Top 25 Biting Quotes of 35 - Page 2

[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.

[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

Hands, Biting, Stealing

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

Vocabulary, Biting, Opinion

Charles Frazier (2006). “Thirteen Moons: A Novel”, p.81, Random House

I am the King of biting off more than I can chew.

The Rocket Summer

Kings, Biting, I Can

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

Should Have, Biting, Ignored

Richard Matheson (2007). “What Dreams May Come: A Novel”, p.38, Macmillan

Heartfelt, inspired songwritingwith a delivery both biting and assured.

Paul Zollo

Heartfelt, Biting, Inspired

I'm not biting my fingernails. I'm biting my knuckles. I finished the fingernails months ago.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Knuckles, Biting, Months

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

Smart, Giving, Biting

Lucy went first, biting her lip and trying not to say all the things she thought of saying to Susan. But she forgot them when she fixed her eyes on Aslan.

C. S. Lewis

Eye, Trying, Biting

The nostalgic notion of the family orchards is lovely - all that wholesome fruit for our forebears to sit on the back steps biting into - but basically we were growing it to drink.

Barbara Holland

Lovely, Growing, Biting

Barbara Holland (2008). “The Joy of Drinking”, p.2, Bloomsbury Publishing USA