Biting famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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She tried to allow herself only one biting remark an hour, and she had already overstepped her allowance.
-- Anne Stuart -
But, brothers, this biting of their toe-nails over what is the CAUSE of badness is what turns me into a fine laughing malchick. They don't go into what is the cause of GOODNESS, so why of the other shop?
-- Anthony Burgess -
My opinion was that if hogs are biting you so often that you have to stop and make up a specific word for it, maybe lack of vocabulary is not your most pressing problem.
-- Charles Frazier -
Nothing can allay the rage of biting envy.
-- Claudius Claudianus -
I prefer rugby to soccer. I enjoy the violence in rugby, except when they start biting each other's ears off.
-- Elizabeth Taylor -
You've got the words to change a nation but you're biting your tongue
-- Emeli Sande -
It was unbelievable seeing me as an action figure! In a few months, toddlers all around the country will be biting my head off!
-- Emma Watson -
Beware of biting jests; the more truth they carry with them, the greater wounds they give, the greater smarts they cause, and the greater scars they leave behind them.
-- Johann Kaspar Lavater -
I've never related to the work geek at all-it sounds much more horrible than nerd. Like a freak biting a chicken's head off in a sideshow.
-- Jonathan Lethem -
I'm not biting my fingernails. I'm biting my knuckles. I finished the fingernails months ago.
-- Joseph L. Mankiewicz -
Royce Westmoreland stared at him with biting scorn. "I despise hypocrisy, particularly when it is coated with holiness." "May I ask for a specific example?" "Fat priests," Royce replied, "with fat purses, who lecture staving peasants on the dangers of gluttony and the merits of poverty.
-- Judith McNaught -
I'm obsessed with beards. First of all, beards make you look like more of an animal. Second, I kind of like biting beards; it's a pastime of mine.
-- Kesha -
I often remembered also that I had been told, that we shall have as many devils biting us, if we go to hell, as we have unconfessed sins on our consciences.
-- Maria Monk -
There's nothing like biting off more than you can chew, and then chewing anyway.
-- Mark Burnett -
I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that's OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.
-- Ozzy Osbourne -
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 -
Heartfelt, inspired songwritingwith a delivery both biting and assured.
-- Paul Zollo -
Failures plagued me. Things I had omitted or ignored, neglected. What I should have given and hadn’t. I felt the biting pang of every unfulfillment.
-- Richard Matheson -
The way Conway Morris goes about biting the hand that once fed him would make a shoal of piranha seem decorous.
-- Simon Conway Morris -
Biting enemies seems to be acceptable in a surprisingly narrow range of circumstances, or so a ninja shouted at me once
-- Steve Aylett -
Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.
-- T. S. Eliot -
[The writer] must essentially draw from life as he sees it, lives it, overhears it or steals it, and the truer the writer, perhaps the bigger the blackguard. He lives by biting the hand that feeds him.
-- Charles R. Jackson -
I am the King of biting off more than I can chew.
-- The Rocket Summer
