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“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.”

Said Past Taken Car Mouths Soap Bad Word Curfew

Author:Ashlee Simpson

“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

“I needed real help in New York and I had no friends. I looked up at those buildings, I couldn't see the sky or nothing, and I said, 'Well, there ain't no mountain high enough,' and I just started - the words just fell out of my mouth, really.”

Wells Said Real Enough Helping Sky New York Building Needed Mountain Mouths No Friends

Author:Nickolas Ashford

“How do you untell something? You can't. You can't put words back in your mouth. What you can do, is spread false gossip ... so people think that everything that's been said is untrue. Include that Stanley is having an affair. It's like the end of Spartacus. I have seen the movie half a dozen times, and I still don't know who the real Spartacus is. And, that is what makes that movie a classic whodunnit.”

People Thinking Knows Said Stills Real Ends Can Do Half Mouths Affair Spread Classic Gossip Dozen Untrue Stanley Spartacus

Author:Michael Scott

“I said to Mr. Pavarotti once ... a marvelous man and a great artist ... I said to him ... "Maestro, I'm having trouble closing out a note so that it's almost as thin as a butter knife ... finish it out quietly like that." I said, "I have trouble doing that. What do you think I should do?" He said, "Justa close up your mouth." That's all he said, and I fell on the floor. I thought he was gonna give me a dissertation.”

Thinking Men Giving Should Said Artist Trouble Mouths Give Me Notes Knives Marvelous Great Art Closing Great Artist Maestro Dissertation Pavarotti

Author:Frank Sinatra

“Humans said one thing with their bodies and another with their mouths and everyone had to spend time and energy figuring out what they really meant. And once you did understand them, the Humans got angry and acted as though you had stolen thoughts from their minds.”

Mind Humans Said Body Energy One Thing Mouths Angry End Times Stolen Spend Time Really Mean Time And Energy

Book:Lilith's Brood: Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago

Source: Lilith's Brood: Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago

“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

“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?”

Thinking World Said Past Remember Behinds Heard Mouths Flesh Remembered Buried Remember When Behind You Cupboards

Author:Claudia Rankine

“The Prophet's words were true; The mouth of Ali is the golden door Of Wisdom." When his friends to Ali bore These words, he smiled and said: "And should they ask The same until my dying day, the task Were easy; for the stream from Wisdom's well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.”

Should Wells Said Wisdom Asks Easy Doors Dying Mouths Tasks Golden Streams Prophet Bores Supplies

Book:The Poems

Source: The Poems

“It is the goodly outside that sin puts on which tempteth to destruction. It has been said that sin is like the bee, with honey in its mouth, but a sting in its tail.”

Has Beens Said Sin Mouths Destruction Honey Bees Tails

Author:Hosea Ballou

“The Irishman in English literature may be said to have been born with an apology in his mouth.”

May Has Beens Said Literature Born Judgment Mouths Apology English Literature Irishmen

Book:Labour in Irish History

Source: Labour in Irish History

“A kiss! When all is said, what is a kiss? An oath of allegiance taken in closer proximity, a promise more precise, a seal on a confession, a rose-red dot upon the letter i in loving; a secret which elects the mouth for ear; an instant of eternity murmuring like a bee; balmy communion with a flavor of flowers; a fashion of inhaling each other's hearts, and of tasting, on the brink of the lips, each other's soul!”

Source: CYRANO DE BERGERAC

“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

“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

“It is very difficult to be under the microscope every moment of every day. Everything that leaves your mouth becomes this sensationalized news story, no matter what your intentions were when you first said it, so it becomes overwhelming.”

Firsts Said Matter Moments Stories Difficult News Mouths No Matter What Intention Overwhelming Microscopes News Stories

Author:Megan Fox

“Jesus never uttered a loftier or a grander truth than when he said that wisdom cometh out of the mouths of babes.”

Said Jesus Christ Christianity Mouths Babe

Book:India of My Dreams

Source: India of My Dreams

“Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”

Source: The Good Life According to Hemingway

“I walked around my apartment with food in my mouth asking myself: "How do I come up with this voice?" Then I found the voice. I called the director and said on the phone: "Guess who you're talking to Chris? Sid, that's right Sid!" And that's how I came up with the voice. That's a true story.”

