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Tag Name "Biting" (85)

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But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay Invention, Nature's child, fled stepdame Study's blows And others' feet still seemed but strangers in my way. Thus, great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: Fool, said my Muse to me, look in thy heart, and write.
Philip Sidney
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I will probably write an hour a day and spend eight hours a day biting my knuckle and worrying about not writing.
David Foster Wallace
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When self-important people and powerful institutions are governed by illusion, history has a way of biting back.
William Greider
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There's no agony like [getting started]. You sit in a room, biting pencils, looking at a typewriter, walking about, or casting yourself down on a sofa, feeling you want to cry your head off.
Agatha Christie
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I wanted to be born at the farthest limit of the world. I'll explore it, I said to myself, biting big chunks from it. And when I want, I'll go straight to the core. This is the way of the world I thought in my innocence, round and around the layers of peel until the taste becomes certain.
Abba Kovner
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Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember ~ the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.
Zig Ziglar
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Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
Samuel Butler
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I bite my nails so bad. They're awful! My nails are so ugly. I need to stop biting them.
Elle Fanning
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So let us do real fighting, boring in and gouging, biting.
George S. Patton
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If we had known there was biting in soccer, we would have started watching years ago.
Peter Sagal
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There's nothing like biting off more than you can chew, and then chewing anyway.
Mark Burnett
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I prefer rugby to soccer. I enjoy the violence in rugby, except when they start biting each other's ears off.
Elizabeth Taylor
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Once you begin to take yourself seriously as a leader or as a follower, as a modern or as a conservative, then you become a self-conscious, biting, and scratching little animal whose work is not of the slightest value or importance to anybody.
Virginia Woolf
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See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails
Will Rogers
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Don't let the same dog bite you twice.
Chuck Berry
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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
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Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
Samuel Goldwyn
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I feel for Veronica Mars so much when I'm watching at home. It is a wonderful story. The writing is consistently funny, biting, charming, heart-wrenching, etc. I also like the look of it. The cinematography - different from any other show.
Jason Dohring
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Intellectual controversies tend to be like dog fights without the teeth, in which the barking not the biting does the damage.
Luis Fernando Verissimo
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Then forget Gabriel. Is there a particular reason you keep biting vampires? Will touched the dried blood on his wrists, and smiled. They don't expect it.
Cassandra Clare
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The fishermen say that the thundering of the pond scares the fishes and prevents their biting.
Henry David Thoreau
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I came in the door, I said it before I never let the mic magnetize me no more. But it's biting me, fighting me, inviting me to rhyme, I can't hold it back...I'm looking for the line. Taking off my coat, clearing my throat, My rhyme will be kicking until I hit my last note.
Rakim
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It was unbelievable seeing me as an action figure! In a few months, toddlers all around the country will be biting my head off!
Emma Watson
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I'm not really dying today. No person ever died that had a family. I'll be around a long time. A thousand years from now, a whole township of my offspring will be biting sour apples in the gumwood shade.
Ray Bradbury
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