Whetted Quotes

#1. Books allowed her vicarious tastes of infinite variety, but they didn't supplant the need to venture out into the big and the messy. In fact, just the opposite. Books convinced her that something more existed
something intuitive, beyond reason
and they whetted her appetite to find it.

Masha Hamilton

#2. Avarice is not unknown in Italy, and Rinaldo Pazzi had imbibed plenty with his native air. But his natural acquisitiveness and ambition had been whetted in America, where every influence is felt more quickly, including the death of Jehovah and the incumbency of Mammon. When

Thomas Harris

#3. His fear was whetted to such a fine edge that he could actually feel it now: a disembodied ball of baby fingers inside his stomach, tickling him from the inside. That's what mortal terror felt like, he realized. Tiny fingers tickling you from the inside.

Nick Cutter

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

Quintilian

#5. Danger was the grindstone on which the swordsman whetted his spirit. Enemies were teachers in disguise.

Eiji Yoshikawa

#6. The exposition of Atrocious Torture Instruments could not fail to appeal to a connoisseur of the worst in mankind. But the essence of the worst, the true asafoetida of the human spirit, is not found in the Iron Maiden or the whetted edge; Elemental Ugliness is found in the faces of the crowd.

Thomas Harris

#7. 'Fury' whetted my appetite for a bigger canvas and this idea of world creation. You can do amazing things as a filmmaker if you have the proper tools, and those are time and money.

David Ayer

#8. Palate properly whetted, I spelunked for her clitoris, tasting Bourgogne Rouge and Maya's body.

Rex Pickett

#9. Hone and spread your spirit till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff.

Annie Dillard

#10. Nothing was like knowing you were the appetizer for a feast of orgy, that you were what whetted the guests and enticed them to devour.

Fierce Dolan

#11. I was not naturally intellectual, but somebody whose interest had to be whetted, still the case sadly.

Jeremy Irons

#12. For now, bread and mead call us, appetites whetted, to witness what I have been nursing, encased in iron, licked by flame, and tended with relish.

Kevin Hearne

#13. The poor morsel of food only whetted desire.

Mark Twain

#14. Hope is the grace of a happy heart.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. Only individual opinions are fixed and dogmatic.

James Redfield

#16. We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.

Mother Teresa

#17. Maybe it's an insanity test, Haggis thought - if you believe it, you're automatically kicked out. He considered that possibility. But when he read it again, he decided, "This is madness.

Lawrence Wright

#18. What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.

Karl A. Menninger

#19. It is not as if our homeopathic brothers are asleep: far from it, they are awake - many of them at any rate - to the importance of the scientific study of disease.

William Osler

#20. Check you out,' said Magnus. 'My famous boyfriend, inspiration to the masses.

Cassandra Clare

#21. It's just so sensual, watching her crack eggs and beat them up, god, now I sound like a kinky bastard.

Megan Keith

#22. When faced by any loss, there's no point in trying to recover what has been, it's best to take advantage of the large space that opens up before us and fill it with something new.

Paulo Coelho

#23. If you only think outside the box,you will always wonder what's inside. Keep your options open. Lorenzo Victory

Lorenzo Victory

#24. Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.

Jean Cocteau

#25. I met Kafka and he jumped over a building to get away from me.

Peter Orlovsky