Much reading is like much eating -wholly useless without digestion.
Dear me. Such harsh truths so early in the morning cannot be good for the digestion.
His sleep Was aery light, from pure digestion bred.
When I prayed for success, I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion.
Cooking is what makes us human. For example, Chimpanzees spend eight to ten hours trying to feed themselves, they are occupied by it, eating basically indigestible things. Once our human ancestors learn to cook things, suddenly we didn't have to spend that much time on digestion, our brains expanded, and we think about other things.
Meat eaten without either mirth or music is ill of digestion.
In order to form for one's self a just notion of the operations which result in the production of thought, it is necessary to conceive of the brain as a peculiar organ, specially designed for the production thereof, just as the stomach is designed to effect digestion, the liver to filter the bile, the parotids and the maxillary and sublingual glands to prepare the salivary juices.
Your body, which is bonding millions of molecules every second, depends on transformation. Breathing and digestion harness transformation. Food and air aren’t just shuffled about but, rather, undergo the exact chemical bonding needed to keep you alive. The sugar extracted from an orange travels to the brain and fuels a thought. The emergent property in this case is the newness of the thought; no molecules in the history of the universe ever combined to produce that exact thought.
Our digestions, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry.
Unquiet meals make ill digestions.
Shall I refuse my dinner because I do not fully understand the process of digestion?
This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion.
Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
Digestion is quickly shut down during stress…The parasympathetic nervous system, perfect for all that calm, vegetative physiology, normally mediates the actions of digestion. Along comes stress: turn off parasympathetic, turn on the sympathetic, and forget about digestion.
Digestion is one of the most delicately balanced of all human and perhaps angelic functions.
The supposition that it was possible for any woman to be so mean-spirited as not at least to wish to tear out her rival's eyes was too hard for the digestion of the Cry.
Happiness for me is largely a matter of digestion.
Laughter is a most healthful exertion; it is one of the greatest helps to digestion with which I am acquainted.
A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion.
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.