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You never die from a snake bite, you can't be unbitten it's in the way, what continues to pour through you long after the bite has taken place.
Bob ProctorThe belief is growing on me that the disease is communicated by the bite of the mosquito. ... She always injects a small quantity of fluid with her bite-what if the parasites get into the system in this manner.
Ronald RossPerhaps the world will end at the kitchen table, while we are laughing and crying, eating of the last sweet bite.
Joy HarjoWinter is the king of showmen, Turning tree stumps into snowmen And houses into birthday cakes And spreading sugar over lakes. Smooth and clean and frosty white, The world looks good enough to bite. Thatโs the season to be young, Catching snowflakes on your tongue. Snow is snowy when itโs snowing, Iโm sorry itโs slushy when itโs going.
Ogden NashItโs hard for everyone isnโt it? Anyone who says itโs easy is a liar. Thereโs this huge divide between me and Alex right now because I feel like weโre living in such different worlds, I donโt know what to talk about with him anymore. And we used to be able to talk all night. He phones once a week and I listen to what heโs been up to during the week and try to bite my tongue every time I go into another Katie story. Truth is I have nothing other to talk about but her and I know it bores people. I think I used to be interesting once upon a time.
Cecelia AhernThere was a time in my life when opportunities were so few and far between they were like little cracks in the wall, and if one opportunity came my way, I would scratch and claw and bite and I would do anything I could to make sure that I grabbed that opportunity by the throat and I did not let it go.
Dwayne JohnsonThe things we worry about the most are never the things that bite us. The sharpest teeth always take their nip of us when we are looking the other way.
Dean Koontzon Broadway money rules. Like a host of vultures, the ticket brokers, the speculators, the craft unions, the agents, the backers, the real estate owners move in on the creative body and take their bite. The world of dreams breathes in an iron lung; and without this mechanical pumping it dies.
Marya MannesWe might say that both the artist and theneurotic bite off more than they can chew, but the artist spews it back out again and chews it over in an objectified way, as an exยญternal, active, work project.
Ernest BeckerSince you and Crispin are now finished and I have a few hours to kill, how about that shag?โ he asked with heavy irony. โBite me,โ I sighed, gathering up the pages. He winked. โOf course. My second-favorite thing to do in bed.
Jeaniene FrostWe learned that lesson very well, especially in the eighties, that terrorists cannot be used as a political card, you cannot put it in your pocket, because it's like a scorpion; it will bite you someday.
Bashar al-AssadThink of me as the praying mantis of the supernatural world. Aren't those the bugs that bite the heads off the males? Link looked skeptical. Yes. Then they eat them
Kami GarciaHave you ever been bitten by an elephant? How about a mosquito? It's the little things in life that will bite you. For most of us, it's the frequent, small and seemingly inconsequential choices that are of grave concern.
Darren HardyWe know where the television is - everything has to be a sound bite; everything has to be an image; ideas are okay as long as they don't take more than four or five seconds to explain; candidates and issues are commodities that are sold like cans of soup; entertainment is limited to what a few people believe the lowest common denominator is; and you can't talk back to it.
Howard RheingoldI think I have a pretty good take on popular culture that maybe makes up for the fact that I'm not a sound-bite politician for the nightly news.
Barack ObamaEve said to the serpent, โYou know I could go for a bite to eat, but I don't know you from Adam.โ
Red ButtonsYou can give me detention. Oh, wait, that's right...you aren't the boss of me. So I guess you can just bite me. -Dean
Jeff MariotteToday the salaries of stars are astronomical in comparison with the 20's, but the high cost of today's living and taxes takes a huge bite out of these salaries.
Pola NegriHe will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]
HoraceA sound-bite culture can't discuss science very well. Exactly what we're losing when we reduce biodiversity, the causes and consequences of global warming-these traumas can't be adequately summarized in an evening news wrap-up.
Barbara KingsolverPress junkets are incredibly annoying. You sit in a chair for three to six hours and have different journalists shuttle in for three minutes at a time, asking cheesy movie questions to get a quick sound bite - and that's their only objective. You can't really move or eat. You're just stuck there. It's pressure, constant pressure.
Annabella SciorraWhen ล vejk subsequently described life in the lunatic asylum, he did so in exceptionally eulogistic terms: 'I really don't know why those loonies get so angry when they're kept there. You can crawl naked on the floor, howl like a jackal, rage and bite. If anyone did this anywhere on the promenade people would be astonished, but there it's the most common or garden thing to do. There's a freedom there which not even Socialists have ever dreamed of.
Jaroslav HaลกekI have always admired the ability to bite off more than one can chew and then chew it.
William C. deMilleAre you having performance issues?โ I asked in surprise. โBite your tongue,โ Vlad said, with a snort. โI was seeing if Dermot understood sign language, but from the look on his face, it seems not.
Jeaniene FrostSome of you, your success has messed you up! You've lost your bite! You're not hungry anymore!
Eric ThomasI think I'm drawn to more villain-type characters, because it's so cool to get to say all the things you want to say. In Hollywood, you get to this position where you have to bite your tongue so much. You take all your experiences of not being able to say what you really want to say, and channel that through your character.
Gabrielle UnionGood?โ Cam said. โRight?โ I took another bite and nodded. โWell, I have a whole ton of them at home.โ He stretched as he rolled up his napkin. โJust saying.
J. LynnThe most sumptuous experience of ingestion is in-between: remembering the last bite and looking forward to the next one.
Lionel ShriverPrayer is essentially the practice of the presence of God, and that is the road to Heaven. There is no alternative. God is the only game in town. All other roads are dead ends. Since we must give our all to the one true God, we must not give any part to idols, to the many false gods that now bite away at our lives.
Peter KreeftTake the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison.
Ursula K. Le GuinThey are very tame to me. God bless Noel, I'm sure he'll always have a spot on 'Bob's Full House', but I search for something with more bite and rage.
Steven Morrissey