Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

Sexual appetite, like any other appetite, grows by indulgence

Geoff Carr

There is no doubt there is an appetite in Melbourne for a match of this stature.

Jim Allen

The product (in Japan) will be lessened. The local demand will remain, but the teams are just realizing now their monopoly is crumbling because of the major leagues. The major leagues have put a major dent on fans' appetite for Japanese baseball.

Thomas Steinbeck

I would hardly say that I have a rich knowledge of anything in particular, but I do seem to be burdened with an unseemly appetite for intellectual and artistic erudition, which, for the sake of balance, I keep well harnessed to a reliable sense of the absurd.

Jorge Mariscal

We are seeing a new appetite for south-of-the-border securities coming from U.S. investors who have started realizing that the extraordinary returns they saw in 1995 and '96 will not be repeated again, so they're looking for opportunities elsewhere.

Louise Gluck

We have a disturbing cultural appetite for novelty, and it seems to me wrong each new laureate should dislodge the ideas of his or her predecessor, especially when they're still unfolding.

Nicolas Chamfort

Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Self-control is one mark of a mature person; it applies to control of language, physical treatment of others, and the appetites of the body.

John Andrews

We're seeing a growing appetite in the developer community for Eclipse.

Doug Barry

We want people to see us as part of the cultural vitality of the greater Hilton Head area.

Jerry Jaeger

We use the latest in natural cultural practices. Kevin Hicks (course superintendent) has done an excellent job.

Tom Bissell

Every book in the 'Dreams' cycle dramatizes a particular epoch in the ongoing cultural collision between North America's native peoples and its European colonizers.

Eric Schlosser

Like Hollywood movies, MTV and blue jeans, fast food has become one of America's major cultural exports.

Kevin Barry

We want to take education and make it a cultural experience.

Jeb Bush

There are cultural reasons, economic competitiveness reasons. There are a lot of reasons why people are in poverty. The difference today is that increasingly they are in perpetual poverty.

Red Hawk

We have a rich tradition here in the Coshocton area, ... When we were pushed out of the east, this was one of the spots we stopped for a while before they pushed us further west. There is a lot of cultural history here. It's like we're back home again.

Patrick Stump

We're so busy broadcasting our latest cultural disdain that we scantly notice anything we enjoy. 'Oh man, this Rebecca Black kid is terrible! Let's laugh at her!' has become more culturally relevant than, 'I really love this new Bilal record.'

Gurinder Chadha

We were delighted to find out that here was someone in the US who was exploring the same themes as us, in terms of diaspora, culture, cultural negotiations and identity.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Yes, I am the first Latino poet laureate in the United States. But I'm also here for everyone and from everyone. My voice is made by everyone's voices.

Maury Yeston

The extraordinary thing about Irving Berlin is that he's like the American Mozart! It seems as if his songs were always there. How do you put together songs like 'Always' or 'Cheek To Cheek'? Songs of his are, frankly, perfect.

Carolina Herrera

Work doesn't seem to interfere with my life. I have time for everything, even time to be alone.

John Sacchi

We're in a situation where we just can't stop the bleeding. We keep trying to put band-aids on the wound, but nothing seems to help.

Jim Rash

When you stop thinking about something, the idea comes to you. It seems to work.

Ben Stein

I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago.

Laurie Lee

With three kids, it seems like I'm always shelling out $5 here and $5 there,

Dan Ariely

There's something about [cyclically] doing something over and over and over that seems to be particularly demotivating.

Todd Rundgren

It seems like there are two worlds out there - one that has revolved around 'Breaking Bad,' and then the one that I've been in, which just kind of observes it from afar.

Nicole Piggott

We're going to do what we've been doing all year. It seems to be working fine.