Openmouthed Quotes

#1. Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.

Henry George

#2. Evanlyn opened her mouth to scream. But the horror of the moment froze the sound in her throat and she crouched, openmouthed, as death approached her. It was odd, she thought, that they had dragged her here, left her overnight and then decided to kill her.
It seem such a pointless way to die.

John Flanagan

#3. I was just about to open the door, when it opened up right in front of me. And there stood my parents.
Is there a word for that moment when two parties are so equally shocked to see each other given the circumstances that all they can do is stare at each other, openmouthed?

August Westman

#4. Earth to Dexter, Astor said, and I realized that I still stood in front of them frozen in my unlikely, foolish openmouthed pose like a pedantic zombie.

Jeff Lindsay

#5. My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection.

Hamish Bowles

#6. If ever there was a fish made to endure, it is the Atlantic cod ... But it has among its predators - man, an openmouthed species greedier than cod.

Mark Kurlansky

#7. Don't we forgive everything of a lover? We forgive selfishness, desire, guile. As long as we are the motive for it.

Michael Ondaatje

#8. I don't play. I'm a terrible gambler. I don't know half the rules, and I'm not really patient enough to sit through hours of gaming.

Pansy Ho

#9. Time debt is as big a problem as financial debt.

Elizabeth Grace Saunders

#10. It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have.

James M. Barrie

#11. I would really like, in fact, to be born again in another two hundred years' time.

Alessandro Manzoni

#12. Of all the many memoirs by former Soviet officials, Palazchenko's is among the best written and also the most objective. Even his descriptions of U.S. policy are more accurate and judicious than those of some American scholars.

Jack F. Matlock Jr.

#13. I am sorry that they are finding themselves in this situation based on assurances they got from me.

Barack Obama

#14. I was protected behind the walls of my house, the walls of the mosque and later, walls of my school. I didn't know that I was Palestinian. I knew that I was a girl, but the identity issues came later when I was 12 or 13 - then, they came in a very strong way.

Rula Jebreal

#15. Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

Dr. Seuss

#16. I am the master of this house! Let me in! he wanted to bellow, but he doubted anyone was going to listen. This, he decided, was what came of marriage. Well,

Elizabeth Boyle

#17. At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways.

Laurie Anderson

#18. Aspiring Asimovs!

Brandon Sanderson

#19. In Gotham, batman just stumbles into crime," said Luther. "Salt lake is annoyingly tame.

Shannon Hale

#20. This quote begins here. A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view. This quote ends here.

Alfred Adler

#21. I really think it's a white, bourgeois idea to pretend that you don't have influences. It seems to be the obsession strictly of white people in college.

Billy Corgan