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“If somebody has a chance to put my food in their mouth, that tells the story.”

Ifs Stories Chance Mouths

Author:Emeril Lagasse

“Having love in your heart doesn't count for much if what comes out of your mouth is ugly and bigoted.”

Ifs Heart Mouths Ugly

Author:Brett Ratner

“If I don't get food in my mouth, I'm still happy. If my pants are round my ankles, as long as I don't get arrested for indecent exposure, I'm happy. I'm worried about keeping my hair, not how it's combed.”

Ifs Long Stills Hair Mouths Rounds Worried Pants Exposure Arrested Ankles Indecent Exposure

Author:Michael J. Fox

“I find standard American the hardest. It really fits in a different place in your mouth. Southern, I find the easiest. If you talk to a dialect coach and you get sort of technical, where an English person keeps their voice in their throat, a Southern person does the same, and it's got the same sort of music to talking.”

Ifs Persons Doe Different Voice Talking Fit Standards Mouths Coaches Hardest Throat Southern Different Place Dialect Dialect Coach

Author:Juno Temple

“I love a good argument and sometimes I have a hard time keeping my mouth shut if I think someone is wrong... I've always fought for what I believe in, and I don't quit until I have accomplished what I set out to do.”

Ifs Thinking Believe Sometimes Hard I Believe Mouths Argument I Believe In Quitting Hard Times Accomplished Time Keeping

Author:Kenny Wormald

“There's no wobble in Bush. If anything, the opposite. Right after hello, the next words out of his mouth are: I've never been more convinced that the decisions I made are the right decisions.”

Ifs Made Next Decision Mouths Opposites Convinced Hello Right Decision

Author:Rich Lowry

“I kept listening, kept going to see people, kept sitting in with people, kept listening to records. If I wanted to learn somebody's stuff, like with Clapton, when I wanted to learn how he was getting some of his sounds - which were real neat - I learned how to make the sounds with my mouth and then copied that with my guitar.”

People Ifs Real Wanted Stuff Sound Records Listening Mouths Sitting Guitar Neat

Author:Stevie Ray Vaughan

“And one day, this thing happened to me: I coughed, and the blood just came gushing out of my mouth. ... I still can't believe that that happened to me, but I sat there, and I said to God, 'Well, if it means I'm going to die, that's OK.' I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.”

Ifs Thinking Believe Wells Kind Mean Said Stills Dies Felt Happened Blood One Day Mouths Things Happen Sat Serenity

Author:Desmond Tutu

“Do not trust people who call themselves musicians or record collectors who say that they don’t like Bob Dylan or the Beatles. They do not love music if those words come out of their mouths.”

People Ifs Records Musician Mouths Bob Dylan Music Love Collectors

Author:Jack White

“If a fool keeps his mouth shut, there will be no difference of opinion.”

Ifs Differences Opinion Fool Mouths Differences Of Opinion

Author:Muhammad Taqi Usmani

“The contemporary tendency in our society is to base our distribution on scarcity, which has vanished, and to compress our abundance into the overfed mouths of the middle and upper classes until they gag with superfluity. If democracy is to have breadth of meaning, it is necessary to adjust this inequity. It is not only moral, but it is also intelligent. We are wasting and degrading human life by clinging to archaic thinking.”

Source: All Labor Has Dignity

“Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounce it to you, trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.”

Ifs Speak Lines Player Stage Praying Speech Mouths Towns Tongue Spokes I Pray Whirlwind Theatre Acting

Author:William Shakespeare

“A line runs from the meditations of the heart to the words of the mouth. The meditations are not clear to us until the mouth utters its words. If what the mouth utters is unclear or foolish or mendacious, it must be that the meditations are the same. But the line runs both ways. The words of the mouth will become the meditations of the heart, and the habit of loose talk loosens the fastenings of our understanding.”

Ifs Way Heart Running Understanding Lines Clear Meditation Habit Mouths Foolish Unclear

Author:Richard Mitchell

“You have power over my body but the Lord Jesus hath power over my body and soul; and assure yourselves thus much, you do as much as in you lies to put the Lord Jesus Christ from you, and if you go on in this course you begin, you will bring a curse upon you and your posterity, and the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.”

