Quotes and Sayings About Teeth
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No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you. And, oh yes, if you wanted, he would give you a haircut and pull your tooth while he was at it.
-- Abraham Verghese -
He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.
-- Al Yankovic -
If you see the teeth of the lion, do not think that the lion is smiling at you.
-- Al-Mutanabbi -
I had to have a brace because I had big teeth. If I'd gone to Africa I would have got poached.
-- Alan Carr -
May God keep you away from the venom of the cobra, the teeth of the tiger, and the revenge of the Afghans.
-- Alexander the Great -
Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.
-- Alice Hoffman -
Riding trails with your dog restores a bond lost in some evolutionary belch. You travel at the same speed, over the same terrain, neither of you slowing to compensate for the other. You're equal playmates with mud in your teeth.
-- Allison Glock -
SACERDOTALIST, n. One who holds the belief that a clergyman is a priest. Denial of this momentous doctrine is the hardest challenge that is now flung into the teeth of the Episcopalian church by the Neo-Dictionarians.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
POVERTY, n. A file provided for the teeth of the rats of reform. Its victims are distinguished by possession of all the virtues and by their faith in leaders seeking to conduct them into a prosperity where they believe these to be unknown.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Open-faced sandwiches take risks and live big and smile with all their teeth. These are the people I want to be around.
-- Amy Poehler -
A book is meant not only to be read, but to haunt you, to importune you like a lover or a parent, to be in your teeth like a piece of gristle.
-- Anatole Broyard -
Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.
-- Anatole Broyard -
The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.
-- Andres Segovia -
Now that I can see it's the queen's new clothes Now that I can hear all your poison prose Now that I can talk with my tongue unfroze I'm not so sure of Santa or the buck tooth fairy There are no words for me inside your dictionary
-- Andy Partridge -
I have never directed. But I think I could. I have thought about it. I'm a bit long in the tooth to start.
-- Angela Lansbury -
Ladies: Anne Hathaway is a feminist and she has amazing teeth. Let's save our bad attitudes for the ones who aren't advancing the cause.
-- Anne Hathaway -
We all often feel like we are pulling teeth, even those writers whose prose ends up being the most natural and fluid. The right words and sentences just do not come pouring out like ticker tape most of the time.
-- Anne Lamott -
When I appear in public, people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground and swish my tail - none of which is easy.
-- Anne, Princess Royal -
All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
-- Antonin Artaud -
Those meaningless and unanswerable questions the minds keep returning to, like a tongue exploring a broken tooth.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
Why are the architects of the family-values agenda so eager to punish into the next generation? What is being served by seeking, quite literally, a tooth for a tooth?
-- Ayelet Waldman -
Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? Its simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the states budget around.
-- Bart Stupak -
I really cut my teeth on off-off-off Broadway shows.
-- Bea Arthur -
You dress to impress," I said approvingly. "No, Angel." He leaned in, his teeth softly grazing my ear. "I undress to impress.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick -
An infallible Remedy for the Tooth-ach, viz Wash the Root of an aching Tooth, in Elder Vinegar, and let it dry half an hour in the Sun; after which it will never ach more; Probatum est.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Step to this and get shanked up I knocked out so many teeth the tooth fairy went bankrupt
-- Big L -
Dentists tell you not to pick your teeth with any sharp metal object. Then you sit in their chair and the first thing they grab is an iron hook.
-- Bill Cosby -
Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.
-- Bill Vaughan
