Top 100 Digest Quotes
#1. To gnaw on is human, towards digest, divine.
Mark Twain
#2. Everybody can digest milk when they're little.
Carl Zimmer
#4. We want the creative faculty to imagine that which we know; we want the generous impulse to act that which we imagine; we want the poetry of life: our calculations have outrun conception; we have eaten more than we can digest. The
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#5. In moments of crisis, the reason people say that things move in slow motion is that the brain is struggling to process too much information at once. As a result, the brain slows it all down to digest each bit of emotion, pain, and reality.
Brad Meltzer
#6. My mother often mailed me articles from 'Reader's Digest' about advances in DNA chemistry. No matter how I tried to explain it to her, she never grasped the concept that I could have been writing those articles, that something I had invented made most of those DNA discoveries possible.
Kary Mullis
#7. If only we could realize that our purpose is to be caretakers. We are responsible for leading our flock to the place where the grass is green, but it is up to them to eat! We cannot be responsible for how much they digest. We cannot make people mature.
T.D. Jakes
#8. Considering one's plate is full with circumstance, how senseless is it to assume one is able to digest someone else's hopelessness?
T.F. Hodge
#9. Children digest terror differently. The boy saw a horror, and that horror became the wicked witch of fairy tales, the cruel snow queen.
Gillian Flynn
#10. Magic's about understanding - and then manipulating - how viewers digest the sensory information.
Teller
#11. Creativity is not so much a boundless well, but an all-you-can-eat buffet of elements for your creative endeavor.
Eventually you've eaten your fill, and it's time to digest and then make something.
But at some point, it will be time to return to the restaurant.
Vera Nazarian
#12. Chocolate and coffee ? Together ? Whoever came up with that combination should have won a Nobel Peace Prize. Or at least a subscription to Reader's Digest.
Darynda Jones
#13. It can only truly be Texas red if it walks the thin line just this side of indigestibility: Damning the mouth that eats it and defying the stomach to digest it, the ingredients are hardly willing to lie in the same pot together.
John Thorne
#14. We need not to put words in the mouth of truth. Truth cannot digest lies
Kishore Bansal
#15. Virtue must be the only vigorous thing in our lives. Sin is large and stale. You can never finish easting it nor ever digest it. It has to be vomited.
Flannery O'Connor
#16. These displays of affection mean a lot to our family and are a reminder of the heart that my people have. In this time of grief we ask for a little privacy and space to digest this news; our sister was our sun and we are broken by her departure.
Amaury Nolasco
#17. In our work, the question is, how much you absorb from others. So for me, creativity, is really like a relay race. As children we are handed a baton. Rather than passing it onto the next generation as is, first we need to digest it and make it our own.
Hayao Miyazaki
#18. Pizza was made for television in so many ways: it is easy to heat up, easy to divide and easy to eat in a group. It is easy to enjoy, easy to digest and easy-going. It is so Italian!
Yotam Ottolenghi
#19. I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.
[Writer's Digest, September 1961]
Harper Lee
#20. When leisure is a selfish luxury, its very activity, when it stirs, is apt to be only a kind of indolence taking exercise, that it may the better digest its selfishness.
Henry Ward Beecher
#21. Translated books rarely get reviewed in the press. Books or poems or works of art that don't seem to have a corresponding style or figure or theme, obviously they're hard to digest.
Elliott Colla
#22. Water is my main state. If I time before I run - like, to digest, like, a good hour and a half or so to digest, I'll eat oatmeal. but I'm a vegetarian for the most part, so in general, I just eat grains and vegetables and fruit.
Flea
#23. I enjoy using coconut oil - not only for my skin and hair, but I'll digest it.
Nicole Ari Parker
#24. ."The Swiss are uptight and happy. The Thais are laid-back and happy. Icelanders find joy in their binge drinking, Moldovans only misery. Maybe an Indian mind can digest these contradictions, but mine can't.