Ifs Soul Body Lying Courses Jesus Christ Lord Goes On Mouths Jesus Christ Curse Posterity Lord Jesus Christ

Author:Anne Hutchinson

“If you seek patience, you will find no better example than the cross. Great patience occurs in two ways: either when one patiently suffers much, or when one suffers things which one is able to avoid and yet does not avoid. Christ endured much on the cross, and did so patiently, because when he suffered he did not threaten; he was led like a sheep to the slaughter and he did not open his mouth.”

Ifs Way Doe Two Able Suffering Christ Example Mouths Crosses Sheep Two Ways Slaughter Great Patience

Author:Thomas Aquinas

“Maybe you weren't born with a silver spoon in your mouth, but like every American, you carry a deed to 635 million acres of public lands. That's right. Even if you don't own a house or the latest computer on the market, you own Yosemite, Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and many other natural treasures.”

Ifs House Born Natural Millions Land Computer Mouths Areas Deeds Treasure Golden Silver Gates Recreation Spoons Acres Canyons Grand Canyon Yosemite Yellowstone Silver Spoons Public Lands

Author:John Garamendi

“Bread without butter or coffee without milk is an awful calamity, as if everything before being put in our mouth must first be held under a cow.”

Ifs Firsts Habit Mouths Coffee Bread Awful Milk Cows Calamity

Book:John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

Source: John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

“If we only practice compassion on the mind level, we run a great risk of our compassion being just talk. As we know, talk is cheap. To develop true compassion we have to put our money where our mouth is.”

Ifs Knows Mind Running Levels Compassion Practice Risk Mouths Great Risk Talk Is Cheap

Author:Gelek Rimpoche

“I would think that the drumstick is probably pretty good. Because you can put that anywhere. If you are a strong guy, you can put it in the throat, the nose, the mouth, the ear. It's also easily concealed. The guitar is pretty good, but you have to break it. And that's pretty difficult.”

Ifs Thinking Guy Strong Difficult Break Mouths Ears Guitar Noses Throat Concealed Drumsticks

Author:Dolph Lundgren

“The orthodoxy of America is as rigid as that of Soviet Russia. There is one point of view allowed. If you start a conversation from another point of view, the words dry in your mouth.”

Ifs America Views Conversation Mouths Point Of View Russia Dry Soviet Orthodoxy Soviet Russia

Author:David Hare

“I used to look at these pictures of trumpeters pointing their instrument to the ceiling. Stunning pictures, but if you play the trumpet and point it upwards, all the spit comes back into your mouth!”

Ifs Looks Play Used Mouths Instruments Pointing Ceilings Spit Trumpets Stunning

Author:Humphrey Lyttelton

“The only exercise I got as a kid was fork to mouth. Food was equated with love in my household. I thought you left the table when the zipper was down and you'd explode if you took another bite. I'd eat my plate and then everyone else's leftovers.”

Ifs Kids Left Exercise Mouths Down And Tables Bites Household Plates Forks Leftovers Zippers

Author:Paul Stanley

“Hopefully, when your actions and deeds - and therefore other people - boast for you, you're made tired of hearing it, too, from your own mouth because if not, all could lose sight of those actions and deeds behind the gong of your boasting.”

People Ifs Made Action Loses Behinds Mouths Sight Tired Deeds Hearing Hopefully Boast Gongs

Book:Healology

Source: Healology

“I hold that if the Almighty had ever made a set of men that should do all the eating and none of the work, he would have made them with mouths only and no hands, and if he had ever made another class that he intended should do all the work and none of the eating, he would have made them without mouths and with all hands.”

Ifs Men Should Made Hands Class Eating Mouths Almighty

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“I am a pig! I love to eat! i will eat anything! If you put it front of me, I will put it in my mouth, even if it doesn't taste good! And I can't stop eating until all the food is gone. It's probably one of the contributing factors as to why I became a drag queen. I can eat whatever I want, because I can just strap myself into a corset!”

Ifs Want I Can Gone Fronts Taste Eating Mouths Factors Queens Drag Pigs Because I Can Contributing Corsets Drag Queen

Author:Manila Luzon

“If Bacchus ever had a color he could claim for his own, it should surely be the shade of tannin on drunken lips, of John Keat's 'purple-stained mouth,' or perhaps even of Homer's dangerously wine-dark sea.”

