Quotes About Chew

#1. Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.

Rudy Rucker

#2. We love to chew the cud of a foregone vision; to collect the scattered rays of a brighter phantasm, or act over again, with firmer nerves, the sadder nocturnal tragedies.

Charles Lamb

#3. Eat your food slowly and chew each bite completely (20-30 chomps is ideal) to facilitate proper digestion.

Mark Sisson

#4. I can remember playing under the big wooden desk in his office. My mother didn't like us to chew gum, so we'd go into his office, and he'd feed us gum under the desk.

John F. Kennedy Jr.

#5. I speak Spanish like I chew spinach - like it's dried bubble gum stuck underneath a park bench.

Jarod Kintz

#6. Being a gossip reporter just isn't a respectable job. It'll chew you up and spit you out.

Kim Cattrall

#7. It is to TV that I owe my freedom from bondage of the Latin lover roles. Television came along and gave me parts to chew on. It gave me wings as an actor.

Ricardo Montalban

#8. Darling, family can be the very devil in disguise. More powerful than any drug, more alluring than any sin. They can demand a loyalty that will rip your heart out and chew it up without the thought of an apology.

Liz Reinhardt

#9. If you can't think because you can't chew, try a banana.

Lee Kuan Yew

#10. Would you like to hear about the fascinating things lizards can do if you chew off their tails?

Elle Lothlorien

#11. Knowing his coach likes him is more important to a player than anything else. To me, it was important to be able to chew out a player for screwing up and for him to accept it because he knew I liked him anyway.

John Madden

#12. I'm a Crank. I'm slowly going crazy. I keep wanting to chew off my own fingers and randomly kill people.

James Dashner

#13. You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don't bite off more than you can chew. It's a dangerous world.

Ozzy Osbourne

#14. I don't have time for lie-on-the-beach vacations. I'm a zoo person. There's one in New Jersey where animals actually come up to your car. I love the monkeys - I used to give them bubblegum to chew.

Missy Elliot

#15. I'm Mr.Ripped. I live in the gym. My teeth have biceps and my biceps have teeth. I chew up weights and shit out lead bricks

Ilona Andrews

#16. Just as dogs love to chew bones, the mind loves to get its teeth into problems. That's why it does crossword puzzles and builds atom bombs.

Eckhart Tolle

#17. When you're young, you need to be careful not to bite off more than you can chew.
When you're old, you need to be careful not to bite off more than you can suck.

Peter James West

#18. Just as the dog loves to chew bones, the human mind loves its problems.

Eckhart Tolle

#19. Watching a dog try to chew a large piece of toffee is a pastime fit for gods. Mr. Fusspot's mixed ancestry had given him a dexterity of jaw that was truly awesome. He somersaulted happily around the floor, making faces like a rubber gargoyle in a washing machine.

Terry Pratchett

#20. Nonrefundable. It was a good, solid word, one you couldn't chew, one that only dissolved after sucking slowly.

Shannon Hale

#21. Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.

Theodor Adorno

#22. Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't walk and chew gum at the same time ... He's a nice fellow, but he spent too much time playing football without a helmet.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#23. I have been up too congress, and they do not seem to do anything except eat peanuts and chew tobacco while my army is starving ...

Robert E.Lee

#24. I want my lobster in bite-sized pieces! How dare you make me chew more than thrice?

Adam Jay Epstein

#25. We might say that both the artist and the neurotic bite off more than they can chew, but the artist spews it back out again and chews it over in an objectified way, as an external, active work project

Ernest Becker

#26. I chew my food, leaning back into the couch. "I loved him. That's what dumb girls do."
"You aren't dumb."
I try to hold back my smile. "I'm hanging out with you, aren't I?

Alex Rosa

#27. I have seen your dispatch expressing your unwillingness to break your hold where you are. Neither am I willing. Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke ...

Abraham Lincoln

#28. Old politicians chew on wisdom past,
And totter on in business to the last.

Alexander Pope

#29. My life is either/or. Either I chew regular gum or I chew sugarless gum. Either I chew gum or I smoke. Either I smoke or I gain weight. Either I gain weight or I run up the stadium steps.'
'Sounds like a boring life.'
'I hope it lasts forever.

Don DeLillo

#30. My daddy used to tell me not to chew on something that was eatin you.

Cormac McCarthy

#31. That was one of the things she loved about him. He assumed she could walk and chew gum at the same time. He nevef second-guessed her, and he didn't try to change her. He accepted

Jill Shalvis

#32. The world was a tough and unfair place, but even the most hardened soul likes to chew on fruit.

Paul Adam Levy

#33. I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out.

Jack LaLanne

#34. I am the King of biting off more than I can chew.

The Rocket Summer

#35. It ain't what you eat but how you chew it.

