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“The American revolutionaries believed in the power of the word. But they had only word of mouth and the printing press. We have the Internet.”

Internet Mouths Presses Revolutionary Printing American Revolution Printing Press Word Of Mouth

Author:Robert Darnton

“I don't want to open my mouth or speak anymore, because everything I say becomes scandalous. It wears you out.”

Want Speak Mouths Scandalous

Author:Megan Fox

“Sometimes you just can't hear yourself. Maybe ears are too close to the mouth.”

Sometimes Mouths Ears

Author:Anna Camp

“I have a problem keeping my mouth shut. I usually speak my mind. I'm trying to learn my lesson.”

Trying Mind Problem Speak Lessons Mouths

Author:Christina Hendricks

“It's in our nature to be intrigued. We're putting the bread crumb not in your mouth but close to your mouth. You reach a little bit, and that's why it works.”

Littles Bits Little Bit Mouths Bread Intrigued Crumbs Bread Crumbs

Author:Bryan Cranston

“A theater is such a revealing form of art, such a transparent and good actors, they're such powerful individuals. I always kind of dreamt that one day I will open my mouth on stage.”

Kind Art Form Actors Individual Powerful Stage One Day Mouths Theater Revealing Transparent Good Actors

Author:Mikhail Baryshnikov

“I do have a huge problem, a huge problem. In fact, worse than watching is hearing. I cannot stand to hear my own voice. When it's coming out of my mouth right now it sounds fantastically interesting to me. It's rich in light and shade, it goes up and down. But when I hear it either on TV or even on someone's answering machine, I just sound like I've had half my brain removed.”

Facts Problem Light Sound Voice My Own Interesting Brain Half Rich Tvs Huge Right Now Mouths Machines Hearing Shade Coming Out Up And Down Answering Machines

Author:Hugh Laurie

“You know that something is really well written when you have to think so little about the words that are coming out of your mouth and you're able to dwell in your own headspace to get there. It's very easy to recall and remember because it's written so well.”

Thinking Knows Wells Littles Able Remember Easy Written Mouths Coming Out Recalls Well Written

Author:Tom Weston-Jones

“When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business - that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time.”

Ifs Thinking World Done Enough Young Our Lives Trouble Stage Particular Drama Mouths Spread My Time Foam Rant

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“When I drink a Glass of water, it's thick and crawling with life. My mouth leads to the interior of my body - a caldron of disease, germs, and perversions of biology. I don't exist individually. I'm made of millions of living creatures, eating each other, decomposing, eating each other.”

Made Body Water Millions Drink Creatures Disease Eating Mouths Glasses Biology Thick Interiors Germs Living Creatures Crawling Perversion

Author:Michael Gira

“I think Patsy Cline made country music classy. She just opens her mouth, and it's just heavenly.”

Thinking Made Country Mouths Heavenly

Author:Melissa Etheridge

“If you have a song to sing, who are you not to open your mouth and sing to the world?”

Ifs World Song Mouths

Author:Maya Angelou

“Toyin Falola has given us what is truly rare in modern African writing: a seriously funny, racy, irreverent package of memories, and full of the most wonderful pieces of poetry and ordinary information. It is a matter of some interest, that the only other volume A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt reminds one of is Ake, by Wole Soyinka. What is it about these Yorubas?”

Writing Matter Given Interest Memories Pieces Wonderful Modern Information Ordinary Mouths Salt Volume Packages Irreverent

Author:Ama Ata Aidoo

“The mouth may lie, alright, but the face it makes nonetheless tells the truth.”

May Truth Faces Lying Mouths Telling The Truth Alright

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“A mouth that has no moisture and no breath Breathless mouths may summon; I hail the superhuman; I call it death-in-life and life-in-death.”

May Greatness Mouths Breaths Humankind Hail Superhuman Breathless Moisture

Author:William Butler Yeats

“We may eat dinner together, but everyone puts the food in his own mouth.”

May Together Food Eating Mouths Dinner

Author:Mason Cooley

“I have forgiven all the old actors for dying. A new one comes on with the same lines, like large white growths, in his mouth. The dancers come on from the wings, perfectly mated.”

Actors Growth Lines White Acting Dying Mouths Wings Dancer Forgiven

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Of course the New Testament is very small. Its mouth opens four times as out-of-date as a prehistoric monster, yet somehow man-made.”

Men Made Courses Four Mouths Bible Monsters Testament New Testament Prehistoric

Book:Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

“My mouth blooms like a cut.”

Cutting Kissing Mouths

Book:Love Poems

Source: Love Poems

“He (Don Drysdale) talks very well for a guy who's had two fingers in his mouth all his life.”

