Stomach Quotes - Page 25

• I love my family. I came home the other days. My brother's passed-out on the couch, holding an empty bottle of sleeping pills. So I called the paramedics, and they pumped his stomach, and I think he's learned his lesson: you know, never to take my last two sleeping pills.

  Emo Philips

  Family, Brother, Home

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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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• I realized people would soon forget me once I was dead. I couldn't even say that this was hard to stomach; really, there's no idea to which one doesn't get acclimatized in time.

  Albert Camus

  Ideas, People, Forget

  Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

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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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• 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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• We ourselves, though we're guilty of every sin, are not just a work of God: we're image. Yet we have cut ourselves off from our Creator in both soul and body. Did we get eyes to serve lust, the tongue to speak evil, ears to hear evil, a throat for gluttony, a stomach to be gluttony's ally, hands to do violence, genitals for unchaste excesses, feet for an erring life? Was the soul put in the body to think up traps, fraud, and injustice? I don't think so.

  Tertullian

  Eye, Cutting, Thinking

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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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• 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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• When I was 4 years old ... I dreamt that I'd been eaten by a wolf, and to my great surprise I was in the wolf's stomach and not in heaven.

  Bertrand Russell

  Years, Heaven, Surprise

  BBC interview on "Face to Face"; The Listener, Vol. 61 (1959), p. 503, 1959.

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

  Jose Saramago

  Littles, Hunger, Satisfied

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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 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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• 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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