Burping Quotes

• When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.

  Bill Watterson

  Bird, Taste, Bugs

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• It is hard to remember that you are a cherished spiritual being when you're burping up apple fritters and Cheetos.

  Anne Lamott

  Spiritual, Apples, Remember

  Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.47, Penguin

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• I can't eat before I go onstage because I've learnt that burping on stage isn't a good thing. It's all about acid reflux.

  Jessie Ware

  Acid Reflux, Good Things, Stage

  "Jessie Ware: 'I'm such a bully about food'". Interview with John Hind, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2013.

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• Are you reading?" I say. It's not that I don't think Finn can read or anything, but it's just - well, not what I expected to see. I figured Finn spent his time doing whatever it is guys who aren't Josh do when they aren't in school. Burping, or something. "Try not to look so surprised," Finn says. "I read. I can count to ten. Sometimes I can even spell my own name.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Reading, School, Thinking

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• After eating, an epicure gives a thin smile of satisfaction; a gastronome, burping into his napkin, praises the food in a magazine; a gourmet, repressing his burp, criticizes the food in the same magazine; a gourmand belches happily and tells everybody where he ate; a glutton empraces the white porcelain alter, or more plainly, he barfs.

  William Safire

  White, Giving, Satisfaction

  William Safire (2011). “Language Maven Strikes Again”, p.480, Doubleday

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• Once she made him watch Pride and Prejudice and for ages he would re-word Mr Bingley's apology to Jane Bennet, saying, 'I've been an inexplicable fool', for anything from losing his keys to burping out loud. Her reply to anything she wanted to do was Jane Bennet's response to Bingley's marriage proposal, 'A thousand times yes.

  Melina Marchetta

  Apology, Pride, Keys

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• But I don't think Art's an Einstein - he likes tugging ears, biting people and burping too much to be a genius.

  Darren Shan

  Art, Thinking, People

  Darren Shan (2011). “Demon Thief (The Demonata, Book 2)”, p.26, HarperCollins UK

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• In the woods, if you stopped, if you grew still, you'd hear a whole new set of sounds, wind rasping through silhouetted leaves and the cries and chatter of blue jays and brown thrashers and redbirds and sparrows, the calling of crows and hawks, squirrels barking, frogs burping, the far braying of dogs, armadillos snorkeling through dead leaves.

  Tom Franklin

  Dog, Squirrels, Blue

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