Eric Weiner
#25. Are you going to wolf out and eat me now?"
"Certainly not, you'd be stringy and hard to digest."
"But kosher."
"I'll be sure to point any Jewish lycanthropes in your direction.
Cassandra Clare
#26. Don't live by my words, don't die by them, chew them slowly digest them, and smile if they give nourishment to your soul.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#28. Conversation is but carving! Give no more to every guest Than he's able to digest.
Jonathan Swift
#29. linger among a limited number of master thinkers, and digest their works,
Seneca.
#30. Only if the third necessary thing could be given us. Number one, as I said: quality of information. Number two: leisure to digest it. And number three: the right to carry out actions based on what we learn from the interaction of the first two.
Ray Bradbury
#31. The reason fiber helps us control our weight is that it fills the belly yet yields few calories since fiber is, for the most part, not something that we can digest.
Kathy Freston
#32. I guess some people lived like Reader's Digest, but I hadn't met any and at that time it seemed doubtful that I ever would
Richard Brautigan
#33. That Quantity that is sufficient, the Stomach can perfectly concoct and digest, and it sufficeth the due Nourishment of the Body.
Benjamin Franklin
#34. All these bacteria that coat our skin and live in our intestines, they fend off bad bacteria. They protect us. And you can't even digest your food without the bacteria that are in your gut. They have enzymes and proteins that allow you to metabolize foods you eat.
Bonnie Bassler
#35. What this means is that if you want to grow up and feast on the fullness of God's revelation, you don't do it by jumping from milk to meat. You do it by the way you drink the milk. The milk has to make you a certain kind of discerning person before you can digest the meat.
John Piper
#36. Do not be afraid that too much labour over the composition is going to kill the spontaneity. Those who absorb and digest their experiences are, of a sudden, mountains of strength and can produce pictures with spontaneous start and finish.
John F. Carlson
#37. All of the plants that we do not consider food that are safe for the human body to digest, we don't eat because they're sour and bitter. The reason why you don't eat Kentucky bluegrass or crabgrass is because it tastes sour and bitter.
Homaro Cantu
#38. A technical survey that systematize, digest, and appraise the mid century state of psychology.
Stanley Smith Stevens
#39. We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air: the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and people who come to digest their dinner.
Eleanora Duse
#40. Sin is like an incredible meal that becomes poisonous venom in your stomach. What you eat on Earth you may digest in Hell ...
LeCrae
#41. The passengers in our microbiome contain at least four million genes, and they work constantly on our behalf: they manufacture vitamins and patrol our guts to prevent infections; they help to form and bolster our immune systems, and digest food.
Michael Specter
#42. I have lived among enough painters and around studios to have had all the theories - and how contradictory they are - rammed down my throat. A man has to have a gizzard like an ostrich to digest all the brass-tacks and wire nails of modern art theories.
D.H. Lawrence
#43. The free man is not he who defies the rules ... but he who, recognizing the compulsions inherent in his being, seeks rather to read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest each day's experience.
Bernard Iddings Bell
#44. Truman said he only needed a daily intelligence digest to keep from having to read a two-foot stack of cables every morning.
Tim Weiner
#45. The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one's mind with other men's thoughts is to have no thoughts of one's own.
Woodrow Wilson
#46. For the record, pot, like the Reader's Digest , is not necessarily habit-forming, but both can lead to hard-core addiction : heroin, in one case, abridged bad books, in the other. Either way you look at it, a withdrawal from a meaningful life.
Mordecai Richler
#47. Family history, of course, has its proper dietary laws. One is supposed to swallow and digest only the permitted parts of it, the halal portions of the past, drained of their redness, their blood. Unfortunately, this makes the stories less juicy ...
Salman Rushdie
#48. I always send new writers to 'Writer's Digest Books' line-up of how-to books. I read them all when I was starting out, and they were very helpful.
Gail Z. Martin
#49. I ate some emotional soup in my childhood and have spent a lifetime trying to digest it.
