Mouths quotes

Mouths

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Dean Martin
Dean Martin Singer

"When Jerry Lewis and I were big, we used to go to parties, and everybody thought I was big-headed and stuck up, and I wasn't. It was because I didn't know how to speak good English, so I used to keep my mouth shut."

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Shirley Chisholm Politician, Educator
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"My greatest political asset, which professional politicians fear, is my mouth, out of which come all kinds of things one shouldn't always discuss for reasons of political expediency."

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Joseph Prince Pastor
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"Every time your faith is strengthened as you hear the Word, release it through your mouth to receive your miracle, for God’s Word is out to prosper you!"

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Jean Baudrillard Philosopher, Sociologist
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"A society which allows an abominable event to burgeon from its dung heap and grow on its surface is like a man who lets a fly crawl unheeded across his face or saliva dribble from his mouth -- either epileptic or dead."

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Plutarch Philosopher, Historian
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"Demosthenes overcame and rendered more distinct his inarticulate and stammering pronunciation by speaking with pebbles in his mouth."

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Ivan Pavlov Physiologist
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"Edible substances evoke the secretion of thick, concentrated saliva. Why? The answer, obviously, is that this enables the mass of food to pass smoothly through the tube leading from the mouth into the stomach."

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Khaled Hosseini Author, Physician
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"I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t."

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Homer Smith Author
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"The responsibility for maintaining the composition of the blood in respect to other constituents devolves largely upon the kidneys. It is no exaggeration to say that the composition of the blood is determined not by what the mouth ingests but by what the kidneys keep; they are the master chemists of our internal environment, which, so to speak, they synthesize in reverse."

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Gary Johnson Politician, Businessman
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"Let's end the unworkable marijuana prohibition and put our money where our mouth is. Let's solve the problems like border crime. We can do it with pot legalization."

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P.D.Q. Bach Composer
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"I don't know what it is about the french language, it seems to be scared of coming out of the mouth so it comes out the nose instead."

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Ben Marcus Author
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"Spelling is a way to make words safe, at least for now, until another technology appears to soften attacks launched from the mouth."

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Kid Rock Musician, Actor
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"I truly believe that people like myself, who are in a position of entertainers in the limelight, should keep their mouth shut on politics."

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John Keats Poet
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"Dance and Provencal song and sunburnt mirth! On for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene! With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth."

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Thomas Merton Writer, Monk
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"From the moment you put a piece of bread in your mouth you are part of the world. Who grew the wheat? Who made the bread? Where did it come from? You are in relationship with all who brought it to the table. We are least separate and most in common when we eat and drink."

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