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Tag Name "Digestion" (76)

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Digestion of words as well I often read aloud to myself in my writing corner in the library, where no one can hear me, for the sake of better savouring the text, so as to make it all the more mine.
Alberto Manguel
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DIGESTION, n. The conversion of victuals into virtues. When the process is imperfect, vices are evolved instead - a circumstance from which that wicked writer, Dr. Jeremiah Blenn, infers that the ladies are the greater sufferers from dyspepsia.
Ambrose Bierce
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When I prayed for success, I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion.
Mason Cooley
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It is a cheering thought to think that God is on the side of the best digestion.
Don Marquis
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Shall I refuse my dinner because I do not fully understand the process of digestion?
Oliver Heaviside
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The stomach, when we lie down to rest, should have its work done, that it may enjoy rest, as well as other portions of the body. The work of digestion should not be carried on through any period of the sleeping hours.
Ellen G. White
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Last comes the beverage of the Orient shore, Mocha, far off, the fragrant berries bore. Taste the dark fluid with a dainty lip, Digestion waits on pleasure as you sip.
Pope Leo XII
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What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion.
Eve Arnold
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Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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Our digestions, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Much reading is like much eating -wholly useless without digestion.
Robert South
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Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts.
Harriet Martineau
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A good digestion is as truly obligatory as a good conscience pure blood is as truly a part of mankind as a pure faith and a well ordered skin is the first condition of that cleanliness which is next to Godliness.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Our institutions have a potent digestion, and may in time convert and assimilate to good all elements thrown in, however originally alien.
Herman Melville
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I have always believed that a good laugh was good for both the mental and physical digestion.
Abraham Lincoln
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It has long been known for sure that the sight of tasty food makes a hungry man's mouth water also lack of appetite has always been regarded as an undesirable phenomenon, from which one might conclude that appetite is essentially linked with the process of digestion.
Ivan Pavlov
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I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.
Jack London
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Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.
Anthony Trollope
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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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All food must be capable of being digested, and that what produces digestion is warmth that is why everything that has soul in it possesses warmth.
Aristotle
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The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A conscious attempt to fall asleep is sure to produce insomnia, to try to be conscious of one's own digestion is a sure way to upset the stomach. Consciousness is a poison when we apply it to ourselves. Consciousness is a light directed outward. it's like the headlights on a locomotive—turn them inward and you'd have a crash.
Boris Pasternak
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Creativity, my students learn, is as natural a function of the mind as breathing or digestion are natural functions of the body.
John Kao
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Jessamine recoiled from the paper as if it were a snake. A lady does not read the newspaper. The society pages, perhaps, or the theater news. Not this filth. But you are not a lady, Jessamine---, Charlotte began. Dear me, said Will. Such harsh truths so early in the morning cannot be good for the digestion.
Cassandra Clare
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