Teeth Quotations | Page 6

Robert Redford ... has turned almost alarmingly blond-he's gone past platinum, he must be into plutonium; his hair is coordinated with his teeth.

To slaughter grand and beautiful creatures like these tuskers, whether terrestrial or marine, solely to obtain a few teeth indicates that we have not evolved very much since the days our forebears lived in caves and saught to prove their superiority by adorning themselves with teeth and claws

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

I am one of those people who can't help getting a kick out of life - even when it's a kick in the teeth.

It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks.

[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?

I'm okay with having horrible lower teeth.

I pull my lower lip all the way in between my teeth. If I try hard enough, maybe I can gobble my whole self this way.... I didn't try hard enough to swallow myself.

It had a very long pendulum, and the pendulum swung with a slow tick-tock that set his teeth on edge, because it was the the kind of delibrate, annoying ticking that wanted to make it abundantly clear that every tick and every tock was stripping another second off your life.

I get it,' said the prisoner. 'Good Cop, Bad Cop, eh?' If you like.' said Vimes. 'But we're a bit short staffed here, so if I give you a cigarette would you mind kicking yourself in the teeth?

One of the highlights of the first Good Omens tour was Neil and I walking through New York singing Shoehorn with Teeth. Well, we'd had a good breakfast. And you don't get mugged, either.

The usual bad poem in somebody's Collected Works is a learned, mannered, valued habit, a habit a little more careful than, and little emptier than, brushing one's teeth.

Only one way to win when you're being chased by someone bigger and tougher than you. Turn straight around, punch their teeth out, and hope the gods are fond of you.

When I began as a model, everybody tried to remold me: I was too fat, too little, they tried to re-shape my teeth - I am very proud that I have stayed as I was.

We would never have scales, feathers, or breasts if we didn't have teeth in the first place.

Every time you get the world by the tail, she thought, you gotta remember there's teeth on the other end.

Tonight, once more, life sinks its teeth into my heart.

Meg was going to have to learn for herself what Laurie had figured out over the summer — that it was better to leave well enough alone, to avoid unnecessary encounters with people you’d left behind, to not keep poking at that sore tooth with the tip of your tongue. Not because you didn’t love them anymore, but because you did, and because that love was useless now, just another dull ache in your phantom limb.

I had all my own teeth and I wanted to keep it that way.

The only thing I can do is wipe my arse, brush my teeth, turn up and do the best work I can.

If you want to kick the tiger in his ass you'd better have a plan for dealing with his teeth

Hell, I am young. I am free. My teeth are clean. The sun shines. To hell with everything else

I've had dentists who have wanted to help me out, but I say, 'You know, I won't work again if you fix my teeth,'

Finally, imagine that you've really worked hard on yourself and become a level 10 person. Now, is this same level 5 problem a big problem or a little problem? The answer is that it's no problem. It doesn't even register in your brain as a problem. There's no negative energy around it. It's just a normal occurrence to handle, like brushing your teeth or getting dressed.

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.

When your teeth are gone, learn to like mush.

I could feel the winter shaking my bones and banging my teeth together.

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

Yes, I’m a mouse. Squeak, squeak. Now shoo-shoo back to your little bug friends,” said Rirped, picking up a hunk of dried beef. He tore a off a piece with his teeth and noticed Boots hadn’t moved. He pulled back his lips to reveal a row of jagged teeth and gave her a sharp hiss.

If you want to communicate something, youd better make sure that your design piece is well-dressed and that its teeth are fixed. At the same time, I still believe that if it is only stylistically great and it has nothing to say, it still is not going to make a lasting impression on anybody.

I had teeth that stuck out so far, I used to eat other kids' candy bars by accident.

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.

his smile bore the same relation to a real smile as false teeth do to real teeth ...

I'm glad acting sunk its teeth into me, because now I can't imagine doing anything else.

No one has nicer teeth than me. Why would anyone laugh at my lovely teeth?

You ever tried to pick up your teeth with a bunch of broken fingers

You're not very nice," I say, grinning. "You're one to talk." "Hey, I could be nice if I tried." "Hmm." He taps his chin. "Say something nice, then." "You're very good-looking." He smiles, his teeth a flash in this dark. "I like this 'nice' thing.

She smiles.Her teeth are crooked. If I knocked them out,I might be doing her a favor.

I came out of the closet very young, and I had to cut my teeth pretty fast.

I knocked part of my tooth out with a scrubbing brush on stage whilst singing 'Hard Knock Life' in Annie.

I have a sweet tooth. I love dessert, and if somebody makes me one, I'm going to have it.

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.

We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.

In the absence of hope we must still struggle to survive, and so we do-by the skin of our teeth.

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

I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.

His teeth sang in their individual sockets like tuning forks, each one pitch-perfect and clear as ethanol.

When Jared smiled, his teeth were stained with fresh scarlet. "Don't you hate me?" he demanded. "I'd hate me." "You just tried to drown yourself," Ash said. "You seem to hate yourself plenty already.

I'm a very ritualistic person. I have to wash my face twice, and on the second wash before I rinse, I brush my teeth, then I rinse, then I floss, then I put on moisturizer. I'm ritualistic. Jewishness is very ritualistic.

