Lust is the cause of generation Appetite is the support of life Fear or timidity is the prolongation of life, and Fraud… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I like playing interesting people, I like playing slightly twisted people. I like playing people who have large appetites who are kind… — Ron Perlman Copy Share Image
When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects in the output. — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
Epithets, like pepper, Give zest to what you write; And if you strew them sparely, They whet the appetite: But if you… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“There's a capacity for appetite,' Samuel said, 'that a whole heaven and earth of cake can't satisfy.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Wouldst thou enjoy a long Life, a healthy Body, and a vigorous Mind, and be acquainted also with the wonderful Works of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I have a very healthy appetite for good writing and good characters. Having weak writing is my biggest fear. — Michael K. Williams Copy Share Image
Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
A pivotal spiritual attribute is that of self-mastery-th e strength to place reason over appetite. Self-mastery builds a strong conscience. And your… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
My point is that when you look at a rabbit and can see only a pest, or vermin, or a meal, or… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
I think people are largely proud of being musically on the risk. Any time you talk to someone about music, I feel… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
The message coming out of Washington, especially from our leftist politicians and the news media, is that we solve our budget problems… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
I am alive, he says to himself, I am alive! And life energy surges hotly through him, and delight, and appetite. How… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
Memory is like a purse, if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of… — Thomas Fuller Copy Share Image
“I love words as food. It fills up my appetite with parsley, mint, and species. It has a way of keeping my… — Christina Strigas Copy Share Image
There are some readers who have never read an essay on taste; and if they take my advice they never will, for… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
You can cultivate taste, as you can the intellect. Full understanding whets the appetite and desire, and, later, sharpens the enjoyment of… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
He had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite, such impatience for the story to begin. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Eating highly seasoned food is unhealthful, because it stimulates too much, provokes the appetite too much, and often is indigestible. — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
The foes from whom we pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there is always… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The Gauls derided the hairy and gigantic savages of the North; their rustic manners, dissonant joy, voracious appetite, and their horrid appearance,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The upside to grief is it takes away your appetite. When people say you look good they really mean it. Nature's thoughtful… — Barbara Park Copy Share Image
People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
I don't play big stadium-style dance, but I have discovered, to my delight, that the appetite for real low slung deep house… — Boy George Copy Share Image
I think there's an appetite for seriousness. Seriousness is voluptuous, and very few people have allowed themselves the luxury of it. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I was gaining weight very rapidly and read about the idea of restricting carbohydrates as an alternative to going hungry. I had… — Robert Atkins Copy Share Image
What matters to me is that one identifies one's genuine obsessions, one's genuine commitments, one's genuine appetites, one pursues them seriously and… — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
Our insatiable appetite for fossil fuels and the corporate mandate to maximize shareholder value encourages drilling without taking into account the costs… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
Resistance, whether to one's appetites or to the ways of the world, is a chief factor in the shaping of character. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It is visible then that it was not any Heathen Religion or other Idolatrous Superstition, that first put Man upon crossing his… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
Advertising serves not so much to advertise products as to promote consumption as a way of life. It 'educates' the masses into… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
Seating themselves on the greensward, they eat while the corks fly and there is talk, laughter and merriment, and perfect freedom, for… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine, the life, the soul of reading! Take them out and one cold eternal winter would reign in… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is,… — Zac Goldsmith Copy Share Image
What real good does an addition to a fortune already sufficient procure? Not any. Could the great man, by having his fortune… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Going out across the desert I remember the feelings that you have, wondering if you're going to make it out alive. Right… — Scott Perry Copy Share Image
Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life,… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
