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Quotes About Ingestion

Once I had it free, I gobbled the sandwich like a nature-film otter cracking an oyster on its stomach: knees up in the wiring under the dashboard, my elbows jammed against the steering wheel, my chest serving as a table, my shirt as a tablecloth.
~ Jonathan Lethem
Had she never been hungry enough to eat a flower? Did she not know that you could eat daisies, daylilies, pansies, and marigolds? That hungry enough, a person could consume the bright faces of violas, even the stems of dandelions and the bitter hips of roses?
~ Adam Johnson
When I was little, I used to suck the candy coating off of Advil and spit the white part back in the bottle.
~ Michael Che
Caffeine seems innocuous, but a single coffee bean can kill a mouse.
~ Randolph M. Nesse
Find enough food to eat, and eat it.
~ Richard Brautigan
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
~ Thomas A. Edison
The warrior priests worship insects as sacred beings, and believe that the ingestion of insects ennobles man and keeps him from descending into bestiality.
~ David Cronenberg
The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals - legal or illegal - cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives.
~ Salvatore J. Cordileone
If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.
~ Daniel Handler
everybody is trying to swallow something that won't go down
~ Jan Karon
There have been times when things get stuck in my throat, but you just work it up or down. Like how a swimmer probably can't imagine drowning - their bodies are so used to being in the water. I'm so used to shoving things down my throat.
~ Joey Chestnut
I'd quite like to invent something that allows me to in eat the shower - not sure what it would entail. Some sort of funnel that goes from the plate to my mouth to move the food to my mouth and keep it dry, perhaps.
~ Daniel Rigby
I've eaten things that didn't complain this much.
~ Denis Leary
People in south China will eat everything that flies in the sky, except an airplane.
~ David Quammen
He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Cuando se le agotaba el fuego, ingería de nuevo la lava que había vomitado o devoraba las armas de los enemigos caídos y las fundía en el crisol que tenía por estómago.
~ Javier Negrete
To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
With each passing second, more information becomes newly available than you could ingest, at typical viewing and reading speed, in the next eighty years.
~ Jeff Davidson
stewed penguin heart, liver, eyes, tongues, toes & God knows what else, with a cup of water" to wash it down.
~ Alfred Lansing
We pour anything. Or if it doesn't pour, we'll get you the needle, the inhaler, or a suppository blank.
~ Allan Cole
I cinesi hanno dovuto imparare a mangiare l'immangiabile, e di qui la raffinatezza ineguagliata della loro arte culinaria. Esiste una civiltà più brillante e ingegnosa? I cinesi hanno inventato tutto, pensato tutto, compreso tutto, osato tutto. Studiare la Cina è studiare l'intelligenza.
~ Amelie Nothomb
The average American consumes ten pounds of chemical additives a year.
~ Rick Warren
The conventional mind is passive - it consumes information and regurgitates it in familiar forms. The dimensional mind is active, transforming everything it digests into something new and original, creating instead of consuming.
~ Robert Greene
No. We breathe. We pulse. We regenerate. Our hearts beat. Our mind create. Our souls ingest. 37 seconds, well used, is a lifetime.
~ Zach Helm