Stomach Quotes - Page 19

• I had no specific bent towards science until my grandfather, who died - that summer - of stomach cancer. ... I decided that nobody should suffer that much.

  Gertrude B. Elion

  Cancer, Science, Suffering

  "The Legacy of Great Science". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. March 6, 1991.

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• The sound of a jet, an engine warming up, even the clopping of shod hooves on pavement brings on the ancient shudder, the dry mouth and vacant eye, the hot palms and the churn of stomach high up under the rib cage.

  John Steinbeck

  Eye, Sound, Ribs

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.8, Penguin

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• What good men most biologists are, the tenors of the scientific world - temperamental, moody, lecherous, loud-laughing, and healthy. Your true biologist will sing you a song as loud and off-key as will a blacksmith, for he knows that morals are too often diagnostic of prostatitis and stomach ulcers. Sometimes he may proliferate a little too much in all directions, but he is as easy to kill as any other organism, and meanwhile he is very good company, and at least he does not confuse a low hormone productivity with moral ethics.

  John Steinbeck

  Song, Men, Keys

  "The Log from the Sea of Cortez". Book by John Steinbeck. Chapter 4, 1951.

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• The bath soothes the nerves. It promotes general perspiration, quickens the circulation, overcomes obstruction in the system, and acts beneficially on the kidneys and the urinary organs. Bathing helps the bowels, stomach, and liver, giving energy and new life to each. It also promotes digestion and instead of the system being weakened, it is strengthened...and a more easy and regular flow of the blood through all the blood vessels is obtained.

  Ellen G. White

  Blood, Giving, New Life

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• Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.

  Pliny the Elder

  Food, Wine, Sadness

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• 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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• It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.

  Henry Bromell

  Important

  "Fictional character: One-Who-Waits". TV Series "Northern Exposure" ("The Big Kiss", 1991), 1990-1995.

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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 never loved Fortune, even when she seemed most to love me. I never considered her treasures mine, neither her money, nor her office nor her influence. Her theft of these things, therefore. has taken away nothing of my own. Mother, my roof is the stars. My house is human goodness. My body is clothed. My stomach is full. And the thirstier part of me, my soul, drinks gladly from the pool of my books.So much for me. I am just fine.

  Walter Wangerin

  Mother, Stars, Book

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• It can only truly be Texas red if it walks the thin line just this side of indigestibility: Damning the mouth that eats it and defying the stomach to digest it, the ingredients are hardly willing to lie in the same pot together.

  John Thorne

  Lying, Texas, Together

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• That would be cool if you could eat a good food with a bad food and the good food would cover for the bad food when it got to your stomach. Like you could eat a carrot with an onion ring and they would travel down to your stomach, then they would get there, and the carrot would say, It's cool, he's with me.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Would Be

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• Life is about fulfillment. If your life isn't fulfilled, your stomach can never supply what's missing.

  Deepak Chopra

  Missing, Life Is, Fulfillment

  Twitter post from Jan 25, 2014

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• There is an unseen sweetness in the stomach’s emptiness. We are lutes. When the sound box is filled, no music can come forth. When the brain and the belly burn from fasting, every moment a new song rises out of the fire. The mists clear, and a new vitality makes you spring up the steps before you . . .

  Rumi

  Song, Spring, Fire

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• After I had the Caesarean, I was told I had really strong stomach muscles and so would heal very quickly. And I did. I was up walking about within three hours. Six days after having her, I was out shopping and shortly after that I made it to David Walliams' wedding.

  Denise Van Outen

  Wedding, Strong, Shopping

  "Denise Van Outen: 'I was bullied for not breastfeeding'". www.mirror.co.uk. October 10, 2010.

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• There is no good word for stomach; just as there is no good word for girlfriend. Stomach is to girlfriend as belly is to lover, and as abdomen is to consort, and as middle is to petite amie.

  Nicholson Baker

  Girlfriend, Abdomen, Lovers

  Nicholson Baker (1990). “The Mezzanine: A Novel”, Vintage

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• The adult May fly lives only a few hours, just long enough to mate. He has neither mouth nor stomach, but needs neither since he does not live long enough to need to eat. The eggs the May fly leaves hatch after the parent has died. What is it all about. What's the point? There is no point. That's just the way it is. It is neither good nor bad. Life is mainly simply inevitable. (41)

  Sheldon B. Kopp

  Eggs, Long, Parent

  SHELDON B KOPP (1972). “IF YOU MEET THE BUDDHA ON THE ROAD KILL HIM THE PILGRIMAGE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY PATIENTS”

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• Art's a staple. Like bread or wine or a warm coat in winter. Those who think it is a luxury have only a fragment of a mind. Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.

  Irving Stone

  Art, Wine, Winter

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• It is at a time like this, when crisis threatens the stomach, that the French display the most sympathetic side of their nature. Tell them stories of physical injury or financial ruin and they will either laugh or commiserate politely. But tell them you are facing gastronomic hardship, and they will move heaven and earth and even restaurant tables to help you.

  Peter Mayle

  Moving, Laughing, Heaven

  FaceBook post by Peter Mayle from Nov 25, 2015

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• To be a gourmet you must start early, as you must begin riding early to be a good horseman. You must live in France, your father must have been a gourmet. Nothing in life must interest you but your stomach.

  Ludwig Bemelmans

  Father, Food, Cooking

  Ludwig Bemelmans (1964). “La bonne table”

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• Whenever you feel threatened or afraid, you should place your hands over your third chakra, right in the middle of your stomach, and breathe very deliberately and slowly until you feel calm. In doing so, you will actually begin to feel stronger and more protected. Breath gives us life and it is the source of our power.

  Sonia Choquette

  Hands, Giving, Over You

  FaceBook post by Sonia Choquette from Feb 11, 2013

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• I also believe my home state is cursed by ignorance and poverty and racism, much of it deliberately inculcated to control a vulnerable electorate. And I believe many of the politicians in Louisiana are among the most stomach-churning examples of white trash and venality I have ever known. To me, the fact that large numbers of people find them humorously picaresque is mind numbing, on a level with telling fond tales of one's rapist.

  James Lee Burke

  Believe, Home, Ignorance

  James Lee Burke (2013). “Creole Belle: A Dave Robicheaux Novel”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• I’ll feel that horrible feeling in my stomach you get when you’ve gone over to the Dark Side. But I’ll be fine. That’s the good thing about the Dark Side. Eventually, your eyes adjust.

  James Lileks

  Eye, Dark, Feelings

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• There weren't butterflies in my stomach, there were fire breathing dragons.

  Emme

  Butterfly, Fire, Dragons

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• When we hold onto the negative in ourselves it comes with endless guilt. We hold onto a lifetime of floating visions and regrets about what we should have done or should have become. Conscience recognizes wrong and tries to atone. But guilt turns into resentment. Conscience brings us closer to each other; guilt drives us apart. Create a new feeling. Every time guilt settles in your stomach, write "I forgive" on a piece of paper. Send it up the chimney, tear it up and flush it, put it in the garbage. Don't eat it.

  Jennifer James

  Regret, Writing, Should Have

  Jennifer James (1986). “Success Is the Quality of Your Journey”, William Morrow Paperbacks

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• You're going to need a stronger stomach if you're going to be back in the kitchen seeing how the sausage is made.

  Bert Cooper

  Kitchen, Stronger, Needs

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