Zest Quotes (page 2)

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• enemy
• culture
• old

Come on, people. Doesn't anybody remember how to take a big old knife, whack open a pumpkin, scrape out the seeds, and bake it? We can carve a face onto it, but can't draw and quarter it? Are we not a nation known worldwide for our cultural zest for blowing up flesh, on movie and video screens and/or armed conflict? Are we in actual fact too squeamish to stab a large knife into a pumpkin? Wait till our enemies find out. Barbara Kingsolver

• old
• city
• dead

Poets have tried to describe Ankh-Morpork. They have failed. Perhaps it's the sheer zestful vitality of the place, or maybe it's just that a city with a million inhabitants and no sewers is rather robust for poets, who prefer daffodils and no wonder. So let's just say that Ankh-Morpork is as full of life as an old cheese on a hot day, as loud as a curse in a cathedral, as bright as an oil slick, as colourful as a bruise and as full of activity, industry, bustle and sheer exuberant busyness as... Terry Prachett

• top
• climbing
• giving

Give me the comma of imperfect striving, thus to find zest in the immediate living. Ever the reaching but never the gaining, ever the climbing but never the attaining of the mountain top. Winston Graham

• swimming
• exercise
• like

Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema. Antonia Fraser

• everyday
• saying
• lemon

I made lemon spaghetti in an early season of 'Everyday Italian,' and to this day people still come up to me and say they love it. It's very, very simple. Basically, you cook the pasta and mix together Parmesan cheese, olive oil, lemon juice and zest and pour it over the pasta. Giada De Laurentiis

• joy
• creativity
• victory

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

• true happiness
• true
• wellness

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

• life
• sarcastic
• pretty

I am sarcastic and dry, but I also have a pretty huge zest for life. Krysten Ritter

• joy
• effort
• efforts

If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit. Branch Rickey

• wine
• god
• sparkle

Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God. Henry Ward Beecher

• passed away
• remembrance
• emotional

As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity. Simon Newcomb