Best Swallowing Quotes
102 Swallowing quotes by 92 unique authors
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I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
— A. J. Jacobs
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So long as the presence of death lurks with anyone who goes through the simple act of swallowing, I will make mine whiskey.
— W.C. Fields
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We frequently hear of people dying from too much drinking. That this happens is a matter of record. But the blame is always placed on…
— W.C. Fields
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When I was doing preliminary research on this case, I remembered the story about Tlazolteotl.' [Mulder] glanced at the old archaeologist. 'Am I pronouncing it…
— Kevin J. Anderson
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Having a first child is like swallowing an intoxicating drink made of equal parts joy and terror, chased with a bucketful of transitions nobody ever…
— John Medina
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Once you have tasted conviction, you can’t bear to keep swallowing complacency.
— Ann Voskamp
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My dad always told me that holding a grudge is like swallowing poison and expecting the other person to die.
— Anna Banks
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The capacity of the human mind for swallowing nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and repressive action has never yet been plumbed.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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A gifted small girl has explained that pins are a great means of saving life, "by not swallowing them.
— Charles Edward Montague
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Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth.
— Albert Einstein
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I can see thru mountains watch me disappear, I can even touch the sky. Swallowing the colors of the sounds I hear, am I just…
— Ozzy Osbourne
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I've pent up all my aggression, kept swallowing it and swallowing it.
— Mark David Chapman
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The struggle with the past is not a hand-to-hand fight. The future overcomes it by swallowing it. If it leaves anything outside it is lost.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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The high desert has an effect on people. The place has a way of swallowing you up.
— Campbell Scott
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It is better to swallow a sheep or a goat than swallow what he has been swallowing.
— Arjuna Ranatunga
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I liked the taste of beer, its live, white lather, its brass-bright depths, the sudden world through the wet-brown walls of the glass, the tilted…
— Dylan Thomas
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So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus.
— Woodrow Wilson
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In books, day breaks, and night falls. In life, night rises from the ground. The day hangs on for as long as it can, bright…
— Hugh Laurie
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He screamed. Mmm?' inquired the gentleman. I...I would never presume to interrupt you, sir. But the ground appears to be swallowing me up.' It is…
— Susanna Clarke
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White pill, blue pill, yellow pill, purple pill; its like swallowing a rainbow every bedtime.
— Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
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Children being children, however, the grotesque Hopping Pot had taken hold of their imaginations. The solution was to jettison the pro-Muggle moral but keep the…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you…
— Susanna Kaysen
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She sits before me, sullen but hopeful, characterless, about to dissolve into tears. I squeeze her hand back, moved, no, touched by her ignorance of…
— Bret Easton Ellis
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Straining at gnats and swallowing camels is a required course in all law schools.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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