A man with a mouth like a mastiff, a brow like a mountain, and eyes like burning antracite – that was Dan’l Webster in his prime.
I grew up in Oregon, where as a teenager I worked with my grandfather Axel on his i shing boat at the mouth of the Columbia River.
One of the greatest experiences I ever had was listening to a conversation with Joni Mitchell and Wayne Shorter. Just to hear them talking, my mouth was open. They understand each other perfectly, and they make these leaps and jumps because they don’t have to explain anything.
Yeah, I shoot my mouth off. There’s a huge difference between writing and thinking.
There was a combination of not wanting to look a gift horse in the mouth, but also really not wanting to be stuck in Lord of the Rings for the rest of my life, and being desperate to kind of make sure that I could do something else with my life.
I’m very unstable; there’s no stability in a musician’s life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don’t know where your money’s coming from.
My eyes aren’t special, my nose isn’t special, my mouth isn’t special.
My family’s challenges meant we lived hand to mouth. There were weeks when we had neither electricity nor heating.
Until I was four years old I lived in the house of my paternal grandfather, about two miles from the pretty little village of Wallace, at the mouth of the river of that name.
I wanted to be a teacher. I love children, so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian. But by the age of ten or eleven, when I opened my mouth and said, ‘Oh, God, what’s this?’ I kind of knew teaching and being a veterinarian were gonna have to wait.
It’s impossible to change the social without changing the personal – you have to put your money where your mouth is. And if you’re not making those challenges at home, it’s unlikely you’ll make them in a larger setting.
I wasn’t born with a golden spoon in my mouth. It was a really tough life.
We eat raw dough. We eat raw cookie. We eat massive buttercream in cakes that are still warm. We eat salt. We have to taste things that you will not put in your mouth. But you know what? That’s television. You have to do it.
It has long been known for sure that the sight of tasty food makes a hungry man’s mouth water; also lack of appetite has always been regarded as an undesirable phenomenon, from which one might conclude that appetite is essentially linked with the process of digestion.
I was a bit of a big mouth my whole life. I’m a person who expresses themselves with a lot of openness.
I am not a sound bite person. I prefer to run at the mouth.
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he’d lie just to keep his hand in.
You know how most dogs lick you on the cheek? If you’re sleeping and not ready for it, my dog, Joe, will get his tongue inside your mouth. It’s by far the worst kiss I’ve ever had.
I grew up with the idea that someone might hate you if they knew what religion you were; being afraid to open my mouth because my accent might make people think something about me. Or even if they didn’t, would they understand me?
No one got anywhere by being too scared to open their mouth in case nobody laughed.
So America’s president now says most Jewish American voters are either ignorant or disloyal. It’s such a dreadful thing to say, so heavy with historical hatred and violence, that it’s utterly unsurprising in U.S. President Donald Trump’s mouth. And his supporters nod and say he’s right.
Word of mouth now has a unprecedented influence because it spreads so far and so fast.
Not many fighters respect Chael Sonnen because he’s in the wrong sport. He should be in pro-wrestling with a mouth like that.
Just because I’m sassy and have a mouth on me doesn’t mean I’m coming from a negative place.
In Valdosta, Ga., during a mini-tour event, a player named James Black bet me $20 he could put five golf balls in his mouth and then close his mouth all the way. I tried it but could get only two in there.
I am a firm fan of shutting naysayers up; I’ve done it my whole life. People have doubted my abilities through different phases, and time after time, I’ve made them put their feet in their mouth.
New Hampshire polling data are unreliable because, when you call the Granite State’s registered Republicans and independents in the middle of dinner and ask them who they’re going to vote for, they have a mouth full of mashed potatoes and you can’t understand what they say.
I wasn’t born with a silver spoon in my mouth. I had to fight for everything I’ve achieved in my life – which is true about all of us. And I truly believe that we are all created equal. It’s about the paths we choose.
The lesson that any thinking person draws from the Stewart saga is that when the government asks questions, run for your lawyer and don’t say a word. Had Stewart kept her mouth shut, she’d be OK.
I have the thermometer in my mouth and I am listening to it all the time.
And at five o’clock in the morning we left to drive to Old Tucson, and I sat with my mouth open in the van. I was stunned by the beauty of that country.
Tart pomegranates that pop in your mouth make the perfect counterpoint to roasted chicken and salty-creamy feta cheese.
There’s been a time where I was like, I wanna be a folk singer; no, I wanna sing soul. I want to sing classical music. I want to sing R&B. I want to be on Broadway. I just wanna sing. Whatever comes out of my mouth, that’s what I want to do.
Whenever I’m cooking at home over a steamy pot, I daydream about the day I’ll have a soda gun installed in my kitchen to spray seltzer directly into my mouth.
There’s no wobble in Bush. If anything, the opposite. Right after hello, the next words out of his mouth are: I’ve never been more convinced that the decisions I made are the right decisions.
The first time I ever got recognized, I was at Chipotle eating a face full of burrito, and a fan started filming me and said, ‘Oh my gosh, that’s the girl from ‘Nerdy Nummies!’ They kind of waved a little, and I waved back with a burrito in my mouth.
I tried to holla at Oprah while I was hosting a red carpet for BET. I really liked Oprah at the time, and I asked her to dance and she said yes. I was giving her the eye and she just thought it was cute. I was young, but I was confident. I was saying stuff in my head but the words were not coming out of my mouth.
My favorite TikTok of my own would have to be the video of me drinking coconut water without closing my mouth – that trend was really fun to do because it was a hidden talent that I did well.
The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.
It’s a good rule of thumb, it seems to me: if you’re not allowed to see where something comes from, don’t put it in your mouth.
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.
When I came out of Big Brother’ and saw it all back, I was like: Oh my god, my mouth! My nan’s going to kill me.’ I just can’t behave like that.
I’ve got a shadow on the lung as a result of being in intensive care, so I find running quite hard. I breathe mainly through my mouth because my nose is damaged, so I keep swallowing flies.
Lyrics are kind of the whole thing; it’s the message. Something might have a beautiful melody but if it’s not the truth coming out of your mouth, it’s not appealing.
Don’t you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?
There’s nothing wrong with being an actor, if that’s what a man wants. But there’s everything wrong with achieving an exalted status, simply because one photographs well and is able to handle dialogue put in one’s mouth by others.
Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.
You get to a certain age, and you are forbidden access. You’re not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines; you’re not going to get played on radio, and you’re not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.
If the heavens throw you dates, you got to keep your mouth open.
Acting is a work in progress for me. I just try to keep my mouth shut and my eyes and ears open, especially with the people I’ve worked with.
Not many people get to say, ‘I’m a WWE champion.’ It’s pretty incredible just to hear those words coming out of my mouth.
I have gotten into a lot of trouble in my life for being brutally honest. Sometimes I put both my feet in my mouth. But like Elton John, I’m still standing.
I want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can’t. It’s a taste in your mouth. And an emptiness.
You can win more friends with your ears than with your mouth. People who feel like they’re being listened to feel accepted and appreciated. They feel like they’re being taken seriously and what they say really matters.
