Stomach Quotes - Page 31

• There was a time when the respect and trust my children had for me would have made you sick to your stomach. They believed I could blow on a red traffic light and turn it green.

  Erma Bombeck

  Children, Blow, Light

  Erma Bombeck, Bil Keane (2011). “Just Wait Till You Have Children of Your Own!”, p.139, Fawcett

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• To have a full stomach and fixed income are no small things .

  Elbert Hubbard

  Income, Fixed, Small Things

  Elbert Hubbard (1917). “In the Spotlight: Personal Experiences of Elbert Hubbard on the American Stage”

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• A fastidious taste is like a squeamish appetite; the one has its origin in some disease of the mind, as the other has in some ailment of the stomach.

  Robert Southey

  Mind, Disease, Taste

  Robert Southey (1865). “The Doctor, Etc”, p.42

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• I've got a stomach now as well as a behind. And I mean - well, you can't pull it in both ways, can you? ... I've made it a rule to pull in my stomach and let my behind look after itself.

  Agatha Christie

  Mean, Way, Looks

  Agatha Christie (2014). “The Dressmaker’s Doll: An Agatha Christie Short Story”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• It really doesn't take brains to be a politician as much as it takes stomach. Both would be nice, but in America we have accepted diminishing returns in this arena.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Nice, America, Brain

  Rita Mae Brown (2009). “Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser”, p.273, Bantam

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• The animal tends to eat with his stomach, and the man with his brain. When the animal's stomach is full, he stops eating, but the man is never sure when to stop. When he has eaten as much as his belly can take, he still feels empty, he still feels an urge for further gratification.

  Alan Watts

  Animal, Men, Brain

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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• The profession of shaman has many advantages. It offers high status with a safe livelihood free of work in the dreary, sweaty sense. In most societies it offers legal privileges and immunities not granted to other men. But it is hard to see how a man who has been given a mandate from on High to spread tidings of joy to all mankind can be seriously interested in taking up a collection to pay his salary; it causes one to suspect that the shaman is on the moral level of any other con man. But it is a lovely work if you can stomach it.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Joy, Lovely

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.325, Penguin

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• ...shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle. Indeed of the whole realm of Nature the sea is in many ways the most harmful to the stomach, with its great variety of dishes and tasty fish.

  Pliny the Elder

  Food, Sea, Cooking

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• Rhubarb: essence of stomach ache.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Food, Essence, Cooking

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• She ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Food, Rose, Cooking

  Louis Kronenberger (1970). “The Cutting Edge”

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• It's really hard for me to remember all of the places that I've been but I can remember all of the delicious meals that I've ever eaten. I love traveling by way or stomach...and finding quiet time.

  Sarah Kay

  Meals, Way, Quiet

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• Some days I have a knot in my stomach because I've got to sit down and come up with something in womenswear that no one else came up with.

  Ralph Lauren

  Down And, Come Up, Knots

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• When I was four years old, I remember looking in the mirror and running my fingers over my stomach and thinking I was fat.

  Demi Lovato

  Running, Thinking, Mirrors

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• All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I have, find it difficult to turn down jobs. If I turn anything down my stomach turns over. I feel sick. It feels like gambling.

  Bill Nighy

  Jobs, Gambling, Sick

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• At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family. My mother knit scarves for the neighborhood kids. My father helped Caleb with his homework. There was a fire in the fireplace and peace in my heart, as I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing, and everything was quiet. I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free.

  Veronica Roth

  Mother, Hurt, Father

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• Cary Benjamin sleeps dreamily on my stomach as we're both bonding and recuperating. He's phenomenal.

  Jennifer Grant

  Sleep, Phenomenal, Bonding

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I hate flying. My stomach churns at the mere thought of it.

  Jonathan Dimbleby

  Hate, Flying, Mere

  "This much I know". Interview with Liz Hoggard, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2008.

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• A poor man defended himself when charged with stealing food to appease the cravings of hunger, saying, the cries of the stomach silenced those of the conscience.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Men, Poverty, Cry

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• The stomach is the only part of man which can be fully satisfied. The yearning of man's brain for new knowledge and experience and for more pleasant and comfortable surroundings never can be completely met. It is an appetite which cannot be appeased.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Men, Brain, Surroundings

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• There's hidden sweetness in the stomach's emptiness.

  Rumi

  Emptiness, Sweetness

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• For all of my life it was the size of my rear that caused me the most hand-wringing, but in this nearly-50 zone it is my stomach that is the problem. It seems to have broken free from its moorings and there is no knowing how far it will roam.

  Marian Keyes

  Hands, Knowing, Broken

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• I felt pissed off because I realized that you have to teach people in a clichéd way how to be happy-and happiness has become too one thing in American media. Achieving happiness is not really about having a flat stomach and the best car.

  M.I.A.

  Media, People, Car

  "Kehinde Wiley". Interview with M.I.A., www.interviewmagazine.com. November 19, 2008.

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• Usually when you do shows you're in the middle of the tour and you're all oiled up and it's just another stop. It's so much pressure for just three minutes. My stomach still hurts.

  Mark Oliver Everett

  Hurt, Three, Pressure

  "Eels: He’s Electric". Interview with David Coggins, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 22, 2009.

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• Working with people who cause your stomach to churn seems much like marrying for money - probably a bad idea under any circumstances, but absolute madness if you are already rich.

  Warren Buffett

  Ideas, People, Causes

  Richard J. Connors, Warren Buffett (2010). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.30, John Wiley & Sons

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• There are two tests in life, more important than any other test. On Monday morning, when you wake up, do you feel in the pit of your stomach you can't wait to go to work? And when you're ready to go home Friday afternoon, do you say, 'I can't wait to go home?'

  Charles Schumer

  Friday, Morning, Monday

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