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Quotes About Biting

Remorse, etymologically, is the action of biting again: that's what the feeling does to you. Imagine the strength of the bite when I reread my words. They seemed like some ancient curse I had forgotten even uttering.
~ Julian Barnes
It was cold out there, bitter, biting, cutting, piercing, hyperborean, marmoreal cold, and there were all these Minnesotans running around outdoors, happy as lambs in the spring.
~ Charles Kuralt
I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that's OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.
~ Ozzy Osbourne
That year the Ribeiro's daffodils seeded early and they seeded cockroaches. Now, ecologically speaking, even a cockroach has its place -- but these suckers bit. That didn't sound Earth-authentic to me. Not that I care, mind you, all I ask is useful. I wasn't betting on that either.
~ Janet Kagan
An elderly man called Keith Mislaid his set of false teeth— They'd been laid on a chair, He'd forgot they were there, Sat down, and was bitten beneath. Irish limerick
~ Janice Thompson
He's up there talkin',' he muttered scornfully. 'Doesn't he talk?' The tone of contempt was oil on the troubled waters of William's feelings. 'I've just bit him hard,' he said modestly.
~ Richmal Crompton
Another bite victim lay nearby, a young man writhing as if in a seizure. Eventually his legs kicked themselves free from the rest of his body. The limbs thumped along the floor on their own like two giant polyester snakes with shoes for heads. Right behind them was a loose head stuck to a single arm, furiously biting and clawing the carpet. I felt like we might not be in control of this situation any longer.
~ David Wong
After my 10-match ban in 2013 for biting Branislav Ivanovic, I had questioned the double standards and how the fact that no one actually gets hurt is never taken into consideration.
~ Luis Suarez
Failures plagued me. Things I had omitted or ignored, neglected. What I should have given and hadn't. I felt the biting pang of every unfulfillment.
~ Richard Matheson
It was a hot day, the sun biting the skin like it had teeth.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Friends don't bite friends. At least not without lots of Vodka, a Mexican waiter named Santiago and mutual consent.
~ Kimberly Raye
For biting, there are two corrections that work extremely well. In most cases, the ssssst! that imitates Mom-cat stops young kittens cold. Make the sound very percussive.
~ Amy Shojai
It is a bad thing to bite into hard fruit with little teeth. You will say bad things about the fruit when the problem is your teeth.
~ Rita Williams-Garcia
She lifted her sewing and bit off the thread in the way women do to make your flesh crawl.
~ Robert Penn Warren
and opened his mouth to speak in that precise drawl which is the trademark of the overly educated upper class english gentleman. A high voice: A biting one: definitely an eccentric.
~ Laurie R. King
Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female.
~ Desmond Morris
Biologically speaking, if something bites you, it is more likely to be female.
~ Desmond Morris
cold nips ears bites sides snaps trees can't hide crusts snow covers grass thickens water frozen fast invades lungs mists breath shivers skin makes death
~ Angela Dorsey
though down here the air was warm but not blistering. If not for the mosquitoes that got in an ear or went up his nose and occasionally bit through the repellent, he would have been comfortable. The chatter of birds, the light hum of insects. He lay there listening to his stomach complain, waiting for something to happen. Toward late afternoon
~ Louise Erdrich
winter mortifies the flesh and invigorates the soul. There's nothing like a brisk, biting wind to fend off gluttony and lust." I could see his point: it's hard to fornicate when your balls are frostbitten.
~ Sam Torode
ALGOR  (A'LGOR)   n.s.[Lat.] Extreme cold; chilness.Dict.
~ Samuel Johnson
I like doing comedy, I like doing drama. Naturally I like to do, I like doing dramas, I like conflict, and when I do a comedy, you know, I've found that, like, romantic comedy is the trickiest one, because often it's neither: it's not romantic and it's not funny. So, like, I like a comedy that's biting. It's biting humor or really quirky humor.
~ Matt Dillon
And again, there are those who sit in their swamp and speak thus from the rushes: 'Virtue - that means to sit quietly in the swamp. We bite nobody and avoid him who wants to bite: and in everything we hold the opinion that is given us.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.
~ S. J. Perelman