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A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.
Sai Baba
Man
World
Illusion
Will
Too
Otherwise
Back
Solid
Must
He
House
Principle
Becomes
Built
Sink
Up
Same
Swallowed
Ground
Foundations
Last
Soft
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Francis Bacon
Few
Others
Books
Some
Chewed
Tasted
Swallowed
Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul - the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile.
Langston Hughes
Life
Work
Smile
Me
Soul
Joy
World
Laughter
White
Jazz
Pain
Weariness
Beating
Revolt
Trains
America
Swallowed
Against
Eternal
Subway
White World
Inherent
Expressions
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
Josh Billings
Funny
Water
Cologne
Like
Swallowed
Flattery
If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
William Jennings Bryan
Bible
Believe
Would
Had
Jonah
Said
Whale
Swallowed
I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up.
Keith Haring
Me
Poetry
Fallen
Been
Up
Swallowed
Enlightened
Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.
Al Goldstein
Death
Future
Illusion
Before
Our
Oblivion
Since
Fame
Swallowed
Next
Moment
My image has swallowed me up! I've given so much out to this projected version of myself, but now I have to live up to this character that I don't even associate half the time.
Alexa Chung
Time
Myself
Character
Me
Half
Live
Projected
Out
Given
Half The Time
Version
Up
Swallowed
Much
Even
Now
Image
Associate
That's what the cat said to the canary when he swallowed him - 'You'll be all right.'
Alvah Bessie
You
Cat
He
Him
Said
Canary
Swallowed
Right
When I graduated high school, I was 6-5 and 305. I think I swallowed a magic bean pill.
Braun Strowman
School
Think
High
High School
Magic
Bean
Pill
Graduated
Swallowed
When you audition for something, and you book it, you think, 'Okay, well, I got the job, and now I actually have to show up on set and do it.' So, you show up on set, and you don't know, 'Am I going to get swallowed up by these people?'
Brie Larson
You
Book
People
Job
Think
Okay
Something
Know
Well
Got
Am
Audition
Up
Get
Going
Swallowed
Show
Now
Actually
Set
The Holocaust, taken by itself, is a black hole. To look at it directly is to be swallowed up by it.
David Novak
Black
Black Hole
Directly
Taken
Look
Up
Itself
Hole
Swallowed
Holocaust
If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all.
Geoffrey S. Fletcher
Humanity
Imagination
Saves
Modern
Being
Swallowed
Might
Us
Thing
It's nice to stretch in different directions and use different muscles. You can get swallowed into Hollywood, where it's all about bums on seats and how commercial a film is.
Kevin Macdonald
You
Nice
About
Directions
How
Bums
Commercial
Get
Where
Different
Swallowed
Different Directions
Hollywood
Use
Film
Seats
Muscles
Stretch
The first time I was in his office was when they called me in to tell me they had changed my name. I had a feeling that if I'd gone along with the name they'd chosen, I'd never be seen again. I'd be swallowed up by that name, because it was a false name: Kit Marlowe.
Kim Novak
Time
Me
Seen
First
Feeling
Gone
Changed
Tell
Kit
Never
Had
Name
Along
Because
First Time
His
False
Up
Office
Swallowed
Again
Chosen
I'm petrified of spiders. I hate them. I sleep with a glass of water beside my bed every night. I woke up once to take a sip of water and almost swallowed a dead one floating in the glass.
Kyle Schmid
Hate
Water
Every
Once
Spiders
Beside
Take
Glass
Almost
Dead
Bed
Woke
Up
Sip
Swallowed
Them
Floating
Petrified
Every Night
Night
Sleep
Photographer James Nachtwey has spent his professional life in the places people most want to avoid: war zones and refugee camps, the city flattened by an earthquake, the village swallowed by a flood, the farm hollowed out by famine.
Nancy Gibbs
Life
War
People
Farm
Earthquake
Spent
Out
Photographer
City
Most
His
Camps
Refugee
Famine
Want
James
Flattened
Swallowed
Places
Avoid
Professional
Village
Professional Life
Flood
Zone
If I had stayed there, swallowed my pride, been able to save Orlando all over again, which is what they were trying to get me to do there, I'd be O.K. now.
Penny Hardaway
Me
Pride
Able
Stayed
Had
Over
Were
Been
Get
Trying
Swallowed
Which
Again
Now
Orlando
Save
Auto companies need to quickly separate the stuff that will be swallowed by commodity from the brand stuff.
Sergio Marchionne
Will
Stuff
Brand
Quickly
Auto
Commodity
Swallowed
Separate
Companies
Need
As a kid, I really, truly believed that if you swallowed a watermelon seed, something really bad was going to happen.
Stephanie Beatriz
You
Kid
Bad
Seed
Something
Truly
Going
Happen
Swallowed
Really
Believed
I liked to act in plays when I was a kid, and then in college. But that's the last time I really acted. I always loved it. But my interests were more in looking at the whole, rather than getting completely swallowed up in a single part of the whole.
Todd Haynes
Time
College
Looking
Single
Kid
Rather
More
Part
Liked
Always
Were
Up
Than
Getting
Loved
Swallowed
Then
Really
Interests
Act
Acted
Whole
Last
Plays
Last Time
My parents wouldn't have sent me out into the world with wool over my eyes. You have to be aware, or you'll be swallowed.
O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
Me
You
Eyes
World
Parents
Out
Over
Swallowed
Wool
Sent
Aware
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