Stomach Quotes - Page 32

• A mortgaged home, an empty stomach and a ragged back know no party. We will live to write the epitaphs of the old parties: "Died of general debility, old age, and chronic falsehoods."

  Mary Elizabeth Lease

  Party, Home, Writing

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• Medication is of course important but do not conclude that a pill dissolving in your stomach is necessarily more powerful than a healing thought in your mind.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Powerful, Healing, Mind

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “The Tough-Minded Optimist”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• Once abroad, I eat one meal a day picnic-style: Ive learned that no mature stomach can tolerate an endless routine of rich restaurant meals.

  Arthur Frommer

  Style, Meals, Routine

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• The traditional manner of taking psilocybin is to take a very healthy dose, in the vicinity of 15 mg. on an empty stomach in total darkness.

  Terence McKenna

  Healthy, Darkness, Psilocybin

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• Technique to me is a kind of a ... I'm reluctant to talk about it because it seems so obvious to me what good technique is. I mean, you sit down, you shut up, and you pay attention is basically the good technique. And then the footnotes add; on an empty stomach, in a dark room, feeling comfortable.

  Terence McKenna

  Mean, Dark, Feelings

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• I quit my day job the day my daughter was born. I remember flying to Cleveland and hitting a thunderstorm, which caused the plane to lose pressure, and the oxygen masks fell from the ceiling. We felt the plane dropping; the pilot was taking it down to regain cabin pressure. My heart was in my stomach. I found out after landing that her mom was in labor. I did the show and came back to New York. By the time I walked into the hospital, my daughter was being born. She was waiting for me. She's a sweet daddy's girl. She's premed. She has her own pie company. She works for Habitat for Humanity.

  J. B. Smoove

  Girl, Mom, Daughter

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• I know what it's like to have a dream. I know what it's like to roll the dice and say, 'I'm going to go after this thing,' and nothing turns my stomach quicker than acting teachers or acting schools that look at a bunch of dreamers and say, 'We can help,' when they know full well that they can't.

  Jim Parrack

  Dream, Teacher, School

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• For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.

  St. Jerome

  Dignity, Empty, Preservation

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• Homesickness is a bit like seasickness. You don't know how awful it is unti you get it, and when you do, it hits you right in the top of the stomach and you want to die.

  Roald Dahl

  Want, Awful, Homesickness

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• New Rule: Someone must x-ray my stomach to see if the Peeps I ate on Easter are still in there, intact and completely undigested. And I'm not talking about this past Easter. I'm talking about the last time I celebrated Easter, in 1962.

  Bill Maher

  Easter, Past, Talking

  Bill Maher (2011). “The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass”, p.141, Penguin

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• Although drugs are immoral and must be kept from the young, thousands of schools pressure parents to give the drug Ritalin to any lively child who may, sensibly, show signs of boredom in his classroom. Ritalin renders the child docile if not comatose. Side effects? "Stunted growth, facial tics, agitation and aggression, insomnia, appetite loss, headaches, stomach pains and seizures." Marijuana would be far less harmful.

  Gore Vidal

  Children, Pain, School

  "The Last Empire" by Gore Vidal, www.nytimes.com. November 1998.

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• I'm sorry I let everybody down, I'm fighting just to pay my bills. I don't have the stomach for this anymore... I don't have the desire for it. I feel bad for the people... I wish they could get their money back.

  Mike Tyson

  Sorry, Motivation, Fear

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• No man can be wise on an empty stomach.

  George Eliot

  Wise, Men, Empty

  George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.71

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• For as a surfeit of the sweetest things The deepest loathing to the stomach brings, Or as tie heresies that men do leave Are hated most of those they did deceive, So thou, my surfeit and my heresy, Of all be hated, but the most of me!

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Ties, Loathing

  William Shakespeare, Terri Bourus, Peter Holland (2006). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.101, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• You ask me how, with so much study, I manage to retene my health. Morpheus is my last companion; without 8 or 9 hours of him yr correspondent is not worth one scavenger's peruke. My practices did at ye first hurt my stomach, but now I eat heartily enou' as y' will see when I come down beside you.

  Isaac Newton

  Hurt, Food, Sleep

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• Stomach: A slave that must accept everything that is given to it, but which avenges wrongs as slyly as does the slave.

  Emile Souvestre

  Food, Ayurveda, Doe

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• Why do we smile? Why do we laugh? Why do we feel alone? Why are we sad and confused? Why do we read poetry? Why do we cry when we see a painting? Why is there a riot in the heart when we love? Why do we feel shame? What is that thing in the pit of your stomach called desire?

  Benjamin Alire Saenz

  Life, Confused, Heart

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• A television advertisement must illustrate the scientific method to substantiate any claim.... That is why stains are lifted, ring-around-the-collar is removed, paper towels become soaked, excess stomach acid is absorbed, and headaches go away-all during the commercial.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Science, Going Away, Scientific Method

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• Faith on a full stomach may be simply contentment but if you have it when you're hungry, it's genuine.

  Frank A. Clark

  Contentment, May, Hungry

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• When I was a fairly precocious young man I became thoroughly impressed with the futility of the hopes and strivings that chase most men restlessly through life. Moreover, I soon discovered the cruelty of that chase, which in those years was much more carefully covered up by hypocrisy and glittering words than is the case today. By the mere existence of his stomach everyone was condemned to participate in that chase. The stomach might well be satisfied by such participation, but not man insofar as he is a thinking and feeling being.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Thinking, Covered Up

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• By the time they were pulling into the parking lot of the A&P, the mood was fading, the moment gone. Amy could feel it go. Perhaps it was nothing more than the two doughnuts expanding in her stomach full of milk, but Amy felt a heaviness begin, a familiar turning of some inward tide. As they drove over the bridge the sun seemed to move from a cheerful daytime yellow to an early-evening gold; painful how the gold light hit the riverbanks, rich and sorrowful, drawing from Amy some longing, a craving for joy.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Moving, Two, Yellow

  Elizabeth Strout (2003). “Amy and Isabelle: A Novel”, p.56, Vintage

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• Worry is the stomach's worst poison.

  Alfred Nobel

  Worry, Poison, Worst

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• A young pregnant wife has been hospitalized for a simple attack of appendicitis. The doctors had to apply ice to her stomach and when the treatments ended the doctors suggested that she abort the child, they told her it was the 'best solution' because the baby would be born with some disability but the young brave wife decided not to abort, and the child was born. That woman was my Mother and I was the child.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Mother, Baby, Children

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• I don't think any poetry is written that isn't primarily written to the self, in a way... I'm always talking to myself. But I seem to want somebody else to listen to it. I need, I do want an audience. So it's a strange thing. It's a very private conversation that then, you make public, kind of, like, the starfish flipping its stomach out.

  Kay Ryan

  Thinking, Self, Talking

  "ArtWorks" with Jo Reed, www.arts.gov.

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• You cannot warm the hearts of people with God's love if they have an empty stomach and cold feet.

  William Booth

  Heart, Feet, People

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