Bites Quotes - Page 23

• I'm so used to talk-show hosts just giving you a sound bite and not really being interested.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Giving, Sound, Host

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• I try to eat in a way that makes me feel good. If that means a little bite of chocolate I do that, but I try not to use food as a reward for myself.

  Jennifer Garner

  Mean, Feel Good, Chocolate

  "Jennifer Garner talks about new movie Ghost Of Girlfriends Past and working with Ricky Gervais on next film". Interview with The Ticket, www.mirror.co.uk. May 1, 2009.

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• You can fill my appetite without me taking up a bite.

  Paul McCartney

  Compliment, Appetite

  Song: What's That You're Doing?, Album: Tug of War

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• It's very difficult to move yourself up bit by bit. It's like trying to eat an elephant for God's sake. I can do it. It's just I have to have it bite by bite, you know. It's possible. You can eat an elephant, but you have to do it bite by bite. You can't do it all in one go.

  Colin Montgomerie

  Moving, Golf, Elephants

  "Monty out to cut elephant into bite-size chunks" by Mark Reason, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 6, 2005.

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• Press junkets are incredibly annoying. You sit in a chair for three to six hours and have different journalists shuttle in for three minutes at a time, asking cheesy movie questions to get a quick sound bite - and that's their only objective. You can't really move or eat. You're just stuck there. It's pressure, constant pressure.

  Annabella Sciorra

  Moving, Cheesy, Asking

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• He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]

  Horace

  Hard Work, Brain, Nails

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• Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all. The infant breaks his toy, bites his nurse's breast, strangles his canary long before he is able to reason; cruelty is stamped in animals, in whom, as I think I have said, Nature's laws are more emphatically to be read than in ourselves; cruelty exists amongst savages, so much nearer to Nature than civilized men are; absurd then to maintain cruelty is a consequence of depravity. . . . Cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.

  Marquis de Sade

  Men, Thinking, Animal

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• A silence, the brief Sabbath of an hour,
  Reigns o'er the fields; the laborer sits within
  His dwelling; he has left his steers awhile,
  Unyoked, to bite the herbage, and his dog
  Sleeps stretched beside the door-stone in the shade.
  Now the gray marmot, with uplifted paws,
  No more sits listening by his den, but steals
  Abroad, in safety, to the clover-field,
  And crops its juicy-blossoms.

  William C. Bryant

  Dog, Sleep, Doors

  William Cullen Bryant, “Noon”

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• How do you know they're growing up? Well, the bite marks are higher.

  Phyllis Diller

  Growing Up, Mark, Wells

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• In other localities certain places in the streams are much better than others, but at Niagara one place is just as good as another, for the reason that the fish do not bite anywhere.

  Mark Twain

  Fishing, Reason, Certain

  Mark Twain (2006). “The Signet Classic Book of Mark Twain's Short Stories”, p.23, Penguin

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• The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.

  Edmund Spenser

  Bait, Caught, Fishes

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• Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit!

  Edmund Spenser

  War, Men, Flesh

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• Fooles bite one another, but wise-men agree together.

  George Herbert

  Wise, Men, Together

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.338

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• The fangs of a bear, and the tusks of a wild boar, do not bite worse and make deeper gashes than a goose-quill sometimes; no, not even the badger himself, who is said to be so tenacious of his bite that he will not give over his hold till he feels his teeth meet and the bones crack.

  James Howell

  Giving, Teeth, Cracks

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• I have known a very good, fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite.

  Izaak Walton

  Rivers, Four, Six

  Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton (1859). “The Complete Angler”, p.151

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• We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us.

  Edmund Burke

  Hands, Ingratitude

  Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770)

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• on Broadway money rules. Like a host of vultures, the ticket brokers, the speculators, the craft unions, the agents, the backers, the real estate owners move in on the creative body and take their bite. The world of dreams breathes in an iron lung; and without this mechanical pumping it dies.

  Marya Mannes

  Dream, Real, Moving

  Marya Mannes (1961). “The New York I Know”

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• The bite of existence did not cut into one in Hollywood ... Life elsewhere was real and slippery and struggled in the arms like a big fish dying in air.

  Mae West

  Real, Cutting, Air

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• Everybody has to have their little tooth of power. Everybody wants to be able to bite.

  Mary Oliver

  Power, Teeth, Want

  Mary Oliver (1995). “Blue Pastures”, Harcourt

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• If I am going up a ladder, and a dog begins to bite at my ankles, I can do one of two things - either turn round and kick out at the it, or simply go on up the ladder. I prefer to go up the ladder!

  Maria Montessori

  Dog, Two, Challenges

  MARIA MONTESSORI “HER LIFE AND WORK”

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• Salt is the only rock directly consumed by man. It corrodes but preserves, desiccates but is wrested from the water. ... It preserves things from corruption - even as it corrodes other things with its bite. A little of it fertilizes the land; a lot sterilizes it.

  Margaret Visser

  Men, Rocks, Land

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• The world doesn't go around on love between men and women. Lovers get very little done. But friends do. When you are past middle life - and I hope you have the rich experience of love along the way - don't think everything is all over. Don't regret the vanished cocktail when the stuffed turkey is about to come in. Flip out your napkin and bite into it! Friends you can gather around you in the later years of life are worth the whole thing.

  Marie Dressler

  Regret, Past, Love Is

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• Bait the hook well. This fish will bite.

  William Shakespeare

  Food, Cooking, Bait

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.94

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• Lucy took a single plain donut from the bag and held it for me to take a bite. Tender and light and still warm from the frying. Not too sugary.

  Robert Crais

  Food, Light, Cooking

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• Timid dogs more eagerly bark than bite.

  Quintus Curtius Rufus

  Dog, Bark

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