Gorged Quotes

#1. Love and loathing can hold no surprises for most people in middle age. What we haven't gorged on, we've sampled.

Robert Hillman

#2. Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Jean Baudrillard

#3. He caught me up on wings of light, and showed me the realms of his creation, the glittering gemstones paving his heaven. He left my body weak and spent, my spirit gorged with honey.

Julie Berry

#4. The next day we left for Rome. I had decided to make my books last and read only one book a week, but instead I gorged myself on them.

Jo Walton

#5. A law of the Suspected, which struck away all security for liberty or life, and delivered over any good and innocent person to any bad and guilty one; prisons gorged with people who had committed no offence, and could obtain no hearing;

Charles Dickens

#6. Even the deep, burning eyes seemed set amongst swollen flesh, for the lids and pouches underneath were bloated. It seemed as if the whole awful creature were simply gorged with blood. He lay like a filthy leech, exhausted with his repletion. I

Bram Stoker

#7. He lay on his chair with his hands clasped above his paunch not reading, or sleeping, but basking like a creature gorged with existence.

Virginia Woolf

#8. Coming in from his work, he gorged himself on fried food and went to bed and to sleep in the resulting torpor.

John Steinbeck

#9. She called me her devil and I called her my everything. We clung to each other, sweaty, spent, and forever entwined. My starved heart and soul were gorged to the point of overflowing and every battle I'd ever fought felt like it had been nothing if this was my victory, being here with her.

Jay Crownover

#10. He found he was now incapable of understanding a single word of the volumes he consulted; his very eyes stopped reading, and it seemed as if his mind, gorged with literature and art, refused to absorb any more.

Joris-Karl Huysmans

#11. I don't tell him I couldn't have gorged if I'd tried, my stomach stuffed full of butterflies and grown-up worries.

Emily Murdoch

#12. In each human heart terror survives The ravin it has gorged: the loftiest fear All that they would disdain to think were true: Hypocrisy and custom make their minds The fanes of many a worship, now outworn. They dare not devise good for man's estate, And yet they know not that they do not dare.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#13. When we got around to books, I was finally set, as our minister would say, on solid ground. I gorged on books. I sneaked them at night. I rubbed their spines and sniffed in the musty smell of them in the library.

Lorene Cary

#14. Fire would barrel along that chain like a bullet train, he knew. It surged and jumped and gorged itself. It raced like an animal. It ravaged with inhuman efficiency.

Jane Harper

#15. On my first visit to the public library, I was like a kid at a candy store where all the candy was free.
I gorged myself until my tummy ached.

Craig Thompson

#16. You do not really wish to hear more of the Battle of Kadesh. Let me say only that human fat, gorged in considerable quantity, has an intoxicating effect. I became ... drunk.

Norman Mailer

#17. Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted.

Samuel Johnson

#18. September twenty-second, Sir, the bough cracks with unpicked apples, and at dawn the small-mouth bass breaks water, gorged with spawn.

Robert Lowell

#19. My falcon now is sharp and passing empty, and till she stoop she must not be full-gorged, for then she never looks upon her lure.

William Shakespeare

#20. Whoever rises to deliver the inaugural Address of 2013 will speak to a nation in which the American Dream is under profound economic and cultural pressure. This is perhaps best measured by the state of the middle class.

Jon Meacham

#21. The "gravity train" was devised in the seventeenth century by British scientist Robert Hooke, who presented the idea in a letter to Isaac Newton. The idea has been seriously presented a few times, such as to the Paris Academy of Sciences in the nineteenth century.

Stephen Baxter

#22. Toaster: A gift that every member of the family appreciates. Automatically burns toast.

Dave Barry

#23. That life is precious and that opportunities should not be wasted

Lynda Young Spiro

#24. The fact that you are true child of God doesn't mean you will find gold on the floor when sweeping. You got to dig up the gold!

Israelmore Ayivor

#25. Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them - this is of the essence of leadership.

Theodore White