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• I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.

  Ed Westwick

  Years, Long, Flesh

  Interview with Seventeen, www.seventeen.com. March 22, 2009.

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• I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and bite. Then look what adults do!

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Children, Fighting, Thinking

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• I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I do anything else.

  Pablo Picasso

  Way, Painting, Habit

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• Jealousy, the old worm that bites.

  Aphra Behn

  Jealousy, Worms

  Aphra Behn, Jane Spencer (1998). “The Rover: The Feigned Courtesans ; The Lucky Chance ; The Emperor of the Moon”, p.233, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails.

  Jonathan Swift

  Nails, Mindfulness, Scratches

  Jonathan Swift (2011). “Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings”, p.625, Bantam Classics

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• Zen is not interested in high-flown statements; it wants its pupil to bite his apple and not discuss it.

  Anne Bancroft

  Apples, Want, Pupils

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• I saw a dog in a cage. And that cage had a sign on it that said, 'I bite.' And I was like, 'That is good to know doggy, but that's not the most important thing about you. You should make a sign that says, 'I make signs.''

  Doug Benson

  Dog, Important, Saws

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• An artist should always bite the hand that feeds him - but not too hard.

  Nam June Paik

  Artist, Hands, Should

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• My good hoe as it bites the ground revenges my wrongs, and I have less lust to bite my enemies. In the smoothing the rough hillocks, I smooth my temper.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Revenge, Hoe, Lust

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1911). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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• TZETZE (or TSETSE) FLY, n. An African insect ("Glossina morsitans") whose bite is commonly regarded as nature's most efficacious remedy for insomnia, though some patients prefer that of the American novelist ("Mendax interminabilis").

  Ambrose Bierce

  Nature, Insomnia, Novelists

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.226, 谷月社

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• The secret of Greek Art is its imitation of nature even to the minutest details; whereas the secret of Indian Art is to represent the ideal. The energy of the Greek painter is spent in perhaps painting a piece of flesh, and he is so successful that a dog is deluded into taking it to be a real bit of meat and so goes to bite it. Now, what glory is there in merely imitating nature? Why not place an actual bit of flesh before the dog?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dog, Art, Real

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2219, Manonmani Publishers

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• Bite off more than you can chew, then keep chewing.

  Joe De Sena

  Books And Movies, Biting, Geek

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• Love isn't soft, like the poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.

  Stephen King

  Teeth, Poet, Wounds

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• I've certainly had to bite my tongue on occasion and live to fight another day, so to speak, on certain things. But when you're new and fresh, you come out and think, 'I don't want to screw my chance up, so I'll go along with what everybody else does.'

  Joe Nichols

  Fighting, Thinking, Doe

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• You don't want to bite your nose off to spite your face

  Paul Merson

  Noses, Want, Faces

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• Credit cards are like snakes: Handle 'em long enough, and one will bite you.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Snakes, Long, Cards

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• I used to beat up kids and bite kids and do stuff all the time.

  Russell Wilson

  Kids, Stuff, Used

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• I try to only commit myself to things that I think I can accomplish and commit myself to 100 percent. I try not to bite off more than I can chew.

  Queen Latifah

  Thinking, Trying, Accomplish

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. October 30, 2002.

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• Journalists say that when a dog bites a man, that is not news, but when a man bites a dog, that is news ... Thanks to the mathematics of combinatorics, we will never run out of news.

  Steven Pinker

  Running, Dog, Men

  Steven Pinker (2009). “How the Mind Works”, p.118, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The very serpents bite their tails; the bees forget to sting, For a language so celestial setteth up a wondering. And the touch of absent mindedness is more than any line, Since direction counts for nothing when the gods set up a sign.

  Nathalia Crane

  Tails, Lines, Bees

  Nathalia Crane (1925). “The Janitor's Boy and Other Poems”

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• You consume me I don't even fight Oh, I feel intoxicated... But beware I bite.

  Traci Lords

  Fighting, Feels, Intoxicated

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• It is very difficult to give a 15 second sound bite on why there is pain and suffering in this world and not have it come off as being flippant or surface level or superficial.

  Lee Strobel

  Pain, Giving, Suffering

  "Interview: Lee Strobel Makes Case for Faith ... Again". Interview with Michelle A. Vu, www.christianpost.com. September 25, 2008.

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• Then hope unlooked-for came so suddenly to Eomer's heart, and with it the bite of care and fear renewed, that he said no more, but turned and went swiftly from the hall.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Fear, Heart, Care

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.844, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Sometimes you have to bite the bullet. Not only must you learn to accept their gaze with your eyes but also with your heart.

  Minzy

  Heart, Eye, Bullets

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• Every Thanksgiving table should be blessed with the presence of a long-married pair who bring out the best in each other, are completely enamored despite their differences, and leave every other guest thinking, I’ll have what they’re having. Our holiday pies honor such so there’s a pleasant mix of textures and flavors in every bite. No matter how you slice partnerships, each spotlighting the perfect marriage of crust and filling these six irresistible desserts, there is a whole lot to love.

  Martha Stewart

  Blessed, Holiday, Thinking

  "Martha Stewart Openly Mocks Gwyneth Paltrow With ‘Conscious Coupling’ Story In Her Magazine" by Kristen Aiken, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 23, 2014.

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