I admit I was drinking a Guinness. . . but I did not swallow.
It's surely summer. for there's a swallow: Come one swallow, his mate will follow, The bird race quicken and wheel and thicken.
If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I will write it in a book for children.
The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.
You can't write a novel all at once, any more than you can swallow a whale in one gulp. You do have to break it up into smaller chunks. But those smaller chunks aren't good old familiar short stories. Novels aren't built out of short stories. They are built out of scenes.
I'm terribly afraid of failure. When your identity is wrapped up in writing and you've written something that doesn't work, it's a tough pill to swallow.
And an ocean can swallow you, even when you can swim.
To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.
If you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it.
It is thought strange and particularly shocking by some persons for a woman to question the absolute correctness of the Bible. She is supposed to be able to go through this world with her eyes shut, and her mouth open wide enough to swallow Jonah and the Garden of Eden without making a wry face. . . Of all human beings a woman should spurn the Bible first.
True love is not a potion one person can swallow and another refuse to drink. It happens only when the souls of two join together to form one
Flattery won't hurt you if you don't swallow it.
In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.
Art just consists in making us swallow the commonplaces by charming us eternally.
One swallow is a coincidence, but two swallows make summer.
Defeat isn't bitter if you don't swallow it.
And the ones that know you so well are the ones that can swallow you whole.
Niggas tried to holla, but couldn't holla back Now they gots to swallow, everything in the sack.
It is better to be a fool than to be dead. It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity. Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind. For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!
We are still learning how exactly the Earth reacts to increased CO2 and other greenhouse gases. We know it leads to warming seas which are melting the North and the South Poles, rising and starting to swallow entire coastal areas in the US and elsewhere, as the New York Times article documents.