#wallow

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

It's much more interesting to watch someone who is ill-equipped to solve their problem fight to solve their problem than wallow in the knowledge that they're ill-equipped to solve their problems. ↗

— John Hawkes

#interesting #knowledge #more #much #problem

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

Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#disgusting #encounter #more #morning #nothing

I can't sit back and swallow stuff. I live in a time and place, and in a country on earth where you're not supposed to swallow it. People just gave up. ↗

— Gary Coleman

#country #earth #gave #i #just

If somebody in the crowd spits at you, you've got to swallow it. ↗

— Gary Lineker

#got #somebody #spits #swallow #you

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

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

So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus. ↗