Best mouths & turns Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In Rio de Janeiro, every cop has to make a choice. He either turns dirty, keeps his mouth shut, or goes to war.”

War Turns Choices Mouths Dirty Cop Rio Rio De Janeiro

“Some drivers have already got out of their cars, prepared to push the stranded vehicle to a spot where it will not hold up the traffic, they beat furiously on the closed windows, the man inside turns his head in their direction, first to one side then to the other, he is clearly shouting something, to judge by the movements of his mouth he appears to be repeating some words, no one word but three, as turns out to be the case when someone finally manages to open the door, I am blind.”

Men Firsts Turns Three Sides Cases Doors Car Movement He Man Judging Beats Mouths Window Blind Prepared Manage Spots Drivers Vehicle Traffic One Word Shouting Stranded

Author:Jose Saramago

“One way of ending the poem is to turn it back on itself, like a serpent with its tail in its mouth.”

Way Poetry Turns Mouths One Way Tails Serpent

Author:Maxine Kumin

“My movies are film-paintings - moving portraits captured on celluloid. I'll layer that with sound to create a unique mood -- like if the Mona Lisa opened her mouth, and there would be a wind, and she'd turn back and smile. It would be strange and beautiful.”

Ifs Would Be Beautiful Film Moving Turns Sound Strange Painting Wind Unique Mouths Mood Layers Portraits Captured Mona Lisa Celluloid

Author:David Lynch

“If any of my competitors were drowning, I'd stick a hose in their mouth and turn on the water. It is ridiculous to call this an industry. This is not. This is rat eat rat, dog eat dog. I'll kill 'em, and I'm going to kill 'em before they kill me. You're talking about the American way - of survival of the fittest.”

Ifs Way Turns Water Talking Dog Industry Survival Mouths Sticks Ridiculous Ems Rats Competitors Kill Me Drowning Turn-on Survival Of The Fittest

Author:Ray Kroc

“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

“If you visit American city, You will find it very pretty. Just two things of which you must beware: Don't drink the water and don't breathe the air. Pollution, pollution, They got smog and sewage and mud. Turn on your tap and get hot and cold running crud. See the halibuts and the sturgeons Being wiped out by detergents. Fish gotta swim and birds gotta fly, But they don't last long if they try. Pollution, pollution, You can use the latest toothpaste, And then rinse your mouth with industrial waste.”

“One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.”

Turns Mouths Seven Tongue

Author:Roland Barthes

“Skepticism turns to cynicism, which leads to apathy and despair, which can cause sleeplessness, dry-mouth, and loss of sex drive?”

Turns Sex Causes Loss Despair Mouths Dry Apathy Cynicism Skepticism Sleeplessness Sex Drive

Author:Al Franken

“Nice teeth is a turn on for me. If you open your mouth and it looks like a battle of epic proportions, I don't like it.”

Ifs Looks Turns Nice Battle Mouths Teeth Proportion Epic Turn-on Nice Teeth

Author:Dane Cook

“When I was 16, I used to drive huge loads of laundry in a three ton truck. I would turn round at night to drive back and see the band in a place north of Toronto called Dunn's Pavilion. I would drive that truck all day and they drive back and all the way until one day I wrecked the truck. I fell asleep and wrecked it. I was OK and so was my helper. I called my dad and the first words out of his mouth were, "are you OK?" I was really lucky I had a kind father.”

Way Firsts Kind Used Night Turns Three Father Huge Dad One Day Lucky Band Mouths Rounds My Dad Load Truck Laundry Toronto Helpers

Author:Gordon Lightfoot

“I've always been afraid of video games - not afraid that I wouldn't like them, but that I would like them too much, and that after mere seconds in front of any particularly bright and absorbing game, I would abandon all ambition, turn into a mouth-breathing zombie, and develop a wide, sofa-shaped rear end.”

Ends Turns Games Too Much Fronts Ambition Mouths Mere Wide Video Breathing Abandon Seconds Not Afraid Zombie Absorbing Sofas

Author:Susan Orlean

“I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver.”

Trying Believe I Can Helping Eye Able Turns Difficult Behinds Brain Stage Self Esteem Pure Mouths Nervous Grandma My Grandma

Author:Adele

“No more photos. Surely there are enough. No more shadows of myself thrown by light onto pieces of paper, onto squares of plastic. No more of my eyes, mouths, noses, moods, bad angles. No more yawns, teeth, wrinkles. I suffer from my own multiplicity. Two or three images would have been enough, or four, or five. That would have allowed for a firm idea: This is she. As it is, I'm watery, I ripple, from moment to moment I dissolve into my other selves. Turn the page: you, looking, are newly confused. You know me too well to know me. Or not too well: too much.”

Source: The Tent

“When I turn around, he cups my face in his hands and he kisses me so deeply that I don't know who is breathing for who, but his mouth and tongue taste like warm honey. I don't know how long it lasts, but when I let go of him, I miss it already.”

Knows Long Hands Lasts Faces Turns Know How Missing Taste Letting Go Kissing Mouths Warm Tongue Cups Breathing Honey Kiss Me Jellicoe Road

Author:Melina Marchetta

“When a horse falls, foam comes out of its mouth. When it falls, the legs of the horse thrash and the horse is no good... So somebody shoots it. The horse turns into glue. A machine puts the glue into bottles and children squeeze the bottles to get the glue out and stick bits of paper onto cards. Glue gets on the children's hands and the children eat the glue. And the children become the horse.”

Children Hands Turns Fall Bits Paper Mouths Machines Horse Sticks Legs Cards Bottles Glue Foam

Author:Maureen Medved

“I only have have one question, scraping the inside of me. Answer it, and I will stumble back into her shadow, shut my mouth, never ask again. I've tried to ignore it, but it won't go away. It haunts my dreams, chases me through every single day, and I don't have the strength to turn around, face it down. So please tell me and I swear I'll never ask again. It's in your power to make it go away, and all you have to do is tell me why you love her more.”

