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“We 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.”

Wells Political Used Lessons Terrorist Cards Pockets Someday Bites Eighty Scorpions

Author:Bashar al-Assad

“[With Donald Trump] we are moving into an era where a lot of people get their information through tweets and sound bites and some headline that comes over their phone.”

People Moving Sound Information Trump Phones Eras Bites Tweet Headlines Sound Bites

Author:Barack Obama

“I think that there's a power in that [information through tweets and sound bites ]. There's also a danger, what generates a headline or stirs up a controversy and gets attention isn't the same as the process required to actually solve the problem.”

Thinking Problem Process Sound Attention Information Danger Solve Bites Controversy Tweet Headlines Sound Bites

Author:Barack Obama

“Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.”

Long Mankind Dog Humility Sorrow Mad Bites

Author:Jack Kerouac

“I eat green ants often enough. They are wonderful. The trick is to squash them before you eat them, otherwise they bite your tongue and it ruins the experience.”

Enough Wonderful Green Tongue Tricks Ruins Bites Ants Squash

Author:Tim Winton

“Raising interest rates might lead to some initial reductions in wealth by lowering asset prices, but it could also take a bite out of your paycheck and dampen your prospects of finding a job. It's a bit of damned if you do and damned if you don't.”

Ifs Might Jobs Bits Interest Wealth Findings Rate Assets Bites Initials Reduction Prospects Paychecks Interest Rate

Author:Gerald Epstein

“When you start worrying about who you're going to play, it could bite you. Because it really shouldn't matter.”

Matter Play Worry Bites

Author:Joe Maddon

“Women today leave the house in animal prints and six inch stilettos, what does that say? I'm going to church? They're saying I want you to hang me by my tits from your ceiling and bite my ass. You know what I mean? That's what it says to me anyway.”

Knows Want Mean Doe Today House Church Animal Six Ass Print Bites Inches I Want You Ceilings Going To Church Stilettos

Author:Andrew Dice Clay

“If you live among dogs, keep a stick. After all, this is what a hound has teeth for-to bite when he feels like it!”

Ifs Feels Dog Sticks Teeth Bites Hounds Hound Dogs

Author:Nikita Khrushchev

“In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running; if you stand still, they will swallow you.”

Ifs Stills Running Business Humorous Competition Bites Service Culture Keep Running

Author:Victor Kiam

“We 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.”

“When you are dealing with a mass movement, as opposed to a quote-unquote "elite," you are talking to people who don't have time to read long research papers. You have to communicate with them in sound bites, around every other thing they are doing. So it takes a long time to shift people from one message to the next, especially if your foundational narrative was, "The only one thing in the entire world you should be paying attention to is Darfur."”

“I think we - "we," meaning the media - have generally caused Americans to consume news in smaller, less contextualized bites. I think we have sugar-coated the news. I think we have provided news that is consumable, at the expense of news that is more important. I think we have created a world in which extreme views push out moderate views.”

Thinking World Important Views Media News Extremes Expenses Bites Sugar Moderates

Author:Ali Velshi

“In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.”

Matter Order Literature Social Moral Bites Conventions Bees Snakes Social Change Etiquette Pointless

Book:Lump It Or Leave It

Source: Lump It Or Leave It

“People think that you have to do something huge, like go to Africa and build a school, but you can make a small change in a day. If you change Wednesday, then you change Thursday. Pretty soon it's a week, then a month, then a year. It's bite-size, as opposed to feeling like you have to turn your life inside out to make changes.”

People Ifs Thinking Years Feelings School Turns Week Huge Like You Months Size Bites Making Changes Wednesday Thursday Small Changes

Author:Hoda Kotb

“We ignore our feelings a lot, I realize. Many of us have to... until they really bite us in the butt.”

Feelings Realizing Bites

Author:Queen Latifah

“Baking cookies is comforting, and cookies are the sweetest little bit of comfort food. They are very bite-sized and personal.”

Littles Bits Comfort Little Bit Bites Comforting Cookies Sweetest Baking Comfort Food Baking Cookies

Author:Sandra Lee

“Barking dogs may occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot!”

Men Laughing Dog Bites Barking Dogs Wet Dogs

Author:Konrad Lorenz

“I love women, but I feel like you can't trust some of them. Some of them are liars, you know? Like I was in the park and I met this girl, she was cute and she had a dog. And I went up to her, we started talking. She told me her dog's name. Then I said, 'Does he bite?' She said, 'No.' And I said, 'Oh yeah? Then how does he eat?' Liar.”

Knows Feels Doe Said Humor Funny Girl Names Talking Dog Like You Mets Yeah Cute Parks Liars Bites This Girl

Author:Demetri Martin

“I try not to drink too much because when I'm drunk, I bite.”

“I bite the skin on the side of my fingernails.”

Sides Skins Bites Fingernails

Author:Sienna Miller

“Dogs never bite me. Just humans.”

“It's dangerous talking about yourself too much because you find yourself talking in sound bites.”

Sound Talking Too Much Dangerous Finding Yourself About Yourself Bites Sound Bites Talking About Yourself

Author:Emily Mortimer

“We're more familiar with what economists call an English auction - prices start low and rise as people bid. However, there is also the Dutch auction, where prices start high and go lower until somebody bites. Movies are sold to the audience via a very slow Dutch auction, where each phase between price drops can last weeks or months.”

People Lasts Audience Week Months Lows Familiar Bites Phases Economist Dutch Auctions

Author:Nathan Myhrvold

“If I have a weakness, it's probably ice cream. That's where I get lax, sloppy. I'll sneak into the refrigerator at night and take two or three bites and put it back. Butter pecan. Only two or three bites, but it shows.”

