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I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.


A. J. Jacobs


#body #call #fat #goat #i

Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.


Hank Ketcham


#chewing gum #enjoy #flattery #gum #like

How did you keep this by you?" Grey demanded abruptly. "You were searched to the skin when you were brought back." The wide mouth curved slightly in the first genuine smile Grey had seen. "I swallowed it," Fraser said. Grey's hand closed convulsively on the sapphire. He opened his hand and rather gingerly set the gleaming blue thing on the table by the chess piece. "I see," he said. "I'm sure you do, Major," said Fraser, with a gravity that merely made the glint of amusement in his eyes more pronounced. "A diet of rough parritch has its advantages, now and again.


Diana Gabaldon


#john-grey #sapphire #swallowed #diet

I "love" reading. It makes me feel like I am swallowing up Christ, Homer, Confucius, Newton, Franklin, Socrates, Caesar, and the whole world into one gigantic invincible Sir Moffat. Mine is creative reading. I read building empires in mind. I pray I won't read and read and forget to marry.


Moffat Machingura


#caeser #christ #christianity #confucius #consume

Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a dozen countries since World War II.


Barbara Amiel


#countries #destructive #dozen #empire #expanding

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.


Francis Bacon


#chewed #digested #few #others #some

The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.


Bill Veeck


#bat #harbinger #returning #sound #spring

The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.


Steve Jobs


#although #chew #commitment #design #get

I love eating in it, brushing my teeth and swallowing the toothpaste in it. I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space.


Laura Kightlinger


#ceiling #eating #find #fists #i

Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.


Gilbert White


#bats #drink #like #over #play






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