White Teeth Quotes

• I'll let you in on something big: I'm not a white-teeth teen.

  Lorde

  White, Teeth, Bigs

  Song: White Teeth Teens, Album: Pure Heroine, 2013

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• I'm sick of very white teeth and lots of gymnasium practice. I'm bored, you know, send in the next one. I wanted a real man that I could believe was my brother, my father, you know, my next-door neighbor - a real person.

  Tim Roth

  Brother, Father, Real

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• I've never had white teeth. To be honest, I've never been told to do any of those horrible things - get your teeth whitened or your nose straightened.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  White, Teeth, Noses

  "Helena Bonham Carter: 'We're the bonkers couple'". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2010.

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• Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.

  Zadie Smith

  Life, Two, Different

  Zadie Smith (2003). “White Teeth”, p.299, Vintage

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• Pulchritude--beauty where you would least suspect it, hidden in a word that looked like it should signify a belch or a skin infection.

  Zadie Smith

  Skins, Should, Infection

  Zadie Smith (2003). “White Teeth”, p.264, Vintage

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• We are so convinced of the goodness of ourselves, and the goodness of our love, we cannot bear to believe that there might be something more worthy of love than us, more worthy of worship. Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.

  Zadie Smith

  Believe, Deserve Love, Water

  Zadie Smith (2000). “White Teeth: A Novel”, Random House Incorporated

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• ...They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.

  Zadie Smith

  Shadow, Loses

  Zadie Smith (2000). “White teeth”

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• It's still easier to find the correct Hoover bag than to find one pure person, one pure faith, on the globe.

  Zadie Smith

  Bags, Easier, Hoover

  Zadie Smith (2003). “White Teeth”, p.196, Vintage

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• You are never stronger...than when you land on the other side of despair.

  Zadie Smith

  Land, Empowering, Despair

  "White Teeth: A Novel". Book by Zadie Smith, June 12, 2001.

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• Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.

  Zadie Smith

  Deserve Love, Water, Cards

  Zadie Smith (2000). “White Teeth: A Novel”, Random House Incorporated

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• This is what divorce is: taking things you no longer want from people you no longer love.

  Zadie Smith

  Divorce, People, Want

  Zadie Smith (2003). “White Teeth”, p.8, Vintage

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• I cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not.

  Zadie Smith

  Fun, Believe, Heterosexuality

  Zadie Smith (2003). “White Teeth”, p.238, Vintage

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• It's important to maintain an attractive smile as you age. A lighter, less beige, more white tooth color is key, but no Chiclets.

  Evelyn Lauder

  Keys, Color, White

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• Everything looks stark and vivid and frozen, as though drawn precisely and outlined in ink - parents' smiles frozen, camera flashes blinding, mouths open and white teeth glinstening, dark glossy hair and deep blue sky and unrelenting light, everyone drowning in light - everything so clear and perfect I'm sure it must already be a memory, or a dream.

  Lauren Oliver

  Dream, Memories, Dark

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• She started walking toward me and perfect white teeth caught her full bottom lip between them. I’d fantasized about those lips way too many times. She’d barely covered up her long tanned legs with a pair of shorts that made me want to go to church this Sunday just to thank God for creating her.

  Abbi Glines

  Sunday, Covered Up, White

  Abbi Glines (2012). “The Vincent Boys”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• The pile of guts was a black blob of flies that buzzed like a saw. After a while these flies found Simon. Gorged, they alighted by his runnels of sweat and drank. They tickled under his nostrils and played leapfrog on his thighs. They were black and iridescent green and without number; and in front of Simon, the Lord of the Flies hung on his stick and grinned. At last Simon gave up and looked back; saw the white teeth and dim eyes, the blood—and his gaze was held by that ancient, inescapable recognition.

  William Golding

  Eye, White, Numbers

  William Golding (2016). “Lord of the Flies”, p.100, Hamilton Books

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• The laughter in his deep-set black eyes, the feverish heat of his big hand around mine, the flash of his white teeth against his dark skin, his face stretching into the wide smile that had always been like a key to a secret door where only kindred spirits could enter.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Laughter, Eye, Dark

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• Now, back to my vacation idea.” Finn grinned, showing off his perfect white teeth. “Just think about it. You, Owen, me, and Bria, all happily ensconced in a swanky hotel by a beautiful beach. Bria in a bikini. You and Owen doing your own thing, Bria in a bikini. Did I mention Bria in a bikini?

  Jennifer Estep

  Beautiful, Beach, Thinking

  Jennifer Estep (2012). “Thread of Death”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• What I preserved in the figures [at Invisible Man] are those white eyes and white teeth, because that's still connected to the way in which blackness, in the extreme, has been stigmatized and the way it was often joked that you couldn't see black people in the dark until they had their eyes open or were smiling.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Eye, Dark, Men

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• American actors are all muscular, tanned, white teeth and they have this indestructible confidence. We British are all... Dare I say it? Pessimistic.

  Max Irons

  White, Teeth, Actors

  "Max Irons talks to Stephanie Rafanelli". www.harpersbazaar.com. April 6, 2011.

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• She was white, perhaps too white. Her eyes, which were almost always cast down, when she raised them testified to the purest of souls, and when she smiled, revealing her small, white teeth, one might be tempted to say that a rose is merely a plant, and ivory just an elephant's tusk.

  Jose Rizal

  Eye, Elephants, Ivory

  Jose Rizal (2006). “Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not)”, p.49, Penguin

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• Vampires have bright eyes glistening white teeth unnaturally smooth skin and a certain animal magnetism. If they aren't pretty they starve. It's sort of like life in Los Angeles.

  Molly Harper

  Eye, Animal, White

  Molly Harper (2009). “Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• And I have the sunset, and the Tuscan wine, and the white teeth of the women in Rome. I am a traveler in Romance.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Wine, Sunset, Rome

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• I would never normally approach a woman in this way, but I couldn't help but notice that you have the eyes of a lady I was once desperately in love with. " "What a shame to love only once," she said, showing her white teeth in a wicked smile. "I've heard some men can manage twice or even more." I ignored her gibe. "I am only a fool once. Never will I love again.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Eye, Men, White

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.423, Penguin

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• I grew up in a house where my father went on auditions, and he got some and he lost some, and there were good years and lean years. I didn't expect anything from the business, and that's often a danger in Hollywood, the notion that if you're pretty and have white teeth and just show up for the game then you'll win.

  Chris Pine

  Father, Winning, Years

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