Bites Quotes - Page 29

• Love is a slippery eel that bites like hell

  Bertrand Russell

  Love Is, Eels, Hell

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• The constant need to move on, and to document progress, in normal schools means that education tends to be cut up into bite sized task.

  Guy Claxton

  Moving, School, Mean

  Guy Claxton (2001). “Wise Up”, p.282, A&C Black

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• The real enemy is not fat but us. We are the misusers; we are the greedy ones. If we have no better sense than to purposefully destroy ourselves, it is no wonder that nature punishes us with vile diseases and calls in our maker long before their time. Nature remembers every extra bite of cherry pie, T-bone steak, fried chicken, pizza.

  Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz

  Real, Pie, Long

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• The physical thing of having a man following you around all day trying to take your photograph - it's eerie. There is a pure physical response. If you go up and kick a dog, it will bite you. But with photographers, you can't do that.

  Chris Martin

  Dog, Men, Eerie

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• Knowing me is easy. You can still twist your hair and feel silly. Look up the word tacky and have a salad. But when we're together you pull bread apart with your fingers into bites sometimes so small I gotta remind you, Peach, it is okay to be hungry.

  Buddy Wakefield

  Silly, Hair, Knowing

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• I always felt that one day I would have to make the change in my own life, bite the bullet and see what it is to be a composer who conducts rather than the other way around.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  One Day, Bullets, Way

  "Maestro will pass baton to up-and-comer in '09" by Mark Swed, www.latimes.com. April 08, 2007.

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• Today we speak, but first we spoke; faucets leak, but never loke. Today we write, but first we wrote; we bite our tongues, but never bote.

  Richard Lederer

  Writing, Today, Tongue

  Richard Lederer (2010). “Crazy English”, p.137, Simon and Schuster

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• The most effective sermons are those which make opposers of the Gospel bite their lips and gnash their teeth.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Teeth, Lips, Opposers

  Spurgeon, Charles H. “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 44: Sermons 2549-2602”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• It is the man that has nothing to lose or is willing to lose everything to beat you that I am afraid of. If a man is willing to lose his life to bite off my nose then I don't care how good I am or what I do to him- he's gonna get my nose.

  Bruce Lee

  Men, Noses, Care

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• Every bite you eat stays in mouth for two minutes, for two hours in stomach and for two month on hips.

  Christian Dior

  Two, Mouths, Months

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• Better close your window tight or I might come in for a bite, I'm a sleep walker.

  Ray Davies

  Sleep, Insanity, Might

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• There is an art in taking the whiplash of suffering full in the face, an art you must learn. Let each single attack exhaust itself; pain always makes single attacks, so that its bite may be more intense, more concentrated. And you, while its fangs are implanted and injecting their venom at one spot, do not forget to offer it another place where it can bite you, and so relieve the pain of the first.

  Cesare Pavese

  Art, Pain, Suffering

  Cesare Pavese (2017). “This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950”, p.207, Routledge

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• Observe this, that tho a woman swear, forswear, lie, dissemble, back-bite, be proud, vain, malicious, anything, if she secures the main chance, she's still virtuous; that's a maxim.

  George Farquhar

  Women, Lying, Proud

  Joseph Addison, Mr. John Dryden, Richard Steele, William Shakespeare, Colley Cibber (1750). “A Select Collection of the Best Modern English Plays: Vol. V.”, p.21

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• Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Philosophy, Eye, Feel Good

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• Without social networks, you're not the coolest thing on the Christmas list, and you're not getting any bite.

  Joe Greene

  Lists, Social Network, Social

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• The fox when it sees a flock of herons or magpies or birds of that kind, suddenly flings himself on the ground with his mouth open to look as he were dead; and these birds want to peck at his tongue, and he bites off their heads.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Bird, Looks, Mouths

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.459, GENERAL PRESS

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• can only write about what bites you.

  Tom Stoppard

  Writing

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• Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Art, Book, Toil

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.306, Cambridge University Press

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• Frankly, sharing a media market with Chuck Schumer is like sharing a banana with a monkey. Take a little bite of it, and he will throw his own feces at you.

  Jon Corzine

  Media, Politics, Littles

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• Some people you just had to embrace, in some way or another, had to bite into the muscle, to remain sane in their company. You needed to grab their hair and clutch it like a drowner so they would pull you into their midst. Otherwise they, walking casually down the street towards you, almost about to wave, would leap over a wall and be gone for months.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Wall, Hands, People

  "The English Patient". Book by Michael Ondaatje, 1992.

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• Sometimes when you get hammered till the small hours you feel pretty good in the morning, but really it's just because you're still a bit drunk. That old hangover is just toying with you, working out when to bite.

  Jojo Moyes

  Morning, Hangover, Drunk

  Jojo Moyes (2012). “Me Before You”, p.275, Penguin UK

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• It was a bad idea, because I think that any government reorganization has to come in relatively small bites, or else you get indigestion.

  Warren Rudman

  Thinking, Government, Ideas

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• When you bait your hook with your heart, the fish always bite.

  John Burroughs

  Heart, Fishing, Bait

  "The Art of Seeing Things: Essays".

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• Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men.

  James M. Barrie

  Men, Rivers, Lakes

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• It's a little like casting out hundreds of fishing lines into the audience. You start getting little bites, then more, then you hook a few, then more. Then you can start reeling them in and that's a loveliest feeling - the whole audience laughing with you.

  Jim Dale

  Fishing, Laughing, Feelings

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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