#wallow

Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion. ↗

— Al Goldstein

#death #fame #future #illusion #into

I just asked myself, what piece of that man's soul did he just chew off and swallow to get next week's assignment? You know, just to live, just to work as an artist, or to feed the family? ↗

— Paul Haggis

#asked #assignment #chew #did #family

We didn't really swallow much of the Jesus thing, but we got the vocab. ↗

— Kristin Hersh

#jesus #much #really #swallow #thing

Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow. ↗

— Richard Burton

#islands #large #little #look #prisons

I've pent up all my aggression, kept swallowing it and swallowing it. ↗

— Mark David Chapman

#i #kept #pent #swallowing #up

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

Many men swallow the being cheated, but no man can ever endure to chew it. ↗

— George Savile

#cheated #chew #endure #ever #man

How did you keep this by you?" Grey demanded abruptly. "You were searched to the skin when you were brought back." The wide mouth curved slightly in the first genuine smile Grey had seen. "I swallowed it," Fraser said. Grey's hand closed convulsively on the sapphire. He opened his hand and rather gingerly set the gleaming blue thing on the table by the chess piece. "I see," he said. "I'm sure you do, Major," said Fraser, with a gravity that merely made the glint of amusement in his eyes more pronounced. "A diet of rough parritch has its advantages, now and again. ↗

— Diana Gabaldon

#john-grey #sapphire #swallowed #diet

Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making. ↗

— Fred Allen

#carbon #little #little men #making #mediocrity