Wells Two Guy Mouths Fingers

Author:Gene Mauch

“You see everything depends upon the psychological headquarters from which we live. 'Where am I living from?' Ask yourself that question. If you don't like your headquarters, you can move any time you like. Break away. Don't tell anyone about it. Others will either smile tolerantly or mouth sanctimonious babble. Make your escape plans in secret. Never mind if you lose certain friends, you will find others who also have dared. They will be ten-thousand times more valuable to you.”

Ifs Mind Moving Certain Asks Loses Secret Break Plans Like You Depends Thousand Ten Mouths Valuable Psychological Her Smile Headquarters Sanctimonious

Author:Vernon Howard

“Where's my heart at? Aw. Um, in my chest. I think it's in there - on the right hand side. Sometimes it's in my mouth and sometimes I can feel it in my stomach, when I get really nervous. So it's pretty physical.”

Thinking Feels Heart I Can Sometimes Hands Sides My Heart Mouths Nervous Chests Stomach Get Real

Author:Florence Welch

“We had a branding problem. We have allowed ourselves to be branded by our tragedies. If you said 'Oklahoma City,' chances are the next word out of your mouth was 'bombing.'”

Ifs Said Problem Next Chance Cities Mouths Tragedy Branding Chances Are Bombing Oklahoma Branded Oklahoma City

Author:Mick Cornett

“Either our history shall with full mouth Speak freely of our acts, or else our grave, Like Turkish mute, shall have a tongueless mouth, Not worshipped with a waxen epitaph.”

Speak Mouths Graves Mute Epitaph Turkish

Book:The comedies, histories, tragedies and poems of William Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight. National ed. [6]

Source: The comedies, histories, tragedies and poems of William Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight. National ed. [6]

“Revolution begins with the self, in the self.... We'd better take the time to fashion revolutionary selves, revolutionary lives, revolutionary relationships. Mouth don't win the war.”

War Self Winning Fashion Revolution Mouths Revolutionary

Author:Toni Cade Bambara

“As long as the "woman's work" that some men do is socially devalued, as long as it is defined as woman's work, as long as it's tacked onto a "regular" work day, men who share it are likely to develop the same jagged mouth and frazzled hair as the coffee-mug mom. The image of the new man is like the image of the supermom: it obscures the strain.”

Men Long Women Share Hair Mom Mouths Coffee Defined Strain Mug Work Day Coffee Mug

Author:Arlie Russell Hochschild

“I cannot tell what I am as much afraid of, as a woman who invariably washes on Monday. It is a kind of key to character; and if her mouth is not puckered and her brow wrinkled, they will be, unless she repents.”

Ifs Kind Character Women Keys Mouths Monday Repent Brows

Book:Letters to Country Girls

Source: Letters to Country Girls

“Shuttles in the rocking loom of history, the dark ships move, the dark ships move, their bright ironical names like jests of kindness on a murderer's mouth”

Moving Names Dark Kindness Mouths Slavery Ships Murderer

Book:Collected Prose

Source: Collected Prose

“As well have a talon as a finger, a muzzle as a mouth, as well have a hollow as a heart.”

Wells Heart Mouths Fingers Hollow Talons Muzzle

Book:Collected Prose

Source: Collected Prose

“That is the problem with age and wisdom—it merely shows you how helpless you are. The wiser you become, the more you learn to keep your mouth shut, until eventually the grave silences you forever.”

Shows Problem Wisdom Age Silence Forever Learning Mouths Graves Helpless Wiser Age And Wisdom Wiser You

Author:Bill Bonner

“It is remarkable, all that men can swallow. For a good ten minutes I read a newspaper. I allowed the spirit of an irresponsible man who chews and munches another's words in his mouth, and gives them out again undigested, to enter into me through my eyes.”

Men Giving Eye Spirit Minutes Ten Mouths Newspapers Remarkable Irresponsible Through My Eyes

Book:Steppenwolf

Source: Steppenwolf

“Some have said that it is not the business of private men to meddle with government--a bold and dishonest saying, which is fit to come from no mouth but that of a tyrant or a slave. To say that private men have nothing to do with government is to say that private men have nothing to do with their own happiness or misery; that people ought not to concern themselves whether they be naked or clothed, fed or starved, deceived or instructed, protected or destroyed.”

People Men Said Government Politics Ought Fit Mouths Concern Misery Slave Naked Destroyed Feds Tyrants Protected Deceived

Author:Cato the Younger

“Here is neither want of appetite nor mouths, Pray heaven we be not scant of meat or mirth.”

Want Heaven Praying Mouths Meat Appetite Mirth

Book:Peveril of the Peak

Source: Peveril of the Peak

“Fools carry their daggers in their open mouths.”

Fool Mouths Boast Daggers

Author:Josh Billings

“The law stops every man's mouth. God will have a man humble himself down on his face before Him, with not a word to say for himself. Then God will speak to him, when he owns that he is a sinner, and gets rid of all his own righteousness.”

