Quotes About Savoring

#1. The man in the dark suit sips his Laphroaig and water, savoring the marshy taste, the body-in-the-bog quality of the whisky.

Neil Gaiman

#2. As one gets older being sad and miserable can become a bit of a habit. To counteract this, she suggests making a point of savoring such things as the tastiness of a piece of fruit, or other small things we might have been prone to overlook during our younger, busier days.

Rumer Godden

#3. ...savoring the sense of loneliness and freedom that comes only from solitary sojourns in strange lands...

Barry Eisler

#4. This was the magic of feasting & fucking, of savoring the blood of a kill & calling the Pack to dine.

Chloe Neill

#5. Writers acquire their technique by spotting, savoring, and reverse-engineering examples of good prose.

Steven Pinker

#6. I'm not going to lie: There are times I play mind tricks on myself, like that the French fries are poison. With desserts, I'll let myself have just one bite, but I'll look like a freak when I'm eating it, like when I did Duncan Hines commercials as a kid, just savoring every morsel.

Fergie

#7. I guess I'm the perfect match, then, for a girl who likes to visit a cemetery." He drew out every syllable so that it sounded like a love song.
I closed my eyes, savoring those words. "A perfect match," I murmured. "My other half.

Jessica Verday

#8. Eventually I fall asleep, savoring the melancholy pleasures of victory. I wake with a start to a muffled sound: the wolves could not wait for us to withdraw; they are already devouring the bodies.

Shan Sa

#9. I've always believed in savoring the moments. In the end, they are the only things we'll have.

Anna Godbersen

#10. Try to acquire the weird practice of savoring your mistakes, delighting in uncovering the strange quirks that led you astray. Then, when you have sucked out all the goodness to be gained from having made them, you can cheerfully forget them and go on to the next big opportunity.

Daniel Dennett

#11. My pump-up songs before I compete are not the usual. They're more girly songs. I love 'The Climb' by Miley Cyrus. It's about the journey and savoring every moment. I have 'The World's Greatest' by R. Kelly on my playlist, too.

Kacy Catanzaro

#12. Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to savor it. This makes it hard to plan the day. But if we forget to savor the world, what possible reason do we have for saving it? In a way, the savoring must come first.

E.B. White

#13. Happiness lies in conquering one's enemies, in driving them in front of oneself, in taking their property, in savoring their despair, in outraging their wives and daughters.

Genghis Khan

#14. No one worried except a few philosophers. The race was too intent upon savoring its new-found freedom to look beyond the pleasures of the present. Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of all Utopias - boredom. Perhaps

Arthur C. Clarke

#15. Gratitude is an antidote to negative emotions, a neutralizer of envy, hostility, worry, and irritation. It is savoring; it is not taking things for granted; it is present oriented.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

#16. But the Warrior knows why he is celebrating. He is savoring the best gift that victory can bring: confidence. He celebrates yesterday's victory in order to gain more strength for tomorrow's battle.

Paulo Coelho

#17. I'm feeling pretty fortunate. I've been having lots of lovely auditions and meetings, so I'm savoring the moment.

Lauren Miller

#18. I stroke her lightly, memorizing her body. I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk around for the rest of my days with her encased in my skin. I lie motionless, savoring the feeling of her body against mine. I'm afraid to breathe in case I break the spell.

Sara Gruen

#19. Slowly, though, my fingers savoring the familiar soft skin. And then I let her go. I let her go all the way then, because she's my best friend. And because I care way too much to hurt her any more than I already have by keeping her close.

Lauren Layne

#20. The French have no such expression as 'killing time.' In their more philosophical vocabulary the term is 'passing time,' which means savoring all moments of it each to his individual enjoyment. While we battle with time, they relax with tempo.

Cornelia Otis Skinner

#21. The fans, the vampire groupies, love the idea of this androgynous, preternatural figure stalking the night, and craving aesthetic pleasure just as he craves blood, wearing only the best velvet clothes, and savoring red roses.

Anne Rice

#22. Photography is about savoring life at 1/100th of a second.

