Teeth Quotes - Page 31

• The art world is a jungle echoing to the calls of vicious jealousies and ruthless combat between dealers and collectors; but I have been walking in the jungles of business all my life, and fighting tooth and nail for pictures comes as a form of relaxation to me.

  Armand Hammer

  Art, Fighting, Relaxation

  1987 Hammer, Witness to History, his autobiography.

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• Let's be perfectly clear, shall we. The fox is not a little orange puppy dog with doe eyes and a waggly tail. It's a disease-ridden wolf with the morals of a psychopath and the teeth of a great white shark.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Dog, Eye, Sharks

  "The World According to Clarkson". Book by Jeremy Clarkson, 2004.

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• If to be great means to be good, then Denis Diderot was a little man. But if to be great means to do great things in the teeth of great obstacles, then none can refuse him a place in the temple of the Immortals.

  Evelyn Beatrice Hall

  Mean, Men, Littles

  "The Friends of Voltaire". Book by Evelyn Beatrice Hall, 1906.

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• It is as the father of the Encyclopedia that Denis Diderot merits eternal recognition. Guilty as he was in almost every relation of life towards the individual, for mankind, in the teeth of danger and of infidelity, at the ill-paid sacrifice of the best years of his exuberant life, he produced that book which first levelled a free path to knowledge and enfranchised the soul of his generation.

  Evelyn Beatrice Hall

  Father, Book, Sacrifice

  "The Friends of Voltaire". Book by Stephen G. Tallentyre, 1906.

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• It truly is a little intimidating to go speak at a middle school. Sure, on one hand the kids are only around 13 years old, but on the other hand, merely going back there reactivates the dorky, miserable feeling of being that age again. It isn't easy. As soon as I arrived I could almost feel the braces on my teeth, the don't-look-at-me slouch of my shoulders, the feathered wings of my bangs.

  Kristin Armstrong

  School, Kids, Hands

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• We all often feel like we are pulling teeth, even those writers whose prose ends up being the most natural and fluid. The right words and sentences just do not come pouring out like ticker tape most of the time.

  Anne Lamott

  Tape, Pouring, Natural

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.22, Anchor

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• What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near pauperism.

  Martin Amis

  Common, Poor, Joyce

  Martin Amis (2010). “Experience”, p.116, Random House

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• It has been our experience that women usually prefer thin, undernourished, flatchested females, dressed to the teeth, as a concept of "feminine beauty" -- and that men prefer exactly the opposite: voluptuous, well-rounded and undressed. The women's idealization of woman is actually a male counterpart, competing with man in society; man's view of women is far more truly feminine.

  Hugh Hefner

  Women, Views, Feminine Beauty

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• Why, a moral truth is a hollow tooth Which must be propped with gold.

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Gold, Moral, Truth Is

  Edgar Lee Masters (2007). “Spoon River Anthology: Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.51, Prestwick House Inc

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• In our day there are no longer any ideas, or they are scarcer than hens' teeth.

  Louis Aragon

  Ideas, Hens

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• And what can we expect if we haven't any dinner, But to lose our teeth and eyelashes and keep on growing thinner?

  Edward Lear

  Eyelashes, Growing, Dinner

  'The Two Old Bachelors' (1871)

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• If you exchanged wedding vows, tape them to your bathroom mirror and read them aloud to yourself every morning along with the ritual brushing of teeth. It's not realistic to believe that you will live your promises as a daily practice -- unless you're a saint or a highly evolved Zen Buddhist. Not where marriage is concerned. But you can make a practice of returning to your vows when the going gets rough.

  Harriet Lerner

  Buddhist, Morning, Believe

  "Returning To Your Wedding Vows" by Harriet Lerner, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2012.

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• Let those who think the soul is shallow rail, They must be warned before they dare to leap They'll plunge into the twilight depths where sweep In ceaseless thirst great teeth too swift to fail.

  Philip Jose Farmer

  Twilight, Thinking, Soul

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• I drug your ghost across the country, and we plotted out my death. Every city and memory we whispered "Here is where you rest." Well I was determined in Chicago but I dug my teeth into my knees And I settled for a telephone, sang into your machine: "You are my sunshine, my only sunshine.

  Conor Oberst

  Country, Memories, Sunshine

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• Now that I can see it's the queen's new clothes Now that I can hear all your poison prose Now that I can talk with my tongue unfroze I'm not so sure of Santa or the buck tooth fairy There are no words for me inside your dictionary

  Andy Partridge

  Queens, Clothes, Poison

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• Why are the architects of the family-values agenda so eager to punish into the next generation? What is being served by seeking, quite literally, a tooth for a tooth?

  Ayelet Waldman

  Generations, Agendas, Next

  "Mothers in Chains". www.salon.com. May 24, 2005.

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• Who should regulate the media? Who should control the press? The commentariat agonises, as if the choice was between state control through some autocratic press law or a new Press Complaints Commission redecorated with false teeth. But there is another way. Let journalists regulate themselves.... Let's have a little democracy in the media. Even in the Murdoch papers, the number of journalists who are irretrievably lawless and callous is quite small. Most of the disasters at the News of the World happened because its editors treated their staff in the style of Muammar Gaddafi.

  Neal Ascherson

  Numbers, Media, Law

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• Reality bites, and I've got the teeth marks to prove it.

  Robert M. Hensel

  Reality, Mark, Prove It

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• OK, I admit it. I was just a front-man for the real fathers of Linux, the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus.

  Linus Torvalds

  Father, Real, Men

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• I'm an old man at 54, without teeth, and with rheumatism.

  Karl Donitz

  Men, Old Man

  Said to Leon Goldensohn, March 3, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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• The Jews will become socialist colonisers with strong fists and sharp teeth, a strong national group within the Soviet family of nations.

  Mikhail Kalinin

  Strong, Groups, Fists

  "Inside the Middle East" by Dilip Hiro, (p. 232), 1982.

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• I don't think I have rebelled against Latina culture. I have rebelled against those who try to make me warm tortillas for my brothers when they can warm them for themselves, I have rebelled against a patriarchal religion. I rebel against small mindedness in all ways and in every situation but those things are not an intrinsic part of Latina culture and I will fight tooth and nail against anyone who tries to make me feel like I'm less Xicana for not embracing the small-mindedness.

  Alice Bag

  Brother, Fighting, Thinking

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• Wilshere looks like he's got the grit between his teeth

  Darren Gough

  Looks, Grit

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• The church as we know it today seems a million miles from the New Testament church. That may be a great generalization, but I will stand on it. There is a gulf between our average Christianity and the church of New Testament that makes the Grand Canyon look like a cavity in someone's tooth.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Average, Church, May

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• During a recent event at a restaurant called Tommy's Country Ham House in South Carolina, presidential candidate Ben Carson delivered a speech right after he lost his front tooth. Which still left him with more teeth than everyone combined at Tommy's Country Ham House.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Country, Presidential, House

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