Words matter. These are the best Mouth Quotes from famous people such as Mark Warkentin, Raina Telgemeier, Paulie Malignaggi, Justin Simien, Leo Rosten, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
It was a downriver 10-K in the mouth of the Amazon. I won in an hour and 20 minutes. It has to be one of the fastest times ever swum. The race director said there were no piranhas in that part of the Amazon. The water was too dirty.
I was kind of a cross between Kristy and Mary Anne among ‘The Baby-Sitters Club’ characters. I was shy, but I was also kind of a tomboy, and I was really good at sticking my foot in my mouth even though I was shy.
The Hatton fight left a bad taste in my mouth.
I’ve been taught through life experience that, like, I’d better open my mouth and quickly define myself in a new space and with new people because, if I don’t, I will be defined.
Why did God give me two ears and one mouth? So that I will hear more and talk less.
I’m not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren’t straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works.
I’m a satirist, so I’ve got boxing gloves on if the person is worthy of satire. But I’m not an assassin. If that ever happens, it’s only because something happened during the interview that got me going, and then I had to translate my feelings to the mouth of the character.
There’s nothing going into my mouth that’s not wrapped.
Justin Vernon is one of the collaborators Kanye will always go to. He doesn’t fit in with any genres – you never know if he’s gonna sing, like, the Bee Gees or some crazy, distorted thing. And you don’t know what he’s saying half the time. He’s kind of like Michael McDonald, like he’s got marbles in his mouth.
In all feats of fire-eating it should be noted that the head is thrown well back, so that the flame may pass out of the open mouth instead of up into the roof, as it would if the head were held naturally.
Once when I was 16 I had my car taken away from me for being past curfew. Oh, and I said a bad word once, and I actually did get my mouth washed out with soap.
Grade 9: I was too small for football, too shy for drama class, but I did have a passion for music. And so, with a mouth full of braces (and a glorious mullet), I accepted that the trombone would be a fantastic scholastic counterpart to my extracurricular loves: country music, and the guitar.
I’ve had to learn when not to tweet. Like, you learn how to keep your mouth shut? Learn to keep your tweet shut.
People seem to get weirdly obsessed with my mouth.
When chimps threaten, they open their mouth and show their teeth. It’s a little like waving a knife in front of you. It’s very primitive, and therefore bizarre.
I can shoot off my big mouth and write my shows and run my shows, and I can recognize how lucky I am because my position is rare and my position is privileged.
My son became my manager, and he said to me, ‘Mom, if you could do anything you wanted to do, what would it be?’ And out of my mouth immediately came, ‘Dancing With the Stars.’
I have a big mouth, and I have a temper, so that’s not good for people. That’s not good for executives.
I do dumb stuff, like playing my favorite dumb Barry White song and lip-synching into the mirror so it looks like his voice is coming out of my mouth.
Remember that the pharynx is at a crossroads from which leads off, at the top, the passage to the mouth cavity and the passage to the nasal cavity, and below, the passage to the larynx.
I try to force myself to close my mouth when I put mascara on. I don’t want to be part of the masses!
It’s as if I were collaborating with myself, revealing my relationship to the material. My hand would make the drawing. Then my mouth would transmit it.
I’m not one to keep my mouth shut!
For as much as I tend to run my mouth sometimes, I would have definitely stacked up better in the 1970s or the 1980s when there wasn’t as much media or there wasn’t as much publicity and sponsorship around the sport that you had to be PC for.
My personal style is really different from ‘Lemonade Mouth.’
I’ve never kept my mouth shut, especially as my industry is so misogynistic. I’ve got a reputation as a troublemaker.
What a brutish master sin is, taking the joy from one’s life, stealing money and health, giving promise of tomorrow’s pleasures, and finally leading one onto the rotten planking that overlies the mouth of the pit.
I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
When you’re onstage with an electric band going through a massive P.A. system, it’s very artificial. You can’t really hear your own voice as it comes out of your mouth.
As a dancer, you dance and you shut up. You don’t open your mouth. I started using the media as psychiatrists, I guess, they were someone to talk to.
If you have nothing to say for yourself then kindly keep your mouth shut!
People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.
I’ve known Radhikaa akka for a long time, and have seen her perform like a pro in front of the camera. But, to work with her and mouth dialogues in her presence had me in jitters.
I always change my words in everything I do. I make the language fit, because I know the character from the inside out. Often character actors are not in a position to do that, but I do it. I don’t change any cue and I never change anybody else’s lines, but I make my own words fit my mouth.
On more than one occasion, the camera has cut to me after a break as I’m still trying to swallow the last bite of cookie. Those of you who have thought to yourselves, ‘That guy talks like he has marbles in his mouth,’ should know that they are not marbles, but oatmeal cookies.
Saying certain letters without moving my mouth is tough… like B, P and W, you know.
Sometimes my feelings need to come out of my mouth and my head so the universe can have them. That’s what the universe is there for: to take my bad thoughts away.
I’m not a fan of watching myself on TV – it’s just not relaxing. It’s like if you hear your voice on a recording: it doesn’t sound the same as when it comes out of your mouth.
Would the fish have ever been caught if it had kept its mouth shut?
I hate when people eat food and talk with their mouth full. I always cover my mouth when I eat, but I’ve had it where there’s little bologna bits flying on your food.
One of the coolest ways to start building a character is the way he moves his mouth, what part of the mouth he puts his words into, how he expresses himself, and there’s a certain flavor you get with a dialect.
In the next couple of years, part of every film’s process is going to be to adjust the images. And it’ll be to change the color of an actor’s tie or change the little smirky thing he’s doing with his mouth. Or you can put in more clouds or move the tree a little bit.
There was a sense that there was a lot of word of mouth happening with ‘The Memory Keeper’s Daughter,’ even in hardcover.
Anytime you open your mouth there’s going to be someone who’s put off. I try to deal with that by keeping the topical portions of my show brief. I realize that some people wish my comments were briefer.
Sometimes the media twists your words, and they say things to get a headline, and it’s not necessarily what came out of your mouth, and they take things out of context 90 percent of the time. But I guess – any publicity is good publicity, I guess.
I won’t take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
Between my brain and my mouth there should be a filter where common sense kicks in before I deliver a word, but I think when God made me he forgot the filter.
I would say that I love pizza so much that sometimes I eat pizza while I’m eating pizza. Like, I’m so content with myself with how it’s going that I’m like, ‘I should do this more,’ not realizing that the mouth is full. I’m just cramming pizza into my mouth.
A lot of people look down on people who are successful, but Conor McGregor is successful because he runs his mouth and he knows how to put on a show. I mean, look at his press conferences. I mean, come on. People show up just to see him just act nuts. Hats off to that guy, he’s a very intelligent, very smart guy.
Sometimes getting hit in the mouth ain’t all bad. It can even make you respond in the right way.
Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.
Interviews make me so nervous – I can’t get a sentence out of my mouth.
She’s the one. Just so smooth. She’s not like other girls. She’s tough, smart, pretty. I told my wife, ‘I been with you so long, you can have one eye drooped and your mouth over here like this and you’re still beautiful to me. I look at you the same way. That ain’t gonna never change.’
We don’t have performances as big as ‘Lemonade Mouth’ on ‘Zeke and Luther,’ but they’re both amazing experiences; just, ‘Lemonade Mouth’ was a bit bigger. It was different for me.
Word of mouth is way more important than millions of dollars spent marketing.
I have a big mouth.