Chewing Quotes

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
Elbert Hubbard

Money, Country, Until

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.
Aesop

Great, Truth, Character

Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps.
Emo Philips

Through, Worth, Mornings

Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.
Dave Barry

Coffee, Less, Eating

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Eyes, Television, Gum

Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience, and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the war.
Thor Heyerdahl

Peace, Great, War

You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.
Jack Welch

Success, Done, Dream

Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.
Hank Ketcham

Enjoy, Flattery, Gum

I don't know how it started but someone must have noticed I was always chewing tobacco or smoking a pipe.
Hank Sauer

Someone, Smoking, Started

As American as an apple is and as American as baseball is, they don't go together. You can't be chewing an apple at a baseball game. You've got to let go of the diet that day.
Kevin James

Diet, Game, Baseball

I never think it's right to chew gum in front of other people, but a lot of times I'll come in for a meeting chewing gum and I'll forget I'm chewing it. Then you don't want to swallow it because it stays in your system for seven years or something, so I've asked to throw it away. I've started to wonder if that's why I didn't get certain movies.
Jennifer Lawrence

Movies, Forget, Why

It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy.
Padma Lakshmi

Happy, Long, Person

I just want to make pictures that are entertaining. I'll leave the scenery chewing to someone else.
Alan Ladd

Someone, Else, Leave

There's nothing worse than seeing someone chewing gum on the red carpet!
Shay Mitchell

Someone, Nothing, Worse

I think I'm still chewing on my years as a foreign correspondent. I found myself covering catastrophes - war, uprising, famine, refugee crises - and witnessing how people were affected by dire situations. When I find a story from the past, I bring some of those lessons to bear on the narrative.
Geraldine Brooks

War, Past, Find

I'll eat anything. I ate antelope once in Swaziland. I didn't know what it was until I'd started chewing it. Everything tastes like chicken though doesn't it? It wasn't bad.
Nicholas Hoult

Bad, Everything, Once

I wouldn't treat a romantic scene any differently than any other scene. I would really say the biggest preparation was chewing gum and breath mints! For a kissing scene, it's all about the breath mints!
Alice Englert

Romantic, Treat, Biggest

On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.
Cecil Beaton

Result, Close, London

I can tell you one of the most surprising ingredients I've ever found. Perhaps five years ago on a beach I saw this herb that looked exactly like chives. I put it in my mouth and started chewing and, surprise, it tasted exactly like coriander.
Rene Redzepi

Put, Tell, Started

I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
Ed Westwick

Long, Through, Bite

I've got a great life that I really enjoy. But there is something chewing at me inside: that adrenaline rush from football, I miss that.
Alan Shearer

Life, Great, Football

I found out was, by the rhythm of my chewing, how I chewed fast, slow or what have you, I could tell the audience what my character was thinking and feeling.
Rod Steiger

Character, Feeling, Thinking

If you see the picture when things get exciting, he chews faster. When he really gets shocked, everything stops, including the chewing. So I worked it in for me.
Rod Steiger

Everything, Picture, Exciting

For some reason, chewing gum for me gets my brain going.
Brie Larson

Brain, Reason, Gum

Men even contract the dirty, filthy habit of chewing tobacco, and when the habit gets a good hold upon them they are never satisfied except when they have a wad of the stuff in their mouth. So with drinking. It is largely a habit.
Thomas Jordan Jarvis

Good, Men, Stuff

Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes.
John Mason Brown

Eyes, Television, Gum

There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you'll eat slower and you will get more nutrients.
A. J. Jacobs

Idea, Times, Takes

It's just a show. It's not the end of Western Civilization. It's chewing gum.
Jerry Springer

End, Show, Western

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