Said Stories Found Voice Talking Directors Mouths Asking Phones Come Up Apartment True Story Sids

Author:John Leguizamo

“I said I didn't think it would be a collectivist state so much as a wilderness in which most people lived hand to mouth, and the rich would live like princes - better than the rich had ever lived, except that their lives would constantly be in danger from the hungry predatory poor. All the technology would serve the rich, but they would need it for their own protection and to assure their continued prosperity.”

People Thinking Needs Said States Hands Would Be Poor Technology Rich Danger Mouths Prosperity Protection Hungry Wilderness Predatory

Book:To the Ends of the Earth: The Selected Travels of Paul Theroux

Source: To the Ends of the Earth: The Selected Travels of Paul Theroux

“I wanted to be a teacher. I love children, so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian. But by the age of ten or eleven, when I opened my mouth and said, 'Oh, God, what's this?' I kind of knew teaching and being a veterinarian were gonna have to wait.”

Kind Children Said Age Wanted Waiting Deals Teacher Teaching Ten Mouths Eleven Children Love Veterinarian

Author:Whitney Houston

“I am not ignorant of what is said of my Lord in the Psalm: "You destroy those who speak a lie." And again: "A lying mouth deals death to the soul." And likewise the Lord says in the Gospel: "On the day of judgment men shall render account for every idle word they utter."”

Men Said Soul Lying Speak Deals Lord Judgment Mouths Accounts Ignorant Idle Psalms

Author:Saint Patrick

“Warner Brothers had to hire [a stunt double] and no one thought a child could do this. Billy Friedkin came to me before we were filming [The Exorcist] and said "if you do not do all of this film, the film will be a joke." It's why they stripped the makeup down to the bare minimum, a piece on my chin, piece across my mouth that disfigured my mouth. You have scars here. Take away my eyebrows. It was my real hair. Shampoo was put in it that dried.”

Ifs Children Said Real Film Pieces Brother Hair Jokes Mouths Makeup Scar Minimum Eyebrows Chins Shampoo Exorcist Warner Brothers Real Hair

Author:Linda Blair

“I got in my car and followed [Marlon Brando] down to Chinatown, and got about twelve shots. Brando called me over and said, What else do you want that you don't have already? And I said, I'd like a picture without the sunglasses. He said no and punched me right in the jaw, It was so fast I didn't see it coming. Blood was gushing out of my mouth. I drove to Bellevue. The jawbone and five teeth were broken... To this day he has scars on his knuckles from my teeth.”

Want Said Five Blood Car Broken Mouths Shots Teeth This Day Scar Twelve Sunglasses Knuckles Brando Chinatown

Author:Ron Galella

“Musicians in my day had nicknames. My name was "Satchel Mouth," like a doctor's satchel. When I went to England this fellow was strictly English, and he was editor of the newspaper there. He shook my hand after I got off the train and said, "Hello, Satchmo." So right away my trombone player said, "Mmm, the man thinks you have mo' mouth than Satchel Mouth." So I was stuck with it, and it turned out all right.”

Thinking Men Said Hands Names Player He Man Musician Mouths Doctors England Fellows Train Stuck Newspapers Editors Hello Nicknames Trombone

Author:Louis Armstrong

“As soon as you opened your mouth and said the word woman, you were beaten down with the argument that you were betraying the class struggle. There are many poignant writings in which feminists first write pages about their class standpoint before getting to their actual issue. What was then known as class warfare is today called anti-racism. The threat of being accused of racism gave birth to false tolerance.”

“Talk about putting your money where your mouth is. It's not right. Someone's gotta say it. They said it. I applaud them.”

Said Mouths They Said

Author:William H. Macy

“I don't like words coming out of a character's mouth that I adore because not only is he a little bit duplicitous but he's kind of practical in the way he thinks, and he thinks in terms of everyone's humanity and how quickly we can go against what we think we meant when we said it or what we believe or blah, blah, blah.”

Thinking Way Believe Kind Littles Said Character Humanity Bits Term Little Bit Mouths Practicals Coming Out Adore Blah

Author:Robert Downey, Jr.

“A scientist sounds like a scientist because the things that come out of their mouth don't stumble, that's all. If they [said], "And the, um, a microwave, uh," you know, then you don't sound right, but if you can just get it out without stumbling then you're going to sound fine.”

