Belly Quotes - Page 20

• Ourchestra: So you haven't got a drum, just beat your belly. So I haven't got a horn-I'll play my nose. So we haven't any cymbals- We'll just slap our hands together, And though there may be orchestras That sound a little better With their fancy shiny instruments That cost an awful lot- Hey, we're making music twice as good By playing what we've got!

  Shel Silverstein

  Hands, Play, Together

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• When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

  Mark Twain

  Kings, Teaching, Book

  Mark Twain (2015). “The Prince and the Pauper”, p.19, Xist Publishing

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• I'm active even on bad days; it's tough to pin me down. People ask me if I'm a morning or night person. I'm an all-the-time person. I like drinking coffee, but I do it with lots of milk because my energy levels are high even without caffeine. You could call me Obelix, except I don't have a belly.

  Bipasha Basu

  Morning, Drinking, Coffee

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• The American public highly overrates its sense of humor. We're great belly laughers and prat fallers, but we never really did have a real sense of humor. Not satire anyway. We're a fatheaded, cotton-picking society. When we realize finally that we aren't God's given children, we'll understand satire. Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.

  Bill Mauldin

  Hurt, Children, Real

  Time magazine, July 21, 1961.

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• The Christian gospel is a message of freedom through grace and we must stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free. But what shall we do with our freedom? The Apostle Paul grieved that some of the believers of his day took advantage of their freedom and indulged the flesh in the name of Christian liberty. They threw off discipline, scorned obedience and made gods of their own bellies.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Names, Discipline

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• I haunted streets, whorehouses, police stations, courtrooms, theater stages, jails, saloons, slums, madhouses, fires, murders, riots, banquet halls and bookshops. I ran everywhere in the city like a fly buzzing in the works of a clock, tasted more than any fit belly could hold, learned not to sleep, and buried myself in a tick-tock of whirling hours that still echo in me.

  Ben Hecht

  Sleep, Cities, Jail

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• He stopped to rest at a cart selling nuts and candy, bought himself some Jelly Belly's, flirted just enought with the Mexican cutie working there to convince her pull out the banana-flavored one. Although he liked his Jelly Belly's mixed up, he didn't like banana, but, since it took too much effort to pull them out himself, he generally tried to talk someone else into doing it. If that didn't work, he just ate 'em. - Kenny Traveler

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Nuts, Mexican, Effort

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips (2013). “Lady Be Good”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• George Rochberg once said that 'to be a composer, you need to have fire in the belly, fire in the brain, but most importantly, an iron stomach.' I feel this is for the most part true, and hope I might convey something of it to younger composers.

  Michael Hersch

  Iron, Fire, Brain

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. April 14, 2014.

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• Retain the wind by compressing the belly.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Wind

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• She was considered timid and morose. Only in the country, her skin tanned by the sun and her belly full of ripe fruit, running through the fields with Pedro Tercero, was she smiling and happy. Her mother said that that was the real Blanca, and that the other one, the one back in the city, was a Blanca in hibernation.

  Isabel Allende

  Mother, Running, Country

  Isabel Allende (2015). “The House of the Spirits: A Novel”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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• When it is winter and we must walk in the blizzard snow do not our fingers and toes whisper death  And when winter is at last over. . .can we not hear our bellies whisper death to us  In the dark don't we know  And when we are paralyzed by nightmares  We know what you are.  With our first cries we rail against you.  We see you in every drop of blood in every tear.

  Martine Leavitt

  Dark, Winter, Blood

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• Today, I feel stronger, learning to live within the natural cycles of a day and to not expect too much of myself. As women, we hold the moon in our bellies. It is too much to ask to operate on full-moon energy three hundred and sixty-five days a year. I am in a crescent phase.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Moon, Years, Stronger

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, p.136, Vintage

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• At school nobody ever taught us how to light a cigarette in a storm of rain, nor how a fire could be made with wet wood-nor that it is best to stick a bayonet in the belly because there it doesn't get jammed, as it does in the ribs.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Rain, School, Fire

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel”, p.65, Random House

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• I swear if that's a pair of demon horns digging into my belly and stabbing me right now, Ash, I'm going to beat you after it's born." 'Cause face it, horns on the head didn't come from my side of the family or genetic code.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Digging, Ashes, Faces

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Retribution”, p.213, Hachette UK

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• Kylie watched as his shirttail upward, exposing a very hard abdomen. The hem of his shirt inched higher, and she took in the cutest inny belly button she'd ever seen. And then his chest. Solid. Hard. A few drops of water glistened against his skin. Hear heart beat to the sound of passion again.

