Teeth Quotes - Page 34

• We Batchelors laugh and shew our teeth, but you married men laugh till your hearts ake.

  George Herbert

  Heart, Men, Laughing

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.373

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• Apparently on the screen I look tall, ageless, and damned close to omniscient-delivering jeopardy-laden warnings through gritted teeth. But when people see me on the street, they say 'by God, this kid is 5 foot 5, he's got a broken nose, and looks about as foreboding as a bank teller on a lunch break.'

  Rod Serling

  Kids, Lunch Break, Feet

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• I have to brush my teeth before I go on stage otherwise I don't feel smart enough.

  Chris Martin

  Smart, Goes On, Enough

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• All-devouring time, envious age,
  Nought can escape you, and by slow degrees,
  Worn by your teeth, all things will lingering die.

  Ovid

  Time, Age, Degrees

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• The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where each tooth point goes.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Toads, Knows

  'Pagett, MP' (1886)

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• I'm really conscious of the amount of food I eat, but I don't deny myself anything. For example, I have a really big sweet tooth. At the end of the night, if I'm craving ice cream, I might not have the bowl that I would have when I was a kid, but I'll put a couple of scoops in a coffee mug, and I'll eat it slowly, and I enjoy every moment of it.

  Summer Sanders

  Sweet, Couple, Coffee

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• Certain anthropologists hold that man, having discovered tools, ceased to evolve biologically. Animals, never having discovered them, continue to fashion drills out of their beaks, oars out of their hind feet, wings out of their forefeet, suits of armor out of their hides, levers out of their horns, saws out of their teeth. Whether this be true or not, all authorities agree that man is the tool-using animal. It sets him off from the rest of the animal kingdom as drastically as does speech.

  Stuart Chase

  Fashion, Animal, Men

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• So who's perfect? ... Washington had false teeth. Franklin was nearsighted. Mussolini had syphilis. Unpleasant things have been said about Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde. Tchaikovsky had his problems, too. And Lincoln was constipated.

  John O'Hara

  Tchaikovsky, Perfect, Syphilis

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• We can't afford the wrath of Heaven. We survived a deluge by the skin of our teeth, but an economic crisis would be disastrous.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Wrath, Heaven, Skins

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• I cut my teeth as the black raccoon--
  For implements of battle.

  Countee Cullen

  Cutting, Black, Battle

  Countee Cullen (2013). “Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)”, p.51, Library of America

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• No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs.

  Franz Grillparzer

  War, Cutting, Knives

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• What's the meaning of all the pious clamor, condemning cocks and hens? Those who have no teeth are the greatest meat-haters.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Hypocrisy, Hens, Meat

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• Writing is not chewing your nails and picking your teeth, but a matter of public interest.

  Alfred Doblin

  Writing, Matter, Nails

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• I would not knock old fellows in the dust
  But there lay Captain Carpenter on his back
  His weapons were the old heart in his bust
  And a blade shook between rotten teeth alack.

  John Crowe Ransom

  Heart, Dust, Rotten

  John Crowe Ransom (1963). “Selected poems”

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• Twitter is a kind of verbalization of people yelling at their television sets or gnashing their teeth at the newspaper.

  Anthony Weiner

  Yelling, People, Television

  "Congressman, Sharp Voice on Twitter, Finds It Can Cut 2 Ways" by Ashley Parker, www.nytimes.com. May 30, 2011.

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• You want to be free and break new ground, speak your mind, fear no man, have the neighbours acknowledge that you're a good man; and at the same time you want to be a success, make money, join the country club, get the votes and kick the other man in the teeth and off the ladder.

  Christina Stead

  Success, Country, Ambition

  Christina Stead (2012). “I'm Dying Laughing: The Humourist”, p.39, Open Road Media

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• I am a middle-aged opera queen in loafers that makes out I am a 16 year old death metal skater... It's all fake! My hair is fake, my body is fake and my teeth are kind of fake

  Rick Owens

  Queens, Hair, Years

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• I hate dentists. That's why my tooth fell out. I was in the middle of a root canal and wouldn't go back, so it just dropped out when I was in the middle of Fifth Avenue. I had to do the Calvin Klein show without the tooth.

  Kate Moss

  Hate, Roots, Fifth Avenue

  Interview with Glenn O’Brien, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 25, 2008.

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• You have to make an effort to be in an unprotected environment because everyone thinks you're a completely incapable idiot who couldn't possibly brush his teeth without an assistant. You have to make an effort in order to be able to actually experience the country that you're in.

  Christian Bale

  Country, Thinking, Order

  "Christian Bale May Kill Someone Yet". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. November 15, 2010.

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• Whatever the best scripts are and you just want to play roles that you can really sink your teeth into. That's always the goal no matter if it's a good guy or a bad guy, or a comedy, or a drama. It doesn't matter, you just want something that's substantial you can sink your teeth into and that you haven't done before, something that's really going to challenge you.

  Stanley Tucci

  Drama, Play, Want Something

  Source: collider.com

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• Politicians study hard and work diligently their entire lives to be able to stand in front of a national audience and lie through their teeth.

  Gregor Collins

  Lying, Able, Study

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• One of the candidates running for governor is a 100-year-old woman. Yeah, the 100-year-old says she'd like to recall Governor Gray Davis, but more importantly, she'd like to recall where she left her teeth.

  Conan O'Brien

  Running, Years, Yeah

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• If you are too weak to give yourselves your own law, then a tyrant shall lay his yoke upon you and say: "Obey! Clench your teeth and obey!" And all good and evil shall be drowned in obedience to him.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Law, Tyrants, Evil

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• Baseball's best teams lose about sixty-five times a season. It is not a game you can play with your teeth clenched.

  George Will

  Baseball, Team, Games

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• The morose one refuses to smile even when he has just had his teeth cleaned.

  Mason Cooley

  Smile, Sadness, Morose

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