Ifs Two Shows Night Three Weakness Ice Bites Cream Ice Cream Sneak Refrigerators Sloppy Lax Pecans

Author:Jack Nicklaus

“But the Republican right-wing agenda, these people - Arnold and his patrons - felt it could be accomplished by circumventing the Legislature and spending money and organizing and giving sound bites.”

People Giving Felt Sound Republican Wings Spending Accomplished Agendas Bites Right Wing Legislature Patron Spending Money Sound Bites Beatty

Author:Warren Beatty

“When you make a drama, you spend all day beating a guy to death with a hammer, or what have you. Or, you have to take a bite out of somebody's face. On the other hand, with a comedy, you yell at Billy Crystal for an hour, and you go home.”

Home Hands Faces Guy Hours Comedy Drama Bites Hammers Crystals

Author:Robert De Niro

“I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.”

“Sometimes, it's just easier to say yes to that extra snack or dessert, because frankly, it is exhausting to keep saying no. It's exhausting to plead with our kids to eat just one more bite of vegetables.”

Sometimes Kids Easier Extras Just One Bites Vegetables Dessert Saying No Exhausting Snacks

Author:Michelle Obama

“Writers like to write, and writing in different forms - short, long, bite-sized, done on the fly, done with painstaking attention - all interest me.”

Writing Long Different Done Form Interest Attention Bites

Author:Susan Orlean

“You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don't bite off more than you can chew. It's a dangerous world.”

World Dangerous Careful Bites Be Careful Dangerous World

Author:Ozzy Osbourne

“Success sometimes can really bite you in the shorts.”

Sometimes Bites Shorts

Author:Donny Osmond

“I don't do yoga. I bite the hella outta my nails. I smoke, I eat all the wrong food, I don't exercise.”

Exercise Yoga Smoke Bites Nails

Author:Lisa Marie Presley

“With a lot of hair and make-up then I'm possibly, remotely attractive. But it's rare, I don't think I'm ugly but I'm nothing particularly special. I'm not a yoga and health girl. I don't exercise that much and I eat crap and smoke and bite my nails.”

Thinking Girl Special Hair Exercise Yoga Ugly Smoke Attractive Bites Healthcare Nails Crap

Author:Lisa Marie Presley

“The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he'll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.”

Running Dog Drink Opposites Bites Remedy Thirst Dog Bite

Author:Francois Rabelais

“It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else.”

Looks Tvs Bites Guests Crew

Author:Rachael Ray

“Four months after we finished shooting, I'd been in New Orleans shooting another movie and my agent and I were having a bite to eat - actually in London - and he's sitting there and goes, 'Wow, I just can't believe how ripped you are.'”

Believe Four Months Sitting Finished London Agents Shooting Bites Wow New Orleans Ripped

Author:Ryan Reynolds

“If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.”

Ifs Religion Sound Sentences Bites One Sentence Sound Bites

Author:Salman Rushdie

“Don't let the same dog bite you twice.”

Dog Musician African American Bites Singer Songwriters Biting Dog Bite

Book:Chuck Berry: The Autobiography

Source: Chuck Berry: The Autobiography

“Bite us once, shame on the dog; bite us repeatedly, shame on us for allowing it.”

Dog Shame Allowing Bites Dog Bite

Author:Phyllis Schlafly

“One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do you call that Art?”

Art Blow Bites Cheeks Horns Horny Brass Mouthpiece French Horn

Author:Franz Schubert

“I'd like to find someone to procreate with - as sexy as that sounds. If you're out and about and fit the description, come up and say hi. I won't bite. Well, maybe a little, if you're lucky.”

Ifs Wells Littles Sound Fit Lucky Come Up Sexy Description Bites

Author:Chloe Sevigny

“You never want to do anything that you don't want your mother to see, because it will haunt you and eventually come back to bite you!”

Want Mother Bites

Author:Kimora Lee Simmons

“You don't send people to prison on the basis of what other people imagine, or on the basis of media sound bites like 'shooting an unarmed child,' when that 'child' was beating him bloody.”

People Children Sound Imagine Media Bases Prison Shooting Bites Bloody Unarmed Sound Bites

Author:Thomas Sowell

“People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.”

“The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.”

Ifs Should Hands Liberty Libertarian Bites Feeding Self Reliance Reliance

Book:The second sin

Source: The second sin

“Rush Limbaugh is a lame professional swine, and he makes a good living at it. He is like a hired geek in some traveling backwoods carnival - the freaks who bite the heads off chickens - but Limbaugh is a modernized geek who thinks he can bite the heads off of people.”

People Thinking Chickens Bites Freak Geek Lame Carnivals Swine Good Living Backwoods

Author:Hunter S. Thompson

“I've never doubted that apartheid - because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil - was going to bite the dust eventually.”

Evil Dust Bites Doubted Apartheid

Author:Desmond Tutu

“I find it quite hard to sum up my relationship in a sound bite. I feel that it trivializes it for other people's pleasure. It's an adventure.”

People Feels Hard Sound Pleasure Adventure Travel Bites Funny Travel Sound Bites Sound Doctrine

Author:Emily Blunt

“Talk about your negative experiences with the father, with your girlfriends. Not with your children. And bite your tongue when it comes to diminishing, denying, dismissing, name-calling.”

Children Father Names Calling Negative Tongue Your Children Girlfriend Bites Your Girlfriend Name Calling Negative Experiences

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

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