#wallow

I am tolerably ignorant about Judaism, and much of what I do know about it seems hard to swallow, because it is so grounded in legalism, and adherence to rituals. ↗

— Fred Melamed

#adherence #am #because #grounded #hard

I admit I was drinking a Guinness... but I did not swallow. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#did #drinking #guinness #i #swallow

But to me the actual sound of the words is all important; I feel always that the words complete the music and must never be swallowed up in it. ↗

— Lotte Lehmann

#always #complete #feel #i #i feel

In my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallows everything you love. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#black #black hole #everything #hole #love

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

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

That's what the cat said to the canary when he swallowed him - 'You'll be all right.' ↗

— Alvah Bessie

#cat #him #right #said #swallowed

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#enemy #monster #non-violence #pride #swallows