  C.C. Hunter

  Heart, Passion, Water

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• The sky is purple, the flare of a match behind a cupped hand is gold; the liquor is green, bright green, made from a thousand herbs, made from altars. Those who know enough to drink Chartreuse at Mardi Gras are lucky, because the distilled essence of the town burns in their bellies. Chartreuse glows in the dark, and if you drink enough of it, your eyes will turn bright green.

  Poppy Z. Brite

  Eye, Dark, Hands

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• Hiram!' Shelton ran to Hi's side. 'Aren't you you bleeding? I thought she shot you!' 'Red wine. When I saw it running everywhere, I played dead.' He winced as Shelton poked his belly. 'But I'm not leaping off any more shelves. That was pretty stupid.

  Kathy Reichs

  Running, Stupid, Wine

  Kathy Reichs (2011). “Virals: (Virals 1)”, p.76, Random House

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• Avoid men who call you Baby, and women who have no friends, and dogs that scratch at their bellies and refuse to lie down at your feet. Wear dark glasses; bathe with lavender oil and cool fresh water. Seek shelter from the sun at noon.

  Alice Hoffman

  Dog, Baby, Lying

  Alice Hoffman (2003). “Practical Magic”, p.122, Penguin

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• ... don't ever underestimate people, don't ever underestimate the pleasure they receive from viewing pain that is not their own... Pain by itself is just Pain. But Pain + Distance can = entertainment, voyeurism, human interest, cinéma vérité, a good belly chuckle, a sympathetic smile, a raised eyebrow, disguised contempt.

  Zadie Smith

  Pain, Distance, Eyebrows

  Zadie Smith (2003). “White Teeth”, p.177, Vintage

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• No rescue boat can save the touches I left bobbing in the wild ocean of your flesh, but if they cut open your heart, like the belly of a shark, dumped its contents on a table—would there be any trace of me?

  Jeffrey McDaniel

  Ocean, Heart, Cutting

  Jeffrey McDaniel (2002). “Splinter Factory”, p.49, Manic D Press

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• What was the difference between love and the agony of waiting? Like love, the agony of waiting began in the muscles and somewhere around the upper belly but soon spread out to the chest, the thighs, and the forehead, to invade the entire body with numbing force.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Differences, Like Love, Agony

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “Snow”, p.252, Faber & Faber

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• Solitary. But not in the sense of being alone. Not solitary in the way Thoreau was, for example, exiling himself in order to find out where he was; not solitary in the way Jonah was, praying for deliverance in the belly of the whale. Solitary in the sense of retreat. In the sense of not having to see himself, of not having to see himself being seen by anyone else.

  Paul Auster

  Order, Whales, Example

  Paul Auster (2007). “The Invention of Solitude”, p.34, Penguin

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• If you ask the lion to protect from from wolves, you have only chosen to end in one belly instead of another.

  Robert Jordan

  Lions, Ends, Protect

  Robert Jordan (2010). “The Shadow Rising: Book Four of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.448, Macmillan

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• Socialists ignore the side of man that is the spirit. They can provide you shelter, fill your belly with bacon and beans, treat you when you're ill, all the things guaranteed to a prisoner or a slave. They don't understand that we also dream.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, Men, Shelter

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• God, I love you," he said, and laid his head on her belly, his arms locked around her hips. Madelyn slid her fingers into his hair. "It took you long enough," she said gently. "What I lack in quickness, I make up in staying power." "Meaning?" "That I'll still be telling you that fifty years from now." He paused and turned his head to kiss her stomach.

  Linda Howard

  Love You, Kissing, Hair

  Linda Howard (1990). “Duncan's Bride”, Mira Books

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