Wince Quotations

Looking back, I wince at the careless way I tossed out my opinions.

There's a certain edge about cruelty. If you're honest about it, most people wince, but say it had to be said.

I have a hard time listening to things I've recorded. I don't necessarily go back and enjoy it. Occasionally I'll have the iPod on shuffle and something will come on. Nine times out of ten I'll wince and go on to the next one.

I think that my regrets mostly have to do with my relationship with my ex-girlfriend. Every once in a while, you get those flashback memories of conversations you had with your exes, and you just, like, wince when you're walking down the street. Something occurs to you, 'Oh, no, I said that.'

I just think lots of words have physicality. How about the word 'wobble?' You think that's arbitrary? When you say the word 'wince,' you wince. How about that?

When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.

If WinCE devices cannibalize PC laptop sales, Microsoft's profits get eroded.

We would give him morphine every three hours, every day for a month, just so he wouldn't sit there and wince in pain.

Oh my goodness, we've heard such horribly accented Spanish in the past six months, I can't tell you. You kind of wince and you say, 'OK, let's get through the Spanish,' because you know the candidate is really trying to say something to Latinos.

I wince at her use of the word "human." I've never liked that differentiation. She is living and I'm dead, but we're both human. Call me an idealist.

Much as a teacher may wince at the thought, he is also an entertainer—for unless he can hold his audience, he cannot really instruct or edify them.

I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not.

Let the galled jade wince; our withers are unwrung.