Billy Ray Chitwood
#50. We can eat and digest everything from rancid mammary gland
secretions to fungi to rocks (or cheese, mushrooms, and salt if
you prefer euphemisms).
Marvin Harris
#51. The most popular intermediate-term bond fund, among those advisers monitored by the Hulbert Financial Digest who have beaten the S&P 500 over the past 15 years, is the Vanguard Intermediate-Term Investment-Grade Fund, which charges annual fees of 0.20%, or $20 per $10,000 invested.
Anonymous
#52. The chicken had his wish, and was magically transformed into a fox. Then he found that he could not digest grain.
Idries Shah
#53. You cannot study magic. You cannot learn it. You must ingest it. Digest it. You must merge with it. And it with you.
Lev Grossman
#54. Edible - good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
Ambrose Bierce
#55. I used to ask Sean questions about acting. He's a brilliant actor, but I could never digest his information. I work primarily on an intuitive level.
Robin Wright
#56. From all kinds of flowers,
Seek teachings everywhere,
Like a deer that finds
A quiet place to graze,
Seek Seclusion to digest
All you have gathered ...
Namkhai Norbu
#57. ...One lives and survives only if one has the ability to swallow and digest bitter and unpalatable things. We, you and I, and our people shall live because there are only a few among us who do not love raw onions.
Jamil Ahmad
#59. The initial research will be very indiscriminate. I do a lot of reading, buy a stack of books and read and digest them, and then I start doing phone interviews and archival research and then the travelling.
John Jeremiah Sullivan
#60. Perfection would be something that you see in 'Architectural Digest.'
Jill Soloway
#61. I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily.
Marguerite Yourcenar
#62. At this point, I wouldn't be able to digest meat, and I don't like eating things with faces.
Joely Fisher
#63. People digest and process music differently, and I'm sure that was the case even when I was a kid.
Ed Droste
#64. This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit,
Which gives men stomach to digest his words
With better appetite.
William Shakespeare
#65. I feel like songwriting changed from something that I liked doing to something that, I feel, is a very important outlet for me to digest all the things around me. Once I put thoughts into a song, I can let it go, it doesn't bug me anymore you know what I mean? It's kind of a catharsis.
Dan Mangan
#66. Our bodies don't know how to digest these 'food like' products resulting in stress and weight gain! Nourish your body with real foods and it will shine for you.
Jason Vale
#67. Through prayer and study, worship and service, we regularly digest God's word into the core of our being, where it feeds and transforms us. Continue
Richard J. Foster
#68. I run 5 miles every night. It's where I go to digest my day, hash out the multitude of information that's been poured into me in the last wild six months or so, and to try and condense it down to some sort of cohesive strategy to live my life by.
Ryan Holiday
#69. To eat is human, to digest, divine
Mark Twain
#70. Topsoil is a place of digestion. It sucks and chews things into smaller pieces. When it's hungry, it turns grey and stony; when it's thirsty, it opens thousands of cracked lips. Subsoil is more skeletal: it doesn't digest.
Alice Oswald
#71. It is not enough to hear a sermon, but you must eat it down, take in what it commands, and then it will purge your heart ... Take the word and digest it, squeeze the juice of it into thy heart, and it will purge thee from all contrary corruption. pg. 73- 'Mans Guiltiness Before God
Thomas Goodwin
#72. Each morning, each turbid morning of your lives you will have it steaming and burning at your tables: so as not to see it, not to digest it so many times: you will push it aside a bit between the bread and the grapes, this bowl of silent blood that will be there each morning, each morning. A
Pablo Neruda
#73. Tara...seemed to digest gossip as voraciously as an owl, regurgitating it in the form of little pellets of dubious information.
Erin Saldin
#74. As the Readers's Digest once said: 'Many persons call a doctor when all they want is an audience.
Dale Carnegie
#75. Must I observe you? Must I stand
& crouch
Under your testy humour?
