There are people out there who genuinely love literature, who genuinely love to read and read widely, who will never like, or even necessarily get, my books. That was a hard one to swallow, to not feel slighted by.

- Lynn Coady

If you're going to have to swallow a frog, you don't want to have to look at that sucker too long!

- Zig Ziglar

Eat as much as you like - just don't swallow it.

- Steve Burns

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

Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

- Richard Burton

So you wound up with Apollo. If he's sometimes hard to swallow. Use this.

- Paul Newman

I used to say in the cabinet room, 'confidence is not like a can of Popeye spinach - you can't take the top off and swallow it down.' You know, confidence has to be earned.

- Paul Keating

'Swallow Me Whole' is still the creation that's closest to my heart.

- Nate Powell

People are surprisingly off put just by saliva, the substance that you carry around in your mouth. You swallow it. You have no objection to it. But then it leaves your body, and you're just revolted. So it - that - just that right there to me is a fascinating thing.

- Mary Roach

Always when you are doing films, the themes swallow you in one way or another.

- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

We didn't really swallow much of the Jesus thing, but we got the vocab.

- Kristin Hersh

I admit to drinking it, but I did not swallow.

- Kinky Friedman

I admit I was drinking a Guinness... but I did not swallow.

- Kinky Friedman

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

- Henry Adams

A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.

- Havelock Ellis

If somebody in the crowd spits at you, you've got to swallow it.

- Gary Lineker

I am a New Zealander, but I don't want to swallow New Zealand identity in one gulp.

- Eleanor Catton

I really have had to swallow my own prejudice at times.

- Bono