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• But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay;
  
  Invention, Nature's child, fled stepdame Study's blows;
  
  And others' feet still seemed but strangers in my way.
  
  Thus, great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes,
  
  Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite:
  
  "Fool," said my Muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write.

  Philip Sidney

  Children, Writing, Heart

  'Astrophel and Stella' (1591) sonnet 1

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• How little wives may realize that a biting, stinging word in the morning will rob a husband of efficiency the whole day long. But a loving, tender, beautiful word—a little prayer word—will fill him with music and will lead him into victory.

  Kenneth E. Hagin

  Beautiful, Morning, Prayer

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• Eating meat is the most disgusting thing I can think of. It's like biting into your grandmother.

  Steven Morrissey

  Grandmother, Thinking, Meat

  "Auction of signed copy of Morrissey's Autobiography raises £8,000 for Peta", www.theguardian.com. December 31, 2013.

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• Some old women and men grow bitter with age; the more their teeth drop out, the more biting they get.

  George D. Prentice

  Inspirational, Funny, Men

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• There is this place in Nashville called Steak and Shake, which is pretty much the best food, ever. That is our secret, sexy place to go. When I look over at her when she's biting into a steak sandwich and there is some steak sauce dripping down her chin, there is nothing sexier.

  Liam Hemsworth

  Sexy, Nashville, Secret

  "Liam Hemsworth — Why I Think Miley Cyrus Is Smokin’ Hot", hollywoodlife.com. November 10, 2011.

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• Nothing can allay the rage of biting envy.

  Claudius Claudianus

  Envy, Rage, Envied

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 226-27, De Raptu Proserpinæ, III. 290, 1922.

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• I came in the door, I said it before
  I never let the mic magnetize me no more.
  But it's biting me, fighting me, inviting me to rhyme,
  I can't hold it back...I'm looking for the line.
  Taking off my coat, clearing my throat,
  My rhyme will be kicking until I hit my last note.

  Rakim

  Rap, Fighting, Doors

  "Song: Eric B. Is President (Album:Paid in Full)". 1987.

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• There's no agony like [getting started]. You sit in a room, biting pencils, looking at a typewriter, walking about, or casting yourself down on a sofa, feeling you want to cry your head off.

  Agatha Christie

  Typewriters, Agony, Feelings

  Agatha Christie (1991). “Agatha Christie: An Autobiography”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• I'm not biting my fingernails.
  I'm biting my knuckles.
  I finished the fingernails months ago.

  Joseph L. Mankiewicz

  Knuckles, Months, Fingernails

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• Absolutely breathtaking, nail-biting, and edge-of-your-seat. Michael Koryta is a master at maintaining suspense and a hell of a good writer. THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD is one of the best chase-and-escape novels you’ll read this year-or any other year. The pace never lets up.

  Nelson DeMille

  Years, Wish, Nails

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• Man can learn a lot from fishing - when the fish are biting no problem in the world is big enough to be remembered.

  Orlando Aloysius Battista

  Men, Lakes, Sea

  Orlando Aloysius Battista (1981). “Quotoons: a speaker's dictionary”, Perigee

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• Look, there’s no rule in soccer against biting your opponent. There’s not even a rule against eating your opponent. The only rule in soccer is that you can’t use your hands.

  Luis Suarez

  Soccer, Hands, Looks

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• Adhere To - Faith, Unity, Sacrifice. Avoid - Back-biting, Falsehood and Crookedness. Admire - Frankness, Honesty, and Large-heartedness. Control - Tongue, Temper, and Tossing of the mind. Cultivate - Cosmic Love, Forgiveness and Patience. Hate - Lust, Anger, and Pride.

  Sivananda

  Honesty, Hate, Character

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• This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the dark with all the plans and feelings. This music was her—the real plain her...This music did not take a long time or a short time. It did not have anything to do with time going by at all. She sat with her arms around her legs, biting her salty knee very hard. The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen... Now that it was over there was only her heart beating like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.

  Carson McCullers

  Hurt, Real, Heart

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• There are some movies that deserve criticism. They want people to know that it's a great dramatic accomplishment and has some great performances in it. But, c'mon. Yes, you will have some fun if you go see 'Snakes on a Plane.' Snakes are biting people - and they're biting them right on screen. There's nothing to review. It's not 'Snakes on the Waterfront.' You don't have snakes going, 'I coulda been a constrictor.' No. Hell no. It's 'Snakes on a Plane.'

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Fun, Snakes, People

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• The ones I loved fly as birds in the open sky above me. Soaring, weaving, calling to me to join them. I want so badly to follow them, but the seawater saturates my wings, making it impossible to lift them. The ones I hated have taken to the water, horrible scaled things that tear my salty flesh with needle teeth. Biting again and again. Dragging me beneath the surface.

  Suzanne Collins

  Taken, Sky, Wings

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• it was a bitter and biting iron-gray afternoon, that clanked like armor and was as cold as a frosty axehead.

  Ardyth Kennelly

  Winter, Iron, Armor

  Ardyth Kennelly (1949). “The Peaceable Kingdom”

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• I'll be spending the holidays with my family. Nothing special, just some light bickering and biting sarcasm.

  Ray Romano

  Holiday, Sarcasm, Light

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• The present is the past biting into the future.

  Edwin Land

  Past

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• [The writer] must essentially draw from life as he sees it, lives it, overhears it or steals it, and the truer the writer, perhaps the bigger the blackguard. He lives by biting the hand that feeds him.

  Charles R. Jackson

  Hands, Stealing, Bigger

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• Lucy went first, biting her lip and trying not to say all the things she thought of saying to Susan. But she forgot them when she fixed her eyes on Aslan.

  C. S. Lewis

  Eye, Trying, Firsts

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• But, brothers, this biting of their toe-nails over what is the CAUSE of badness is what turns me into a fine laughing malchick. They don't go into what is the cause of GOODNESS, so why of the other shop?

  Anthony Burgess

  Brother, Laughing, Nails

  Anthony Burgess (2012). “A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)”, p.46, W. W. Norton & Company

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• My opinion was that if hogs are biting you so often that you have to stop and make up a specific word for it, maybe lack of vocabulary is not your most pressing problem.

  Charles Frazier

  Vocabulary, Opinion, Problem

  Charles Frazier (2006). “Thirteen Moons: A Novel”, p.81, Random House

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• The fishermen say that the "thundering of the pond" scares the fishes and prevents their biting.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Ice, Fishing

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.195, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I know I'm a long way from greatness, but I am beginning to come at it in my own way. I can go through the basic motions pretty well, don't rely quite as religiously on specific fly patterns as I once did, have worked out ways of compensating for some of my most egregious weaknesses and have come to count heavily on timing because it's a hell of a lot easier to catch fish when the fish are biting.

  John Gierach

  Greatness, Long, Patterns

  John Gierach (2010). “Standing in a River Waving a Stick”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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