Chewing Quotes - Page 2

• Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes.

  John Mason Brown

  Eye, Television, Gum

  Interview, 28 July 1955, quoted in James B. Simpson, Best Quotes of '54, '55, '56 (1957).

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• This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Country, Book, Reading

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• I found out was, by the rhythm of my chewing, how I chewed fast, slow or what have you, I could tell the audience what my character was thinking and feeling.

  Rod Steiger

  Character, Thinking, Feelings

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• You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.

  Jack Welch

  Dream, Commitment, Long

  Interview with Larry Kudlow, www.nationalreview.com. March 17, 2009.

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• Men even contract the dirty, filthy habit of chewing tobacco, and when the habit gets a good hold upon them they are never satisfied except when they have a wad of the stuff in their mouth. So with drinking. It is largely a habit.

  Thomas Jordan Jarvis

  Drinking, Dirty, Men

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• I just want to make pictures that are entertaining. I'll leave the scenery chewing to someone else

  Alan Ladd

  Want, Scenery, Entertaining

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• Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.

  Dave Barry

  Coffee, Ice Cream, Cake

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• TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• Chewing transforms even toxins into nutritive substances.

  George Ohsawa

  Toxins, Substance

  "Essential Ohsawa: From Food to Health, Happiness to Freedom - Understanding the Basics of Macrobiotics". Book edited by Carl Ferré and Herman Aihara, p. 97, 1994.

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• But ice-crunching and loud gum-chewing, together with drumming on tables, and whistling the same tune 70 times in succession, because they indicate an indifference on the part of the perpetrator to the rest of the world in general, are not only registered on the delicate surfaces of the brain but eat little holes in it until it finally collapses or blows up.

  Robert Benchley

  Blow, Ice, Brain

  Robert Benchley (1970). “Benchley Lost and Found: 39 Prodigal Pieces”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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• I believe that it may be normal, healthy, and even productive to experience mild to moderate depression from time to time as part of the variable emotional spectrum, either as an appropriate response to situations or as a way of turning inward and mentally chewing over problems to find solutions.

  Andrew Weil

  Believe, Emotional, Healthy

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• If you want to know what cram is, I can only say that I don’t know the recipe; but it is biscuitish, keeps good indefinitely, is supposed to be sustaining, and is certainly not entertaining, being in fact very uninteresting except as a chewing exercise.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Exercise, Recipes, Want

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.128, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Number of things happen after I was 50. One, you are hopefully secure in what you want to do - which means that you don't spend a lot of time chewing on your knuckles about your reason for being here.Also, you're at your most beautiful. No woman is ever more beautiful than she is at 50.

  Maya Angelou

  Beautiful, Mean, Numbers

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• You guys (Boko Haram) are trying so hard to convince everybody that you're such badasses. But all you've done with this kidnapping is highlight who the real badasses are, the kids you kidnapped. Compared to a teenager who knows that her desire for an education could get her dragged into a snake infested jungle to be sold as a bribe to some demented, stick-chewing cartoon villain but still gets up and goes to class everyday, fully aware of that danger - compared to their courage - I'd say Boko Haram is a bunch of little girls. But, you know what? You don't deserve that compliment.

  Jon Stewart

  Girl, Badass, Teenager

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• Back at the Rash [a Florida nightclub], a waif in a lime latex body tube went into the rest room to snort the newest designer drug, XGB5, which gave people the uncanny sensation of throwing money away while chewing their own lips off. It was hard to come by and everyone had to have it.

  Tim Dorsey

  Florida, People, Drug

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• Part of any serious QA is removing Perl code the same way you go over a dilapidated building you inherit to remove chewing gum and duct tape and fix whatever was kept together for real.

  Erik Naggum

  Real, Together, Tape

  Re: can lisp do what perl does easily? (Usenet article), groups.google.com. March 23, 2000.

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• What is this thing that has us chewing at our own selves, grating ourselves against our own sharp sieve? It is the act of stepping back. It is the act of separating, and judging. It takes only one because the one becomes two.

  Bonnie Friedman

  Self, Two, Judging

  Bonnie Friedman (2014). “Writing Past Dark: Envy, Fear, Distraction and Other Dilemmas in the Writer's Life”, p.2, Harper Collins

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• It is so very easy and so very pleasant, too, to read only books which lead to nothing, light and interesting books, and the more the better, that it is almost as difficult to wean ourselves from it as from the habit of chewing tobacco to excess, or of smoking the whole time, or of depending for stimulus upon tea or coffee or spirits.

  Charles Francis Adams, Sr.

  Coffee, Book, Light

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• Fifty years ago, teachers said their top discipline problems were talking, chewing gum, making noise, and running in the halls. The current list, by contrast, sounds like a cross between a rap sheet and the seven deadly sins.

  Anna Quindlen

  Running, Teacher, Rap

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.111, Ballantine Books

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• Getting older is a lot of fun. Right up there with chewing glass or putting your hand in a blender.

  Albert Brooks

  Fun, Glasses, Hands

  Twitter post from Jul 22, 2011

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• Child labor, not a problem. Censorship, not a problem. Torture, not a problem. Chewing gum in China - oh, my God! You better not be over here chewing gum.

  David Letterman

  Children, Gum, Censorship

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• It is an anomaly that information, the one thing most necessary to our survival as choosers of our own way, should be a commodity subject to the same merchandising rules as chewing gum.

  A. J. Liebling

  Knowledge, Survival, Anomalies

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• You can keep on chewing gum for ten hours, but after about a minute and a half you've got all the good out of it.

  Twyla Tharp

  Gum, Half, Hours

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• So much of TV seems to be chewing gum for the eyes.... TV desperately needs more self-reliance and pride in the medium.

  John Mason Brown

  Eye, Pride, Self

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• Is this Nation stating it cannot afford to spend an additional $600 million to help the developing nations of the world become strong and free and independentan amount less than this countrys annual outlay for lipstick, face cream, and chewing gum?

  John F. Kennedy

  Strong, Gum, World

  "Remarks at the dinner of the Protestant Council of the City of New York". November 8, 1963.

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