Dream Faces Turns Asks Answers Please Mouths Shadow Going Away Swear Scraping

Book:Tricks

Source: Tricks

“But all that is warm will go cold. My ears will fall off and my eyes will melt. My mouth will be clamped shut. My lips will turn to glue. ...No taste or smell or touch or sound.Nothing to look at. Total emptiness for ever.”

Looks Eye Turns Fall Sound Cold Taste Mouths Ears Lips Warm Smell Emptiness Glue

Book:Now is Good (Also published as Before I Die)

Source: Now is Good (Also published as Before I Die)

“When they came to harvest my corpse (open your mouth, close your eyes) cut my body from the rope, surprise, surprise: I was still alive. Tough luck, folks, I know the law: you can't execute me twice for the same thing. How nice. I fell to the clover, breathed it in, and bared my teeth at them in a filthy grin. You can imagine how that went over. Now I only need to look out at them through my sky-blue eyes. They see their own ill will staring then in the forehead and turn tail Before, I was not a witch. But now I am one.”

“She's tired and leans her head on his shoulder, which is the resting place for all their heads, but when Justine and Siobhan and Francesca use his body so shamelessly he doesn't feel the need to turn his head and press his mouth against their hair.”

Needs Feels Use Body Turns Hair Mouths Presses Tired Shoulders Justine

Author:Melina Marchetta

“Up on the roof Tatiana thought about the evening minute, the minute she used to walk out the factory doors, turn her head to the left even before her body turned, and look for his face. The evening minute as she hurried down the street, her happiness curling her mouth upward to the white sky, the red wings speeding her to him, to look up at him and smile.”

Looks Body Faces Used Turns Left White Walks Doors Sky Streets Minutes Mouths Red Wings Evening Look Up Factories Roof Speeding

Author:Paullina Simons

“If you were to turn into a snake tomorrow and begin devouring humans, and from the same mouth you started devouring humans, you cried out to me 'I love you,' would I still be able to say 'I love you' the same way I do today?”

Ifs Way Humans Stills Today Able Turns Love You Tomorrow Mouths Cried Snakes Say I Love You Devouring Bleach

Author:Tite Kubo

“What kind of wedding would you like?" he asked, and stole another kiss before she could reply. "The kind that turns you into my husband." She touched the firm line of his mouth with her fingers. "What kind would you like?" He smiled ruefully. "A fast one.”

Kind Turns Lines Husband Kissing Mouths Fingers Firm Touched My Husband

Book:Love in the Afternoon

Source: Love in the Afternoon

“I will hurt you for this. I don't know how yet, but give me time. A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in your mouth, and you'll know the debt is paid.”

Thinking Knows Giving Joy Turns Hurt Know How Safe Mouths Give Me Paid Debt Ashes Fire And Ice Song Of Ice And Fire Clash Of Kings

Book:A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows

Source: A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows

“turns me on so loud it's like no sound, everybody yelling at me hands over their ears from behind a glass wall, faces working around in talk circles but no sound from the mouths. my sound soaks up all other sound.”

Hands Faces Turns Sound Behinds Wall Mouths Ears Glasses Circles Loud Yelling Turn Me

Book:One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

“Guess what it is that turns plants to coal. Pressure. Guess what it is that turns limestone to marble. Pressure. Guess what it is that turns Briony's heart to stone. Pressure. Pressure is uncomfortable, but so are the gallows. Keep your secrets, wolfgirl. Dance your fists with Eldric's, snatch lightning from the gods. Howl at the moon, at the blood-red moon. Let your mouth be a cavern of stars.”

Heart Turns Stars Secret Blood Moon Mouths Red Stones Pressure Plant Uncomfortable Lightning Coal Fists Marble Howl Gallows Caverns Limestone

Book:Chime

Source: Chime

“Are you calling me your gift?" "Yes." She smiled. "How do you feel about that?" "Like it's my turn to be unwrapped." He nibbled at her mouth. "Do it slow.”

Feels Turns Calling Mouths

Book:The Magical Christmas Cat

Source: The Magical Christmas Cat

“There were five others before they got to him. He smiled a little when his turn came. His voice was low, smoky, and dead sexy. “My name is Augustus Waters,” he said. “I’m seventeen. I had a little touch of osteosarcoma a year and a half ago, but I’m just here today at Isaac’s request.” “And how are you feeling?” asked Patrick. “Oh, I’m grand.” Augustus Waters smiled with a corner of his mouth. “I’m on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend.”

Years Littles Said Feelings Today Turns Names Voice Water Half Five Lows Mouths My Friends Corners Sexy Request Seventeen Roller Coaster Coasters Isaac Augustus Augustus Waters

Book:Paper Towns

Source: Paper Towns

“Girls like her, my grandfather once warned me, girls like her turn into women with eyes like bullet holes and mouths made of knives. They are always restless. They are always hungry. They are bad news. They will drink you down like a shot of whisky. Falling in love with them is like falling down a flight of stairs. What no one told me, with all those warnings, is that even after you’ve fallen, even after you know how painful it is, you’d still get in line to do it again.”

Source: Black Heart

“He was sitting not far away, watching me, and I surprised a smile on his face, the first real smile I had ever seen him give, a smile that curved and softened the tight mouth, and warmed the ice-cool eyes; a smile that brought the blood to my face and made my heart turn over.”

Giving Firsts Heart Made Real Eye Faces Turns Blood My Heart Mouths Sitting Ice Far Away

Book:Daughter of the Forest: Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy

Source: Daughter of the Forest: Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy

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