Top 65 Digested Quotes
#1. His body and his mind went about their different businesses. The former, freed from conscious instruction, breathed, rolled, sweated, and digested. The latter went dreaming.
Clive Barker
#2. And we were alone. Locked in. All the lights were turned off. Around us, below us, this huge house seemed a monster, holding us in its sharp-toothed mouth. If we moved, whispered, breathed heavily, we'd be swallowed and digested.
V.C. Andrews
#3. Modernism has been consumed and remains partially digested in the belly of capital, awaiting occasional bouts of flatulence.
Nick Dunn
#4. This boulder seemed like a curious volume, regularly paged, with a few extracts from older works. Bacon tells us that "some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." Of the last honour I think the boulder fully worthy.
Archibald Geikie
#5. Each day acquire something that will fortify you against poverty, against death, indeed against other misfortunes as well; and after you have run over many thoughts, select one to be thoroughly digested that day.
Seneca.
#7. He had read endless books, he had digested them, pondered over them. Day by day, year after year, he had turned over all the problems of human beings. Yet there were all sorts of simple things he didn't know how to do: he couldn't even walk into an inn and sit down at a table.
Georges Simenon
#8. Experience is digested information.
Ben Tolosa
#9. My pulse is buzzing and my stomach is a riot of butterflies and half-digested peanut butter cookies.
Autumn Doughton
#10. Wine is one of the most complex of all beverages: the fruit of a soil, climate, and vintage, digested by a fungus through a process guided by the culture, vision, and skill of an individual man or woman.
Neel Burton
#11. Rosie digested the information, but not the cake. Her mother was strict about eating between meals. 'A fat girl will never find a good man, Rosie,' was her view, handed down to her by Great-aunt Jessie, a woman of many cliches.
Iain Pears
#12. For knowledge to be digested, it must be absorbed with relish," wrote Anatole France.
Anonymous
#13. Journeying through secret doors, curving corridors, and connecting rooms into the mountain was like being digested by the different organs of a deity.
Alex Grey
#14. A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories as tend to render them independent of others for essential, particularly military, supplies.
George Washington
#16. To do something funny, you have to have experienced it in real life and digested it in a way that amuses you.
Ted Danson
#17. I eat lots of fruit for breakfast because it's cleansing and quickly digested by the body.
Claudia Schiffer
#18. It has been shown as proof positive that carefully prepared chocolate is as healthful a food as it is pleasant; that it is nourishing and easily digested ... that it is above all helpful to people who must do a great deal of mental work.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
#19. She tucked her bottom lip between her teeth as she digested his words. "So you do wish for me in your bed?"
"No, yes, I...
Savannah Stuart
#20. Pain can be washed out with a song. / Pain can become jazz digested and transformed.
Alexis De Veaux
#21. It is well known among physicians that the best of the nourishing foods is the one that the Moslem religion forbids, i.e., Wine. It contains much good and light nourishment. It is rapidly digested and helps to digest other foods.
Maimonides
#22. Some books should be tasted,
Some devoured,
But only a few
Should be chewed and digested
Thoroughly
Cornelia Funke
#23. One thing I don't like about crap:
its size that is too big to be digested.
Toba Beta
#24. A few books, well studied, and thoroughly digested, nourish the understanding more than hundreds but gargled in the mouth, as ordinary students use.
Frances Osborne
#25. The transcendental knowledge of devotional service is digested by the engyme of humility.
Radhanath Swami
#26. Knowledge is a thing that one cannot have enough of. It is the fruit of wisdom, to be eaten carefully and digested fully, unlike that lunch you are bolting down, little friend.
Brian Jacques
#27. I don't want all of American cinema to be big cartoons that are just made to be digested by the entire world.
Alexander Payne
#28. All experiences are welcomed and fully digested, not judged good or bad.
Brenda Shoshanna
#29. the idea that food enzymes contribute to digestion or cellular function in our bodies is nonsense because these molecules are themselves digested in our stomachs and small intestines.
Richard W. Wrangham
#30. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Francis Bacon
#31. Americans have never quite digested television. The mystique which should fade grows stronger. We make celebrities not only of the men who cause events but of the men who read reports of them aloud.
Joe McGinniss
#32. Water is the medicine for indigestion; it is invigorating when the food that is eaten is well digested; it is like nectar when drunk in the middle of a dinner; and it is like poison when taken at the end of a meal.
Chanakya
#33. Ill-digested principles are, if anything, worse than ill-digested food, for the latter harms the body and there is cure for it, whereas the former ruins the soul and there is no cure for it.
