Consumes

Famous quotes containing the word consumes:

    A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people’s patience.
    John Updike (b. 1932)

    Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
    Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)

    The singular passion
    Abides its object and consumes desire
    In the circling shadow of its appetite.
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)