Mouths Quotes - Page 23

• The 'New York Honk,' as it was called, was the most fashionable accent an American male could have at that time, namely, the spring of 1963. One achieved it by forcing all words out through the nostrils rather than the mouth. It was at once virile... and utterly affected. Nelson Rockefeller had a New York Honk.

  Tom Wolfe

  New York, Spring, Males

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• When chimps threaten, they open their mouth and show their teeth. It's a little like waving a knife in front of you. It's very primitive, and therefore bizarre.

  Helen Fisher

  Knives, Teeth, Littles

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• So is civil society prepared for the future? Probably not. Most organisations have to live hand to mouth, juggling short-term funding and perpetual minor crises. Even the bigger ones rarely get much time to stand back and look at the bigger picture. Many are on a treadmill chasing after contracts and new funding.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Hands, Looks, Bigger

  "Civil engineering" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2007.

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• I understand that not everyone agrees with my perspective on Ray Kelly. But what you gotta look at here is somebody like Bill de Blasio talking out of both sides of his mouth and trying to have it both ways on a really critical issue like stop-and-frisk.

  Christine Quinn

  Issues, Talking, Perspective

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• The walls were wet and sticky, and peach juice was dripping from the ceiling. James opened his mouth and caught some of it on his tongue. It tasted delicious.

  Roald Dahl

  Wall, Ceilings, Juice

  Roald Dahl (2007). “James and the Giant Peach”, p.37, Penguin

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• He could feel the pores of his body open like a million mouths and slurp the water in like a sponge.

  Stephen King

  Water, Body, Sponges

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.857, Anchor

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• The mouth can be better engaged than with a cylinder of rank weed.

  James Joyce

  Weed, Cylinders, Engaged

  James Joyce (2016). “Ulysses”, p.546, First Avenue Editions

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• There were doors that looked like large keyholes, others that resembled the entrances to caves, there were golden doors, some were padded and some were studded with nails, some were paper-thin and others as thick as the doors of treasure houses; there was one that looked like a giant's mouth and another that had to be opened like a drawbridge, one that suggested a big ear and one that was made of gingerbread, one that was shaped like an oven door, and one that had to be unbuttoned.

  Michael Ende

  Doors, House, Giants

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• If we maintain the open-mindedness of children, we challenge fixed ideas and established structures, including our own. We listen to people in other denominations and religions. We don't find demons in those with whom we disagree. We don't cozy up to people who mouth our jargon. If we are open, we rarely resort to either-or: either creation or evolution, liberty or law, sacred or secular, Beethoven or Madonna. We focus on both-and, fully aware that God's truth cannot be imprisoned in a small definition.

  Brennan Manning

  Children, Law, Ideas

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.42, Multnomah

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• I act as the tongue of you, ... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.

  Walt Whitman

  Tongue, Mines, Tied

  Walt Whitman, Ezra Greenspan (2005). “Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself": A Sourcebook and Critical Edition”, p.52, Psychology Press

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• That is all very senseless, but this senselessness has a pretty mouth, and it smiles.

  Robert Walser

  Senselessness

  Robert Walser (2014). “Jakob von Gunten”, p.12, New York Review of Books

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• I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair. Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.

  Pablo Neruda

  Hair, Voice, Dawn

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “The Poetry of Pablo Neruda”, p.512, Macmillan

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• We understood one another better before ever I opened my mouth

  Patrick O'Brian

  Understood

  Patrick O'Brian (1990). “Master and Commander (Vol. Book 1)”, p.200, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Then a miracle occurred in the form of a plate of sandwiches. Geryon took three and buried his mouth in a delicious block of white bread filled with tomatoes and butter and salt. He thought about how delicious it was, how he liked slippery foods, how slipperiness can be of different kinds. I am a philosopher of sandwiches, he decided. Things good on the inside.

  Anne Carson

  Block, White, Miracle

  Anne Carson (1998). “Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse”, Knopf

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• There are some dreams that get stuck between your teeth when you sleep, so that when you open your mouth to yawn awake they fly right out of you.

  Jodi Picoult

  Dream, Sleep, Teeth

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on earth who writes or speaks commits it every day and not merely once or twice but every time he open his mouth… there is nothing of our own in it except some slight change born of our temperament, character, environment, teachings and associations

  Mark Twain

  Teaching, Writing, Character

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• Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Jobs, Gun, Firsts

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I am so wise I had my mouth sewn shut.

  John Berryman

  Life, Wise

  John Berryman (2014). “The Dream Songs: Poems”, p.24, Macmillan

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• That fiend!" Mr. Darling would cry, and Nana's bark was the echo of it, but Mrs. Darling never upbraided Peter; there was something in the right-hand corner of her mouth that wanted her not to call Peter names.

  James M. Barrie

  Echoes, Hands, Names

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.9, 谷月社

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• She was a lovely lady, with a romantic mind and such a sweet mocking mouth. Her romantic mind was like the tiny boxes, one within the other, that come from the puzzling East, however many you discover there is always one more; and her sweet mocking mouth had one kiss on it that Wendy could never get, though there it was, perfectly conspicuous in the right-hand corner.

  James M. Barrie

  Sweet, Kissing, Hands

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.13, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Librarians, Dusty, possess a vast store of politeness. These are people who get asked regularly the dumbest questions on God's green earth. These people tolerate every kind of crank and eccentric and mouth breather there is.

  Garrison Keillor

  People, Eccentric, Earth

  "A Prairie Home Companion". Radio show, December 13, 1997.

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• He tried to smile, but it was just a shape his mouth made.

  Melissa Bank

  Shapes, Made

  Melissa Bank (2000). “The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing”, p.136, Penguin

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• The leaf fall of his words, the stained glass hues of his moods, the rust in his voice, the smoke in his mouth, his breath on my vision like human breath blinding a mirror.

  Anais Nin

  Fall, Glasses, Mirrors

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• I could have waited years, now that I knew the end of the story. I was cold and wet and very happy. I could even look with charity towards the altar and the figure dangling there. She loves us both, I thought, but if there is to be a conflict between an image and a man, I know who will win. I could put my hand on her thigh or my mouth on her breast; he was imprisoned behind the altar and couldn't move to plead his cause.

  Graham Greene

  Moving, Winning, Men

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• Even a Menno sheltered from the world knows not to stick her tongue into the mouth of a boy who owns an Air Supply record. You might stick your tongue into the mouth of a boy who owned some Emerson, Lake and Palmer, but you would not date him on a regular basis, or openly.

  Miriam Toews

  Boys, Lakes, Air

  Miriam Toews (2004). “A Complicated Kindness: A Novel”, A.A. Knopf Canada

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