Baited Breath Quotes

#1. I imagined there must be hundreds and thousands and millions of people quiet in the dark out there, waiting with baited breath for me, up on that stage and bathed in colored lights, to say something. I opened my mouth and - hooray - they were going to listen.

Elaine Dundy

#2. The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.

W.C. Fields

#3. I'm waiting with baited breath to hear that silver tongue of yours.

Jodie B. Cooper

#4. Very well," Magnus said. "Let us pause for a moment and consider - Oh, you have already run off Splendid.

Cassandra Clare

#5. False hope," she said. "Guess that's better then no hope at all.

James Dashner

#6. Out of the woods my Master came,
Content with death and shame.
When Death and Shame would woo Him last,
From under the trees they drew Him last:
'Twas on a tree they slew Him
last
When out of the woods He came.

Sidney Lanier

#7. On snowboarding as an Olympic sport: Since I was 6 years old I've been in the mix and watching this grow and change. I never would have expected it to go this far.

Shaun White

#8. Wanna play a joke on your chiropractor? The next time he starts working on you, go limp and soil yourself.

Mike Wilmot

#9. The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.

Marshall McLuhan

#10. The greatest challenge I think is adjusting to not playing baseball. The reason for that is I had to come out of baseball and come into the business world, not being a college graduate, not being educated to come into the business world the way I should have.

Willie Mays

#11. Who are you Jared? The man who wants to fuck me and own me, or the man who held me when I had a nightmare?

Mercy Cortez

#12. You feel more like home to me than any place I've ever been.

Angela N. Blount

#13. Good gracious!" she exclaimed, "she's been more than an hour in there! When the priests set about cleansing her of her sins, the choir-boys have to form in line to pass the buckets of filth and empty them in the street!

Emile Zola

#14. He's a moron," Blomkvist said. Vanger laughed, but he said: "That may be. But he's not the one who was sentenced by the court.

Stieg Larsson

#15. Everton" (Francis)
Alex turned his head to view a rainbow peacock mask bobbing toward him. "Good Lord, Francis, you are replendent," he said admiringly.
The peacock stopped beside him. "Dash it, Everton, how'd you know it was me?"
You're still wearing your faux ruby ring.

Suzanne Enoch

#16. Love is the crazy, mad, and perhaps ridiculous gesture of saying yes to life, of seeing it as worthy of our embrace and even worthy of our total sacrifice.

Peter Rollins