Marc Riboud

#23. Savoring good prose is not just a more effective way to develop a writerly ear than obeying a set of commandments; it's a more inviting one.

Steven Pinker

#24. The way to develop the habit of savoring is to pause when something is beautiful and good and catches our attention - the sound of rain, the look of the night sky - the glow in a child's eyes, or when we witness some kindness. Pause ... then totally immerse in the experience of savoring it.

Tara Brach

#25. Seeing & savoring Jesus Christ is the most important seeing and savoring you'll ever do.

John Piper

#26. I was happier when pursuing success than I was when savoring its fruits; the attraction, perhaps the addiction, was in the process, as much as in its end.

Michael Steinhardt

#27. To take each day as a separate page, to be read carefully, savoring all of the details, this is best for me, I think.

Pearl S. Buck

#28. The mixed woods of Germany were the sort that deserved a good savoring - no, a savouring, with a British u in there for the sake of decadence, as colours are somehow more vibrant to me than mere colors.

Kevin Hearne

#29. Life is not meant to be lived on the sidelines or the edge of the pool. It is meant to be embraced, inhaled, and devoured. It is meant to be tasted, chewed and swallowed, savoring each and every experience as if it were the most delicious delicacy ever eaten.

Monica E. Tunnell

#30. I kept working and...reading The Theory of The Heavens a sentence at a time, savoring each sentence like a cough drop and brimming with a sense of the immensity, grandeur, and infinite beauty streaming at me from all sides

Bohumil Hrabal

#31. They would think she was savoring the taste (blueberries, cinnamon, cream-excellent), but she was actually savoring the whole morning, trying to catch it, pin it down, keep it safe before all those precious moments became yet another memory.

Liane Moriarty

#32. Some of the happiest moments of my life have occurred just before I fall asleep or wake up, when I linger in that twilight world between consciousness and unconsciousness, in a state of somnolent repose but also savoring the vital goodness of remaining this close to the vegetative in myself

Irving Singer

#33. The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.

Raymond Chandler

#34. In the spring of 1988, I returned to New Orleans, and as soon as I smelled the air, I knew I was home.
It was rich, almost sweet, like the scent of jasmine and roses around our old courtyard.
I walked the streets, savoring that long lost perfume.

Anne Rice

#35. I'm Valerie Rye,' she said, savoring the words. 'It's all right for you to talk to me.

Octavia E. Butler

#36. Gospel wakefulness means treasuring Christ more greatly and savoring his power more sweetly.

Jared C. Wilson

#37. Rap and spoken word have reawakened the country to poetry in itself. Texting and Twitter encourage creative uses of casual language, in ways I have celebrated widely. But we've fallen behind on savoring the formal layer of our language.

John McWhorter

#38. I hadn't taken to the colonel, yet he had piqued my interest. You can be fascinated even by a tree frog if you watch it long enough. I was savoring the first drops of the poison that would carry us all to perdition.

Umberto Eco

#39. This isn't kissing. This is savoring your taste.

Nicole Jordan

#40. This was the magic of feasting & fucking, of savoring the blood of a kill & calling the Pack to dine.

Chloe Neill

#41. He drank in her misery like fine wine, savoring every drop, letting it soothe his mind, his tension flowing out the fingertips that held the paddle.

Verity Ant

#42. If we had spoken before, you would not have been ripe. If we were to talk later, you would have rotted." He bites into the pear, savoring the taste. "Perfect. The right moment.

Paulo Coelho

#43. Maintaining joy in God takes 'work'; that is, it's a fight against every impulse for alien joys and every obstacle in the way to seeing and savoring Christ.

John Piper

#44. I drew in a deep breath, sucking the sour tange into my lungs and savoring the chemical smell of decay. But this was no time for pleasant reflections.

Alan Bradley

#45. That's the beauty of this great sport (track), though-it's such a fine line between success or not, which makes the sweet moments that much more worth savoring.

Nick Willis

#46. I did realize, as do you, how blessed I was to know bookjoy, the private pleasure of savoring text.

