Mouths Quotes - Page 21

I tend to put my foot in my mouth. I'm not good at being diplomatic. I tend to piss people off.

The first question that comes out of everybody's mouth, 'Did you bite the head off a bat?' And I did, so, next.

Humans said one thing with their bodies and another with their mouths and everyone had to spend time and energy figuring out what they really meant. And once you did understand them, the Humans got angry and acted as though you had stolen thoughts from their minds.

Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?

If the heavens throw you dates, you got to keep your mouth open.

What interests me when I'm writing is being able to crawl into a character's head and speak from his or her mouth. It's not pulling the strings on a marionette, it's not playing ventriloquist, and it's not mimicry. It's about inhabiting a character, and, at the same time, being totally unaware of what you've become.

Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit.

Marketing only really works with word of mouth.

Unless I'm running and yelling, then you really see how crooked my mouth is!

Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

There were no spells at my school, just a smack in the mouth.

It's like taking over This Is Your Life from Eamonn Andrews - you just open your mouth and hope you sound like yourself. That's all you can possibly do.

And now, at last, gaiaphage and Nemesis stood facing each other. “Why didn’t you just . . . fade?” Gaia demanded plaintively. “You hit me,” Nemesis said. It was a little boy’s voice coming from Caine’s mouth. “And that’s not okay.

Advice is more agreeable in the mouth than in the ear.

When Jesus Christ utters a word, He opens His mouth so wide that it embraces all Heaven and earth, even though that word be but in a whisper.

Word-of-mouth is powerful, trusted, and cheap.

I love words very much. I've always loved to talk, and I've always love words — the words that rest in your mouth, what words mean and how you taste them and so on. And for me the spoken word can be used almost as a gesture.

Let's be in awe which doesn't mean anything but the courage to gape like fish at the surface breaking around our mouths as we meet the air.

I am not a sound bite person. I prefer to run at the mouth.

Thus we use our supposed "knowledge" of others to speak on their behalf, and condemn them for their words we ourselves put in their silent mouths.

The sky is no bigger than the mouth of the well.

If you feel driven to feed the poor, get your checkbook out and keep your tyrannical mouth shut about it.

The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth.

There's a billboard in a little farm town in the Midwest that says: IF YOU COMPLAIN ABOUT FARMERS, DON'T TALK WITH YOUR MOUTH FULL.

They could steam up windows with their kisses, but as soon as they started using their mouths for other things—like talking—everything got so complicated.