Digestion Quotes - Page 5

• I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.

  Jack London

  Song, Heart, Years

  Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.4442, Delphi Classics

  22 Copy quote

  Show source

• For in the immediate world, everything is to be discerned, for him who can discern it, and central and simply, without either dissection into science, or digestion into art, but with the whole of consciousness, seeking to perceive it as it stands: so that the aspect of a street in sunlight can roar in the heart of itself as a symphony, perhaps as no symphony can: and all of consciousness is shifted from the imagined, the revisive, to the effort to perceive simply the cruel radiation of what is.

  James Agee

  Art, Symphony, Effort

  17 Copy quote

• Digestion of words as well; I often read aloud to myself in my writing corner in the library, where no one can hear me, for the sake of better savouring the text, so as to make it all the more mine.

  Alberto Manguel

  Writing, Library, Sake

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.169, Vintage Canada

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Science attacks our most cherished opinions. Opinions which come straight from our collective gut. Oh, wait, according to gastroenterologists, the only thing that comes from the gut is waste left from the digestion of food. That’s right, “waste.” I guess that means that scientists literally think our opinions should be flushed down the toilet!

  Stephen Colbert

  Mean, Thinking, Waiting

  3 Copy quote

• Your body, which is bonding millions of molecules every second, depends on transformation. Breathing and digestion harness transformation. Food and air aren’t just shuffled about but, rather, undergo the exact chemical bonding needed to keep you alive. The sugar extracted from an orange travels to the brain and fuels a thought. The emergent property in this case is the newness of the thought; no molecules in the history of the universe ever combined to produce that exact thought.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Air, Breathing

  11 Copy quote

• There again," said Syme irritably, "what is there poetical about being in revolt? You might as well say that it is poetical to be sea-sick. Being sick is a revolt. Both being sick and being rebellious may be the wholesome thing on certain desperate occasions; but I'm hanged if I can see why they are poetical...It is things going right," he cried, "that is poetical! Our digestions, for instance, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry...the most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Sea, Sick, Foundation

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

  3 Copy quote

  Show source

• To say! To know how to say! To know how to exist via the written voice and the intellectual image! This is all that matters in life; the rest is men and women, imagined loves and factitious vanities, the wiles of our digestion and forgetfulness, people squirming — like worms when a rock is lifted — under the huge abstract boulder of the meaningless blue sky.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Love, Men, Vanity

  3 Copy quote

• Dear me. Such harsh truths so early in the morning cannot be good for the digestion.

  Cassandra Clare

  Morning, Harsh, Clockwork Angel

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Jessamine recoiled from the paper as if it were a snake. "A lady does not read the newspaper. The society pages, perhaps, or the theater news. Not this filth." "But you are not a lady, Jessamine---," Charlotte began. "Dear me," said Will. "Such harsh truths so early in the morning cannot be good for the digestion.

  Cassandra Clare

  Morning, Snakes, Doe

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Angel”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• You're fun to look at," decided Galinda. Boq's face fell. "Fun?" he said. I'd give a lot to achieve fun," Elphaba said. "The best I usually hope for is stirring, and when people say that they're usually referring to digestion-

  Gregory Maguire

  Fun, People, Giving

  Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.99, Harper Collins

  3 Copy quote

  Show source

• Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Nature, Book, Reading

  3 Copy quote

• Why should not a writer be permitted to make use of the levers of fear, terror and horror because some feeble soul here and there finds it more than it can bear? Shall there be no strong meat at table because there happen to be some guests there whose stomachs are weak, or who have spoiled their own digestions?

  E. T. A. Hoffmann

  Strong, Soul, Meat

  E. T. A. Hoffmann (2015). “The Mutual Interdependence of Things (Fantasy and Horror Classics)”, p.54, Read Books Ltd

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you or I want to be healthy (whether it's our digestion, our reproduction, our skin, or anything) we have to assume greater responsibility for our wellness. One of the best ways to do that is to be familiar with and to use on a regular basis, plant medicines.

  Chris Kilham

  Responsibility, Plant Medicine, Healthy

  3 Copy quote

• A mind does not receive truth as a chest receives jewels that are put into it, but as the stomach takes up food into the system. It is no longer food, but flesh, and is assimilated. The appetite and the power of digestion measure our right to knowledge. He has it who can use it. As soon as our accumulation overruns our invention or power to use, the evils of intellectual gluttony begin,— congestion of the brain, apoplexy and strangulation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jewels, Evil, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1893). “Natural history of intellect and other papers”

  3 Copy quote

  Show source

• The root of an unmortified course is the digestion of sin without bitterness in the heart.

  John Owen

  Heart, Roots, Bitterness

  John Owen (2001). “Temptation and Sin”, p.15, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• A man's liberal and conservative phases seem to follow each other in a succession of waves from the time he is born. Children are radicals. Youths are conservatives, with a dash of criminal negligence. Men in their prime are liberals (as long as their digestion keeps pace with their intellect). The middle aged run to shelter: they insure their life, draft a will, accumulate mementos and occasional tables, and hope for security. And then comes old age, which repeats childhood - a time full of humors and sadness, but often full of courage and even prophecy.

  E. B. White

  Running, Children, Sadness

  6 Copy quote

• Food is all those substances which, submitted to the action of the stomach, can be assimilated or changed into life by digestion, and can thus repair the losses which the human body suffers through the act of living.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Loss, Suffering, Substance

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2009). “The Physiology of Taste: or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy”, p.74, Vintage

  3 Copy quote

  Show source

• The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Church, Ill, Goods

  BookCaps, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2012). “Faust in Plain and Simple English: First Part of the Tragedy: (A Modern Translation and the Original Version): BookCaps Study Guide”, p.250, BookCaps Study Guides

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Born merely for the purpose of digestion.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Purpose, Born, Gluttony

  6 Copy quote

• A greater Quantity of some things may be eaten than of others, some being of lighter Digestion than others.

  Benjamin Franklin

  May, Quantity, Lighters

  Benjamin Franklin (1839). “Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin”, p.39

  3 Copy quote

  Show source

• You must know that there are different tastes. There are also different powers of digestion... different temperaments... differences in the capacity to comprehend.

  Ramakrishna

  Differences, Different, Taste

  11 Copy quote

• Mathematics is of two kinds, Rigorous and Physical. The former is Narrow: the latter Bold and Broad. To have to stop to formulate rigorous demonstrations would put a stop to most physico-mathematical inquiries. Am I to refuse to eat because I do not fully understand the mechanism of digestion?

  Oliver Heaviside

  Two, Inquiry, Kind

  "Oliver Heaviside (1850-1927) — Physical Mathematician" by D.A. Edge. Teaching mathematics and its applications: An International Journal of the IMA, Volume 2, Issue 2, pp. 55-61, 1983.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Creativity, my students learn, is as natural a function of the mind as breathing or digestion are natural functions of the body.

  John Kao

  Creativity, Thinking, Breathing

  7 Copy quote

• Criticized for using formal mathematical manipulations, without understanding how they worked: Should I refuse a good dinner simply because I do not understand the process of digestion?

  Oliver Heaviside

  Understanding, Dinner, Manipulation

  5 Copy quote

• When life is hard and the day has been long, the ideal dinner is not four perfect courses, each in a lovely pool of sauce whose ambrosial flavors are like nothing ever before tasted, but rather something comforting and savory, easy on the digestion - something that makes one feel, if even for only a minute, that one is safe.

  Laurie Colwin

  Long, Perfect, Life Is Hard

  10 Copy quote