Top 144 Bite Quotes

Sometimes I bite off a fingernail to use as a toothpick. Nasty.

If the first bite is with the eye and the second with the nose, some people will never take that third, actual bite if the food in question smells too fishy, fermented or cheesy.

Four months after we finished shooting, I’d been in New Orleans shooting another movie and my agent and I were having a bite to eat – actually in London – and he’s sitting there and goes, ‘Wow, I just can’t believe how ripped you are.’

Pity sidesteps complexity in favor of narratives that we’re comfortable with, reducing the nuances of a person’s experience to a sound bite.

I have often been characterized by one sound bite, and people say, ‘That is the whole of Mike Huckabee, because we have him on this off-the-cuff moment.’

The P2 is the best car I have driven so far. Once you get your head round it, it’s fun to drive, it’s responsive, it does what you ask but you have to treat it with respect or it will bite you.

I always tell my children, ‘You have to face your fear. If not, it’s like running from a dog that will bite you in the back.’

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Any dog, you put him in the corner, no matter if they’re vicious or not, they’re going to bite back.

I love all people. I hate no one. And, you know, when you take a subject and you reduce it to something like a four-second sound bite, and a check mark on a ballot, I think that that’s inappropriate and insensitive.

I do eat well. I try to love my body. That is what I tell my daughter. I say, ‘Love every bite of food. Love your body. We’re all going to be dead soon.’ Actually I don’t say that last thing to her.

I don’t bite the hand that feeds me. I’m a little smarter than that.

It wasn’t until I had been writing on and off for maybe ten years that I started to establish any kind of routine, thought I couldn’t put a finger on an exact date, and this routine relates simply to the aphorism ‘How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.’

I’ve always been interested in a femininity with a bite. I always think a little bit of a kick is great.

McDonalds used to be my favorite place to eat, until my metabolism changed in my late 30s. Before that, I would have no hesitation about walking into McDonalds and getting two cheeseburgers and fries and enjoying every last bite.

The first thing that bothers me after any celebrity death happens is that my phone starts buzzing for a bite.

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

Coming home, we stopped for a bite to eat and ran into a confused waitress. Had a heart-rending time trying to speak the Words of Life to her, and as I think of all this country now, many just as confused, and more so, I realized that the 39th Street bus is as much a mission field as Africa ever was.

A rattlesnake that doesn’t bite teaches you nothing.

I’ve never tasted a store-bought tortilla that compares in texture or flavor with one made by hand, so I’m happy to invest some time. It’s worth it just to see a friend take her first bite and understand, finally, that a flour tortilla is meant to be an essential component, not just a lackluster wrapper.

I love oatmeal. To me, it’s not boring. I agree that ordinary oatmeal is very boring, but not the steel-cut Irish kind – the kind that pops in your mouth when you bite into it in little glorious bursts like a sort of gummy champagne.

I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and bite. Then look what adults do!

They told me many times throughout my career to bite my tongue and I told them my tongue’s been bleeding since I was born.

Don’t let the same dog bite you twice.

Sugar is like a drug. If I have one bite, I need to eat it all. I can eat an entire panettone in one sitting.

I hate to tell you this, but I did not even like visiting Versailles. I found it just too ornate. It was like a complete diet of cotton candy, marzipan, and whipped cream. It gave me the mental equivalent of one of those toothaches you get when you bite into something too sweet.

Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to me or touch me casually, I may get intimidated and bite you. So please be careful.

I have often had apparitions of hosts of serpents with heads at their tails, but not one was able to bite me; and many other visions.

The only time I get afraid is when I am at the ocean. I get a little nervous when I’m in the water because I always feel like something is going to bite or snatch me.

The song ‘Bite the Thong’ in particular, with Damon Albarn, really encapsulates the whole dilemma of, ‘Hmm, should I stay on the underground when everybody else is selling out?’ Nowadays, you can just do it – have your name-brand clothes, do songs with rock n’ rollers – and it’s not considered selling out.

Two stops after I got on, these two unbelievable short people got on, and the way they were looking at me, I could tell. They wanted to bite my ankles!

When a joke works, it works. It can make a point in a really simple way; it can be a great little sound bite to put on television or share on social media. Humor has this incredible power in how we communicate about politics now, in part because there’s something natural in the way it’s communicated.

Who cannot appreciate the smell of bacon? It smells good, but I never want to grab a bite.

Credit cards are like snakes: Handle ’em long enough, and one will bite you.

It is very difficult to give a 15 second sound bite on why there is pain and suffering in this world and not have it come off as being flippant or surface level or superficial.

The only exercise I got as a kid was fork to mouth. Food was equated with love in my household. I thought you left the table when the zipper was down and you’d explode if you took another bite. I’d eat my plate and then everyone else’s leftovers.

I find it quite hard to sum up my relationship in a sound bite. I feel that it trivializes it for other people’s pleasure. It’s an adventure.

I’ve never doubted that apartheid – because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil – was going to bite the dust eventually.

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.

Well I think comedy everywhere has lost a bit of its bite. In Canada, I can’t argue with the quality, but it feels like it’s gotten a little safe.

When you are starved and something is dropped on your plate you are going to relish every bite.

No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth.

In football if you don’t spend the money well enough it comes back to bite you, over not one season but two or three!

If you have a lot of sweetness and quirkiness, someone’s got to have a little bit of bite against that.

Spotting a rare bird is never worth the bite of a cur. Once bitten by a German shepherd, I knew that I preferred cats, even if they are bird-killers. Life is long enough for more than one chance at a rare bird.

I joined the international stage quite late. I didn’t do many of the youth age groups, so to come into the senior team and to be offered a Nike deal – a very, very low Nike deal to start with – but I was jumping up to bite the woman’s hand off to sign the piece of paper.

You kick a dog long enough, that dog is going to bite you or die.

You know the bark is worse than the bite in D.C.

The jungle is my least favourite environment. It’s always damp, and everything tries to bite you, whether it’s flora or fauna. But I think it’s important to face your fears and not just go for the comfortable option.

When I get through the front door, I haven’t got time to tie my shoelaces. There are three kids, and the wife, and I make that absolutely the priority. By the time we’ve got the kids to bed and had a bite to eat we’re in bed by 10:15 and are knackered!

As far as how I expressed ‘practice, practice, practice’ over and over again, I wouldn’t take that back because, obviously, that sound bite is great for the media and for the fans, because they love it.

Rush Limbaugh is a lame professional swine, and he makes a good living at it. He is like a hired geek in some traveling backwoods carnival – the freaks who bite the heads off chickens – but Limbaugh is a modernized geek who thinks he can bite the heads off of people.

Well, I think if somebody says something that I don’t agree with, I don’t think that I should bite my tongue. I don’t think anyone should bite their tongue. And if I have said over and over I don’t like something and it’s constantly being done or I’m being disrespected, then you’ve got hell to pay.

The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he’ll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.

Just as the only reservoir for the typhus virus in nature is provided by man, so the only vector of infection is the louse. The bite of the louse is not virulent immediately after the infecting meal. It becomes so only towards the 7th day following infection.