Teeth Quotes - Page 19

• The tank was originally invented to clear a way for the infantry in the teeth of machine-gun fire. Now it is the infantry who will have to clear a way for the tanks.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Gun, Fire

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Hinge of Fate”, p.528, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison; and we will all come to the end together, and even to the beginning: living, as we do, in the middle.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Running, Writing, Blood

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.30, Grove Press

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• No one put a gun to your head and ordered you to become a writer. One writes out of his own choice and must be prepared to take the rough spots along the road with a certain equanimity, though allowed some grinding of the teeth.

  Stanley Ellin

  Writing, Gun, Choices

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• I don't feel like my work is dependent on my size. I feel like my work is dependent on the fact that I'm an everywoman. I'd be an everywoman if I lost 20 pounds or if I gained 50 pounds, because of my attitude and it's my relationship to the world and the fact that like I have two front teeth that are bigger than the rest of my teeth.

  Lena Dunham

  Attitude, Two, World

  Time Interview, www.today.com. April 2012.

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• It sloweth age, it strengtheneth youth, it helpeth digestion, it abandoneth melancholie, it relisheth the heart, it lighteneth the mind, it quickenth the spirits, it keepeth and preserveth the head from whirling, the eyes from dazzling, the tongue from lisping, the mouth from snaffling, the teeth from chattering and the throat from rattling; it keepeth the stomach from wambling, the heart from swelling, the hands from shivering, the sinews from shrinking, the veins from crumbling, the bones from aching, and the marrow from soaking.

  Joseph Lyons

  Heart, Wine, Eye

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• If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.

  Martial

  Food, Giving, Fists

  Martial (1907). “The Epigrams of Martial”

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• Follow not truth too near the heels, lest it dash out thy teeth.

  George Herbert

  Truth, Heels

  George Herbert (1861). “The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir”, p.278

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• She'd crack A joke sharp as a tin lid Hot from the teeth of the can-opener, And cackle her crack-corn laugh.

  Sharon Olds

  Grandma, Laughing, Hot

  Sharon Olds (2012). “The Dead and the Living”, p.18, Knopf

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• We win or the alumni bash in our teeth. (On the dental plan at NC State)

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Winning, Dental

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• Drinking all day
  Big chiefing at night
  I keep my eyes red and tight
  So that my teeth can look white

  Devin the Dude

  Drinking, Eye, Night

  Song: I Can't Quit, Album: The Dude, 1998

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• There are tiny choices that everyone can make that profoundly affect our collective water use. Like not having the tap on while brushing your teeth, not starting your shower ten minutes in advance, not doing laundry until you have a full load. In this particular issue, education really is power.

  Kristen Bell

  Issues, Water, Choices

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• All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.

  Antonin Artaud

  Communication, Language, Beggar

  Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.549, Univ of California Press

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• My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me to a delightful sensation about three degrees on this sight of faintness - if I had teeth of pearl and the breath of lilies I should call it languor - but as I am I must call it laziness. In this state of effeminacy the fibers of the brain are relaxed in common with the rest of the body, and to such a happy degree that pleasure has no show of enticement and pain no unbearable frown. Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.

  John Keats

  Love, Pain, Passion

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• Hunger makes you restless. you dream about food - not just any food, but perfect food, the best food, magical meals, famous and awe-inspiring, the one piece of meat, the exact taste of buttery corn, tomatoes so ripe they split and sweeten the air, beans so crisp they snap between the teeth, gravy like mother's milk singing to your bloodstream.

  Dorothy Allison

  Mother, Dream, Food

  Dorothy Allison (2005). “Bastard Out of Carolina: A Novel”, p.70, Penguin

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• This man, Comrades, has a nice smile, but he has iron teeth.

  Alfred Whitney Griswold

  Smile, Nice, Men

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• I'll never forget my 24th birthday when my tooth got punched out. And for a second I was like, it would be really hilarious if I sold it on eBay. But I can't, that's just too creepy. I don't think I can go there.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Birthday, Thinking, Ebay

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• Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Night, Men, Weather

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be done

  Simone Weil

  Heart, Evil, Done

  Simone Weil (2014). “Letter to a Priest”, p.59, Routledge

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• Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed.

  Victor Hugo

  War, Taken, Destiny

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• I actually had to get two fillings. Yeah, I swear. My teeth had been bugging me because I had been eating so much junk food on the road. I was the worst on teh team because I always had a bag of candy with me. I never had any cavities before, but yesterday, I took two for the team.

  Tisha Venturini

  Team, Two, Yesterday

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• Hell, I am young. I am free. My teeth are clean. The sun shines. To hell with everything else

  Stephen Fry

  Life, Shining, Sun

  Stephen Fry (2014). “Making History”, p.13, Soho Press

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• If I could change my appearance, I would have the gap between my front teeth put back in.

  Thandie Newton

  Gaps, Appearance, If I Could

  "What I see in the mirror" by Thandie Newton, www.theguardian.com. December 23, 2011.

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• It's difficult for the public to realize how powerful the mind is, and how much pain the mind can give you. When you're depressed, it's as though this committee has taken over your mind, leaving you one depressing thought after the other. You don't shave, you don't shower, you don't brush your teeth. You don't care. The one thing I did do, I still ate a little bit. But I didn't have much of an appetite. I know a lot of people who say they didn't eat at all.

  Rod Steiger

  Depressing, Pain, Powerful

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• The British government has urged its citizens to abstain from alcohol at least two days a week. Or to make it easier to remember, whenever they brush their teeth.

  Conan O'Brien

  Government, Two, Funny Drinking

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• I covered my face because they had taken my wisdom teeth out.

  Josh Brolin

  Taken, Faces, Covered

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