Quotes About Perseverance

Sometimes you need to play with a knife between your teeth.

One of the things that pushed me over the edge was that people on the Left were calling me names. How many kicks in the teeth do you have to endure.

No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth.

I wrote 'My Teeth Hurt' in April 2018 when my teeth hurt and I didn't have dental insurance.

You could knock my teeth out and break my nose, and there'd be something funny about it to me.

I was born in a council house, my father left school at the age of 11, had his teeth out without anaesthetic at the age of 22.

I've broken fifty-six bones, broke my back twice, punctured a lung and knocked out a few teeth.

I did sleep on the floor of my office sometimes. I didn't brush my teeth as often as I should have. I think my hygiene has improved quite a bit.

I know the true meaning of getting by by the skin of my teeth; I do. It doesn't matter whether you've got money or you haven't, whether you're famous or not. This is the case for all women, actually; you have to carry on. You always have to carry on. And you can, because you have to.

Growing up, I would have to watch the other children and learn from my mistakes. I would have to push myself to overcome the things most people don't have to think about. Brushing my teeth was very difficult because of the noise of the brush.

I spent a few years cutting my teeth in the Midwest; I worked for Ring of Honor, then I went down to Florida and relearned everything there.

There was nothing special about me; there are boxers in Belfast who are more skilled but I had a bit between my teeth that drives me on.

After the first day of practice, there's not one guy who's playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day - it just hurts.

His feeling was the name Walt Disney represented all of us. Walt was hanging by his teeth financially and really I think he was for most of his career. Not at all like today.

If you chomp down too hard on my work, you're going to break your teeth.

Sometimes Hollywood manages to knock a movie in its teeth so hard that it never manages to get back up.

When I was starting out and had to cut my teeth and build my resume to get in, I had to basically work for free on a lot of things.

Coming from where I came from, I was born naked with no teeth. Now I have everything.

I've had to sink my teeth into a role that was probably a fried-chicken dinner and make it into a filet mignon.

When people ask me, 'When are you gonna stop rhyming?' I don't know when I'm gonna stop rhyming because we all got situations. Even when I get 50 or 60 years old, if God spares my life, if I got false teeth and I'm still rhyming, I have to rhyme about that.

I started doing plays in New York while I was at Fordham, but I did graduate by the skin of my teeth.

When I wrote my novel, 'The Ministry of Special Cases,' I couldn't even brush my teeth. I had to write in isolation from everything else. I thought a play would take away from my fiction, but the more projects I work on, the more time I have.

I hung onto Hollywood by the skin of my teeth, and at first I fought over every piece of bread. Later, I got very small parts.

I remember one time I got one of my front teeth knocked out, and so I got a partial where they have the deal where they have the thing that slips in and slips out.