Predigested Quotes

#1. Predigested food' should be inscribed over every hall of learning as a warning to all who do not wish to lose their own personalities and their original sense of judgment ...

Emma Goldman

#2. APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. "The Mad Philosopher," 1697

Ambrose Bierce

#3. I always have a good reason for taking something out but I never have one for putting something in. And I don't want to, because that means that the picture is being painted predigested.

Robert Rauschenberg

#4. Aphorism, n. Predigested wisdom.

Ambrose Bierce

#5. I tweet, therefore my entire life has shrunk to 140 character chunks of instant event and predigested gnomic wisdom. And swearing.

Neil Gaiman

#6. You used the word "civilization", which means a set of abstractions, symbols, conventions. Experience tends to be vicarious; emotions are predigested and electrical; ideas become more real than things.

Jack Vance

#7. I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.

Malcolm Wilson

#8. If you look close enough, you'll see paradise. So go get it!

Michael Dean Russell Jr.

#9. Again that weird trick: knowledge falls on to the ground that seems ready prepared though you never remember doing it.

Marion Coutts

#10. Rock 'n' roll is a young form. People over twenty- five ruin it. This whole censorship thing has come about because old people are playing with a form that is essentially young and rebellious. Do you know how brilliant it was for The Beatles to break up when they did?.

John Hughes

#11. We can all reveal God wherever we are.

Sunday Adelaja

#12. The world you live in is 100 percent your own responsibility. If you don't like your world, it doesn't work to say, "Well, it's my mother's fault. She taught me how to think."

Byron Katie

#13. You felt to look at him that he would be wonderful upon a horse. I

Nevil Shute

#14. Classical Islamic civilization had long passed its prime when the Mongols arrived on the scene in the thirteenth century, and was already in an advance state of what most historians would call decline.

Bernard Lewis

#15. A little while back, I won a couple of contests and was crowned the Funniest Kid Comic in all of New York. Not just New York City, but the whole state!

James Patterson

#16. Tarkin thought of himself as the product of a military upbringing, in which discipline, respect, and obedience were held in the highest regard.

John Jackson Miller