Delbert McClinton

#36. Reading book reviews is like asking other people to chew your food for you.

Ron Brackin

#37. I never eat meat as I think it is wrong to deprive animals of their life when they are so difficult to chew anyway

Leonora Carrington

#38. Just because you can put something in your mouth, chew it, swallow it, and then poop it out doesn't mean it's food. It just means you can chew it, swallow it, and poop it out.

Cameron Diaz

#39. Don't live by my words, don't die by them, chew them slowly digest them, and smile if they give nourishment to your soul.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#40. The game doesn't change the way you sleep or wash your face or chew your food. It changes nothing but your life.

Don DeLillo

#41. We never have that thought! The whole object is to bite off more than you can chew. John [Du Prez] always says, Eric thinks of something completely insane and insists we go in that direction. It's the correct way to look at things and the correct place to start, I think.

Eric Idle

#42. [O]ne could see by his face that he was not reading but devouring, with barely any time to chew.

Anton Chekhov

#43. The Greek word for abide used in John 8:31-32 and John 15:4-5 is the same word that's used for living in a house. The idea is that we don't just visit the Word for 10 minutes a day. We live in the Word. Meditate on it. Chew on it as we walk through the day.

Barb Raveling

#44. Eventually, they can't speak, chew and swallow, or use the bathroom - not because those parts of their bodies no longer work but because they can't remember how.

Jane Gross

#45. When you bite off only what you can chew, you're going to disappoint people. Guess what? Not your problem. You're not doing anything wrong.

Kris Carr

#46. It's time to kick ass and chew bubblegum! We made it to Hollywood, time to give these aliens the golden boot!" - Angel from the Thousand Years War

Angel Ramon Medina

#47. In sixth grade, we all had to write this opinion paper. Most wrote about things like why we should be able to chew gum in class - I wrote about why women should receive equal pay.

Gillian Jacobs

#48. My mother tells me I do not chew my food enough; she says I am making it harder for my body to get the essential nutrients it needs. If she were here, I would remind her that I am eating a blueberry Pop-Tart.

Joe Dunthorne

#49. It's just that I coulda swore you had sung me a love song back there
and that you meant it
but I guess sometimes people just chew with their mouth open

Buddy Wakefield

#50. As the baby grows bigger, she [wet nurse] will chew his meat for him.

Joseph Gies

#51. What if I have bad breath?' I asked.
'Chew on some gum,' she said.
'What if I can't find his tongue?'
'Back off on your tongue until you can feel his.'
'What if he throws up in my mouth?'
'Um, that would just be gross.

Julie Halpern

#52. Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

Abraham Lincoln

#53. Sometimes I chew on it. (Which is probably a bad thing to do to a mediaeval relic.)

Rainbow Rowell

#54. I think you can walk and chew gum at the same time. I think you can oppose the president on some issue that you fundamentally disagree with, but also work with the other party on issues you do agree with.

Paul Ryan

#55. What I love about Indiana Jones is he always bites off slightly more than he can chew. The guy he's fighting is always slightly tougher than he is, but he just refuses to give up. And that's what makes Indiana Jones a hero: not his superpowers, but his refusal to be beaten.

Neil Cross

#56. Thank the gods for crunchy food. "I don't see how we are expected to be confined in this . . ." Chew. Chew. Chew. "The blanket is hardly big enough to cover my . . ." Crunch. Crunch. Crunch.

Emily R. King

#57. Even creating shit is hard to do. First, you need money to buy food. Then you have to chew it, eat it, and swallow. A complex process called digestion follows. Finally, you have to strain and excrete your foul smelling wonder into the world. Try doing that with a paint brush!

Jonathan Heatt

#58. I have always been a slow eater. I give each mouthful the attention it deserves. Chew each mouthful 30 times, they say, and you'll never be sick. I've never been sick a day in my life.

Toni Jordan

#59. So," Herbalist said with a smile, "you can't dance or chew meat. But if you can hear the birds sing and watch the wind in the leaves, then you still have much pleasure left.

Lois Lowry

#60. I am six years old and instead of celebrating with birthday cakes, I chew on a piece of charcoal.

Loung Ung

#61. When haters start to rear their ugly head, just play around with them and throw them a bone so they can go away and chew on it.

Richie Norton

#62. I'm here to chew gum and kick some ass, and I'm all out of gum.

Stephen Hawking

#63. "Close your mouth when you chew." That was my mother's big one.Why do people eat lunch together? I want to eat by myself. Chewing is one of the most revolting things to me. Wind makes me unnerved, too.

Doug Stanhope

#64. There were times, I'm sure you knew, when I bit off more than I could chew. But through it all, when there was doubt, I ate it up and spit it out.

Paul Anka

#65. When someone dies, it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, you
have plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all the nerves are still a little raw.