Pat Mora

#47. This savoring of life is no small thing. The element of wonder is almost lost today with the onslaught of the media and gadgets of our noisy world. To let a child lose it is to make him blind and deaf to the best of life.

Gladys M. Hunt

#48. Over the past two weeks she's worked her way through it [the book], a little each night, savoring the words like a cherry Life Saver tucked inside her cheek.

Celeste Ng

#49. Imagine if we were capable of a form of empathy that lets us know one another by savoring the aura we leave on the things we have touched. We would go to a dump to get drunk on one another's souls.

Robin Nagle

#50. I picked up the umeboshi from my tray and popped it into my mouth. I made a show of savoring the flavor. Truth be known, it was sour enough to twist my mouth as tight as a crab's ass at low tide, but I wasn't about to give her the satisfaction of seeing that.

Hiroshi Sakurazaka

#51. From eternity to eternity, the beauty of God is pervasive and practical. Ask him to open the eyes of your heart (Ephesians 1:18). Give your life to this quest - seeing and savoring more and more of the happifying beauty of God.

John Piper

#52. Morwen had perceived Galadir's lips over every body part and it was like tearing the flesh slowly and savor every muscular fiber. Savoring the man's skin was like drinking a river of blood. But then the blood and flesh were missing. There was only him.

Chiara Cilli

#53. But to enjoy him we must know him. Seeing is savoring. If he remains a blurry, vague fog, we may be intrigued for a season. But we will not be stunned with joy, as when the fog clears and you find yourself on the brink of some vast precipice.

John Piper

#54. It was a beautiful Indian summer morning and perfect for savoring a few extra minutes in bed. There was a breeze blowing through my bedroom window; the air was as crisp as a bite of a fresh red apple.

Nancy B. Brewer

#55. kisses happen
when my morning
blueberry muffin
sails slowly
upon my savoring tongue.

Sanober Khan

#56. They look so relaxed, so happily engaged in the present moment, these four women drinking cappuccinos and savoring the creamy cannolis.

Sophia Bar-Lev

#57. Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.

Marc Riboud

#58. The pleasure of doing a thing in the same way at the same time every day, and savoring it, should be noted.

Arnold Bennett

#59. The best news of the Christian gospel is that the supremely glorious Creator of the universe has acted in Jesus Christ's death and resurrection to remove every obstacle between us and himself so that we may find everlasting joy in seeing and savoring his infinite beauty.

John Piper

#60. I love the needle poke, the red pop/
and when an arc of red drops,/
quivering and shaped like wings/
beg me to lick them off,/
quickly savoring your shoulder/
newly marked with a nearly invisible/
but indelible butterfly

Rachel Dacus

#61. I really like the concept of, like, slowing down and savoring your food, enjoying it.

Gillian Jacobs

#62. Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.

Poppy Z. Brite

#63. Jesus lived a life of deep meditation. If thoughts and words were physical objects, meditation would be the act of holding, examining, taking apart, tasting, smelling, listening to, and savoring in order to study and become one.

Amy Litzelman

#64. I wish to stay drenched
forever
in those rain-blue eyes
in those...soul-reaching crystals

not moving a muscle
nor breathing
just
savoring
this turquoise ache
against my heart.

Sanober Khan

#65. You look within and upon and around me, savoring every inch. You pull my ear for no reason, and I can tell you really don't want to cry. As a tear falls between by breasts, I look away and pretend the grass is a jungle, and the ants, little kings of forgotten tribes.

Virginia Petrucci

#66. I was taken by the power that savoring a simple cup of coffee can have to connect people and create community.

Howard Schultz

#67. Thinks that it is a poor sort of life that has not known expectation, the pleasure of savoring ahead. So enjoy it while you have it, he tells himself.

Penelope Lively

#68. Seize every second of your life and savor it. Value your present moments.

Wayne Dyer

#69. The greatest prayers that I could ever utter come from the heart. And when I pray that way, I rarely need to open my mouth. Therefore, maybe I should think about talking less.

Craig D. Lounsbrough