Bites Quotes

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.
Herb Caen

Time, Wisdom, Off

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.
Chanakya

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.
Barack Obama

Money, Truth, Small

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and bites you.
Neil Armstrong

Hard, Tried, Snaps

Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
David Herbert Lawrence

Deep, Literature, Curse

Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
Samuel Goldwyn

Hand, Director, Golden

Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

Reality, Rather, Perception

Speaking of Twitter, I don't even know if I composed a blog entry in 2009, as I was too busy parceling my every thought into cute 140-character sound bites. I used to only worry about being pithy for a living; now some of my best lines are wasted on a free app!
Diablo Cody

Best, Busy, Thought

Yeah, for some reason parrots have to bite me. That's their job. I don't know why that is. They've nearly torn my nose off. I've had some really bad parrot bites.
Steve Irwin

Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female.
Desmond Morris

Likely, Female, Speaking

If I have a weakness, it's probably ice cream. That's where I get lax, sloppy. I'll sneak into the refrigerator at night and take two or three bites and put it back. Butter pecan. Only two or three bites, but it shows.
Jack Nicklaus

Night, Two, Put

One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do you call that Art?
Franz Schubert

Art, Call, Horn

The media works in sound bites. They can make you look like a genius or stupid.
Kato Kaelin

Stupid, Genius, Media

I've probably saved thousands of peoples' lives with my educational message on snake bites, how to get in around venomous anything.
Steve Irwin

Around, Lives, Message

There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.
Peter De Vries

Nothing, Times, Hand

The hardest thing about my job isn't the snake bites or the crocodiles, it's being away from my children. I have a really religious satellite phone call every day back to the boys, wherever we are, whatever time zone, to say goodnight.
Bear Grylls

Time, Children, Job

He will fight a rattlesnake and give it the first two bites too.
Navjot Singh Sidhu

Fight, Give, Two

It's dangerous talking about yourself too much because you find yourself talking in sound bites.
Emily Mortimer

Yourself, Find, Dangerous

I went to dinner with my mother-in-law and I just realized I was talking in sound bites to her and expecting her to laugh every time I said anything or be jotting something down in a notebook. So you have to kind of really have a talk with yourself after you've done a press tour and say, 'Chill out!'
Emily Mortimer

Time, Yourself, Laugh

I don't like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites.
Leon Kass

Thoughts, Sound, Forced

Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.
Malcolm Turnbull

Politics, Struggle, Job

There are days when I literally have to eat 17 plates of food - it's intense. It's about moderation. You just need a few bites to get the gist of a dish.
Gail Simmons

Food, Few, Days

Just write about what bites you and damn the rest.
Jonathan Carroll

But the Republican right-wing agenda, these people - Arnold and his patrons - felt it could be accomplished by circumventing the Legislature and spending money and organizing and giving sound bites.
Warren Beatty

Money, Giving, Republican

Courtney Love is a loose cannon. She says what she thinks. She's wild on the red carpet. You get the best sound bites from Courtney Love.
Steven Cojocaru

Love, Best, She

By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be greater than mortal in some way, and that's led them into creating illusions, sound bites, focus groups that tell you what to do.
Sydney Pollack

Politics, True, Focus

Here is my general approach to the energy companies. You have already charged the utilities a 50 percent credit penalty for the power they were buying from you. You're charging us a penalty. You're not going to get two bites of the apple here.
Gray Davis

Power, Two, Energy

A lot of the stuff I've accumulated over the last few years of touring I thought was really interesting. Like sounds, sound bites, and beats even, but they weren't good dance beats they weren't ones anyone would want to rap over or anything.
Eric San

Good, Thought, Dance

If Americans want to see results instead of rhetoric, if taxpayers would like solutions instead of sound bites, and hard work instead of horse trading, I suggest you take a short look, and it won't take much longer, at the accomplishments of this Congress.
Alcee Hastings

Work, Hard, Short

I'm an actor. If you had said to me before I started acting that I'd get two bites of the cherry - you would do things that people will remember forever like 'The Brothers' which I did in the '70s and now 'Doctor Who' - I'd have been overjoyed and I still am.
Colin Baker

Remember, Two, Before

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