Biting Quotes

• You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Dog, Justice, African American

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• There's nothing like biting off more than you can chew, and then chewing anyway.

  Mark Burnett

  Inspirational, Effort, Hustle

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• Bite off more than you can chew, then keep chewing.

  Joe De Sena

  Books And Movies, Geek, Chewing

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• I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that's OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Inspiration, Humor, Rabies

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Biting's excellent. It's like kissing - only there is a winner.

  Neil Gaiman

  Kissing, Winner, Excellent

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• If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Inspiring, Thankful

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 16, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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  Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.

  Bob Dylan

  Sunglasses, Lips, Sometimes

  Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember ~ the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Motivational, Encouraging

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Aug 12, 2014

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• Biting enemies seems to be acceptable in a surprisingly narrow range of circumstances, or so a ninja shouted at me once

  Steve Aylett

  Enemy, Ninja, Range

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• Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Hands, Eggs, Directors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We love things with biting - "Twilight" movies, zombie movies, eating.

  Peter Sagal

  Twilight, Zombie, Eating

  "Who's Bill This Time". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!", www.npr.org. June 27, 2014.

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• Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.

  Austin O'Malley

  Dog, Revenge, Anger

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• That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Funny, Witty, Gratitude

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• I feel for Veronica Mars so much when I'm watching at home. It is a wonderful story. The writing is consistently funny, biting, charming, heart-wrenching, etc. I also like the look of it. The cinematography - different from any other show.

  Jason Dohring

  Home, Writing, Heart

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• I often remembered also that I had been told, that we shall have as many devils biting us, if we go to hell, as we have unconfessed sins on our consciences.

  Maria Monk

  Devil, Sin, Hell

  Maria Monk, Theodore Dwight, John Jay Slocum, William K. Hoyte (1836). “Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk: As Exhibited in a Narrative of Her Sufferings During a Residence of Five Years as a Novice, and Two Years as a Black Nun, in the Hotel Dieu Nunnery at Montreal”, p.42, New York : Howe & Bates

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• I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.

  Ogden Nash

  Thinking, Ought, Conscience

  Ogden Nash (1941). “The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City publishing company, inc

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• After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past.

  Robert MacNeil

  Country, Past, Thinking

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• I just like to catch fish, I don't care if it weighs half a pound or 10 pounds. But I can't do a lot of casting. I can work a jig or a worm. But not for long, especially if the big ones are biting. Those big bass will make it hurt after a while.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Hurt, Long, Half

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• I've never related to the work geek at all-it sounds much more horrible than nerd. Like a freak biting a chicken's head off in a sideshow.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Nerd, Sound, Freak

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• When self-important people and powerful institutions are governed by illusion, history has a way of biting back.

  William Greider

  Powerful, Self, People

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• There are two brands of discontent: the brand that merely fosters greed and snarling and back-biting, and the brand that inspires greater and greater effort to reach the desired goal. Which is your brand?

  B. C. Forbes

  Two, Goal, Effort

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• In my life outdoors, I've observed that animals of almost any variety will stand in a windy place rather than in a protected, windless area infested with biting insects. They would rather be annoyed by the wind than bitten.

  Tim Cahill

  Animal, Wind, Annoyed

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• I am down with the latest trends. And everyone knows, the thing on the streets is vampires. So I have been biting people on the neck.

  Stephen Colbert

  People, Vampire, Trends

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• The dog is very smart. He feels sorry for me because I receive so much mail; that's why he tries to bite the mailman.

  Albert Einstein

  Funny, Dog, Sorry

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.415, Princeton University Press

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• Usually when you watch a film, you're just sort of biting your nails about things you could have done differently.

  Denis Leary

  Nails, Watches, Done

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