Ifs Should Dark Sea Color Mouths Claims Wine Lips Colour Shade Purple Bacchus

Author:Victoria Finlay

“[T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously-after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important ... so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be ignorant and subliterate every time he opens his mouth.”

“The judge's authority depends upon the assumption that he speaks with the mouth of others. That is to say, the momentum of his utterances must be greater than any which his personal reputation and character can command, if it is to do the work assigned to it - if it is to stand against the passionate resentments arising out of the interests he must frustrate - for while a judge must discover some composition with the dominant trends of his times, he must preserve his authority by cloaking himself in the majesty of an overshadowing past.”

“When my mouth shall be filled with dust, and the worm shall feed, and feed sweetly upon me, when the ambitious man shall have no satisfaction if the poorest alive tread upon him, nor the poorest receive any contentment in being made equal to princes, for they shall be equal but in dust.”

Ifs Men Made Alive Equal Mouths Filled Satisfaction Dust Contentment Ambitious Worms Poorest Ambitious Man

Book:Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Death's Duel

Source: Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Death's Duel

“Fame, if not double fac'd, is double mouth'd, And with contrary blast proclaims most deeds; On both his wings, one black, the other white, Bears greatest names in his wild aery flight.”

Ifs Names Black White Bears Fame Mouths Wings Deeds Contrary Flight Blast

Book:The Poetical Works of John Milton

Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton

“People only speak to get something. If I say, Let me tell you a few things about myself, already your defenses go up; you go, Look, I wonder what he wants from me, because no one ever speaks except to obtain an objective. That's the only reason anyone ever opens their mouth, onstage or offstage. They may use a language that seems revealing, but if so, it's just coincidence, because what they're trying to do is accomplish an objective.”

People Ifs Want Trying Looks May Reason Use Seems Speak Language Wonder Mouths Let Me Accomplish Defense Objectives Coincidence Revealing

Author:David Mamet

“To desire to be perpetually in the society of a pretty woman until the end of one's days, is as if, because one likes good wine, one wished always to have one's mouth full of it.”

Ifs Ends Desire Women Mouths Wine Likes Pretty Woman Good Wine

Author:Andre Maurois

“Son, if a maiden love thee, thou shalt appear handsome in her sight; she shall praise thine eyes, and the corners of thy mouth, yea, she shall admire thy hands. Though thou wert even as the orangutan yet shall she paint thee with fancies.”

Ifs Love Hands Eye Son Mouths Sight Praise Paint Corners Admire Thee Fancy Handsome Maidens Orangutans

Author:Gelett Burgess

“Television is a new, hard test of our wisdom. If we succeed in mastering the new medium it will enrich us. But it can also put our mind to sleep. We must not forget that in the past the inability to transport immediate experience and to convey it to others made the use of language necessary and thus compelled the human mind to develop concepts. For in order to describe things one must draw the general from the specific; one must select, compare, think. When communication can be achieved by pointing with the finger, however, the mouth grows silent, the writing hand stops, and the mind shrinks.”

Source: Film as Art

“I think films would get a lot better if people paid leaving the cinema. There's a whole business plan of opening terrible films in hundreds of cinemas and then closing them when the word of mouth gets out.”

People Ifs Thinking Whole Film Plans Terrible Mouths Paid Leaving Opening Cinema Closing Business Plan Word Of Mouth

Author:Graham Linehan

“Who puts the food in your mouth? Who goes to the bathroom for ya? You do. You came on this earth alone and you are going to leave alone. Think about it. If anything happens to Jack La Lanne good or bad, I made it happen. If anything happens to you good or bad, you made it happen - right?”

Ifs Thinking Made Happens Earth Mouths Things Happen Made It Bathroom

Author:Jack LaLanne

“I was surprised when I was asked to play Miss Daisy and wondered if I could - only in part because she was Jewish but, also because she was a Southern woman who has hardly opened her mouth before she declares she's not prejudiced, and yet everything she does shows how totally prejudiced she is.”

Ifs Doe Play Shows Missing Mouths If I Could Southern Daisies Southern Women

Author:Vanessa Redgrave

“You who are dead ... tonight you will disport yourselves for my pleasure. Food and wine will pass between your dead lips, though you will not taste it. Your dead stomachs will hold it within you, while your dead feet take the measure of a dance. Your dead mouths will speak words that will have no meaning to you, and you will embrace one another without pleasure. You will sing for me if I wish it. You will lie down again when I will it.... Let the revelry begin.”

