“Once when I was 16 I had my car taken away from me for being past curfew. Oh, and I said a bad word once, and I actually did get my mouth washed out with soap.” SaidPastTakenCarMouthsSoapBad WordCurfew Author:Ashlee Simpson
“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.” IfsCharacterPastSpeakInterestGreaterJudgingDependsAuthorityMouthsPassionateCommandReputationPreservesAssumptionTrendsResentmentCompositionDominantMajestyMomentumUtteranceOvershadowing Author:Learned Hand
“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.” IfsThinkingWritingMindHumansMadeHardUseHandsPastOrderLanguageGrowsSleepForgetTelevisionCommunicationSucceedDrawsMouthsConceptsTestsSilentFingersMediumsCompareHuman MindCompelledInabilityPointingShrinksSelectTransportUse Of Language Book:Film as Art Source: Film as Art
“The world is wrong. You can't put the past behind you. It's buried in you; it's turned your flesh into its own cupboard. Not everything remembered is useful but it all comes from the world to be stored in you. Who did what to whom on which day? Who said that? She said what? What did he just do? Did she really say that? He said what? What did she do? Did I hear what I think I heard? Did that just come out of my mouth, his mouth, your mouth? Do you remember when you sighed?” ThinkingWorldSaidPastRememberBehindsHeardMouthsFleshRememberedBuriedRemember WhenBehind YouCupboards Author:Claudia Rankine
“As soon as you lay down, that's when the most bizarre things start coming out of her mouth. 'Goodnight, baby.' 'Do you think we were together in a past life?' 'Yeah, and I died of sleep deprivation. Go to bed.' 'Don't you feel like we're soul...'” ThinkingFeelsSoulHumorFunnyTogetherPastSleepBabyBedMouthsDiedYeahLaysComing OutBizarreDeprivationPast LifeSleep Deprivation Author:Adam Ferrara
“I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.” WellsKindAgePastCertainTelevisionMouthsRadioAccessMagazinesBirthdayAcceptableForbiddenCoverage60th BirthdayWord Of Mouth Author:David Bowie
“Whoever's reading this, if anyone is reading it: does it matter that our old selves are lost to us as surely as the past is lost, or is it enough to know yes we lived then, and we are living now, and the connection must be there? Like a river hundreds of miles long exists both at its source and at its mouth, simultaneously?” IfsKnowsLongDoeSelfMatterEnoughPastReadingLostSourceMouthsRiversConnectionsMilesDoes It MatterOld Self Book:Foxfire: confessions of a girl gang Source: Foxfire: confessions of a girl gang
“When most people looked at Josie Tyrell, they only saw a certain collection of bones, a selection of forms filling space. But Michael saw past the mouth and the eyes, the architecture of the body, her fleshly masquerade. Other boys were happy enough to enjoy the show, they just wanted to be entertained in the body's shadow theater. But Michael had to come backstage. He went down into the mines, into the dark, and brought up the gold, your new self, a better self. But what good was it if he was just going to leave her behind?” PeopleIfsSelfEnoughShowsBodyEyeWantedPastFormCertainEnjoyDarkSpaceBehindsBoysSawsMinesMouthsShadowGoldTheaterBonesArchitectureCollectionsSelectionFillingMasqueradeNew SelfJosie Author:Janet Fitch
“If we have to be cat burglars, I'm going to see what' to steal in the fridge." We're trying to find evidence she's the poisoner. Just a thought before you start putting random things in your mouth." Ruth shrugged and walked past Val.” IfsTryingPastMouthsEvidenceCatStealingRuthFridgesBurglarsJust A ThoughtRandom ThingsPoisoners Author:Holly Black
“In the past seven years of love-making he had heard the words "I love you" so many times: from the mouths of widows and children, from prostitutes, family friends, travelers, and adulterous wives. Women said "I love you" without his ever speaking. "The more you love someone," he came to think, "the harder it is to tell them." It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say "I love you".” ThinkingYearsChildrenSaidPastWifeHeardStreetsLove YouMouthsHarderSevenStrangerTravelerSeven YearsLove SomeoneWidowsLove MakingFamily FriendsSay I Love YouYears Of Love Author:Jonathan Safran Foer
“He put the book down. “As you wish.” He rose and walked past me. I lowered my sword, expecting him to pass, but suddenly he stepped in dangerously close. “Welcome home. I’m glad you made it. There is coffee in the kitchen for you.” My mouth gaped open. He inhaled my scent, bent close, about to kiss me… I just stood there like an idiot. Curran smirked and whispered in my ear instead. “Psych.” And just like that, he was out the door and gone. Oh boy.” MadeBookHomePastWishBoysGoneDoorsKissingMouthsEarsRoseCoffeeGladWelcomeMade ItIdiotKitchenExpectingScentBentKiss MePsychWelcome Home Book:Magic Burns Source: Magic Burns
“Harry witnessed Professor McGonagall walking right past Peeves who was determinedly loosening a crystal chandelier and could have sworn he heard her tell the poltergeist out of the corner of her mouth 'It unscrews the other way.” WayPastHeardWalkingMouthsCornersProfessorsHarry PotterCrystalsFred WeasleyPeevesFunny Harry PotterChandeliersMinervaMcgonagallProfessor Mcgonagall Author:J. K. Rowling
“I didn’t accept your sacrifice. I turned it down.” I felt a small Oh form at my mouth, but it never quite made it past my lips. “Are you saying you gave up getting a human body for me?” HumansMadeBodyPastFormFeltAcceptingSacrificeMouthsLipsMade ItHuman BodyGave Up Book:Hush, Hush Source: Hush, Hush
“My mouth opened. It happened. Yes, with my head thrown into the sky, I started howling. Arms stretched out next to me, I howled, and everything came out of me. Visions pored up my throat and past voices surrounded me. The sky listened. The city didn't. I didn't care. All I cared about was that I was howling so that I could hear my voice and so I would remember that the boy had intensity and something to offer. I howled, oh, so loud and desperate, telling a world that I was here and I wouldn't lie down.” WorldCarePastRememberLyingNextVoiceCitiesVisionBoysHappenedSkyArmsOffersMouthsLoudDesperateThrownThroatIntensity Author:Markus Zusak
“I know everything, you see,' the old voice wheedled. 'The beginning, the present, the end. Everything. You now, you see the past and the present, like other low creatures: no higher faculties than memory and perception. But dragons, my boy, have a whole different kind of mind.' He stretched his mouth in a kind of smile, no trace of pleasure in it. 'We are from the mountaintop: all time, all space. We see in one instant the passionate vision and the blowout.” KnowsMindKindDifferentEndsWholePastVoiceMemoriesSpacePleasureVisionBoysHigherCreaturesPerceptionLowsMouthsPassionateAll TimeInstantDragonsFacultyDifferent KindsMy BoysBlowouts Book:Grendel Source: Grendel