Toothpicks Quotes

• You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.

  Billy Sunday

  Fall, Land, Trying

  Billy Sunday (1970). “Billy Sunday speaks”

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• The plain wooden toothpick, it may be argued, is among the simplest of manufactured things. It consists of a single part, made of a single material, intended for a single purpose-from which it gets its simple name. It is also among the most convenient and ready of things. It can be used directly out of the box-there being no instructions to read, no parts to assemble, no priming or booting required, and no maintenance expected. When it has served its purpose, it is simply discarded.

  Henry Petroski

  Simple, Names, Purpose

  Henry Petroski (2008). “The Toothpick: Technology and Culture”, p.3, Vintage

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• There is no dignity in a crying toothpick.

  Obert Skye

  Dignity, Cry

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• Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.796, Library of America

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• It seemed to me,' said Wonko the Sane, 'that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane.

  Douglas Adams

  Civilization, Needs, Use

  Douglas Adams (2009). “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish”, p.107, Pan Macmillan

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• I can snap your spine like a toothpick.

  Dave Barry

  Spine, I Can, Snaps

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• He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Wise, Time, Vote

  Douglas William Jerrold, Blanchard Jerrold (1859). “Specimens of Douglas Jerrold's wit: together with selections, chiefly from his contributions to journals, intended to illustrate his opinions”, p.14

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• I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?

  George Carlin

  Funny, Sarcastic, Mother

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• Programming in machine code is like eating with a toothpick

  Charles Petzold

  Machines, Eating, Programming

  Charles Petzold (2000). “Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software”, p.517, Microsoft Press

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• I am dying. Please ... bring me a toothpick.

  Alfred Jarry

  Dying, Last Words, Please

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• You might be a redneck if you had to remove a toothpick for wedding pictures.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Might, Wedding Pictures

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• Don Quixote thought he could have made beautiful bird-cages and toothpicks if his brain had not been so full of ideas of chivalry. Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beautiful, Ambition, Ideas

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.796, Library of America

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• A samurai will use a toothpick even though he has not eaten. Inside the skin of a dog, outside the hide of a tiger.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Dog, War, Skins

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo (2015). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.13, Xist Publishing

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• When God's people are removed from this earth, you might as well try to dam up Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stem the flood of lawlessness that will engulf mankind. Thank God for the restraining Spirit today!

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Fall, People

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• Did she just call me a bleeding toothpick? Kill her! Kill her now!

  Jennifer Estep

  Bleeding, Call Me

  Jennifer Estep (2012). “Mythos Academy Bundle: First Frost, Touch of Frost, Kiss of Frost & Dark Frost”, p.259, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod-always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults-rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Heart, Things In Life, Drunk

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “Collected Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.475, e-artnow

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• Hey!" I turned, crossing my arms and glaring. "I was talking to him!" Tybalt eyed me with amusement, which just made me glare harder. "No, you were inciting him to stab you with a toothpick. Again, the difference is small, but I think it matters.

  Mira Grant

  Thinking, Talking, Differences

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• My mum, a strange creature from the time when pickles on toothpicks were still the height of sophistication.

  Renee Zellweger

  Funny, Height, Pickles

  "Fictional character: Bridget Jones". "Bridget Jones's Diary", m.imdb.com. 2001.

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• Would you leave me alone, you walking pair of boots! Let go of my easel, you refugee from a luggage factory. If you need some wood for a toothpick, there’s a bunch of it on the porch. (Sunshine) Beth. What are you doing?...She says she was forcing you inside before it got dark and something decided to eat you. (Talon) Tell Swamp Breath I was headed this way. Why was she…Oh jeez, am I really have a conversation with a gator? (Sunshine)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Letting Go, Sunshine, Dark

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• A language like Ruby is a toolbox with some really neat little tools that do their job really nicely. JavaScript is a leather sheath with a really really sharp knife inside. That knife can cut anything, and with it you can do anything. You can kill a bear. You can catch fish. You can whittle a piece of wood into a pony. It's even a toothpick.

  Nick Morgan

  Jobs, Cutting, Knives

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• It is disgusting to pick your teeth; what is vulgar is to use a gold toothpick.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Gold, Use, Teeth

  Louis Kronenberger (1972). “A Mania for Magnificence”

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• Up there we see everything, Oakland to the left, El Cerrito and Richmond to the right, Marin forward, over the Bay, Berkeley below, all red rooftops and trees of cauliflower and columbine, shaped like rockets and explosions, all those people below us, with humbler views; we see the Bay Bridge, clunkety, the Richmond Bridge, straight, low, the Golden Gate, red toothpicks and string, the blue between, the blue above, the gleaming white Land of the Lost/Superman's North Pole Getaway magic crystals that are San Francisco.

  Dave Eggers

  Blue, Views, Oakland

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• Yes. They are the words that finally turned me into the hermit I have now become. It was quite sudden. I saw them, and I knew what I had to do." The sign read: "Hold stick near center of its length. Moisten pointed end in mouth. Insert in tooth space, blunt end next to gum. Use gentle in-out motion." "It seemed to me," said Wonko the Sane, "that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane.

  Douglas Adams

  Civilization, Space, Teeth

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.702, Del Rey

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• Life direct...is what Flaubert and Joyce have convinced themselves the man may never get quite clear of but the artist has nothing to do with. What they can't admit is that t is overrated: which artists, faking and fumbling it together out of spit and toothpicks, should know best of all.

  Marvin Mudrick

  Men, Artist, Together

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• Americans will eat anything if it is toasted and held together with a couple of toothpicks and has lettuce sticking out of the sides, preferably a little wilted.

  Raymond Chandler

  Couple, Together, Littles

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Long Goodbye: A Novel”, p.303, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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