Ifs Lying Speak Wish Pleasure Feet Taste Mouths Wine Embrace Lips Tonight Within You Food And Wine Revelry

Author:Roger Zelazny

“So powerfully does fortune appear to sway the destinies of men, putting a silver spoon into one man's mouth, and a wooden one into another's, that some of the most sagacious of men, as Cardinal Mazarin and Rothschild, seem to have been inclined to regard luck as the first element of worldly success; experience, sagacity, energy, and enterprise as nothing, if linked to an unlucky star.”

Source: Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life

“The secret to writing sound effects is having a room you can be alone in, trying to make the sounds yourself, and seeing what comes out. It's similar to if you're writing a character talking with their mouth full: the only way I know to transcribe that is to stuff my fist in my mouth and write down what sounds I make when I try to talk.”

Ifs Knows Way Writing Trying Book Character Stuff Sound Rooms Secret Talking Seeing Effects Mouths Comic Comic Book Fists Sound Effects

Author:Ryan North

“Everywhere you go you hear things that are untrue. You've just got to learn that if I don't say it, physically out of my mouth, on camera, it's not true.”

Ifs Mouths Cameras Untrue Unfaithful

Author:Selena Gomez

“That's a big responsibility, and the details obsess me. And, also, I no longer feel I have to do the Tonight Show every time I open my mouth. Twenty years ago, I told myself I'd rather direct than act, and it's taken me this long. You lose your passion in acting. You make too many mistakes. Maybe that's why I make so many movies; if you don't like this one, another one's opening on Tuesday. But then I spent six months of my life on 'At Long Last Love,' a picture nobody saw. I enjoyed making it, I learned from it, I grew, but that's too much time out of my life.”

“Do we play Chicago again? I going to hit Othella Harrington right in the mouth. If he didn't have his clumsy ass on the floor, I wouldn't have fell. How he got on the ground, I don't know. He's clumsy. Quote me on that. I'm going to get him.”

Ifs Knows Play Basketball Mouths Ass Nba Chicago Clumsy

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“When you denigrate people, they have two ways to fight back - with their fists and guns, or their mouths. And mouths are seemingly the easiest way to not get hit back. If people are laughing, they're not going to hit you.”

People Ifs Way Two Fighting Laughing Mouths Gun Fists Two Ways

Author:Carl Reiner

“The one thing I learned is not to say anything about my own paintings. Keep my mouth shut. You'll never stop hearing what you said. It will come back to you again and again, people will always tell you about it. Even if you were the source of what's wrong with it.”

People Ifs Said My Own One Thing Painting Source Mouths Hearing Again And Again Say Anything You Again

Author:Frank Stella

“If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.”

Ifs Long Two Remember Four Anxiety Mouths Thirds Teeth

Author:Martial

“Slogans can be worse than swords if they are only put in the right mouths.”

Ifs Mouths Slogans

Book:Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories: Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain / Seraph on the Suwanee / Selected Stories

Source: Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories: Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain / Seraph on the Suwanee / Selected Stories

“There would not be so many open mouths if there were not so many open ears.”

Ifs Mouths Ears Slander

Book:Devotions, Sacred Aphorisms and Religious Table Talk: Selected from the Writings of the Eminently Pious and Learned Bishop Hall ; to which is Prefixed a Brief Memoir of the Author

Source: Devotions, Sacred Aphorisms and Religious Table Talk: Selected from the Writings of the Eminently Pious and Learned Bishop Hall ; to which is Prefixed a Brief Memoir of the Author

“If the elbow had been placed closer to the hand, the forearm would have been too short to bring the glass to the mouth; and if it had been closer to the shoulder, the forearm would have been so long that it would have carried the glass beyond the mouth.”

Ifs Long Has Beens Hands Food Mouths Cooking Glasses Shoulders Culinary Too Short Elbows

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“Close thine ear against him that shall open his mouth secretly against another. If thou receivest not his words, they fly back and wound the reporter. If thou dost receive them, they fly forward and wound the receiver.”

Ifs Mouths Ears Wounds Reporters Slander Receiver

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater