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“I think my mum has the foulest mouth of anyone I've ever met.”

“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

“I’m instantly mortified by my fat, uncontrollable mouth, but that’s when it occurs to me that my humor is a self-defense mechanism. Even though I may come off like a stark raving asshat, being funny is the most important tool I have to stay sane. The ability to say what I think is the key to allowing me to feel in control.”

Thinking Feels May Important Self Ability Keys Mouths Tools Defense Fats Allowing Mechanism Sane Self Defense Starks Being Funny Uncontrollable Defense Mechanisms

Author:Jen Lancaster

“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

“Unless the religious claims of the Bible are again acknowledged, its literary claims will, I think, be given only 'mouth honour' and that decreasingly.”

Thinking Given Religious Mouths Claims Honour

Book:Selected Literary Essays

Source: Selected Literary Essays

“"Exercise" is such a dirty word in my household that whenever I even think of it, I wash my mouth out with chocolate.”

Thinking Inspirational Exercise Mouths Dirty Chocolate Household Dirty Words

Author:Leonore Fleischer

“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

“I started realizing that music is the one area where I've always let go. When that saxophone goes into my mouth, I get into a space where I never think about the notes I've already played or anticipate the notes ahead.”

Thinking Realizing Space Letting Go Music Is Mouths Areas Notes Anticipate Saxophone

Author:Kenny G

“I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth's sweet flowing breast.”

Thinking Earth Tree Sweet Mouths Lovely Hungry Forests Breasts Breastfeeding Forests And Trees Nature's Beauty Arbor Day Inspirational Tree

Book:Joyce Kilmer: Memoir and poems

Source: Joyce Kilmer: Memoir and poems

“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

“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 was not, though, born with a silver spoon in my mouth. Despite what people seem to think.”

People Thinking Seems Born Mouths Prosperity Despite Silver Spoons Silver Spoons

Author:Michael Audain

“I think people are always looking for gurus. It's the easiest thing in the world to become a guru. It's quite terrifying. I once saw something fascinating here in New York. It must have been in the early seventies--guru time. A man used to go and sit in Central Park, wearing elaborate golden robes. He never once opened his mouth, he just sat. He'd appear at lunchtime. People appeared from everywhere, because he was obviously a holy man, and this went on for months. They just sat around him in reverent silence. Eventually he got fed up with it and left. Yes. It's as easy as that.”

People Thinking Men World Has Beens Used Left Easy Silence Saws New York Months Holy Mouths Golden Sat Parks Fascinating Feds Seventies Guru Robes Fed Up Holy Man Central Park Lunchtime

Author:Doris Lessing

“[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.”

“And a diplomatist is one who lets the other fellow think he's getting his way, while all the time he's having his own. It never does any special harm to let people have their way with their mouths.”

People Thinking Way Doe Special Mouths Fellows Harm

Book:Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son

Source: Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son

“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

“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

“The labouring poor, to use a vulgar expression, seem always to live from hand to mouth. Their present wants employ their whole whole attention, and they seldom think of the future. Even when they have an opportunity of saving they seldom exercise it, but all that is beyond their present neccessities goes, generally speaking, to the ale house.”

Thinking Want Whole Use Hands Seems Opportunity House Poor Attention Expression Exercise Mouths Saving Vulgar Ale

Book:An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

“Metaphors think with the imagination and the senses. The hot chili peppers in them explode in the mouth and the mind.”

Thinking Mind Imagination Mouths Hot Metaphor Senses Peppers Chili Chili Peppers

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“The name of God should no longer come from the mouth of man. This word that has so long been degraded by usage no longer means anything.... To use the word God is more than sloth, it is a refusal to think, a king of short cut, a hideous shorthand.”

Thinking Men Should Mean Long God Use Names Cutting Kings Mouths Refusal Hideous Sloth Usage Short Cuts Shorthand

Author:Arthur Adamov

“I don't think it's illegal. I don't think it's against the rules. It's as dangerous for me to have a toothpick in your mouth as it is to have a 200-pound man punch me in the face hard or try to kick me in the face. I'm more worried about that, to be honest. I don't have any superstitions. I won world titles with a toothpick. I defended it without a toothpick. It all depends. Sometimes I do it, sometimes I don't. It's a bad habit. I know I shouldn't do it, but it's fine.”

Thinking Knows Men World Trying Sometimes Hard Faces Honest Dangerous Fine Depends Habit Mouths Being Honest Worried Titles Kicks Pounds Illegal Superstitions Bad Habits Toothpicks

Author:Benson Henderson

“I remember having some problems with [the Deus Ex theme] when I first heard it and I was trying to figure out how to tell [Alex Brandon] I wanted changes. But then I noticed that I couldn't get it out of my mind. I was whistling or humming it to myself all the time. So I just kept my mouth shut and let it be. I think it's a highly addictive tune”

Thinking Trying Mind Firsts Problem Wanted Remember Heard Figures Mouths Theme Tunes Exes Alex Of My Mind Humming Whistling

Author:Warren Spector

“A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.”

Thinking Men Giving Time Wise Fool Mouths Sticks Novelists Pipe Time To Think Lecturer Essayists

Author:C. S. Lewis

“We're the most experienced team in the league. I think we got a little too happy, running our mouths, jumping up and down, looking at the Heat dancers and all of that stuff. We had to step it up and show them what we're all about.”

Thinking Littles Shows Running Stuff Steps Team Basketball Mouths League Heat Dancer Nba Jumping Up And Down

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“Most people don't know what they're talking about. They move their mouth and say things because they don't want to admit they don't know. Or they think they know, but it's just confabulation and biases. So ignore them unless what they say resonates with some real wisdom inside of you. Assume they're a fool and find out the truth for yourself.”

People Thinking Knows Want Real Moving Talking Fool Mouths Assuming Real Wisdom

Author:Derek Sivers

“In real life people fart, in the movies, people don't. Why not? Farts are a repressed minority. The mouth gets to say all kinds of things, but the other place is supposed to keep quiet. But maybe our lower colons have something interesting to say. Maybe we should listen to them. Farts are human, more human than a lot of people I know. I think we should bring them out of the water closet and into the parlor.”

People Thinking Knows Should Humans Kind Real Water Interesting Quiet Mouths Real Life All Kinds Minorities Why Not Closets Fart Repressed Something Interesting Parlor

Author:Mel Brooks

“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

“Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me, Christ in the mouth of everyone who speaks of me, Christ in every eye that sees me, Christ in every ear that hears me.”

Thinking Men Heart Eye Speak Christ Mouths Ears Every Man Think Of Me Eyes That See

Author:Saint Patrick

“We've learned over the years that if we wanted we could write anything that just felt good or sounded good and it didn't necessarily have to have any particular meaning to us. As odd as it seemed to us, reviewers would take it upon themselves to interject their own meanings on our lyrics. Sometimes we sit and read other people's interpretations of our lyrics and think, 'Hey, that's pretty good.' If we liked it, we would keep our mouths shut and just accept the credit as if it was what we meant all along.”

People Ifs Thinking Writing Years Sometimes Wanted Felt Accepting Particular Mouths Credit Hey Odd Interpretation Reviewers

Author:John Lennon

“I don't need any more press. I get enough when I work, but environmental causes is one place where you can get me to open my mouth. And put my foot in it if necessary. I think the only thing I do that gives me any bragging rights in terms of energy conservation is sailing. Just using wind power.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Giving Enough Energy Causes Term Rights Feet Wind Mouths Give Me Presses Environmental Conservation Sailing Bragging Energy Conservation Wind Power Bragging Rights

Author:Morgan Freeman

“I've gone into auditions and I think they have an assumption about me when they see my photo and then I open my mouth and they say, 'Where exactly are you from? And you were born in Ethiopia? But you're Irish, but you also kind of sound English. That's really strange.' They want to put you in a box in LA, that's how they tend to do it there, so if you don't fit in that box, it makes it more difficult.”

Ifs Thinking Want Kind Difficult Sound Born Gone Strange Fit Mouths Boxes Assumption Auditions Ethiopia

Author:Ruth Negga

“Business and its logic of productivity have become the reference point in a society that thinks marketing every time it opens its mouth.”

Thinking Business Mouths Logic Marketing Productivity

Book:Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay

Source: Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay

“I was thinking, I could turn him into a fly and drop him into a spider's web and watch him tangled and helpless and struggling, shut into the body of a dying buzzing fly; I could wish him dead until he died.I could fasten him to a tree and keep him there until he grew into the trunk and bark grew over his mouth. if he was under the ground I could walk over him stamping my feet.”

Source: Novels and Stories: The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Other Stories and Sketches

“I want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can't. It's a taste in your mouth. And an emptiness.”

Thinking Want I Can Taste Mouths Emptiness

Author:Aaron Huey

“You can't swallow and think about your tongue. If you think about your tongue, you've got a giant piece of meat in your mouth and that's a terrible feeling.”

Ifs Thinking Feelings Pieces Terrible Mouths Tongue Meat Giants

Author:Stephen Colbert

“I hated kissing Zoe Saldana too! I was like, "Take your tongue out of my mouth, please. Your boyfriend is standing right there." Most people think kissing beautiful costars must be great. But it's always awkward, man.”

People Thinking Men Beautiful Please Kissing Mouths Standing Tongue Hated Awkward Your Boyfriend

Author:Orlando Bloom

“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)

“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

“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

“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

“It would be much better if I could only stop thinking. Thoughts are the dullest things. Duller than flesh. They stretch out and there's no end to them and they leave a funny taste in the mouth. Then there are words, inside the thoughts, unfinished words, a sketchy sentence which constantly returns...It goes, it goes ... and there's no end to it. It's worse than the rest because I feel responsible and have complicity in it. For example, this sort of painful rumination: I exist, I am the one who keeps it up. I.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Ends Would Be Example Return Taste Mouths Responsible Painful Sentences Flesh If I Could Unfinished Complicity Rumination Sketchy

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“I'm definitely one of those people that what comes into my head falls out of my mouth. That's a way for me to be even more creative, to sort of get the ball rolling and start parlaying off of somebody and interacting. That charge or that friction sometimes - if it's positive or negative - is inspiring, and it gets people to be I think creative, maybe.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Sometimes Fall Creative Mouths Negative Balls Rolling Interacting Friction

Author:Giovanni Ribisi

“I don't think that I'm the smartest guy around, so I'm better off to keep my mouth shut as much as I can rather than opening my mouth and proving to people that I don't know what I'm talking about. I'm more of a leader by example than I am a preacher.”

People Thinking Knows I Can Guy Talking Leader Example Prove Mouths Opening Preacher Better Off

Author:Mark Martin

“All actors have to make the words fit in their mouths, and make the words the words fit to how you say it and how you make it life-like and make it look like what you're saying is just conversation that you're just thinking off the top of your head. That process is not quite improvisation.”

Thinking Looks Actors Process Fit Conversation Mouths Improvisation

Author:Bruce Willis

“I'm not thinking about forcing my kids to watch my movies. It's always awkward when someone says: "Hey, I wrote a song, can I play it for you?" That would be the dynamic, if I was like: "Hey, you're my son, watch my work!" I don't want to put them in that awkward position. Just because when they get older, that's when I'm worried, that they'll judge me and say: "Yeah, my father's ******* Jack Black. He was in that cheesy movie." So, I'm going to keep it all high quality. It'll be a quality controller.”

Ifs Thinking Want Play Hands Would Be Kids Song Father Black Quality Watches Position Son Judging Mouths Yeah Hey Worried My Son Awkward Cheesy High Quality Hey You Judge Me Controllers

Author:Jack Black

“Organized religion is primarily man putting words in God's mouth. That's how I basically feel about that. But, I do believe in believing and I admire it. I just don't think it should be exclusive or judgmental.”

Thinking Men Feels Should Believe Mouths Admire Organized Exclusive Judgmental Organized Religion

Author:Kathleen Turner

“If I think of a joke that's really dirty and I think it's funny I'll try it but what I've found over the years is they just don't laugh. It doesn't work coming out of my mouth so it's like they taught me 'don't do that. Don't go that way or you'll lose me.'”

Ifs Thinking Way Trying Years Found Loses Laughing Taught Jokes Mouths Dirty Coming Out

Author:Demetri Martin

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