Biting Quotes - Page 2

• See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails

  Will Rogers

  Inspiration, Fingernails, Happens

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• The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.

  Chanakya

  Inspirational, Dog, Stupid People

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• Mosquito bites Jesus, receives communion.

  Demetri Martin

  Jesus, Mosquitoes, Communion

  FaceBook post by Demetri Martin from Nov 24, 2013

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• Life lives on life. This is the sense of the symbol of the Ouroboros, the serpent biting its tail. Everything that lives lives on the death of something else. Your own body will be food for something else. Anyone who denies this, anyone who holds back, is out of order. Death is an act of giving.

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Death, Order

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• It was cold out there, bitter, biting, cutting, piercing, hyperborean, marmoreal cold, and there were all these Minnesotans running around outdoors, happy as lambs in the spring.

  Charles Kuralt

  Happiness, Running, Spring

  Charles Kuralt (1979). “Dateline America”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• When I was a young girl salmon fishing with my father in the Straits of Juan de Fuca in Washington State I used to lean out over the water and try to look past my own face, past the reflection of the boat, past the sun and darkness, down to where the fish were surely swimming. I made up charm songs and word-hopes to tempt the fish, to cause them to mean biting my hook. I believed they would do it if I asked them well and patiently and with the right hope. I am writing my poems like this. I have used the fabric and the people of my life as the bait.

  Tess Gallagher

  Girl, Song, Father

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• Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

  T. S. Eliot

  Friendship, Lost Friendship, Should

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.192, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You've got the words to change a nation
  but you're biting your tongue

  Emeli Sande

  Tongue, Nations

  Song: Read All About It

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• She tried to allow herself only one biting remark an hour, and she had already overstepped her allowance.

  Anne Stuart

  Hours, Allowance, Remarks

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• We go, in winter's biting wind, On many a short-lived winter day, With aching back but willing mind To dig and double dig the clay.

  Ruth Pitter

  Winter, Wind, Mind

  Ruth Pitter (1969). “Collected poems”

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• There is only one things in this world shittier than biting it from cancer when you're sixteen, and that's having a kid who bites it from cancer.

  John Green

  Cancer, Kids, World

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.222, Penguin

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• Like a falling star, he descended on the Tarbh Cró, a Cassiline berserker, his sword biting and slashing like a silver snake.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Stars, Fall, Snakes

  Jacqueline Carey (2002). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.697, Macmillan

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• Nothing so mystical. Human beings hunger for killing, that is all. It only takes a few politicians to stoke division, or a few demagogues encouraging hatred to set your kind upon one another. And then before you know it, you have a whole nation biting on its own tail, going round and round until there is nothing left but the snapping of teeth.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Hatred, Teeth, Tails

  Paolo Bacigalupi (2012). “The Drowned Cities: Number 2 in series”, p.128, Hachette UK

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• A black sheep is a biting beast.

  Thomas Bastard

  Sheep, Black, Beast

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 740, 1922.

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• I wanted to be born at the farthest limit of the world. I'll explore it, I said to myself, biting big chunks from it. And when I want, I'll go straight to the core. This is the way of the world I thought in my innocence, round and around the layers of peel until the taste becomes certain.

  Abba Kovner

  Experience, World, Want

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• Don't let the same dog bite you twice.

  Chuck Berry

  Dog, African American, Musician

  Chuck Berry (1987). “Chuck Berry: The Autobiography”, Random House Value Publishing

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• Dogs are not like cats, who amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw. Men made dogs, they took wolves and gave them human things - unnecessary intelligence, names, a desire to belong, and a twitching inferiority complex. All dogs dream wolf dreams, and know they're dreaming of biting their Maker. Every dog knows, deep in his heart, that he is a Bad Dog.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dream, Dog, Heart

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• Humor is widely used by Indians to deal with life. Indian gatherings are marked by laughter and jokes, many directed at the horrors of history, at the continuing impact of colonization, and at the biting knowledge that living as an exile in one's own land necessitates. . . . Certainly the time frame we presently inhabit has much that is shabby and tricky to offer; and much that needs to be treated with laughter and ironic humor.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Laughter, Land, Impact

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• A lot of people don't realize that about 98 percent of the running I put in is anything but glamorous: 2 percent joyful participation, 98 percent dedication! It's a tough formula. Getting out in the forest in the biting cold and the flattening heat, and putting in kilometer after kilometer.

  Robert de Castella

  Running, Dedication, People

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• A Rattlesnake, if Cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is -- a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Peace, Hate, Thinking

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• I hate nature. I really do. Nature is composed entirely of sticks, dirt, fall-down places, biting and stinging things, and savageries too numerous to list. And I'm not the only one who feels this way. Man has been building cities since the year oughty-ought, just to get away from this stuff.

  Sue Grafton

  Hate, Fall, Men

  Sue Grafton (2011). “F is for Fugitive”, p.140, Pan Macmillan

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• We have about three hours of homework a night, and our evening study period is only two hours, so if you want to spend the break at half-past-nine not freaking out, you have to cram. I'm not sure that the picture of the wide-eyed zombie girl biting out the brains of senior douchebag James Page is part of Sam's homework, bit if it is, his physics teacher is awesome.

  Holly Black

  Girl, Senior, Teacher

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.14, Hachette UK

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• There was one of his lonelinesses coming, one of those times when he walked the streets or sat, aimless and depressed, biting a pencil at his desk. It was a self-absorption with no comfort, a demand for expression with no outlet, a sense of time rushing by, ceaselessly and wastefully - assuaged only by that conviction that there was nothing to waste, because all efforts and attainments were equally valueless.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Loneliness, Self, Expression

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more”, p.264, e-artnow

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• I ate him," said the homunculus, biting into his sausage. The kids couldn't hide their looks of horror. He smiled, sausage juice running down his chin. "Oh, don't worry - I cooked him first. I'm not a barbarian.

  Pseudonymous Bosch

  Running, Kids, Worry

  Pseudonymous Bosch (2012). “If You're Reading This, It's Too Late: The Secret Series”, p.127, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• Dear Angel Juan, You used to guard my sleep like a panther biting back my pain with the edge of your teeth. You carried me into the dark dream jungle, loping past the hungry vines, crossing the shiny fish-scale river. We left my tears behind in a chiming silver pool. We left my sorrow in the muddy hollows. When I woke up you were next to me, damp and matted, your eyes hazy, trying to remember the way I clung to you, how far down we went. Was the journey too far, Angel Juan? Did we go too far?

  Francesca Lia Block

  Dream, Pain, Sleep

  Francesca Lia Block (2008). “Beautiful Boys: Missing Angel Juan and Baby Be-Bop”, p.17, Zondervan

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