Teeth Quotes - Page 38

• There are so many people who are conscientious and caring about others. I've spent time working in countries where I really noticed the absence of civic concern, care for other people. I've been in other countries where I feel a palpable, almost tooth-and-claw attitude between people - Machiavellian, me and mine. And you can take for granted being here, with all the bloviating and the media, on a day-to-day level, people in this country are really pretty concerned for each other.

  Edward Norton

  Country, Attitude, Caring

  Interview with Bennett Miller, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 3, 2014.

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• I enjoy watching a woman with really bad teeth and a good sense of humor struggling to use her lips and tongue to hide her teeth when she's laughing. I just stand there and tell her joke after joke after joke.

  George Carlin

  Struggle, Laughing, Lips

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• Like pregnant women lose their teeth feeding the stranger, junkies lose their yellow fangs feeding the monkey.

  William S. Burroughs

  Yellow, Monkeys, Stranger

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Naked Lunch: The Restored Text”, p.14, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The list of things about which we strictly have to be agnostic doesn't stop at tooth fairies and celestial teapots. It is infinite. If you want to believe in a particular one of them - teapots, unicorns, or tooth fairies, Thor or Yahweh - the onus is on you to say why you believe in it. The onus is not on the rest of us to say why we do not. We who are atheists are also a-fairyists, a-teapotists, and a-unicornists, but we don't have to bother saying so.

  Richard Dawkins

  Atheist, Believe, Want

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• The husband was a teetotaller, there was no other woman, and the conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling them at his wife.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Husband, Wife, Meals

  Arthur Conan Doyle, Scott McKowen (2004). “The Adventures and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes”, p.34, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• We are on the path toward becoming the Sparta of the 21st century, armed to the teeth and without the capacity to care for our own people.

  Dennis Kucinich

  People, Sparta, Care

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• Papa Roach is actually a band that's great at playing arenas. Not every band is suited for that environment. But besides the huge energy you guys bring, the songs are very grand and anthemic. "Kick in the Teeth" being an example as a song that's made for huge crowd sing-alongs, not tiny little club shows.

  Tony Palermo

  Song, Guy, Energy

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• The amazing thing is that we're part of people's daily lives, like brushing their teeth. It's just something they do throughout the day while working, buying things, deciding what to do after work and much more. Google has been accepted as part of people's lives.

  Larry Page

  Buying Things, People, Google

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• Will we allow the decline of our language-the language of Shakespeare, Shaw and Steinbeck? Will we abuse our precious gift of communication? Will we bite our mother tongue with the teeth of indifference, crushing the taste buds of clarity and, without prompt application of the antiseptic of education, causing the gangrene of strained metaphors? Stand up, America, and let me hear your answer: Ain't no way, dude!

  Mike Nichols

  Crush, Mother, Communication

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• It doesn't happen often, it's what you dream and hope for. We are happy, but we want to make sure these changes have teeth. What we want to get across most is that this is a real opportunity for the military. They can step up and be a leader on misogyny and gender issues.

  Amy Ziering

  Dream, Military, Real

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• One of the problems with the media covering this place is that there are stereotypes of news, one of which is "war rages" and the other is "peace dawns." And there isn't much in between. When I talk to foreign journalists, often they are gritting their teeth because they've been asked for a piece about how shops are reopening and restaurants are reopening and so forth - happy pieces. And it just ain't so.

  Patrick Cockburn

  War, Media, Dawn

  "Who Is Iraq’s 'Firebrand Cleric'?". Interview with Justin Elliott, www.motherjones.com. March 31, 2008.

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• Adults trying to protect children from reality, right? And adults always trying to fill children with fantasy - the tooth fairy, Santa, make-believe games, etc. But kids are really smart, I think they know from an early age about death, this void and hole they are immediately traveling toward.

  Shane Warren Jones

  Children, Smart, Believe

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• I was just a folk singer. I cut my teeth on the streets, you know.

  Cass McCombs

  Cutting, Singers, Folks

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• The Showdown is a great way to bring attention to these historic Virginia tracks where many NASCAR drivers cut their teeth in stock car racing, including myself. Tracks like South Boston and Langley are the heart of the sport and draw a great crowd to our Showdown events.

  Denny Hamlin

  Sports, Heart, Cutting

  FaceBook post by Denny Hamlin from Sep 08, 2015

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• A woman's pelvis is like an hourglass with the capacity to tell time. It both creates and shelters life. When the mother's diet is insufficient, nutrients are pulled from her own teeth and bone. Women are built to be selfless.

  Alyson Richman

  Mother, Selfless, Shelter

  Alyson Richman (2011). “The Lost Wife”, p.67, Penguin

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• There is a false moral imperative that seems to be all-around us that treatment of depression, the medications and so on, are an artifice, and that it's not natural. And I think that's very misguided. It would be natural for people's teeth to fall out, but there is nobody militating against toothpaste, at least not in my circles.

  Andrew Solomon

  Fall, Thinking, Circles

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• A friend's bitter words seem to us more poisonous than a serpent's teeth.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Bitter Words, Serpent, Poisonous

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• Are you a sheep? Do you want to get rid of your shepherd? I say forget it till you develop wild teeth and grow paw; and until then, enjoy the sound of flageolet!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Sheep, Want, Paws

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• Teeth of winter, sinking into my flesh, my own clacking against each other like knitting needles, and I wish they'd knit a heavy shawl around my shoulders before widening into a yawn. Why do I always yawn when I'm cold?

  Karen Elizabeth Gordon

  Winter, Knitting, Wish

  Karen Elizabeth Gordon (1996). “The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales”

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• There is something disorderly about the death of a young person. In a universe disturbed by so much over which we have no control, an untimely tragedy rattles the teeth of our already shaken confidence. We want to domesticate death, fight it on our own turf, in familiar rooms with shades drawn evenly, top sheets turned back, and a circle of hushed voices closing in.

  Faye Moskowitz

  Death, Fighting, Circles

  Faye Moskowitz (1985). “A Leak in the Heart: Tales from a Woman's Life”, David R Godine Pub

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• I think anybody who's willing to really sink their teeth into a work like the Hammerklavier, which is a very interesting, different experience, should look instead at something like the Sonata by Paul Dukas, which, in my opinion, is a real marvel.

  Marc-Andre Hamelin

  Real, Thinking, Different Experiences

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. November 8, 2013.

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• Sometimes you have to grit your teeth and remain tenacious and just believe the end will come. Other times it's not an issue. You just write on and the end comes naturally.

  Greg Lake

  Believe, Writing, Issues

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• Only a sheep with lion's heart can attack wolf, not the sheep with lion's teeth or with lion's claw!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Heart, Sheep, Lions

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• The young need old men. They need men who are not ashamed of age, not pathetic imitations of themselves. ... Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

  Peter Ustinov

  Children, Men, Parent

  Peter Ustinov (1978). “Dear Me”, Penguin Books

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• When the veil of fiction was rent, man shuddered before "Nature, red in tooth and claw." Nature had always been that and always will be, and the hands of man, even when he fashions and defends the noblest civilization, must forever be bloody hands, for this is a world in which only the strong and resolute nations survive, while the weak, especially the morally weak, who babble about brotherhood and peace, are biologically degenerate and doomed to extinction.

  Revilo P. Oliver

  Fashion, Strong, Men

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