Swallowing Quotes - page 2

I don't want to be the joke of the world, and I don't want to be thought of as another Hitler swallowing up people. (Abd al-Karim Qasim)
I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat. View quote
A. J. Jacobs
White pill, blue pill, yellow pill, purple pill; its like swallowing a rainbow every bedtime. View quote
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
In my most psychotic stages, I imagine myself chewing on sidewalks and bulging and swallowing sunlight and clouds. View quote
Andy Behrman
For every man there exists bait he cannot resist swallowing. View quote
Marisha Pessl
I remember swallowing my tooth up in a high chair, but I definitely don't remember the first time I played bass. It was like, back there! View quote
Thundercat
Straining at gnats and swallowing camels is a required course in all law schools. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
The story of the whale swallowing Jonah, though a whale is large enough to do it, borders greatly on the marvelous but it would have approached nearer to the idea of a miracle if Jonah had swallowed the whale. View quote
Thomas Paine
Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy its after-flavor, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
This swallowing up of life in nothingness, this obliteration of life by nothingness is what the emotion of malice ultimately desires. The eternal conflict between love and malice is the eternal contest between life and death. And this contest is what the complex vision reveals, as it moves from darkness to darkness. View quote
John Cowper Powys
If to be absent were to be Away from thee; Or that when I am gone, You and I were alone; Then, my Lucasta, might I crave Pity from blust'ring wind, or swallowing wave. (Richard Lovelace)
Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever. View quote
Susanna Kaysen
Because love is so enormous, the only thing you can think of doing is swallowing the person that you love entirely. View quote
Maurice Sendak
It would scarcely be destruction," he replied gently. "Let us call it iconoclasm, the swallowing of formulas, which has always had its full retinue of idealists. And you do not want a Napoleon. All that is needed is direction, which could be given by men of far lower gifts than a Bonaparte. In a word, you want a Power-House, and then the age of miracles will begin. View quote
John Buchan
So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
The biggest challenge [for solar power] is escaping from the economic effects of vendor lock-in where large investments in nuclear and traditional energy sources keep us 'locked-in' to feeding monsters that will bring us down an economic black hole. It's rather like the play The Little Shop of Horrors where a man-eating plant is initially fed small amounts, but then its voracious appetite sends it into a downward spiral swallowing up anyone that gets in its way. View quote
Derek Abbott
Swlmmlng After swallowing some water at Changsha I taste a Wuchang fish in the surf and swim across the Yangtze River that winds ten thousand li. I see the entire Chu sky. Wind batters me, waves hit me I don't care. Better than walking lazily in the patio. Today I have a lot of time. Here on the river the Master said 'Dyingdying into the pastis like a river flowing.' View quote
Mao Zedong
By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach. View quote
Winston Churchill
...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
Travelling swallowing Dramamine Feeling spaced breathing out Listerine. View quote
Modest Mouse
I Saw the Man. His figure reached from earth to heaven and was clad in a purple mantle. He stood deep in foliage and flowers and his head, on which was the head-band of an initiate, seemed to disappear mysteriously in infinity. Before him on a cube-shaped altar were four symbols of magic - the sceptre, the cup, the sword and the pentacle. His right hand pointed to heaven, his left to earth. Under his mantle he wore a white tunic girded with a serpent swallowing its tail. His face was luminous and serene, and, when his eyes met mine, I felt that he saw most intimate recesses of my soul. I saw myself reflected in him as in a mirror and in his eyes I seemed to look upon myself. And I heard a voice saying: -"Look, this is the Great Magician! (P. D. Ouspensky)