Teeth Quotes - Page 5

• That knowledge humbles me, melts my bones, closes my ears, and makes my teeth rock loosely in their gums. And it also liberates me. I am a big bird winging over high mountains, down into serene valleys. I am ripples of waves on silver seas. I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation.

  Maya Angelou

  Spring, Sea, Rocks

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  The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Iron, Apples

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.255, Ballantine Books

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• The things we worry about the most are never the things that bite us. The sharpest teeth always take their nip of us when we are looking the other way.

  Dean Koontz

  Worry, Way, Bites

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.335, Bantam

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• Everything gets horrible. Everything you see gets ugly. Lurid is the word. Doctor Garton said lurid, one time. That's the right word for it. And everything sounds harsh, spiny and harsh sounding, like every sound you hear all of a sudden has teeth. And smelling like I smell bad even after I just got out of the shower. It's like what's the point of washing if everything smells like I need another shower

  David Foster Wallace

  Smell, Doctors, Ugly

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• It was not well to drive men into final corners; at those moments they could all develop teeth and claws.

  Stephen Crane

  Men, Finals, Claws

  Stephen Crane (2014). “The Red Badge of Courage”, p.119, Broadview Press

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• As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter and being part of it, until her teeth were only accidental stars with a talent for squad-drill.

  T. S. Eliot

  Stars, Laughter, Squad

  T. S. Eliot (2012). “The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems”, p.22, Courier Corporation

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• Our noblest hopes grow teeth and pursue us like tigers.

  John Gardner

  Grows, Pursue, Tigers

  John Gardner, Joe Servello (1977). “In the suicide mountains”, Random House Inc

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• If you grit your teeth and show real determination, you'll always have a chance.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Determination, Real, Grit

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• Canada is a myth people made up to entertain children, like the Tooth Fairy. There’s no such place.

  Christopher Moore

  Children, People, Canada

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• A dancer on break approached him. She smiled. Each tooth was angled in a different direction, as if her mouth were the masterwork of a mad orthodontist. "Hi," she said. "Hi." "You're really cute." "I don't have any money." She spun and walked away. Ah, romance.

  Harlan Coben

  Cute, Mad, Dancer

  Harlan Coben (2013). “The Myron Bolitar Series 7-Book Bundle: Deal Breaker, Drop Shot, Fade Away, Back Spin, One False Move, The Final Detail, Darkest Fear”, p.237, Dell

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• It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against one’s own body... On the battlefield, in the torture chamber, on a sinking ship, the issues that you are fighting for are always forgotten, because the body swells up until it fills the universe, and even when you are not paralysed by fright or screaming with pain, life is a moment-to-moment struggle against hunger or cold or sleeplessness, against a sour stomach or an aching tooth.

  George Orwell

  Pain, Struggle, Fighting

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison “The Complete Works of George Orwell: Nineteen eighty-four”

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• Vlad had found himself longing to encounter those of his own kind, to travel to the streets of Elysia-that far away world, but after a while it seemed more of a fairy tale than anything else. Like Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy, only with fangs.

  Heather Brewer

  Encounters, Elysium, World

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• The Lower City is MINE, Its People are MINE. If I Find Them That's Doing All This Kidnapping And Murdering, They'd Best Pray For Mercy, Because Once I Get My Teeth In 'Em I Will NEVER Let Them Go.

  Tamora Pierce

  Cities, People, Ems

  Tamora Pierce (2012). “Beka Cooper: The Hunt Records”, p.84, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• I am a mess. Like that MargieMocha, I am spilled across a floor, but there's nobody to mop me up. I have only one thing to show for the day: Perry Delloplane. The sound of a name. It is a grape in my mouth. I roll it over and over on my tongue--perrydelloplaneperrydelloplaneperrydelloplaneperrydelloplane--but when I try to crush it with my teeth, it slips away.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Crush, Names, Trying

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.191, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The main courtyard was filled with warriors - mermen with fish tails from the waist down and human bodies from the waist up, except their skin was blue, which I'd never known before.Some were tending the wounded. Some were sharpening spears and swords. One passed us, swimming in a hurry. His eyes were bright green, like that stuff they put in glo-sticks, and his teeth were shark teeth. They don't show you stuff like that in "The Little Mermaid.

  Rick Riordan

  Eye, Warrior, Swimming

  Rick Riordan (2009). “Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian”, p.28, Penguin UK

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• Grow the lawn and mow the lawn always keep the TV on, brush your teeth and kill the germs, poison apples, poison worms.

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Apples, Poison, Germs

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• There was a deliberate voluptuousness that was both thrilling and repulsive. And as she arched her neck she actually licked her lips like an animal till I could see in the moonlight the moisture Then lapped the white, sharp teeth. Lower and lower went her head. I closed my eyes in a languorous ecstasy and waited.

  Bram Stoker

  Eye, Animal, White

  Lucy Hartbury, Bram Stoker (2013). “Dracula: The Wild And Wanton Edition”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• I was thinking, as I watched her, how little it mattered –about her teeth for instance. I know so many women who have kept all the things she had lost, *but whose inner glow has faded*. Whatever else was gone, Antonia had not lost the fire of life.

  Willa Cather

  Thinking, Fire, Gone

  Willa Cather (2012). “My Ántonia”, p.174, Courier Corporation

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• He shook me, and despite it being one-handed, it made my teeth rattle. “If anything like that ever happens again. You. Leave. Me. Behind. Do you understand?” I would have argued, but I was feeling a little shocky for some reason. “I’m not good at abandoning people,” I finally said. A front-desk person scurried over, first-aid kit in hand, but Pritkin snarled at the poor guy and he quickly backed up a step. “Then get good at it!” He stomped off, limping, one shoulder hanging at an odd angle. “You’re welcome,” I murmured.

  Karen Chance

  Hands, People, Guy

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• I have a fork and a spoon, but never a knife… as if I’m lacking manual skills or teeth. I have both, however. That’s why I’m not allowed a knife.

  Margaret Atwood

  Knives, Skills, Spoons

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• Now that I am alone, I don't have to hide it; I don't have to hide anything any longer. I can let my face go because no one can see me; because there's twenty-one thousand feet between me and them... No, I don't have to press my teeth together or tighten the muscles of my jaw.

  Roald Dahl

  Feet, Together, Twenties

  Roald Dahl (1991). “Collected Stories”, Everyman's Library

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• I didn't wash today. I wasn't dirty. If I'm not dirty, I don't wash. Some weeks I don't have to shower at all. I just groom my three basic areas: teeth, hair, and asshole. And to save time, I use the same brush.

  George Carlin

  Dirty, Hair, Three

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

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• And when you crush an apple with your teeth, say to it in your heart: Your seeds shall live in my body, And the buds of your tomorrow shall blossom in my heart, And your fragrance shall be my breath, And together we shall rejoice through all the seasons.

  Khalil Gibran

  Crush, Gratitude, Recovery

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.40, Lulu.com

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• We clear the harbor and the wind catches her sails and my beautiful ship leans over ever so gracefully, and her elegant bow cuts cleanly into the increasing chop of the waves. I take a deep breath and my chest expands and my heart starts thumping so strongly I fear the others might see it beat through the cloth of my jacket. I face the wind and my lips peel back from my teeth in a grin of pure joy.

  L.A. Meyer

  Inspirational, Funny, Beautiful

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• You need teeth like mine!" Grandma said. "You can just mail 'em to the dentist!

  Janet Evanovich

  Grandma, Needs, Ems

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