By the gods,
You shall digest the venom of
your spleen,
Though it do split you, for, from this
day forth, I'll use you for my mirth, yea,
for my laughter, when you are waspish.
William Shakespeare
#76. When you release the garbage of negativity, you can digest positivity for your destiny.
Annette Rivers
#77. My grandfather died in the war, my family went through the war, and it affected my parents in really profound ways. I've always wanted to write about that period - in some ways to digest it for myself, something that defined me but that I didn't go through.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#78. If one knows how to 'digest' an insult after attaining Self-realization, he will become a 'Gnani' [the enlightened one]. And if he 'digests' an insult before attaining Self-realization, he will become shameless (impudent).
Dada Bhagwan
#79. Allow regular time for silent reflection. Turn inward and digest what has happened. Let the senses rest and grow still.
John Heider
#80. You have to digest life. You have to chew it up and love it all through.
Paula McLain
#81. Once you're in a particular country, and you're surrounded by musicians who are so adept at traditional music, you suddenly realize how much there is to explore and digest and learn and experience.
Evelyn Glennie
#82. Your body considers alcohol a toxin and will basically stop trying to digest food you ate to get rid of the alcohol and this can cause the food you ate throughout the day to be stored as fat.
Scott Herman
#83. You have to look at the body of work you're doing and then figure out the best way for people to digest it. You want people to come in and listen to all of it and understand the entire project. I think it's bad when everyone's like, "This is how you have to do it."
Jack Antonoff
#84. Every one should be his own physician. We ought to assist, and not to force nature. Eat with moderation ... Nothing is good for the body but what we can digest. What medicine can procure digestion? Exercise. What will recruit strength? Sleep.
Voltaire
#85. Reading non-fiction without writing notes is like chewing without swallowing. You will get the taste of it but digest nothing
Ray Hartley
#86. In 1927, if you were stuck with idle time, reading is what you did. It's no accident that the 'Book-of-the-Month Club' and 'The Literary Guild' were founded in that period as well as a lot of magazines, like 'Reader's Digest,' 'Time,' and 'The New Yorker.'
Bill Bryson
#87. Consume the horizon and then examine the sky,
Digest all the questions and ask yourself why."
~James Lagoski~
James Lagoski
#88. A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.
Henry Adams
#89. One of the things I've learned with doing 'xkcd' is that you sort of give people, 'Here's the thing, and here's the button you can press to get another thing.' Sometimes that can be more easy to digest than, 'Here's a long page of things.'
Randall Munroe
#90. Our greatest mistakes, if we look at them, and digest them, and interact with them, and learn from them ... they can be the greatest moments of our lives.
Dan Pearce
#91. You know, my joints don't feel sore as much, I digest food a lot better, my hands feel less swollen so I feel really good,
Michelle Wie
#92. The whole visible universe is but a storehouse of images and signs to which the imagination will give a relative place and value; it is a sort of pasture which the imagination must digest and transform.
Charles Baudelaire
#93. Give me good digestion, Lord, And also something to digest; but where and how that something comes I leave to Thee, who knoweth best.
Mary Webb
#94. Let me eat the love and digest it.
Let me love the flower and beautify it.
Debasish Mridha
#95. Evolution has led to some populations of people being able to digest milk without much trouble when they're adults as well.
Carl Zimmer
#96. For I too liked reading, thought of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend the serious or substantial.
Charlotte Bronte
#97. When I was a child, I used to eat sugar Frosted Flakes with chocolate milk, but I digest, I mean digress.
Stephen Furst
#98. Work does not kill you, food does. God does not kill you, food does. Food is your first and last enemy. If you take in more than you can handle, it takes all of your energy to digest it.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#99. How you humans survive so much experience is something I shall never understand. To do so much and react to it all in the way you do is as much a curse as a blessing. You never take time to digest and appreciate what happens to you.
Peter F. Hamilton
#100. We can't really digest food unless there's hunger. So we can't really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it.
Radhanath Swami
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