One said a tooth drawer was a kind of unconscionable trade, because his trade was nothing else but to take away those things whereby every man gets his living.

The puritanical potentialities of science have never been forecast. If it evolves a body of organized rites, and is established as a religion, hierarchically organized, things more than anything else will be done in the name of 'decency.' The coarse fumes of tobacco and liquors, the consequent tainting of the breath and staining of white fingers and teeth, which is so offensive to many women, will be the first things attended to.

He ate a pear. It was a hard one. It fought back against his grinding teeth. It snapped in juicy protest.

Know my name is lost, By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit; Yet am I noble as the adversary I come to cope.

He that sleeps feels not the tooth-ache

Gnawing with my teeth my bonds in sunder, I gain'd my freedom.

Good beats upon the damned incessantly as sound waves beat on the ears of the deaf, but they cannot receive it. Their fists are clenched, their teeth are clenched, their eyes fast shut. First they will not, in the end they cannot, open their hands for gifts, or their mouth for food, or their eyes to see.

He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth.

The most effective sermons are those which make opposers of the Gospel bite their lips and gnash their teeth.

Since I cannot govern my own tongue, though within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongue of others?

Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.

The woman named Tomorrow sits with a hairpin in her teeth and takes her time

There is a particular disdain with which Siamese cats regard you. Anyone who has walked in on the Queen cleaning her teeth will be familiar with the feeling.

I swear if Colgate comes out with one more type of toothepaste. I just want clean teeth that's all I want. I don't want the tartar and I don't want the cavaties. And I want white teeth. How come I have to choose? And then they have the 'Colgate Total' that supposedly has everything in there. I don't believe that for one second. If it's all in the one, how come they make all the others? Who's going: "I don't mind the tartar so much."?

Dentists tell you not to pick your teeth with any sharp metal object. Then you sit in their chair and the first thing they grab is an iron hook.

It warms the very sickness in my heart, That I shall live and tell him to his teeth, "Thus diddest thou;"

Teeth hadst thou in thy head when thou wast born, To signify thou camest to bite the world.

Flattery is from the teeth out. Sincere appreciation is from the heart out.

All those Nupboards in the Cupboards they're good fun to have about. But that Nooth gush on my tooth brush.....Him I could do without.

ADAGE, n. Boned wisdom for weak teeth.

SACERDOTALIST, n. One who holds the belief that a clergyman is a priest. Denial of this momentous doctrine is the hardest challenge that is now flung into the teeth of the Episcopalian church by the Neo-Dictionarians.

Dentist: a prestidigitator who, putting metal into your mouth, pulls coin out of your pocket.

Behind every smile there's teeth.

Well, her face was so wrinkled it looked like seven miles of bad road. She had so many gold teeth . . . she used to have to sleep with her head in a safe.

Better a tooth out than always aching.

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

The natives are superficially agreeable, but they go in for cannibalism, headhunting, infanticide, incest, avoidance and joking relationships, and biting lice in half with their teeth

The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats' teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice

A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch.

Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.

Early in my life I had made a pact with myself. I would never eat anything that moved when I cooked it, excited the dog, or inflated upon impact with my teeth.

The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.

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.

tell me how does it feel with my teeth in your heart!

The fundamentalists deny that evolution has taken place; they deny that the earth and the universe as a whole are more than a few thousand years old, and so on. There is ample scientific evidence that the fundamentalists are wrong in these matters, and that their notions of cosmogony have about as much basis in fact as the Tooth Fairy has.

I've got my teeth into him, and I'm not going to let go.

When hecklers stand up, I get a mental jump for joy. It gives me something to get my teeth into - and the audiences love it.

I was armed to the teeth with a pitiful little Smith & Wesson's seven-shooter, which carried a ball like a homopathic pill, and it took the whole seven to make a dose for an adult. But I thought it was grand. It appeared to me to be a dangerous weapon. It had only one fault - you could not hit anything with it.

I was going to get my teeth whitened, but I said, "I'll just get a tan instead."

If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.

A good bachelor drinks his dessert (and sometimes the rest of his meals). A sweet tooth is a danger signal that you're getting too much exercise and not enough cocktails.

Devouring Time and envious Age, all things yield to you; and with lingering death you destroy, step by step, with venomed tooth whatever you attack.

Even the clearest and most perfect circumstantial evidence is likely to be at fault, after all, and therefore ought to be received with great caution. Take the case of any pencil, sharpened by any woman; if you have witnesses, you will find she did it with a knife; but if you take simply the aspect of the pencil, you will say that she did it with her teeth.

You talk of the scythe of Time, and the tooth of Time: I tell you, Time is scytheless and toothless; it is we who gnaw like the worm - we who smite like the scythe. It is ourselves who abolish - ourselves who consume: we are the mildew, and the flame.

There is a remedy for everything but death; who, in spite of our teeth, will take us in his clutches.

Every tooth in a man's head is more valuable than a diamond.

A tooth is much more to be prized than a diamond.

A preacher must be both soldier and shepherd. He must nourish, defend, and teach; he must have teeth in his mouth, and be able to bite and fight.

The Devil fears the word of God, He can't bite it; it breaks his teeth.

Never do anything to a clitoris with your teeth that you wouldn't do to an expensive waterproof wristwatch.