Mastication Quotes

#1. It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#2. Animals have sections in their stomachs which enable them to digest food without mastication, but human beings are supposed to chew their food before they swallow it down ... So chew your food and give your salivary glands a chance to function!

Tennessee Williams

#3. EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition.

Ambrose Bierce

#4. Opening her mouth to take a bite seemed forward. Chewing? Obscene. Mutual mastication was out of the question.

Thomm Quackenbush

#5. Writing about sex at length is a bit like describing mastication at length. It's the causes and the consequences and the meaning of it that are interesting, not the anatomical descriptions.

Richard Flanagan

#6. You keep the title of 'president' even if you served only one term. The same goes for rapists.

Christy Leigh Stewart

#7. People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle.

Leo Rosten

#8. For years, I hated myself. I covered the mirrors in my house. I literally couldn't have a mirror in my room.

Christina Ricci

#9. When Christmas doesn't fit your expectations of what the perfect holiday should be, think about how Joseph and Mary probably didn't think that manger was the perfect place for their child to be born. but look at what a perfect Christmas that turned out to be.

Joel Osteen

#10. Because the thing about miracles is that they're not answers, no matter how much we want them to be.

Robyn Schneider