#wallow

The first night was awful because I was so afraid, and I was never more afraid because it was going out of my character to be outgoing and to be vulnerable and to be out there and onstage. My hands were sweaty and I couldn't swallow, and I drank a bottle of wine to calm my nerves. ↗

— George Lopez

#awful #because #bottle #calm #character

Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

#beauty #into #miserable #recycle #things

Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#because #been #day #days #fiction

I'm not one to sit and wallow - I would rather figure out a way around so I can move past it and be at peace with things. I don't like bad feelings gnawing away at me. ↗

— Sarah McLachlan

#away #bad #feelings #figure #gnawing

So you wound up with Apollo. If he's sometimes hard to swallow. Use this. ↗

— Paul Newman

#hard #sometimes #swallow #up #use

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#against #back #define #does #every

Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#comprehend #encompasses #i #like #me

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death? ↗