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Quotes About Chewed

Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity... but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'.
~ George Chapman
Writing a book is like sliding down a rainbow! Marketing it is like trudging through a field of chewed bubblegum on a hot, sticky day.
~ Betty Dravis
Cramer was unimpressed. He had got out a cigar and was rolling it between his palms. I never understood why he did that, since you roll a cigar to make it draw better, and he never lit one but only chewed it.
~ Rex Stout
Khat was a shrub native to East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, where people chewed the leaves as a stimulant. Poor man's speed. Stone's
~ Robert Crais
They started the hole in the hog pen, which was a permanent disturbance all by itself. Each hog weighed two hundred pounds, and each hog had four feet. The dirt was always chewed up. Nothing to see from the air, not even with a thermal camera. The picture would white out instantly, from the steaming animals themselves, and their steaming piles and pools of waste. Safe enough.
~ Lee Child
He leaned close. "I look at you, I look at this." His gesture indicated the fine room, the fine people in it. "And I doubt you've ever been hungry in your life. It seemed a ridiculous thing to have to prove. She leaned closer, reached across his untouched plate, and plucked the small white carnation from his boutonniere. She bit the petals from the stem and chewed.
~ Ashley Warlick
Reading is a gift, but only if the words are taken into the soul--eaten, chewed, gnawed, received in unhurried delight.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
Writing a book is like sliding down a rainbow! Marketing it is like trudging through a field of chewed bubblegum on a hot, sticky day.
~ Betty Dravis
Chestnuts in stuffing tastes like someone chewed up a tree branch and then French-kissed it into your mouth.
~ Daniel Handler
The only thing that gave him away as a man on trial, rather than as a man on his way to work, were his poor fingers. He'd chewed his nails down to the soft meat and started in on his cuticles. Sweet Roy. The only thing my good man ever hurt were his own hands.
~ Tayari Jones
I had chewed a big steak two hours before, swallowing the juice and spitting out the meat, and I could smell animal blood in my sweat.
~ James Ellroy
feels the same about life - that involvement with it is like the Catholic Communion only the World is the Host, and it must be chewed.
~ Dan Simmons
If you close your eyes on a busy urban sidewalk the sound of everybody's different footwear's footsteps all put together sounds like something getting chewed by something huge and tireless and patient.
~ David Foster Wallace
If you close your eyes on a busy urban sidewalk the sound of everybody's different footwear's footsteps all put together sounds like something getting chewed by something huge and tireless and patient.
~ David Foster Wallace
I so wanted her to feel the happiness that I felt whenever we touched each other, but people are more complicated creatures than dogs. We always love them joyfully, but sometimes they're mad at us, like when I chewed the sad shoes.
~ W. Bruce Cameron
He looks ... chewed.
~ Dean Koontz
Coyote lowered the flask and munched on something. "You had another worm in there?" I asked, wondering what he chewed. He shrugged. "Worm, cockroach, don't know.
~ Unknown
Hardy had a silver pencil case with him, for jotting down signals. He chewed on it in moments of stress.
~ Unknown