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Quotes About Teeth

I had all my own teeth and I wanted to keep it that way.
~ Tom Glavine
I tried to scream like you once screamed God since I wanted to make the whole world faint but Harry Astley clapped his hand over my mouth O the sheer joy of feeling my teeth sink in.
~ Alasdair Gray
I know my time will come soon enough, but I will not dwell on it. What is the purpose? We might as well dwell on the work of our teeth or on the mechanics of our walk. It is there, it will always be there, and I don't intend to spend my glorious hours looking over my shoulder to see death's icy face.
~ Alberto Manguel
but he laughed as the English do at the end of his teeth.
~ Alexandre Dumas
You're going to have some really sexy scars back here, Owe." "Do girls go for that sort of thing?" She was surprised to hear him speak and realized he'd spit out the piece of wood. It was marred with impressions of his teeth. "Scars like this are a sign you've survived in battle." "Some battle," he said ruefully. "Me and a cactus going three rounds, and I nearly bit the dust.
~ Joan Johnston
Broken hearts heal with time, but broken teeth never do.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Mom hopped up to turn off the burner, but it subsided before she got there. 'If this--whatever it is--starts playing with fire,' she said through clenched teeth, 'I'm going to give it a spanking.
~ Ann Hodgman
You mentioned the Elders when Officer Grimshaw called about the new trouble. Who are they?" "They are Namid's teeth and claws." Oh crap. "So they're what, the world's hit men?
~ Anne Bishop
The beloved's innocence brutalizes the lover. As the singing of a mad person behind you on the train enrages you, its beautiful animal-like teeth shining amid black planes of paint. As Helen enrages history. Senza uscita.
~ Anne Carson
Finest specimens of human molars
~ F Scott Fitzgerald
When he was four years old, his father had brought him home a tin box from the penitentiary. It was orange and had a picture of some peanut brittle on the outside of it and green letters that said, "A NUTTY SURPRISE!" When Enoch had opened it, a coiled piece of steel had sprung out at him and broken off the ends of his two front teeth. His life was full of so many happenings like that that it would seem he should have been more sensitive to his times of danger.
~ Flannery O'Connor
She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.
~ Benjamin Franklin
My wife had a bad habit of biting her nails, but I cured her. I hid her teeth.
~ Tommy Cooper
was tucked into his dark blue trousers. He was small for his age, a lean and supple youth. Wind and sun had weathered the boy's face. The warm color of his skin, his white teeth and dark eyes, the dark trousers merging into the darkness of the corridor behind him: it was all a chance composition of perfect light and shadow.
~ Robin Hobb
never having worn braces.
~ Lisa Scottoline
You have to incapacitate the women first. Because women are the fighters. They will go claw and teeth to protect their families.
~ Lisa Unger
Upright, my tail! Forward, my feet! Prepare, teeth! We approach hamburger!
~ Lois Lowry
I used to have nightmare about having petrol poured over me, and being set on fire, and nowadays I have nightmares that I have wooden teeth and that they are continually falling out, as if I had an infinite number of them. It seems that everyone has their own inexplicable fear to have nightmares about. We need nightmares to keep ourselves entertained, and fend off the contentment that we all fear and abhor so much.
~ Louis de Bernieres
That's not weird," said Jenny. "That's normal. Try reading a story backward. That's weird. I'm the weird one in this class." "That's a laugh!" said Rondi. "If you're so weird, then how come you never asked Louis to kick you in the teeth? I'm the one who's crazy!" "No, that's not crazy," said Todd. "I'll tell
~ Louis Sachar
his arm with her missing teeth. And that kind of bite
~ Louis Sachar
Good luck go with you, O Chief of the Wolves. And good luck and strong white teeth go with noble children that they may never forget the hungry in this world.
~ Rudyard Kipling
shadow with a bushy tail crossed the threshold and whined: Good luck go with you, O Chief of the Wolves. And good luck and strong white teeth go with noble children that they may never forget the hungry in
~ Rudyard Kipling
her big gray nose dropped across her four tumbling, squealing cubs, and the moon shone into the mouth of the cave where they all lived. "Augrh!" said Father Wolf, "it is time to hunt again"; and he was going to spring downhill when a little shadow with a bushy tail crossed the threshold and whined: "Good luck go with you, O Chief of the Wolves; and good luck and strong white teeth go with noble children, that they may never forget the hungry in this world.
~ Rudyard Kipling
and knitted his brow like a man disquieted. The devil! murmured he, between his teeth. Can Treville have set this Gascon upon
~ Alexandre Dumas