Ifs Knows Said Sound Fine Mouths Scientist They Said Stumbling Microwaves

Author:Morgan Freeman

“The first time I went to Daniel's [Radcliffe] apartment to just hang out before, because we're doing this crazy thing together, right away he said, "Do you want to put your hand in my mouth so we can get used to this?" And he was really ready to go. So we broke down any barriers pretty quick.”

Want Firsts Said Hands Together Used Crazy Ready Mouths First Time Broke Barriers Hanging Out Apartment Crazy Things

Author:Paul Dano

“When I was in eighth grade said sit in at a graduation party and I played 'Boys' by The Beatles and fifty people were standing around with their mouths open. And you kind of get the hint, well maybe I should do this because I'm not very good at sports, I'm not that popular, I'm not very smart, and I'm not very good looking, but when I played the drums, everybody liked it.”

People Should Wells Kind Said Sports Party Boys Smart Mouths Standing Very Good Fifty Grades Looking Good Hints Very Smart Eighth Grade Graduation Party

Author:Terry Bozzio

“During my years as a press secretary, I developed a powerful internal filter, which worked to strip all things 'off message' from my thoughts before they came out of my mouth. It didn't always work, of course, and I said more than a few things I regretted.”

Years Said Courses Powerful Messages Mouths All Things Presses Internals Secretary My Thoughts Filters

Author:Dee Dee Myers

“Oh, I'm a big-mouth. I said a lot of things.”

Said Bigs Mouths

Author:Sean Penn

“A kiss, when all is said, what is it? A rosy dot placed on the 'I' in loving; Tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear.”

Source: CYRANO DE BERGERAC

“Oprah Winfrey gives you the stage? Shut your mouth. I said, 'I'm sorry for taking over your show.' She said, 'No, that's why we have you here.'”

Giving Said Shows Stage Mouths Sorry I'm Sorry

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“The first thing out of Fidel Castro's mouth to me, he looked me right in the eye and said, 'You're a man of great courage.'”

Men Firsts Said Eye Mouths Castro

Author:Jesse Ventura

“No,' he said, 'memory's a poor thing to have. It's your own real hair and mouth and arms and eyes and hands I want. I didn't know I could ever love anything so much.”

Knows Want Said Real Hands Eye Memories Poor Hair Arms Mouths Real Hair

Book:The Amber Spyglass

Source: The Amber Spyglass

“It's not what enters men's mouth that is evil," said the alchemist. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.”

Men Said Evil Mouths Alchemist Alchemist Book

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Do you know what I am going to tell you, he said with his wry mouth, a pint of plain is your only man. Notwithstanding this eulogy, I soon found that the mass of plain porter bears an unsatisfactory relation to its toxic content and I subsequently became addicted to brown stout in bottle, a drink which still remains the one that I prefer the most despite the painful and blinding fits of vomiting which a plurality of bottles has often induced in me.”

Knows Men Said Stills Found Bears Fit Drink Mass Mouths Relation Remains Painful Despite Brown Do You Know Bottles Toxic Eulogy Pints Stout Wry Vomiting Withstanding

Author:Flann O'Brien

“Siobhan also says that if you close your mouth and breathe out loudly through your nose it can mean that you are relaxed, or that you are bored, or that you are angry and it all depends on how much air comes out of your nose and how fast and what shape your mouth is when you do it and how you are sitting and what you just said before and hundreds of other things which are too complicated to work out in a few seconds.”

Ifs Mean Said Air Depends Shapes Mouths Sitting Angry Work Out Complicated Breathe Bored Noses Seconds Relaxed

Author:Mark Haddon

“Yeah 'ear 'ear," said George, with half a glance at Fred, the corner of whose mouth twitched.”

Said Half Mouths Ears Yeah Corners Harry Potter Glances Pun

Author:J. K. Rowling

“That's brain tissue. How can you-?" Claire shut her mouth, fast. "Never mind. I don't think I wanna know." "Truly, I think that's best. Please take it." He showed his teeth briefly in a very unsettling grin. "I'm giving you a piece of my mind." "I so wish you hadn't said that.”

Thinking Knows Giving Mind Said Wish Brain Pieces Please Mouths Teeth Wish You Of My Mind Tissues Claire

Book:Feast of Fools: The Morganville Vampires

Source: Feast of Fools: The Morganville Vampires

“The earth has a mouth?” Buckley asked. A big round mouth but with no lips,” my father said. Jack,” my mother said, laughing, “stop it. Do you know I caught him outside growling at the snapdragons?”

