#petite

Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood. ↗

— Robin G. Collingwood

#desire #even #intention #object #only

If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#appetite #apprenticeship #check #enough #first

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#accumulate #allotted #anything #appetite #down

The internet creates more of an appetite for media - it doesn't replace physical books, radio or TV. ↗

— Marissa Mayer

#books #creates #internet #media #more

A huge part of acting in movies is appetite. You do your best work when you've got a lot of appetite and you really want to embrace something. When you get tired, you don't have that hunger. ↗

— Clive Owen

#appetite #best #best work #do your best #embrace

When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting piglets of the appetites. ↗

— Marge Piercy

#angel #appetites #brain #clear #eye

Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite. ↗

— Quintilian

#appetite #both #change #fresh #like

The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason. ↗

— Herbert Read

#analogous #appetites #assumption #being #digestions

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#baby #big #canal #end #government

I am pleased to tell you that he is finally getting some rest and is regaining his appetite as well. ↗

— LaToya Jackson

#appetite #finally #getting #his #i