Men Faces Law Speak Mouths Humble Every Man Gods Will Sinner Repentance Righteousness

Book:God's Good News

Source: God's Good News

“In the range of things toddlers have to learn and endlessly review--why you can't put bottles with certain labels in your mouth, why you have to sit on the potty, why you can't take whatever you want in the store, why you don't hit your friends--by the time we got to why you can't drop your peas, well, I was dropping a few myself.”

Want Wells Certain Mouths Stores Labels Range Bottles Reviews Dropping Peas Toddler Potty

Book:American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie

Source: American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie

“The orator is the mouth (os) of a nation.”

Nations Mouths Orators Oratory

Author:Philibert Joseph Roux

“The Torah itself becomes coarse in the mouth of a man of pride.”

Men Pride Mouths Coarse Torah

Author:Nachman of Breslov

“I am fiercely loyal to those willing to put their money where my mouth is.”

Money Willing Mouths Loyal Fierce Saving Money

Author:Paul Harvey

“I have memories of being in Yale five years ago. It was December and so damn cold that while professing love to my leading lady and singing a Bollywood ditty which went something like this, Kabhie alvida na kehna – my mouth froze itself to death. I say death because as I inched closer to kiss her, mouthing the words kabhi alvida na… my mouth and jaw just locked.”

Years Memories Five Cold Kissing Singing Mouths Years Ago Damn Five Years Locked December Yale Bollywood Leading Ladies

Author:Shahrukh Khan

“Not everybody feels religion the same way. Some it's in their mouth, but some it's like a hope in their blood, their bones.”

Way Feels Religion Women Blood Mouths Bones

Book:Tell Me a Riddle, Requa I, and Other Works

Source: Tell Me a Riddle, Requa I, and Other Works

“Let every one of us cultivate, in every word that issues from our mouth, absolute truth. I say cultivate, because to very few people - as may be noticed of most young children - does truth, this rigid, literal veracity, come by nature. To many, even who love it and prize it dearly in others, it comes only after the self-control, watchfulness, and bitter experience of years.”

People Years May Children Doe Self Young Issues Mouths Absolutes Bitter Prize Self Control Literal Young Children Absolute Truth Veracity Watchfulness Bitter Experience

Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

“Happily, and thanks to God, there are orifices through which our inner life constantly escapes, and the soul, like the blood, hath its pores. The mouth is the chief and foremost of these channels which lead the soul out of its invisible sanctuary; it is by speech that man communicates the secret converse which is his real life.”

Men Real Soul Secret Blood Speech Mouths Communicate Real Life Invisible Thanks Chiefs Sanctuary Inner Life Converses

Author:Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

“I have a thousand brilliant lies For the question: How are you? I have a thousand brilliant lies For the question: What is God? If you think that the Truth can be known From words, If you think that the Sun and the Ocean Can pass through that tiny opening Called the mouth, O someone should start laughing! Someone should start wildly Laughing Now!”

Ifs Thinking Should God Truth Lying Known Laughing Sun Thousand Ocean Mouths Brilliant Tiny Opening

Author:Hafez

“Some members of Congress ought to have their mouths taped instead of their speeches.”

Ought Speech Members Mouths Congress

Author:Evan Esar

“Its amazing that Lou Ferrigno can talk with fifty pounds of cracker in his mouth.”

Mouths Fifty Pounds Crackers

Author:Bobby Heenan

“He that would live clear of envy must lay his finger on his mouth, and keep his hand out of the ink-pot.”

Hands Clear Mouths Lays Fingers Envy Pot Ink

Author:Roger L'Estrange

“Prayer sometimes dulls the hunger of the pauper, like a mother's finger thrust into the mouth of her starving baby.”

Sometimes Mother Prayer Baby Mouths Fingers Hunger Starving Thrust Like A Mother

Author:I. L. Peretz

“Take your Inner Being everywhere you go. If you take your Inner Being to the party, it's going to be a good party! If you take your Inner Being, the food that you eat will be received perfectly by the cells of your body. Every word that comes out of your mouth will be beneficial to everyone who hears them with their ears - or with their vibration. Don't go anywhere without your Inner Being. That's what "Allowing" is. Always having your Inner Being present. And then, anything else that happens is always orchestrated perfectly by Law of Attraction.”

Ifs Body Happens Law Party Mouths Ears Words Attraction Your Body Authenticity Cells Law Of Attraction Allowing Beneficial Vibrations Orchestration Good Party

Author:Esther Hicks

“The turnpike road to people's hearts, I find, Lies through their mouths or I mistake mankind.”

People Heart Lying Mistake Mankind Eating Mouths Feasting

Author:John Wolcot

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