Digestion Quotes (page 5)

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• sad
• life
• personality

It is as though some old part of yourself wakes up in you, terrified, useless in the life you have, its skills and habits destructive but intact, and what is left of the present you, the person you have become, wilts and shrivels in sadness or despair: the person you have become is only a thin shell over this other, more electric and endangered self. The strongest, the least digested parts of your experience can rise up and put you back where you were when they occurred; all the rest of you... Peter Straub

• personality
• pain
• thinking

...we're told by TV and Reader's Digest that a crisis will trigger massive personal change--and that those big changes will make the pain worthwhile. But from what he could see, big change almost never happens. People simply feel lost. They have no idea what to say or do or feel or think. they become messes and tend to remain messes. Doug Coupland

• grateful
• life
• good

Given belief in God, a good digestion and a mind in working order life's still a thing to be grateful for. Elizabeth Goudge

• empty
• philosophy
• ignorance

Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating! Iris Murdoch

• reading
• reads
• fact

We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests. Henry Miller

• music
• learning
• experience

Once you're in a particular country, and you're surrounded by musicians who are so adept at traditional music, you suddenly realize how much there is to explore and digest and learn and experience. Evelyn Glennie

• best
• literature
• supper

Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive. Charlotte Perkins Gilman

• life
• reading
• lion

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life. Charles de Gaulle

• love
• life
• good

I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion. Zona Gale

• cold
• best
• weather

Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up. Morgan Freeman

• eating
• liked
• pointed

At this point, I wouldn't be able to digest meat, and I don't like eating things with faces. Joely Fisher

• pain
• reflection
• possibilities

This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion. Brian Ferneyhough

• manly
• man
• he

A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest. Havelock Ellis

• design
• engineering
• eating

Better biofuels are a really big deal. That means we can precisely engineer the molecules in the fuel chain and optimize them along the way. So, if all goes well, they're going to have designer bugs in warm vats that are eating and digesting sugars to excrete better biofuels. I guess that's better living through bugs. John Doerr

• best
• responsibility
• become

I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It's my responsibility to find the research. It's my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation. Oliver Stone