#digest

Most people in America want an easy read. I call it McFiction - books which pass right through you without you even digesting them. I don't mean a book that has two-syllable words. I mean chapters you can read in a toilet break. Happy endings. We are more of a TV culture. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#book #books #break #call #chapters

The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason. ↗

— Herbert Read

#analogous #appetites #assumption #being #digestions

Eating apples is good on so many levels. There's fiber in the skin that's really good for you. It helps with digestion and helps you absorb all the nutrients of everything you've eaten that day. Apples are a really good thing. ↗

— Rebecca Romijn

#apples #day #digestion #eaten #eating

I never felt that getting angry would do you any good other than hurt your own digestion, keep you from eating, which I liked to do. ↗

— Septima Clark

#any #digestion #eating #felt #getting

A technical survey that systematize, digest, and appraise the mid century state of psychology. ↗

— Stanley Smith Stevens

#century #digest #mid #psychology #state

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

— Zona Gale

#digestion #good #good digestion #i #know

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

#been #digested #i #influenced #lambs

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

— Iris Murdoch

#digest #eating #empty #ignorant #men

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#brain #digests #education #folly #fool

You want to learn everything that you possibly can, chew it, digest it, and take it for what it is, and then move on. ↗

— Mike Singletary

#digest #everything #learn #move #move on