refuse

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• I'm talking ideal, I live in heaven, and my stomach is bottomless.

  Ilana Glazer

  Talking, Heaven, Ideals

  Source: www.bonappetit.com

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• Handsome, fictional men were so much easier to stomach than real life ones who smelled of Christmas and looked like a Calvin Klein model

  Tarryn Fisher

  Real, Men, Handsome

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• A stomach accustomed to hunger is satisfied with very little.

  Jose Saramago

  Littles, Hunger, Satisfied

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• I've always said, the key organ here isn't the brain, it's the stomach. When things start to decline - there are bad headlines in the papers and on television - will you have the stomach for the market volatility and the broad-based pessimism that tends to come with it?

  Peter Lynch

  Learning, Keys, History

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• The mind revolts against certain opinions, as the stomach rejects certain foods.

  William Hazlitt

  Mind, Opinion, Certain

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.56

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• I have to be careful what I eat before going onstage, to avoid an upset stomach.

  Samantha Bond

  Upset Stomach, Be Careful, Upset

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• I thought Chris Benoit was worthy of being a Horseman. I thought Dean Melinko was. Obviously I thought Steven Michael was, though obviously he was inexperienced, I thought he was a perfect fit as a horseman. I did not like the Paul Roma deal. I did not like Sid Vicious or about two or three guys that they put in there, I just couldn’t see it. I couldn’t stomach it, but I had to.

  Ric Flair

  Two, Perfect, Guy

  Source: smackdown5.moonfruit.com

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• The labor part wasn't so great, but seeing [my daughter] for the first time was pretty awesome. I mean, how does it get better than another actual person popping out of your stomach, you know?

  Cassandra Peterson

  Daughter, Mean, Get Better

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I never think about any of my accomplishments and I always get butterflies in my stomach and I never get too comfortable with the status.

  Romeo Santos

  Butterfly, Thinking, Accomplishment

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