#swollen

Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#belly #bloated #body #child #filled

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#fame #light #like #river #solid

I started feeling this little lump in my throat, like you would feel if you have swollen glands or something like that, like you'd feel if you have a cold, so I didn't really think it was anything. ↗

— Adam Yauch

#cold #feel #feeling #glands #i

If you're a cartoon character or most TV characters, sure, you'll fight, because the punches are juicy-sounding and they don't leave marks. But in real life, if somebody punches you in the eye, it doesn't make any noise and your eye is swollen for, like, six months. It's a nightmare to get punched in the eye. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#because #cartoon #cartoon character #character #characters

When I got back to my father and mother and was sitting up there in our tepee, my face was still all puffed and my legs and arms were badly swollen; but I felt good all over and wanted to get right up and run around. ↗

— Black Elk

#around #back #badly #face #father

Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#empty #head #legs #sharp #swollen

I don't think I ever had a swollen head: I remember where I come from. ↗

— Eva Herzigova

#ever #had #head #i #i remember

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#alive #another #city #creation #death