There are enzymes called restriction enzymes that actually digest DNA.
All these bacteria that coat our skin and live in our intestines, they fend off bad bacteria. They protect us. And you can’t even digest your food without the bacteria that are in your gut. They have enzymes and proteins that allow you to metabolize foods you eat.
We do not talk – we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.
I think it would be pompous to say I am an underrated actor. I don’t think it is for me to think and decide; it is for people to decide. But I am glad I am underrated than being overrated – that is something I would find hard to digest.
A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
‘Golf Digest’ had all the old school swings, and my favorite swing, ever, was Nick Faldo’s swing. And it had all the greats, Ernie Els and Nick Faldo and all that stuff, and I had the pictures of their swing sequences on my wall.
Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
For people who have… had curve balls thrown at them, it is easier to digest change and digest change in other people. Change only scares the small-minded. The small-minded and me.
Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
At one point, I took a year off just to listen to music and really digest it. I listened to everything you could imagine.
I like to eat really early, 4 or 5 o’clock. That helps out a lot, to digest before you sleep.
When I was competing, I cut out red meat but only because I felt it took too long to digest, so I stuck to chicken and fish.
Some people assume I’m a spoilt trust fund kid who’s never had to work for anything, while others think the best of me because of the good experience they had with my grandfather. It’s difficult to digest the fact that they may never see me for who I am.
Reality TV is easier to digest if it comes in small amounts.
You see the Paper Bois – easy. Personas are easy to touch and see and digest. But you don’t get the chance to really see who the Alfreds are. I want to make sure I did that with him.
Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
If you notice, no child star made it big when s/he grew up because the child’s image was still fresh in people’s memory. They could not digest the fact that the child star had grown into a man.
In 1927, if you were stuck with idle time, reading is what you did. It’s no accident that the ‘Book-of-the-Month Club’ and ‘The Literary Guild’ were founded in that period as well as a lot of magazines, like ‘Reader’s Digest,’ ‘Time,’ and ‘The New Yorker.’
Even when he transposes Roald Dahl’s ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox,’ he injects so much of his own personality and his own world that it becomes a Wes Anderson story, and you forget that Roald Dahl is behind the story. That’s the proof of great directors to be able to digest and recreate sometimes a classic.
My advice is before a big ride, eat a meal 2 hours or so before, to allow you to digest and process it, and without being crude, try to get to the toilet before.
Give me good digestion, Lord, And also something to digest; but where and how that something comes I leave to Thee, who knoweth best.
I think chicken and horse meat are ideal food because it’s very easy to digest.
You get a lot of people who are used to the stage and a lot of people who are used to prime time, and they can’t keep up with the pace. It’s so fast – you have to digest it, regurgitate it, spit it out, and then start over and move on to the next scene.
Edible – good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
I saw ‘The Shining’ in eighth grade. I watched it on VHS at a sleepover and was petrified, totally petrified. And I didn’t really start to digest the movie properly and understand it from a filmmaking perspective until I got older. But it pretty much defined what it meant to be scared of a movie for me.
You want to learn everything that you possibly can, chew it, digest it, and take it for what it is, and then move on.
I used to be addicted to ‘Reader’s Digest’ growing up. I would read the stories about love, and I guess that’s where I became a hopeless romantic. I draw from that a lot.
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