Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

Boxing purists, quite naturally, question Tyson's appetite for victory. Mills Lane should have stopped the fight before Tyson took a second helping.

We should be able to control appetite within five to 10 years.

There's never been anything to put a dent in it. There continues to be a huge appetite for the show.

No doubt the Australian public is talking about the tight Ashes battle that we're currently in, and hopefully, that can whet people's appetites for even more great cricket in October.

Thomas Fuller

Memory is like a purse, if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof.

I grew up down in Florida, and in the Keys, there's this place called Sea Camp which was not unlike Space Camp, except you explored the sea. And so that kind of whetted my appetite for that. But then I ended up swimming in a lagoon full of Cassiopeia jellyfish, and that quickly quashed that desire to be a marine biologist.

But if you're talking about sending a private price that undercuts the published fare by, say, $10, I don't think there's much of an appetite for that yet. Our published fares are already fairly competitive and priced right.

One begins to need more and more intense stimuli in order to produce the same type of arousal, ... It creates a greater appetite for more bizarre, more deviant types of sexual images.

It is a scientifically proven fact that eating a variety of flavors over-stimulates the appetite. Why do you think food companies put so many ingredients in their products? The Flavor Point is the point when the flavors in your food fill up the appetite center in your brain and you no longer feel hungry.

I think 'Desperate Housewives' whetted the appetite for 'Sex and the City' refugees.

Most importantly, the Bank of Canada is not giving the impression that it has much of an appetite for further rate hikes beyond the 4 percent level.

Looking internationally, the market still has a hefty appetite for yield that will support the currency. New Zealand yields are on a similar par with those of Kazakhstan.

We're delighted they're doing market-warming, ... It'll set up an appetite for true broadband access.

We don't see the same kind of appetite from local investors that we saw a while ago.

It comes down to what kind of appetite the community has for the Games.

Robert Thompson

I think the American culture right now is in a state where we have an unlimited appetite for irony. The great thing about a weird pageant is, if you don't win, is that really a bad thing?

David Greene

If you look at Macao, you'd say that no one has ever put to the test the appetite for the Chinese for anything other than gambling.

There was an appetite and sometimes you don't want to miss out on that when there is that appetite, if you're in a rebound kind of year. Universal was left a little flat-footed because they did their big Revenge of the Mummy rollout the year before.

It's paradoxical. The strengthening of Japan has given Japanese retail money more appetite for risk, and that means overseas bonds.

The U.S. market's rise triggered the rally. Our stocks have been raring to rise for a while. Nobody has appetite to sell right now, but nobody wants to build up big positions either.

It's like feeding a lineman. I can't eat with her. She always has an appetite. I'd be sick.

Alain Resnais

That's easy to answer: I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film.

David Bowers

The lack of positive growth momentum has undermined risk appetite.

Jimmy Page

I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.

John Donne

I find no abhorring in my appetite.

There was this insatiable appetite for anything on me. Ill never forget the feeling of waking up in the morning and my stomach would be churning, and the phone would ring and someone would tell me I was on the front page of something. It got to the point where I was miserable.

They're over and done because nobody is going to have an appetite for that.

There is typically a bounce in such purchases and if this proves subdued this year, many investors will conclude that a stronger Japanese economy and rising bond yields has moderated Japanese investor appetite for foreign assets. This scenario would see the yen a lot firmer.

Joanna Lumley

There's an appetite for vigour in films. The camera loves a bit of movement. Movement is usually attached to younger people and men, and that's just the way it is. I think that it's a bitter pill to swallow, but it's a fact that there aren't going to be masses and masses of roles for older women because there isn't the audience for it.

It saves nuisance. More companies will probably have an appetite for instruments that otherwise would have triggered bifurcation.

Kenneth Oppel

We used to flock to watch gladiators, public torture and executions. In more recent times, our appetite for mortal violence has been sublimated in sports, photorealistic video games, film and literature.

Paul Bloom

Even in the most peaceful communities, an appetite for violence shows up in dreams, fantasies, sports, play, literature, movies and television. And, so long as we don't transform into angels, violence and the threat of violence - as in punishment and deterrence - is needed to rein in our worst instincts.