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Quotes About Digest

Don't just read a book. Eat it!
~ Jim McDougall
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
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.
~ Salman Rushdie
Aphorism, n. Predigested wisdom.
~ Ambrose Bierce
The Church is blessed with a good stomach, has gobbled down whole countries even, yet never suffered from repletion; only the Church is able to digest treasures of wickedness, dear ladies.
~ Johann Wolfgang Gothe
I'm recapitulating...condensing...it's the Readers Digest style...people only have time to read thirty pages...apparently!...maximum!...that's all they have time for! they horse around for sixteen hours out of twenty-four, they sleep, they copulate the rest, where would they find the time to read a hundred pages? oh, do caca, I forgot! as well!
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
When you have nothing to say, don't.
~ Krishna Saagar
ANACEPHALÆOSIS  (ANACEPHALÆO'SIS)   n.s.[   or summary of the principal heads of a discourse.Dict.
~ Samuel Johnson
The best way to know a city is to eat it.
~ Scott Westerfeld
Food for thought requires a mind with teeth.
~ Gail Carson Levine
Is there anything in this place to drink that didn't once filter through internal organs?
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I have been an avid reader of 'Golf Digest' ever since I started playing this great game.
~ Paula Creamer
S? ai geniu înseamn? s? poÈ›i digera influenÈ›ele pân? le faci pierdut? urma.
~ Emil Cioran
very easy to read, but very hard to 'read well
~ Stephen Chbosky
There was only so much news you could digest in one day.
~ Jojo Moyes
Conversation is but carving!Give no more to every guestThan he's able to digest.Give him always of the prime,And but little at a time.Carve to all but just enough,Let them neither starve nor stuff,And that you may have your due,Let your neighbor carve for you.
~ Jonathan Swift
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.
~ beecher henry ward xi
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
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
I'm not sure if it's easier to address tough themes through humor, but I do think it's more fun and makes such themes easier to digest for the reader.
~ Camille Perri
Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
~ Ted Koppel
You have to digest life. You have to chew it up and love it all through.
~ Paula McLain
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
To you who eat a lot of rice because you are lonely To you who sleep a lot because you are bored To you who cry a lot because you are sad I write this down. Chew on your feelings that are cornered Like you would chew on rice. Anyway life is something that you need to digest. - Chunyang Hee (sorry doesn't sweeten her tea)
~ Helen Oyeyemi