Bites Quotes - Page 35

• Every expression of desired friendship has potential bite. Every smile reveals the teeth.

  Dean Koontz

  Friendship, Expression, Teeth

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Velocity: A Novel”, p.105, Bantam

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• Kim Newman's Anno Dracula is back in print, and we must celebrate. It was the first mash-up of literature, history and vampires, and now, in a world in which vampires are everywhere, it's still the best, and its bite is just as sharp. Compulsory reading, commentary, and mindgame: glorious.

  Neil Gaiman

  Reading, Literature History, Mash Up

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• In this age of micro-blogging and two second sound bites, almost no one has the attention span, or time, to read more than a few sentences.

  Tim Frick

  Two, Marketing, Age

  Tim Frick (2013). “Return on Engagement: Content, Strategy and Design Techniques for Digital Marketing”, p.173, Taylor & Francis

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• Animals generally return the love you lavish on them by a swift bite in passing-not unlike friends and wives.

  Gerald Durrell

  Love You, Animal, Wife

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• Simply put, dramatic irony is when a person makes a harmless remark, and someone else who hears it knows something that makes the remark have a different, and usually unpleasant, meaning. For instance, if you were in a restaurant and said out loud, "I can't wait to eat the veal marsala I ordered," and there were people around who knew that the veal marsala was poisoned and that you would die as soon as you took a bite, your situation would be one of dramatic irony.

  Daniel Handler

  People, Waiting, Different

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• Think of me as the praying mantis of the supernatural world. Aren't those the bugs that bite the heads off the males? Link looked skeptical. Yes. Then they eat them

  Kami Garcia

  Thinking, Praying Mantis, Males

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• Ah... Much better" he said. "Backbiter, Luke called it. An appropriate name. Now that it is reforged comeplately, it shall indeed bite back

  Rick Riordan

  Names, Said, Luke

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• You can say anything you want, yessir, but it's the words that sing, they soar and descend...I bow to them...I love them, I cling to them, I run them down, I bite into them, I melt them down...I love words so much...The unexpected ones...The ones I wait for greedily or stalk until, suddenly, they drop.

  Pablo Neruda

  Running, Waiting, Say Anything

  Pablo Neruda (1977). “Memoirs”

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• Bean finds the best apple in our tree and hands it up to me. "You know what this tastes like when you first bite into it?" she asks. "No, what?" "Blue sky." "You're zoomed." "You ever eat blue sky?" "No," I admit. "Try it sometime," she says. "It's apple-flavored.

  Rodman Philbrick

  Blue, Hands, Sky

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• Words, for all they were flimsy and invisible, had great strength. They could be fortified as a castle wall and sharp as a foil. They could bite, slap, shock, wound. But unlike deeds, words couldn't really help you. No promise ever rescued a person; it was the carrying-through of it that brought about salvation.

  Jodi Picoult

  Wall, Promise, Castles

  Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance: A Novel”, p.396, Simon and Schuster

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• There is a tiger in my room,' said Frances. 'Did he bite you?' said Father. 'No,' said Frances. 'Did he scratch you?' said Mother. 'No,' said Frances. 'Then he is a friendly tiger,' said Father. 'He will not hurt you. Go back to sleep.

  Russell Hoban

  Mother, Hurt, Father

  Russell Hoban “BEDTIME FOR FRANCES”

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• Love and charity share the same root word (caritas). How is that possible, when everything in our recent history suggest they cannot coexist, that they are antiethical, that if you put the two of them together in a sack they would bite and scratch and scream, until one of them is torn apart?

  Nick Hornby

  Two, Roots, Together

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• If you do a fifteen hour day on a film, there's a lot of time standing around but at the end of that, you want to go home to your hotel room and have a bite to eat, watch a movie and go to bed.

  Colin Farrell

  Home, Bed, Watches

  "Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, & Jessica Biel Discuss ‘Total Recall’". Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• This is my religion ... joy and exaltation in my own existence ... so go ahead and snarl ... bite ... howl, you Calvinistic divines and all you who say I am no Christian. I say you are not Christian.

  John Adams

  Christian, Joy, Religion

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• Incivility is a symptom, not the disease. We've always had partisan conflict in Congress, and we always will. Yet when I worked for a year (1970-71) on the staff of Sen. Ed Muskie of Maine, this was a different place, more collegial, more sensitive to data, more concerned about all of the American people. I think because the for-profit media prizes conflict above cooperation and sound bites above analysis, politicians have learned to adapt to those tendencies. Consequently, our public debates are dumbed down as our problems grow more complex.

  Tom Allen

  Thinking, Data, Media

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• Because of my pride in my Scottish heritage, I used to say things like 'I don't mind buying a round of drinks but I don't buy two'. It was something I joked about which has come back to bite me on the ----. I'm shrewd about money, I invest well, and look after it. But it's in my nature to be generous. I look after people.

  Rod Stewart

  Pride, Two, People

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