Belly Quotes - Page 4

• Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Two, Crowns, Guilty

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• I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Hair, Scratches, Shirts

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• It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Order, Broken, Able

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

  Andre Gide

  Fall, Lakes, Sea

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• Many thanks for all of the love and good wishes sent our way from my friends out there in cartoon land... the only place where a nine month pregnant woman can still play a hot goth chick in a belly shirt!

  Grey DeLisle

  Pregnancy, Land, Play

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• Occasionally, when I run into a great bass backstage at a festival I'll play a few notes on the low E string, just to feel the instrument vibrate against my belly.

  Steve Swallow

  Running, Play, Bass

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• Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without government, and thou mayst be carried to thy long home without government, when it shall please the Lord. How many people in this world live without government, yet do well enough, and are well look'd upon?

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Mother, Home, Government

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• Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly – all else is desperation.

  Charles Bukowski

  Nerves, Spirit, Desperation

  Charles Bukowski (2011). “Post Office”, p.50, Random House

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• The man who is extremely and dangerously hungry has no other interest but food. Capacities not useful for the satisfying of hunger are pushed into the background. 'But what happens to man's desires when there is plenty of food and his belly in chronically filled? At once, other (and higher) needs emerge and these, rather than the psychological hungers, dominate the organism.

  Betty Friedan

  Men, Desire, Needs

  BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”

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• Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache

  Chinua Achebe

  Lying, Thought Provoking, Lizards

  Chinua Achebe (2017). “The African Trilogy: Things Fall Apart; Arrow of God; No Longer at Ease”, p.226, Penguin

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• Exercise is a pastime only for those who are already slender and physically fit. It just isn't so much fun when you have a marked tendency to wheeze and throw up, and a cannonball of a belly sloshing around inside the baggy garments.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Fun, Exercise, Fit

  Christopher Hitchens (2015). “And Yet...: Essays”, p.173, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I have no use for the kind of God who goes walking in his garden with a stick, sends his friends to live in the bellies of whales, gives up the ghost with a groan and then comes back to life three days later!

  Gustave Flaubert

  Giving Up, Garden, Whales

  Gustave Flaubert (1957). “Madame Bovary”

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• My characters are more like men than these real men are, see. They're rough and rude, they got hands and they got bellies. They hate and they lust; break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.

  Robert E. Howard

  Hate, Real, Character

  Letter to Harold Preece, c. January or February 1928.

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• It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. And the people under the sky were also very much the same--everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just like this, people ignorant of one another's existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet almost exactly the same--people who had never learned to think but were storing up in their hearts and bellies and muscles the power that would one day overturn the world.

  George Orwell

  Wall, Lying, Heart

  George Orwell (2003). “Nineteen Eighty-four”, Penguin Mass Market

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• Great God! What have I turned into? What right have you people to clutter up my life, steal my time, probe my soul, suckle my thoughts, have me for your companion, confidant, and information bureau? What do you take me for? Am I an entertainer on salary, required every evening to play an intellectual farce under your stupid noses? Am I a slave, bought and paid for, to crawl on my belly in front of you idlers and lay at your feet all that I do and all that I know?

  Henry Miller

  Stupid, Play, Feet

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• I had a dream that she put her foot through my belly button and I was playing this little piggy went to the market just with her toes, just her foot was sticking out of my belly button and it was completely normal!

  Jessica Simpson

  Dream, Pregnancy, Feet

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• Night. Heavenly delicious sweet night of the desert that calls all of us to love her. The night is our comfort with her coolness and darkness. On wings, on feet, on our bellies, out we all come to glory in the night.

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Sweet, Night, Wings

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• That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout the town, has muddied the Boiling Spring with his foot, and he it is that has browsed off all the woods on Walden shore, that Trojan horse, with a thousand men in his belly, introduced by mercenary Greeks! Where is the country's champion, the Moore of Moore Hall, to meet him at the Deep Cut and thrust an avenging lance between the ribs of the bloated pest?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Horse, Spring

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.139, Xist Publishing

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• Unfortunately, every time someone said “debriefing,” the entire flock had one image: someone’s tighty-whities disappearing in a flash. We were smothering our giggles, but it was getting harder. Coupled with the whole “naval this, and naval that,” with its undeniable belly-button connotations, we were essentially turning into a sugar-jacked, sleep-deprived flock of incoherent, silly, recombinant-DNA goofballs. This was not going to end well.

  James Patterson

  Silly, Sleep, Dna

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• And now you're off to Port Caynn. Watch them sailor lads. They'll have your skirts up and a babe in your belly afore you know what you're about." "Everyone keep warning me about sailors," I complained. "Why can't someone tell the sailors to stay clear of me?" Granny snorted. "Oh, you're the fierce one now! Just take care no one else catches you unawares and knocks you on the nob!

  Tamora Pierce

  Sex, Watches, Warning

  Tamora Pierce (2012). “Beka Cooper: The Hunt Records”, p.351, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Madness will push you anywhere it wants. It never tells you where you're going, or why. It tells you it doesn't matter. It persuades you. It dangles something sparkly before you, shimmering like that water patch on the road up ahead. You will drive until you find it, the treasure, the thing you most desire. You will never find it. Madness may mock you so long you will die of the search. Or it will tire of you, turn its back, oblivious as you go flying. The car is beside you, smoking, belly-up, still spinning its wheels.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Car, Long, Water

  Marya Hornbacher (2009). “Madness: A Bipolar Life”, p.114, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Hunger of the body is altogether different from the shallow, daily hunger of the belly. Those who have known this kind of hunger cannot entirely love, ever again, those who have not.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Different, Body, Kind

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.291, Faber & Faber

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• Many of the male faeries had their shirts unbuttoned and chests bare. (How’s this for freaky: no nipples or belly buttons.)

  Kiersten White

  Buttons, Males, Nipples

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• To a toad what is beauty? A female with two lovely pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly, and green spotted back.

  Voltaire

  Beauty, Eye, Yellow

  "Voltaire's Alphabet of wit".

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• You are my beauty, my body, perfected. All I was drained off into you. When you left, my health went with you - leaving a moral morbidity I smell in my sleep. The acts I committed for the love of you. Acts I can never forget. I crawled into the bellies of the dead to fish out a little life... I have an appetite for it now. I have an unrelenting lust for death.

  Clive Barker

  Sleep, Smell, Leaving

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