Teeth Quotes - page 24

And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet. (Jackson Browne)
The Elephant is never won with Anger, Nor must that man, who would reclaim a Lion, Take him by the teeth.
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
Jocelyne clicked her barbell on her teeth. I was watching her closely for signs of collapsing romance. Her tongue was pierced, (a process, she had elaborated, that had taken two weeks of painful healing) and it put me in mind of the tongue-piercing ceremony endured on October 28, 709 AD by the principal wife of Shield Jaguar, Blood Lord of Yaxchilan (Lintel 24); i. e. to my eye, pointless, but if it's good enough for the Mayans ... "Why did you do it?" "To punish my tongue, for saying things it shouldn't have." Click. "But surely it was only obeying orders?" "It has to learn to be warier of its mistress. And it's also a symbol." Click. "What of?"
Tibor Fischer
When your teeth are gone, learn to like mush.
Tad Williams
America is dumb, it's like a dumb puppy that has big teeth that can bite and hurt you, aggressive. My daughter is four, my boy is one. I'd like them to see America as a toy, a broken toy. Investigate it a little, check it out, get this feeling and then get out.
Johnny Depp
We lose our hair, our teeth Our bloom, our ideals.
Samuel Beckett
Oh, the shark has pretty teeth, dear And he shows them pearly white Just a jackknife has Macheath, dear And he keeps it out of sight.
Bertolt Brecht
I don't have perfect teeth, I'm not stick thin. I want to be the person who feels great in her body and can say she loves it and doesn't want to change anything.
Emma Watson
Like a young horse Who bites against the new bit in his teeth, And tugs and struggles against the new-tried rein.
Aeschylus
I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
Jonathan Swift
I'm okay with having horrible lower teeth. (Katy Perry)
I'm okay with having bad dance moves. I'm okay with having horrible lower teeth. That's what makes me me, and for some reason it's worked out all right.
Katy Perry
What would happen if you melted You know, you never really hear this talked about much, but spontaneous combustion It exists People burn from within... sometimes they'll be in a wooden chair and the chair won't burn, but there'll be nothing left of the person. Except sometimes his teeth. Or the heart. No one speaks about this, but its for real.
Keanu Reeves
A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last.
Helen Rowland
My teeth have never been touched. Why did I tell you that? Knock on wood. I've got a few scars over the eyes, a couple on the chin, a few on the beak and one across the cheek. But my luck is running out.
Brett Hull
Thomas Pynchon looks exactly like Thomas Pynchon should look. He is tall, he wears lumberjack shirts and blue jeans. He has Albert Einstein white hair and Bugs Bunny front teeth.
Salman Rushdie
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
Once a year my back will go out and it'll be... it's like a sciatic thing and it's the smallest thing. Like I could be leaning over the sink to brush my teeth in a weird way and it happens.
Kevin James
When the Twin Towers fell-I felt a dentist had pulled out my two front teeth. I could not laugh anymore. And I have the smile of a smiling damned villain. But I also felt the hole in my mouth became a garage, and entering that garage were terrorists in trucks full of explosives and French diplomats-to f*ck us more with other nations-to run over our dead bodies.
Giannina Braschi
What do you know?” "Almost everything. That almost part can be a real kick in the teeth sometimes.” "What do you want, then?” "What I can't have.” Wit turned to him, eyes solemn. "Same as everyone else, Kaladin Stormblessed.
Brandon Sanderson
...teeth set out by a landscape gardener... (Addison Mizner)
By force you can make hypocrites -- men who will agree with you from the teeth out, and in their hearts hate you. We want no more hypocrites.
Robert G. Ingersoll
Though the man-apes often fought and wrestled one another, their disputes very seldom resulted in serious injuries. Having no claws or fighting canine teeth, and being well protected by hair, they could not inflict much harm on one another. In any event, they had little surplus energy for such unproductive behavior; snarling and threatening was a much more efficient way of asserting their points of view.
Arthur C. Clarke
Lay a second foundation enough inside the first... Having laid these two foundations... build cross walls between them uniting the outer and inner foundation in a comb like arrangement set like teeth of a saw. With this form of construction the burden of earth will be distributed into small bodies and will not lie with all its weight in one crushing mass so as to thrust out substructures.
Vitruvius
In outstanding classrooms, teachers do more listening than talking, and students do more talking than listening. Terrific teachers often have teeth marks on their tongues.
Alfie Kohn