Mahatma Gandhi
#34. The alternate triumphs of different parties ... make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common counsels.
George Washington
#35. An event experienced is an event perceived, digested, and assimilated into the substance of our being, and the ratio between the number of cases seen and the number of cases assimilated is the measure of experience.
Wilfred Trotter
#36. Such uncanny serenity actually frightened him, making him think that perhaps this was a surface impression left behind after any amount of unspeakable viciousness had been digested, or else settled down inside her as a kind of sediment.
Han Kang
#37. God's word is alive, so full of spiritual truth and wisdom that even a single passage can be digested for a lifetime
Charles F. Stanley
#38. The body cannot produce enzymes in perfect combinations to metabolize your foods as completely as the food enzymes created by nature do. This results in partially digested fats, proteins, and starches that can clog your body's intestinal tract and arteries.
Charlie Trotter
#39. They had just digested a recent meal of prepositions and were happily farting out apostrophes and ampersands; the air was heav'y with th'em&.
Jasper Fforde
#40. It may be doubtful, at first, whether a person is an enemy or friend. Meat, if not properly digested, becomes poison; But poison, if used rightly, may turn medicinal.
Saskya Pandita
#41. Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted ... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.
M. Night Shyamalan
#42. Each day... acquire something which will help you to face poverty, or death, and other ills as well. After running over a lot of different thoughts, pick out one to be digested thoroughly that day.
Seneca.
#43. There is every reason for being cautious about founding new universities till India has digested Her newly acquired freedom.
Mahatma Gandhi
#44. If little faults, proceeding on distemper, Shall not be wink'd at, how shall we stretch our eye When capital crimes, chew'd, swallow'd and digested, Appear before
William Shakespeare
#45. 'Elect the Dead' is a rock record that takes you on a journey with different types of genres integrated, different lyrical themes digested, and many fun and colorful moments to enjoy.
Serj Tankian
#46. Knowledge that is not put into practice is like food that is not digested.
Sathya Sai Baba
#47. I was miserable, of course, for I was seventeen, and so I swung into action and wrote a poem, and it was miserable, for that's how I thought poetry worked: you digested experience and shat literature. [from "Mingus at the Showplace"]
William Matthews
#48. Unfortunately most easily-digested entertainment has as much actual content as a Spongebob Squarepants episode, so the trick is to try to fit actual nourishing content into enjoyable entertainment.
Jeffrey Lewis
#49. If you want to know the Correct term for me, I'm a Dark-Hunter."
Nick digested that word slowly. "Which means what? You hunt darkness?"
"Yes, Nick. That's exactly what I do. There's just not enough of it." Now, there was some sarcasm you could cut with a knife.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#50. My understanding of the meaning of a book is that the book itself disappears from sight, that it is chewed alive, digested and incorporated into the system as flesh and blood which in turn creates new spirit and reshapes the world.
Henry Miller
#51. Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.
Charles De Gaulle
#52. Before an affliction is digested, consolation ever comes too soon; and after it is digested, it comes too late.
Laurence Sterne
#53. Facts are of not much use, considered as facts. They bewilder by their number and their apparent incoherency. Let them be digested into theory, however, and brought into mutual harmony, and it is another matter.
Oliver Heaviside
#54. All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate.
Michel De Montaigne
#55. This is the kernel of the problem, as we see it: the Jews comprise a distinctive element among the nations under which they dwell, and as such can neither assimilate nor be readily digested by any nation.
Leon Pinsker
#56. While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
Samuel Johnson
#57. All food must be capable of being digested, and that what produces digestion is warmth; that is why everything that has soul in it possesses warmth.
Aristotle.
#58. For even sheep do not vomit up their grass and show to the shepherds how much they have eaten; but when they have internally digested the pasture, they produce externally wool and milk. Do you also show not your theorems to the uninstructed, but show the acts which come from their digestion.
Epictetus
#59. Good books, like good food, are meant to be savored and digested slowly overtime - Konnrad
Konnrad
#60. All passions that allow themselves to be savored and digested are only mediocre."
-from "Of sadness
Michel De Montaigne
#61. In order that knowledge be properly digested it must have been swallowed with a good appetite.
Anatole France
#62. The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.
Alfred North Whitehead
#63. In every aspect and among almost every demographic, how American society digested and processed the long, dark chapter between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of the civil rights movement has been delusion.
Douglas A. Blackmon
#64. If one swallows a cup of chocolate only three hours after a copious lunch, everything will be perfectly digested and there will still be room for dinner.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
#65. Wine that cost nothing is digested before it be drunke.
George Herbert
