Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patrick O'Brian

We understood one another better before ever I opened my mouth

Patrick Rothfuss

Close your mouth, E'lir Kvothe, or I will feel obliged to put some vile tonic in it.

Laird Barron

A Pretty Mouth is a fine and stylish collection that pays homage to the tradition of the weird while blazing its own sinister mark. Tanzer's debut is as sharp and polished as any I've seen.

Kristen Bell

I have the mouth of a sailor.

Seth Grahame-Smith

On the contrary, there is something pleasing about his mouth when he speaks. And there is something of dignity in the way his trousers cling to those most English parts of him.

Miguel de Cervantes

A closed mouth catches no flies.

John Singer Sargent

A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.

Meg Cabot

He let his mouth linger on mine, neither possessively nor sweetly... like his mouth just belonged there on mine. And he was right. It did. It always had.

Plato

It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

Philip Sidney

No is no negative in a woman's mouth.

Megan Fox

I have a mouth and I'm not afraid to use it.

Teri Hatcher

I'm a firm believer in putting your money where your mouth is.

Ted Turner

Where's the upside in opening your mouth?

Kimora Lee Simmons

I have a really big mouth, I have a lot of opinions and I will be heard.

Andrea Phillips

I'm very relieved it didn't go into the mouth of the Mississippi, ... That would have been catastrophic.

Morgan Freeman

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.

The lawyer's pouch is a mouth of hell.

The first thing out of my mouth was, 'What in God's name were you thinking?

Jon Foreman

I'm very reluctant to put my words into God's mouth.

You can see cavities in their mouth when they're open.

These guys, I think they still have a taste in their mouth for a state championship. They played like they want to get back there, and here we are.

Sylvia Plath

I felt the mask crumple, the great poisonous store of corrosive ashes begin to spew out of my mouth.

Thomas Harris

When you feel strain, keep your mouth shut if you can.

Thomas Hardy

The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing alive enough to have strength to die. (from "Neutral Tones")

Woody Allen

We laughed over it, and Hemingway punched me in the mouth.

Sara Cox

I used to be double-jointed in my hips, so I could put my toe in my mouth. That can't be classed as a talent really, rather a mild deformity.

Richelle Mead

Is Hopper celebrating with you?” “Hopper? Why would—” My mouth snapped shut for a few moments. “Oh. I, uh, kind of forgot about him.

Thomas Sowell

Being willing to donate the taxpayers' money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is.

Robert Pinsky

Poetry’s medium is the individual chest and throat and mouth of whoever undertakes to say the poem.

Sara Shepard

Here you go, dear."" The corners of Mrs. Colbert's mouth curled up. "You like meat, don't you?" Emily blinked. Was it her, or did that statement seem...loaded? She checked Issac for his reaction, but he was innocently selecting a roll from a wicker basket. "Uh, thanks." Emily said, pulling the platter toward her. She did like meat. The kind you, um, eat.

Zora Neale Hurston

Africa has her mouth on Moses.

Zora Neale Hurston

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

William H. Macy

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