Swallowed Quotes

254 quotes by 200 authors

As an artist you're looking for universal triggers. You want it both ways. You want it to have an immediate impact, and you want it… — Damien Hirst
The traveler from Europe edges into it like a tiny Jonah entering an inconceivably large whale, slipping past the straits of Belle Isle into the… — Northrop Frye
What will happen to me, as the oyster said when he very inadvertently swallowed the gooseberry bush, nobody can tell. — Edward Lear
Is it not better to intimate our astonishment as we pass through this world if it be only for a moment ere we are swallowed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am not surprised that there are gambling houses, like so many snares laid for human avarice; like abysses where many a man's money is… — Jean de la Bruyere
Love is a volcano, the crater of which no wise man will approach too nearly, lest ... he should be swallowed up. — Charles Caleb Colton
Sure, I could of done it different... put my clown in a closet and dressed up in straight clothing. I could of compromised my essence,… — Wavy Gravy
I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England… — Russell Crowe
I think I've always had a certain amount of skepticism of this whole 'shut up and smile' theory. I haven't ever swallowed that pill so… — Amber Heard
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… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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
Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed… — Jean Rostand
..this is just like life must be for about 99 percent of the people in the world. You're in this place. There's other people all… — Neal Stephenson
Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You… — Louise Erdrich
So much of the language of love was like that: you devoured someone with your eyes, you drank in the sight of him, you swallowed… — Jodi Picoult
We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of… — Michael Ondaatje
There was something I needed to say. â€œSorry. About before.â€ Fang shot a sideways glance at me, his eyes dark and inscrutable, as always. He… — James Patterson
...sentences swallowed and sung back and swallowed all over again. She was made entirely out of words. — Emma Donoghue
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. — John Wesley
Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some… — Francis Bacon

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