Belly Quotes
450 quotes by 387 authors
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Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want to get something…
— Pietro Aretino
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For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins sledding downhill to…
— Diane Ackerman
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Rebellions of the belly are the worst.
— Francis Bacon
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I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that…
— Kevin Bacon
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A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
— Georges Bernanos
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Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.
— Theodor Adorno
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Wouldn't it be great to see a line in all movie credits that truthfully says, 'Nobody was harmed in the making of this film, and…
— Elayne Boosler
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What you're going to be eating in the next year is decided by chefs. If the consensus is that pot-bellies are in next season, that's…
— Anthony Bourdain
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People came to my parents' parties because they were going to have fun and, if lucky, our mother would belly dance. What they didn't know…
— Sandra Bullock
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I am into belly dancing. I used to only hang with comics. Now I have friends who are dancers, and my whole house has a…
— Margaret Cho
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I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.
— Ty Cobb
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There's something that just happens to you when you have a baby, and you look at their little eyes for the first time when you're…
— Hilary Duff
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The belly comes before the soul.
— George Orwell
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To put the flesh of an animal into one's belly makes one an accessory after the fact of its slaughter, simply because if cows, pigs,…
— Philip Kapleau
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We need the tonic of the wilderness, to wade sometimes in the marsh where the bitten and the meadow hen lurk, and hear the booming…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.
— Andrea Dworkin
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People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of…
— Bernard de Mandeville
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But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with…
— D. H. Lawrence
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We've the new hard-steel, though why they're all so hot to pay twice the price when men're soft as clay and even wood will pierce…
— Janet Morris
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Ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep.
— Norman Cousins
Who Wrote These Belly Quotes
387 authors contributed a total of 450 Belly Quotes, led by these top contributors: