Top 50 Chew Quotes

I used to joke that my next book would be about puppies that have lost a chew toy, and everywhere they went, people were nice and gave them things until they found the chew toy.

We have no right to poison, to eat up, to chew, to pollute this wonderful country of ours. We are required to save it and purify it and protect it.

When I’m interviewing somebody, I take notes with a Bic Cristal, the classic black-cap, clear-body, medium-weight pen. It works on many levels: You can chew the cap, and if you’re really bored, you can bite the end off the back.

For me, the dumbest rule is that you can’t chew gum in school.

I may be biting off more than I can chew, but with ‘The Simpsons’ and with ‘Futurama,’ what I’m trying to do in the guise of light entertainment, if this is possible – is nudge people, jostle them a little, wake them up to some of the ways in which we’re being manipulated and exploited.

Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.

There are plenty of movies that you need to chew on a bit. Movies that you return to and see something different in the second time around.

Give me anything that is chewable, and I will chew on it.

Walnuts are so rich. I also love that you can chew them for five minutes. Then I eat a couple of golden raisins as a palate cleanser because they are really tart, and then more walnuts. It’s a great snack for me.

The president of the United States actually has to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time.

I love biting off more than I can chew and figuring it out.

Well, I think every now and again, some people deserve to get their butts chewed. Every now and again some people deserve a pat on the back. What I try and do is compliment folk who deserve a compliment, and chew folks out who deserve to be chewed out.

Knowing his coach likes him is more important to a player than anything else. To me, it was important to be able to chew out a player for screwing up and for him to accept it because he knew I liked him anyway.

It is to TV that I owe my freedom from bondage of the Latin lover roles. Television came along and gave me parts to chew on. It gave me wings as an actor.

I love working and I love doing lots of things and a variety of things. It keeps your mind active… and you don’t end up worrying about just the one thing. When I chew things over or analyze too much, that is when I can trip myself up.

I have always stuck up for Western medicine. You can chew all the celery you want, but without antibiotics, three quarters of us would not be here.

If you bite and chew the peel of a banana, then eat the fruit of the banana itself, you will find that it tastes like a tomato. I swear.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

When you bite off only what you can chew, you’re going to disappoint people. Guess what? Not your problem. You’re not doing anything wrong.

Being a gossip reporter just isn’t a respectable job. It’ll chew you up and spit you out.

I love biting off way more than I can chew, and that’s a great motivator because it forces me to rise to the occasion.

What I love about Indiana Jones is he always bites off slightly more than he can chew. The guy he’s fighting is always slightly tougher than he is, but he just refuses to give up. And that’s what makes Indiana Jones a hero: not his superpowers, but his refusal to be beaten.

I now feel drawn to projects where I bite off a bit more than I can chew.

All food is comfort food. Maybe I just like to chew.

The secret to my success is that I bit off more than I could chew and chewed as fast as I could.

She can’t even chew gum and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book.

It’s natural canine behavior to chew on all sorts of things, roll in other animals’ droppings, hump and fight other dogs, menace anything that invades the home. All these behaviors can be curbed, but that takes a lot of work. Trainers say it requires nearly 2,000 repetitions of a behavior for a dog to completely absorb it.

I knew I had to get out. It wasn’t a good place to be in. ‘Home and Away’ is a great place to learn, but it’s a machine, and it can chew people up and spit them out.

I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.

I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out.

If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy.

In sixth grade, we all had to write this opinion paper. Most wrote about things like why we should be able to chew gum in class – I wrote about why women should receive equal pay.

When things haven’t gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.

Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.

What works for me is simply to read a lot of stuff throughout the year – not with a particular story or theme in mind, but just because you never know what might be useful or interesting in the long run. I much prefer to just absorb a lot of stuff and let the old unconscious chew down on it over time.

When you get chemo, some people get a lot of sores in their mouth and even their esophagus, so they chew on ice; thank God that didn’t happen with me.

Meat, to me, it’s slightly boring. Hold on, I love meat too, but only once in a while. You get a piece of meat, and you put it in your mouth, you chew, the first five seconds, all the juices flow around your mouth, they’re gone, and then you are 20 more seconds chewing something that is tasteless at this point.

You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don’t bite off more than you can chew. It’s a dangerous world.

There are fast chewers and slow chewers, long chewers and short chewers, right-chewing people and left-chewing people. Some of us chew straight up and down, and others chew side-to-side, like cows. Your oral processing habits are a physiological fingerprint.

I just asked myself, what piece of that man’s soul did he just chew off and swallow to get next week’s assignment? You know, just to live, just to work as an artist, or to feed the family?

When I get thinking, I get very knotted up. I chew things over a lot and take things quite seriously.

Jerry Ford is so dumb he can’t fart and chew gum at the same time.

I can’t stop biting off more than I can chew.

I’m good at snap decisions. But if you let me, I will chew something to death.

Eighty percent of flavor comes from your nose, including a set of internal nostrils. When you chew food and hold it in your mouth, the gases that are released goes into these nostrils. People who wolf their food are missing some of the flavor.

Chew on this: Human teeth can detect a grain of sand or grit 10 microns in diameter. A micron is 1/25,000 of an inch. If you shrank a Coke can until it was the diameter of a human hair, the letter O in the product name would be about 10 microns across.

I hate picking a bone with Paul Ryan; he’s a friend of mine, but I think he needs to walk and chew gum at the same time.

Thin people release the fork, and they chew the food with the fork on the table. They chew their food slowly. They look around at each other or the wall or a picture. They listen to the music. They sit back and take a breath. They do something other than concentrate on shoving the food into their body.

A lot of people tend to chew up the scenery. I’m a firm believer in less is more, especially on the big screen.

I like it when actors get an opportunity to chew into something. They love scenes with beginnings, middles, and ends – scenes that give an arc to their characters and allow audiences to get to know these people.