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  • 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.

    Animal   Looks   Biting  
    Interview with Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2010.
  • I'm not really dying today. No person ever died that had a family. I'll be around a long time. A thousand years from now, a whole township of my offspring will be biting sour apples in the gumwood shade.

    Family   Years   Apples  
    Ray Bradbury (1980). “The Stories of Ray Bradbury”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated
  • There are two brands of discontent: the brand that merely fosters greed and snarling and back-biting, and the brand that inspires greater and greater effort to reach the desired goal. Which is your brand?

    Two   Goal   Effort  
  • It was cold out there, bitter, biting, cutting, piercing, hyperborean, marmoreal cold, and there were all these Minnesotans running around outdoors, happy as lambs in the spring.

    Charles Kuralt (1979). “Dateline America”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
  • How little wives may realize that a biting, stinging word in the morning will rob a husband of efficiency the whole day long. But a loving, tender, beautiful word—a little prayer word—will fill him with music and will lead him into victory.

  • 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 (2007). “What Dreams May Come: A Novel”, p.38, Macmillan
  • I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.

    Thinking   Biting   Ought  
    Ogden Nash (1941). “The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City publishing company, inc
  • The way Conway Morris goes about biting the hand that once fed him would make a shoal of piranha seem decorous.

    Hands   Way   Biting  
  • Summer explodes into Portland. In early June the heat was there but not the color--the green were still pale and tentative, the morning had a biting coolness--but by the last week of school everything is Technicolor and splash, outrageous blue skies and purple thunderstorms and ink-black night skies and red flowers as brights as spots of blood.

    Summer   Morning   Flower  
  • I hate nature. I really do. Nature is composed entirely of sticks, dirt, fall-down places, biting and stinging things, and savageries too numerous to list. And I'm not the only one who feels this way. Man has been building cities since the year oughty-ought, just to get away from this stuff.

    Hate   Fall   Men  
    Sue Grafton (2011). “F is for Fugitive”, p.140, Pan Macmillan
  • for the first time I tasted this tropical fruit, which people here are so fond of. ... I could have fancied I was biting into soap. I have a notion that we shall not become very good friends, the banana and I.

    Fredrika Bremer, Adolph Benson, Carrie Catt (2007). “America of the Fifties: Letters of Fredrika Bremer”, p.98, Applewood Books
  • She tried to allow herself only one biting remark an hour, and she had already overstepped her allowance.

  • Nothing can allay the rage of biting envy.

    Envy   Biting   Rage  
    "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 226-27, De Raptu Proserpinæ, III. 290, 1922.
  • And so I began to read,' Sorkar said. 'And at first the complete works were like a jungle, the language was quicksand. Metaphors turned beneath my feet and became biting snakes, similes fled from my grasp like frightened deer, taking all meaning with them. All was alien, and amidst the hanging, entangling creepers of this foreign grammar, all sound became a cacophany. I feared for myself, for my health and sanity, but then I thought of my purpose, of where I was and who I was, of pain and I pressed on.

    Pain   Snakes   Feet  
    Vikram Chandra (2011). “Red Earth and Pouring Rain”, p.277, Faber & Faber
  • 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 (2012). “A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)”, p.46, W. W. Norton & Company
  • There is only one things in this world shittier than biting it from cancer when you're sixteen, and that's having a kid who bites it from cancer.

    Cancer   Kids   World  
    John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.222, Penguin
  • I think the most tortured place in hell should be reserved not for traitors, but... for cowards. The weakest, most spineless losers. Because it seems to me that traitors? At least they made a choice. But cowards? They just run around biting their fingernails, totally afraid to do anything. Which is totally worse.

    Lauren Kate (2011). “The Fallen Sequence: An Omnibus Edition”, p.160, Delacorte Press
  • Like a falling star, he descended on the Tarbh Cró, a Cassiline berserker, his sword biting and slashing like a silver snake.

    Stars   Fall   Snakes  
    Jacqueline Carey (2002). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.697, Macmillan
  • Every dog is allowed one bite, but a different view is taken of a dog that goes on biting all the time. He may not get his licence returned when it falls due.

    Dog   Fall   Taken  
  • I may be biting off more than I can chew, but with 'The Simpsons' and with 'Futurama,' what I'm trying to do in the guise of light entertainment, if this is possible - is nudge people, jostle them a little, wake them up to some of the ways in which we're being manipulated and exploited.

    Light   People   Trying  
  • I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that's OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • When I stand at the top of the Champs-Elysées, with its chestnut trees in flower, its undulations of shining cars, its white spaciousness, I feel as if I were biting into a utopian fruit, something velvety and lustrous and rich and vivid.

    Flower   Paris   White  
  • Everything here below beneath the sun is subject to continual change; and perhaps there is nothing which can be called more inconstant than opinion, which turns round in an everlasting circle like the wheel of fortune. He who reaps praise today is overwhelmed with biting censure tomorrow; today we trample under foot the man who tomorrow will be raised far above us.

    Men   Circles   Feet  
    E. T. A. Hoffmann (2012). “The Best Tales of Hoffmann”, p.365, Courier Corporation
  • Time, we like to say, cures all. But maybe the old saying doesn’t mean time heals. Time cures a secret in its brine, keeping it and finally, paradoxically, destroying it. Nothing is left in that salt solution but the pain or rage, the biting shame that lodged it there. Even they are diluted or denied.

    Pain   Mean   Secret  
  • Lily Brown writes with and against things in poems that are coiled up tight as springs (or snakes). A believer in the power of the line, she writes, 'I think the plastics/and sink them' then 'Where is the sand/man hiding the dirt.' These terse, biting poems will make you look around and wonder.

    Spring   Writing   Men  
  • Don't let the same dog bite you twice.

    Chuck Berry (1987). “Chuck Berry: The Autobiography”, Random House Value Publishing
  • Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

    Time   Spring   Fall  
  • Eating meat is the most disgusting thing I can think of. It's like biting into your grandmother.

    "Auction of signed copy of Morrissey's Autobiography raises £8,000 for Peta", www.theguardian.com. December 31, 2013.
  • Bite off more than you can chew, then keep chewing.

  • We ought to give our friend pain if it will benefit him, but not to the extent of breaking off our friendship; but just as we make use of some biting medicine that will save and preserve the life of the patient. And so the friend, like a musician, in bringing about an improvement to what is good and expedient, sometimes slackens the chords, sometimes tightens them, and is often pleasant, but always useful.

    Friends   Pain   Medicine  
    Plutarch (1888). “Morals: Ethical Essays. Translated, with Notes and Index. by Arthur Richard Shilleto”
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