Famous quotes containing the word consumes:
“A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other peoples 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 (18991986)
“The singular passion
Abides its object and consumes desire
In the circling shadow of its appetite.”
—Allen Tate (18991979)
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