Mouths Quotes - Page 44

Usually the German translators do something terrible, especially with Tom Wolfe, which is that they make it local. So if the characters are from Harlem, the translators put all this Berlin slang into their mouths, and that's just terrible. You cringe when you read that. But there really is no good solution to the problem, except learning English.

You should never stick something that you are allergic to into your mouth, especially if that thing is cats.

Never look a gift lion in the mouth.

There's imperfect food out there that just needs a mouth to bite into it.

She opened her mouth but did not immediately speak, and I felt, simultaneously, the impulse to coax the words from her and the impulse to suppress them. I always thought I wanted to know a secret, or I wanted an event to unfold – I wanted my life to start – but in those rare moments when it seemed like something might actually change, panic shot through me.

After awhile you realize that putting your actions where your mouth is makes you less likely to have to put your money where your mouth is.

A sign of a lover of wisdom is his delight in not running his mouth about things he doesn't know.

You keep runnin that mouth and I'm goin to take you back there and screw you.

And Derek was... what? A pair of dark eyes that hid more than they revealed and some broad shoulders and a mouth that could be cold and thin and then suddenly widen into a generous grin just when you thought such a thing was impossible.

You couldn’t keep your mouth shut? I’m calling you Glitterhair from now on. Or Talksalot.

As soon as a Democrat or a liberal organization opens their mouth and says "We want to see this," it's going to go over the heads. And same way on the abortion debate, if they want to make a change, it is not going to come from a Republican, it's going to have to come from a Democrat.

Tyler's words coming out of my mouth. I used to be such a nice person.

Could you hold the chainsaw a bit closer to your mouth, please?

Tyler and me at the edge of the roof, the gun in my mouth, I'm wondering how clean this gun is.

I have a preponderance to look smug in photos; something to do with the way my mouth turns up at the corners.

Chocolate just may be the healthiest thing you can put in your mouth.

[Would] a sensible man spit out the juicy morsel that good fortune put in his mouth?

When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth

When I don't know what to do, I just open my mouth. Why won't anyone date me?

It's hard to smoke a pipe, and it's actually kind of brutal. It burns your mouth and your throat, and to keep it lit.

You do not think much of me, do you, Cogburn?" "I don't think about you at all when your mouth is closed.

Words are in this respect like water, that they often take their taste, flavour, and character, from the mouth out of which they proceed, as the water from the channel through which it flows.

Fay had a spot of blood on the left side of her mouth and I took a wet cloth and wiped it off. Women were meant to suffer; no wonder they asked for constant declarations of love.

He looked like he'd just seen the Ghost of You Better Shut Your Mouth.

Love, I've never been anyone's mother; I don't know how to talk to young or old. But don't stop smiling just because I flap my mouth and say something that's not dressed around the edges like a lace tablecloth. Thicken up and we'll get along fine.