Devoured Quotes

"Any star can be devoured by human adoration, sparkle by sparkle."

How I hated this school, and what a life of anxiety I lived there for more than two years. I made very little progress in my lessons, and none at all at games. I counted the days and the hours to the end of every term, when I should return home from this hateful servitude and range my soldiers in line of battle on the nursery floor. The greatest pleasure I had in those days was reading. When I was nine and a half my father gave me `Treasure Island`, and I remember the delight with which I devoured it. My teachers saw me at once backward and precocious, reading books beyond my years and yet at the bottom of the Form. They were offended. They had large resources of compulsion at their disposal, but I was stubborn. Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.

I think he (director, Peter Jackson) was originally going to have Kong kill Lumpy. Instead he gave me a role who finally gets devoured by computer graphics ? I don`t know whether that is a comment or not.

I believe in the laws of nature. When it`s time for me to go, I would like to be devoured by the biggest, baddest carnivore that ever walked the face of the earth. And then, I`d like that son of a ***** to get indigestion and vomit my remains back up.

An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

I discovered I scream the same way whether I`m about to be devoured by a Great White or if a piece of seaweed touches my foot.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.