#digest

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#chewed #digested #few #others #some

I've always thought of the project as a sort of sexually driven digestive system, that it was a consumer and a producer of matter. And it is desire driven, rather than driven by hunger or anything like that. ↗

— Matthew Barney

#anything #consumer #desire #digestive #driven

Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#eat #edible #good #man #pig

Yes, exercise is the catalyst. That's what makes everything happen: your digestion, your elimination, your sex life, your skin, hair, everything about you depends on circulation. And how do you increase circulation? ↗

— Jack LaLanne

#catalyst #circulation #depends #digestion #elimination

I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

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

— Brian Ferneyhough

#dint #extended #frequently #only #painful

Eating words has never given me indigestion. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#given #indigestion #me #never #words

Don't tell your friends about your indigestion. "How are you" is a greeting, not a question. ↗

— Arthur Guiterman

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When a woman gives birth to a child, the child needs to be able to digest the mother's milk; but when this child is old enough to begin to eat other foods, there is some switching off of this ability to consume milk. ↗

— Marvin Harris

#able #begin #birth #child #consume

Creativity is not so much a boundless well, but an all-you-can-eat buffet of elements for your creative endeavor. Eventually you've eaten your fill, and it's time to digest and then make something. But at some point, it will be time to return to the restaurant. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

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