Knows Said Bigs Earth Mother Father Laughing Mouths Rounds Lips Caught Do You Know Growling

Book:The Lovely Bones

Source: The Lovely Bones

“I don't have a lot of domestic instincts," Ranger said to me, his attention fixing on the unidentifiable glob in my hair, "but I have a real strong urge to take you home and hose you down." I went dry mouth. Connie bit into her lower lip, and Lula fanned herself with a file.”

Said Real Home Strong Bits Attention Hair Mouths Instinct Lips Dry Urges Files Fixing Rangers

Author:Janet Evanovich

“Babe," Ranger said. "You're looking a little strung out. Is there anything I should know?" I'm on a sugar withdrawal. I've given up desert and it's all I can think about." That had been true five minutes ago. Now that Ranger was standng in front of me I was thinking a cupcake wasn't what I actually needed. Maybe I can help you get your mind off doughnuts," Ranger said. My mouth dropped open, and I think some drool might have dribbled out.”

Thinking Knows Should Mind Littles Said I Can Helping Might Given Five Minutes Fronts Needed Mouths Desert Sugar Five Minutes Given Up Babe Withdrawal Rangers Doughnut Cupcakes

Author:Janet Evanovich

“Ranger is an unusual name," she managed. "Is it a nickname?" It's a street name," Ranger said. "I was a Ranger in the army." I heard about them Rangers on TV," Grandma said. "I heard they get dogs pregnant." My father's mouth dropped open and a piece of ham fell out. My mother froze, her fork poised in midair. That's sort of a joke," I told Grandma. "Rangers don't get dogs pregnant in real life." I looked at Ranger for corroboration and got another smile.”

Source: Three Plums In One: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly

“"What do you want out of life?" I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls. "I don't know," she said. "Just wait on tables and try to get along." She yawned. I put my hand over her mouth and told her not to yawn. I tried to tell her how excited I was about life and the things we could do together; saying that, and planning to leave Denver in two days. She turned away wearily. We lay on our backs, looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when He made life so sad.”

Knows Want Trying Made Said Two Hands Together Used Girl Asks Waiting Wonder Mouths Tables Lays Excited Planning Ceilings Two Days So Sad Denver

Author:Jack Kerouac

“This is the meanest thing anyone’s ever done to me,” I said, through my tear-clogged throat. “I want you to know that.” But even as the words were leaving my mouth, I knew it wasn’t true. In the grand, historical scheme of things, my father leaving us was doubtlessly worse. Which is one of the many things that sucked about my father?? he forever robbed me of the possibility of telling another man, This is the worst thing that’s ever happened to me, and meaning it.”

Knows Men Want Said Done Father Forever Happened Worst Possibility Tears Mouths Historical Leaving Throat Schemes I Want You Worst Things Another Man Father Leaving

Book:Good in Bed

Source: Good in Bed

“You don't have to say I love you to say I love you," you said with a shrug. "All you have to do is say my name and I know." ..."Can't you hear it?" you said. "When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.”

Knows Said Different Names Love You Safe Mouths Love Someone Say I Love You When You Love Someone Handle With Care

Author:Jodi Picoult

“I shouldn't have said it, but the word slipped out of my mouth as easy as air. it wasn't exactly the kind of work any well-behaved student would use, which sort of explained why I had just used it. And it certainly isn't the most elegant way to start off a story, but it honestly represents what I was feeling. Besides, I could have said something a lot stronger. But not everybody wants to read a story with those kinds of words and thoughts being expressed in the very first sentence. "Stop swearing," Jason screamed.”

Way Want Firsts Wells Kind Said Stories Use Feelings Used Easy Air Students Mouths Stronger Sentences Honestly Elegant Jason Swearing

Author:Obert Skye

“Tell me again what we're doing here," I said, running a continuous scan of our surroundings. Fang popped some Cracker Jack into his mouth. "We're here to watch manly men do manly things." I followed Fang's line of sight: He was watching the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, who were not doing manly things, by any stretch of the imagination.”

Men Said Running Imagination Lines Watches Mouths Sight Cowboy Surroundings Fangs Manly Dallas Cheerleader Crackers Dallas Cowboy

Author:James Patterson

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