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)

“Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

“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)