Spit Quotes - Page 8

• Who spit in your porridge?

  Jodi Picoult

  Porridge

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• I spit
  honey out of my mouth:
  nothing is second-best
  after the sweet of Eros.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Love, Sweet, Mouths

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.157, New Directions Publishing

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• Something tells me my spit wouldn't mean as much to Corr as yours would." There's a long Pause before Sean speaks. He says, "Maybe not yet." Yet! I don't think I've ever heard such a fine word before.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Mean, Thinking, Long

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• Or maybe, he thought now, he just didn't recognize all those other girls. The way a computer drive will spit out a disk if it doesn't recognize the formatting. When he touched Eleanor's hand, he recognized her. He knew.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Girl, Hands, Way

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.66, St. Martin's Griffin

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• I'm one, too," he said. "What?" He spit a wad of blood and mucus into the dirt. "A virgin." What a shock. "What makes you think I'm a virgin?" I asked. "You wouldn't have hit me if you weren't.

  Rick Yancey

  Thinking, Blood, Make You Think

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• The wolf howled under the leaves And spit out the prettiest feathers Of his meal of fowl: Like him I consume myself.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Fowl, Meals, Prettiest

  Wallace Fowlie, Arthur Rimbaud (1966). “Rimbaud”

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• Astonishingly, at some point, a sputtering torch was thrust into her hands. Alma did not see who gave it to her. She had never before been entrusted with fire. The torch spit sparks and sent chunks of flaming tar spinning into the air behind her as she bolted across the cosmos-the only body in the heavens who was not held to a strict elliptical path. Nobody stopped her. She was a comet. She did not know that she was not flying.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Air, Hands, Fire

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.80, A&C Black

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• orthodoxy is a fixed habit of mind. The average man and woman hug their orthodoxies and spit their venom on those that outrage them.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Men, Average, Hug

  Gertrude Atherton (2012). “Black Oxen”, p.308, Broadview Press

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• Business can change you, and chew you up, and spit you out, and be rid of you, and on to the next thing. That's why it's so important to know who you are and stand up for something.

  Alicia Keys

  Important, Next, Knows

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• I'll throw ya gang-sign up, and then I'll spit on my hand.

  Immortal Technique

  Hands, Technique, Gang

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• Amy: I never knew you drank wine. Doctor: I'm 1103 I must have drunk it sometime in my life. *takes sip and spits it out in disgust*

  Steven Moffat

  Wine, Doctors, Drunk

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• So most people go around with grimy machinery, when all it would take is a bit of spit and polish to make them paladins once more, bold knights and true.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Knights, People, Machinery

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.60, Macmillan

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• Absolute freedom doesn't exist and never did. Just as we don't spit on the floor at work, swear at customers, or send out letters full of misspellings, so too we might have to 'watch our language.' It is odd that the request for unbiased language in schools and workplaces is considered intolerable when other limits on our freedom to do whatever we want are not.

  Rosalie Maggio

  School, Letters, Want

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• Perfect hexagonal tubes in a packed array. Bees are hard-wired to lay them down, but how does an insect know enough geometry to lay down a precise hexagon? It doesn't. It's programmed to chew up wax and spit it out while turning on its axis, and that generates a circle. Put a bunch of bees on the same surface, chewing side-by-side, and the circles abut against each other - deform each other into hexagons, which just happen to be more efficient for close packing anyway.

  Peter Watts

  Circles, Axes, Perfect

  Peter Watts (2014). “Firefall”, p.193, Head of Zeus

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• I spit into the face of time that has transfigured me

  William Butler Yeats

  Faces

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.37, Wordsworth Editions

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• You can go outside and spit and have the same effect as doubling carbon dioxide.

  Reid Bryson

  Carbon, Carbon Dioxide, Effects

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• Long strands of drool stretched from between his fangs and dripped on the pavement, sending a heady scent of jasmine to swirl through the air. Perfumed monster spit. What was the world coming to?

  Ilona Andrews

  Air, Long, Monsters

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.73, Penguin

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• Rainbow drops - suck them and you can spit in six different colours.

  Roald Dahl

  Rainbow, Different, Six

  Roald Dahl (1977). “Charlie and the chocolate factory”

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• Of course. I loved it so much it made me want to spit on you!!

  Jun Mochizuki

  Want, Made, Pandora Hearts

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• The streets would have chewed me up and spit me out and I knew that, but I found my own ways and different knacks for getting in trouble and being reckless with my life. And I've overcome a lot of personal demons and to be alive is really my greatest achievement.

  Michael K. Williams

  Achievement, Alive, Way

  "Talking With Our Mouths Full: Michael Kenneth Williams". Interview with Mark Anthony Green, www.gq.com. October 4, 2011.

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• Pain comes at me and I take it, chew it for a few minutes, and spit it back out. It's just not my thing anymore.

  Dave Eggers

  Pain, Minutes

  Dave Eggers (2013). “A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius: A Memoir Based on a True Story”, p.222, Simon and Schuster

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• He rarely smoked, but once in a while, like now, when his world had been shaken, his woman nearly killed in front of his eyes, and he’d watched a house consume a man and spit him out, he figured a drag or two were appropriate.

  Christine Feehan

  Eye, Men, Two

  Christine Feehan (2012). “Christine Feehan's Drake Sisters Series: Five Novels and a Novella”, p.1253, Penguin

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• Every time you prefer the pleasures of this world to the joys of heaven, you spit in the face of Christ; every time when to gain in your business, you do an unrighteous thing, you are like Judas selling Him for thirty pieces of silver; every time you make a false profession of religion, you give Him a traitor's kiss; every word you have spoken against Him, every hard thought you have had of Him, has helped to complete your complicity with the great crowd which gathered around the Cross of Calvary, to mock and jeer the Lord of life and glory.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Kissing, Giving, Joy

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• Babies on television never spit up on the Ultrasuede.

  Erma Bombeck

  Baby, Children, Spit Up

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• Navarette, a Chinese missionary, agrees with Leibniz and says that "It is the special providence of God that the Chinese did not know what was done in Christendom; for if they did, there would be never a man among them, but would spit in our faces.

  Matthew Tindal

  Men, Chinese, Special

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