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• Shakespeare might have met Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the white streets of London, or seen the serving-men of rival houses bite their thumbs at each other in the open square; but Hamlet came out of his soul, and Romeo out of his passion.

  Oscar Wilde

  Passion, Men, White

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1491, Delphi Classics

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• The investigation of nature is an infinite pasture-ground where all may graze, and where the more bite, the longer the grass grows, the sweeter is its flavor, and the more it nourishes.

  Aldous Huxley

  Nature, Flavor, May

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• You can’t bite your nose off to spite your face.

  Paul Merson

  Noses, Faces, Your Face

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• I think when the world makes you feel rejected, you bite back.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Thinking, World, Rejected

  "Tom Hiddleston On Set Interview THOR; Talks About Playing Loki, How He Got Cast, and a Lot More". Interview on the Set, collider.com. December 10, 2010.

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• Color and bite permeate a language designed to rally many men, to destroy some, and to change the minds of others.

  William Safire

  Men, Color, Mind

  1968 Safire's Political Dictionary, introduction.

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• Tardiness is next to wickedness in a society relentless in its consumption of time as both a good and a service--as tweet and Instagram, film clip and sound bite, as sporting event, investment opportunity, Tinder hookup, and interest rate--its value measured not by its texture or its substance but by the speed of its delivery, a distinction apparent to Andy Warhol when he supposedly said that any painting that takes longer than five minutes to make is a bad painting.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Opportunity, Substance, Texture

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• Animal crackers in my soup Monkeys and rabbits loop the loop Gosh oh gee but I have fun Swallowing animals one by one In every bowl of soup I see Lions and Tigers watching me I make 'em jump right through a hoop Those animal crackers in my soup When I get hold of the big bad wolf I just push him under to drown Then I bite him in a million bits And I gobble him right down When their inside me where it's dark I walk around like Noah's ark I stuff my tummy like a goop With animal crackers in my soup.

  Shirley Temple

  Fun, Dark, Animal

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• I wanna bite the hand that feeds me. I wanna bite that hand so badly. I want to make them wish they'd never seen me.

  Elvis Costello

  Hands, Wish, Want

  Song: Radio, Radio, Album: This Year's Model, 1978

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• China is an attractive piece of meat coveted by all ... but very tough, and for years no one has been able to bite into it.

  Zhou Enlai

  Years, Meat, Pieces

  To the Chinese Communist Party Congress, as quoted in The New York Times, September 1, 1973.

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• True majorities, in a TV-dominated and anti-intellectual age, may need sound bites and flashing lights and I am not against supplying such lures if they draw children into even a transient concern with science. But every classroom has one [Oliver] Sacks , one [Eric] Korn, or one [Jonathan] Miller , usually a lonely child with a passionate curiosity about nature, and a zeal that overcomes pressures for conformity. Do not the one in fifty deserve their institutions as well magic places, like cabinet museums, that can spark the rare flames of genius?

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Lonely, Children, Museums

  Stephen Jay Gould (1995). “Dinosaur in a haystack: reflections in natural history”, Harmony

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• Men that make Envy and crooked malice nourishment, Dare bite the best.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Envy, Dare

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Fenton John Anthony Hort, Nicholas Rowe (1790). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes”, p.358

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• The dog won't bite if you beat Him with a bone

  Tom Waits

  Dog, Bones, Beats

  Song: Lowside of the Road, Album: Mule Variations, 1999

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• I don't like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, 'Oh God, another one bites the dust.'

  Tom Waits

  Song, Thinking, Dust

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• In practice, some come to see easily, some with difficulty. But whatever the case, never mind. Difficult or easy, the Buddha said not to be heedless. Just that--don't be heedless. Why? Because life is not certain. Wherever we start to think that things are certain, uncertainty is lurking right there. Heedlessness is just holding things as certain. It is grasping at certainty where there is no certainty and looking for truth in things that are not true. Be careful! They are likely to bite you sometime in the future!

  Ajahn Chah

  Thinking, Practice, Mind

  Ajahn Chah (2001). “Being Dharma: The Essence of the Buddha's Teachings”, p.9, Shambhala Publications

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• You can eat an elephant if you do it one bite at a time.

  Robert Christopher Riley

  Elephants, Ifs

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• Passion is taking such a bite out of life that when the juices run down your face, everyone licks their lips!

  Chuck Spezzano

  Running, Passion, Juice

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• Someday, when my children are old enough to understand the logic that motivates a mother, I'll tell them: I loved you enough to bug you about where you were going, with whom and what time you would get home. ... I loved you enough to be silent and let you discover your friend was a creep. I loved you enough to make you return a Milky Way with a bite out of it to a drugstore and confess, 'I stole this.' ... But most of all I loved you enough to say no when you hated me for it. That was the hardest part of all.

  Erma Bombeck

  Mother, Children, Home

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• If mankind's destined to bite the bullet, let's bite it and be damned.

  Darren Shan

  Bullets, Mankind, Destined

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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 one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty.

  James Russell Lowell

  Wine, Vintage, Twenties

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.426

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• Fair and balanced is doublespeak for bite-out-chunks-of-truth until only irrelevancy is left, byte-sized, entertaining irrelevancy.

  Larisa Alexandrovna

  Entertaining, Balanced, Left

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