"A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food. [Lat., Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit.]"

-- Horace

#Common Quotes #Eating Quotes #Empty Quotes

“Over the course of a day, you get to get a feel for where you're playing, so when you get out on stage, you already feel like you've had a bit of a bonding experience with them.”
“If I start talking about my own hopes, it'll take hours. The biggest hope is that there's not any more discrimination between men and women. That women could have equal rights. It's very painful when you see in your family that a brother can do anything he wants, but at the same age, you can't.”

Source : "Afghan graffiti artist risks her life to challenge the burqa under the Taliban". Interview with Katie Booth, womenintheworld.com. May 21, 2015.
“I can't be overwhelmingly happy. I'm never free for a moment day and night from the uncertainty in which we live these days, which excludes any carefree plans for tomorrow and casts a shadow over all the days to come.”
“Some of the stainless steel discs that I play, I cut myself from pieces of stainless steel that I found. I don't make as many as I used to, because you can't get into surplus and scrap yards as easily anymore.”
“Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .”

Source : Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1992). “The Astonishing World: Essays”, Houghton Mifflin
“You can listen to what everybody says, but the fact remains that you've got to get out there and do the thing yourself.”
“Remember, love is all a woman has to give, but it is the only thing which God permits us to carry beyond the grave.”
“I do like having books on my shelves. I do value that life.”

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