#petite

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The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.


Joseph Addison


#call #creatures #first #hunger #kind

To give money to a woman - and here I must speak as a man - is to deny her special quality, her irreplaceability, and reduce her unique amiability to a commodity. Money takes away her name, while transforming her lover into a nameless customer of a market of appetites.


James Buchan


#away #commodity #customer #deny #give

I also get fed up with the fact that casting agents and directors have this impression of me as being frail and petite. I find it very patronizing. I'm quite beefy and strong. I was a gymnast in school and I have lots of muscles.


Helena Bonham Carter


#also #being #casting #directors #fact

Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger.


Bill Cosby


#appetite #calls #chair #danger #his

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 far.


Leon Wieseltier


#commitments #far #genuine #identifies #matters

Nothing mitigates the throes of depression like a steaming plate of spaghetti and meatballs with marinara sauce and grated parmasan cheese, with a good fresh bread to wipe up.


Paul Clayton


#culinary #culture #depression #food #fun

Elizabeth squirmed on the hard wooden bench, and tried to ignore both her sore backside and her rumbling stomach. Why did the minister's sermons last so long? And why did the talk of sin always give her such a hearty appetite?


Anya Seton


#life

Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression.


Marshall McLuhan


#agencies #appetite #both #century #congenial

In Hollywood there's a great openness, almost a voracious appetite for new people. In England there's a great suspicion of the new. In cultural terms, that can be a good thing, but when you're trying to break into the film industry, it's definitely a bad thing.


Christopher Nolan


#almost #appetite #bad #bad thing #break

At times he could be very critical. He didn't like prints on me. He didn't like stripes. He didn't like boldness. He said I was petite and that was taking away from my looks.


Priscilla Presley


#boldness #could #critical #i #like