A Quote by Ambrose Bierce

SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.

Ambrose Bierce

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Ambrose Bierce
American - Journalist
June 24, 1842 - 1914

You are hard at work madam ," said the man near her. Yes," Answered Madam Defarge ; " I have a good deal to do." What do you make, Madam ?" Many things." For instance ---" For instance," returned Madam Defarge , composedly , Shrouds." The man moved a little further away, as soon as he could, feeling it mightily close and oppressive .

Charles Dickens

In America, we eat until we're full, which means we usually go past the point of satiety because satiety actually follows digestion.

Harley Pasternak

There is no sense of weariness like that which closes in a day of eager and unintermittent pursuit of pleasure. The apple is eaten, but "the core sticks in the throat." Expectation has then given way to ennui, appetite to satiety.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Wealth breeds satiety, satiety outrage.

Solon

I like how food can look incredible more than I like eating it. I started moving food around the plate to make it appear I'd eaten more but then enjoyed making faces on the plate - peas for eyebrows, Yorkshire puddings for eyes.

Noel Fielding

And as many of the plates as Joseph Smith translated I handled with my hands, plate after plate.

Martin Harris

I'm in the game of spinning plates. I'm spinning a boxing plate. I'm spinning a Tae Kwon Do plate. I'm spinning a Jujitsu plate. I'm spinning a freestyle wrestling plate. I'm spinning a karate plate. If I was to put all them down and have one boxing plate spinning, it would be like a load off my shoulders.

Conor McGregor

My feeling is, if I can describe the way a steak looks on the plate, when it's just kind of juices are coming out, and it's almost alive, and just wants to be eaten, I hope that people will feel it, more than they will feel me describing the tangy minerality of the dry-aged beef between my teeth.

Pete Wells

Satiety comes of riches and contumaciousness of satiety.

Solon

Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment

Henry David Thoreau

The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires.

Benjamin Disraeli

My father would get up with his plate after dinner and keep it where it was supposed to be kept. He wouldn't leave the plate for my mom to pick up.

Anubhav Sinha

Food is one part of the experience. And it has to be somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the dining experience. But the rest counts as well: The mood, the atmosphere, the music, the feeling, the design, the harmony between what you have on the plate and what surrounds the plate.

Alain Ducasse

I've eaten weird things through the course of my life. I've eaten wild game, I've eaten possum - possum's no good.

Chris Pratt

There are two national historic landmarks: the Madam Walker Legacy Center in Indianapolis and the Madam C.J. Walker House in Irvington, New York.

A'Lelia Bundles

Keeping some calorie-dense food in your diet-whether it is meat, pasta, beer, or cake-allows you to reach satiety more quickly and easily. And this will keep you from feeling deprived.

Mark Bittman

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