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Quotes About Teeth

while I love each and every item, I'm happy to sell them, because I made them especially for you. Feel free to examine them, but please be careful. The best of them have teeth.
~ Stephen King
All nucleated organisms generate excess calcium as a waste product. Since at least the Cambrian times, organisms have accumulated those calcium reserves, and put them to good use: building shells, teeth, skeletons. Your ability to walk upright is due to evolution's knack for recycling its toxic waste.
~ Steven Johnson
His eyes grew dark, and his mind filled with a chaotic swirl of battles and hunts, the feeling of claws raking across fur and teeth meeting in the flesh of prey.
~ Erin Hunter
Oh, the shark has pretty teeth, dear—And he shows them pearly white—Just a jackknife has Macheath, dear—And he keeps it out of sight.
~ Bertolt Brecht
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men although he was twice married, it never occured to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.
~ Bertrand Russell
Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.
~ Walter Bagehot
Even a clock has teeth and time has a bite all of its own.
~ Gregory Maguire
The major was very interested in the mountains, and we in turn were very interested in the major, a spare spruce man of nearly sixty who wore light shantung summer suits and was very studious of his appearance generally, and very specially of his smooth grey hair. He also had three sets of false teeth, of which he was very proud: one for mornings, one for evenings, and one for afternoons.
~ H.E. Bates
Madness rides the star-wind . . . claws and teeth sharpened on centuries of corpses . . . dripping death astride a Bacchanale of bats from night-black ruins of buried temples of Belial. . . . Now, as the baying of that dead, fleshless monstrosity grows louder and louder, and the stealthy whirring and flapping of those accursed web-wings circles closer and closer, I shall seek with my revolver the oblivion which is my only refuge from the unnamed and unnamable.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Madness rides the star-wind . . . claws and teeth sharpened on centuries of corpses
~ H.P. Lovecraft
This was a place where tattoos outnumbered teeth.
~ Harlan Coben
And if my son was so gravely wounded," Ali said between clenched teeth, "who do you think you are to not tell me? I even asked why you two were talking at halftime, remember?" "I do.
~ Harlan Coben
My teeth are all right, but they are not American teeth, and my hair is not thick and luscious. Los Angeles is dense with beautiful people, and most of the men who are aspiring actors are 5ft 5in, so I tower above them.
~ Stephen Merchant
A lot of guys are missing teeth and don't get them fixed until they're done. I think that's pretty much the hockey trademark... guys figure, well, we're going to lose our teeth anyway, so we'll get them fixed when we're done.
~ Chris Pronger
And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet.
~ Jackson Browne
I could feel the winter shaking my bones and banging my teeth together.
~ Sylvia Plath
It's sort of like a reminder [click my teeth together] to remember it, but I don't think it works. I have terrible memory and really bad teeth as a result.
~ Rich Fulcher
Charlotte couldn't help laughing. "My dear lady, I feared to impose on your kindness. I see now that I needn't have worried. You are a shark!" Mrs. Watson preened a little, evidently pleased by Charlotte's observation. "A shark with a good nose for money in the water but, let's say, rather soft teeth.
~ Sherry Thomas
Everywhere he went the shadows had teeth, and quite often an agenda.
~ Simon R. Green
Revenge is simply justice with teeth.
~ Simon R. Green
I love to eat an apple after a meal, just to cleanse my teeth - they always look polished afterwards.
~ Catherine Zeta-Jones
You'll like it here, she said. Pix is nice. She's an archaeologist? And anthropologist. She collects teeth. Who doesn't? he said.
~ Maureen Johnson
listing a series of dental appointments two
~ Maureen Lee
And the wild things...gnashed their terrible teeth ...
~ Maurice Sendak