Jodi Picoult

#66. One time I asked her to have a chew and she said no thanks, that - chewing gum cleaved to her palate and rendered her speechless," said Jem carefully. "Doesn't that sound nice?

Harper Lee

#67. Chew off a little every day, because it's hard to swallow a whole pie at once.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#68. I'm a vampire. So I don't age. Except I chew vegetables instead of suck blood.

Patrick Stump

#69. A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.

Herb Caen

#70. It's the fun part 'cause you don't have any of the real heavy-lifting to do. You just come in and shout and chew scenery, and just be awful and say a few jokes, and you don't have to carry the romantic storyline or the quest part of the story. You just pop up, every now and again.

Justin Theroux

#71. Cows eat grass and silage. This is melting the ice caps and killing us all. So they need a new foodstuff: something that is rich in iron, calcium and natural goodness. Plainly they cannot eat meat so here is an idea to chew on. Why not feed them vegetarians?

Jeremy Clarkson

#72. You cannot write if you do not read,' the blind man said. 'You cannot eat if you do not chew. And you cannot play if you do not' - he grabbed for the boy's hand - 'listen.

Mitch Albom

#73. This is my idea of family, actually, a sticky morass you can't chew your way out of.

Lauren Beukes

#74. June always said that most people bit off more than they could chew, but August chewed more than she bit off.

Sue Monk Kidd

#75. Because minds do blow and hearts do break. Those are not just sayings. And wolves and roaches are not the only creatures that chew off their legs to get out of traps - human beings do that, too.

Robin Silverman

#76. I watched Daryl swirl, sniff, sip, swish, chew, swallow, and sometimes spit his way through countless glasses of Bordeaux and all I could think was that someone who spent so much time and care on all the oral and olfactory acrobatics involved in wine tasting should really be more adept at oral sex

Inara Lavey

#77. When you get chemo, some people get a lot of sores in their mouth and even their esophagus, so they chew on ice; thank God that didn't happen with me.

Chuck Pagano

#78. You bite off more than you can chew, 'course you're going to choke. One bite at a time. And that goes for thinking things, too, not just food.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

#79. I loosen my grip and take a tasteless bite. I don't like bananas much - they're so mealy - but they're a safe fruit to eat, always cleanly wrapped in their own packages. As I chew, I crane my neck to check out the people around us.

Corinne Duyvis

#80. Philosophy is an amazing tissue of really fine thinking and incredible, puerile mistakes. It's like one of those rubber 'bones' they give dogs to chew, damned good for the mind's teeth, but as food - no bloody good at all.

Olaf Stapledon

#81. Beginning with the first bite, and for every bite after, that try to chew ten times.

Aaron Hoopes

#82. You have to digest life. You have to chew it up and love it all through.

Paula McLain

#83. Hardison held up a gigantic bag that Parker could have used as a dress. "I picked up all sorts of things," he said with a smile. "I grabbed the entire run of Chew, and I savaged the first trade paperback for the Magic: The Gathering comic, signed by the writer, no less.

Matt Forbeck

#84. Bite off more than you can chew, then keep chewing.

Joe De Sena

#85. He was mad enough to chew nails and spit horseshoes!

Waylon Jennings

#86. On the steps leading to a door
was a scrub brush that was blue.
I snatched it quick and ran for home
because it was just the thing to chew.

Melinda K. Trotter

#87. I'm going to sit back, light up, and hope I don't chew the cigarette to pieces.

Vin Scully

#88. Thorndyke never forgets a likely case. He is sort of a medico-legal camel. He gulps down the raw facts from the newspapers or elsewhere, and then, in his leisure moments, he calmly regurgitates them and has a quiet chew at them.

R. Austin Freeman

#89. If you can break a day down into quarters, then hours then half hours then minutes, you can chew down any stretch of time into bite sized.

Marlon James

#90. Good words - that triumphalism of positivity- but life will claw and eat you - chew you over and over - if you carry such a small knife ...

John Geddes

#91. Art is always at peril in universities, where there are so many people, young and old, who love art less than argument, and dote upon a text that provides the nutritious pemmican on which scholars love to chew.

Robertson Davies

#92. I like to chew candles.

J.D. Salinger

#93. Notable American Women is a weird nougat of a book that suggests Coetzee, Kafka, Beckett, Barthelme, O'Brien, Orwell, Paley, Borges-and none of them exactly. Finally you just have to chew it for its own private juice.

Padgett Powell

#94. As a boy, when I was bad, my mother would chew me out in Spanish. And since I was bad a lot, I learned a lot of Spanish!

John Sununu

#95. I just asked myself, what piece of that man's soul did he just chew off and swallow to get next week's assignment? You know, just to live, just to work as an artist, or to feed the family?

Paul Haggis

#96. I think I bit off more than I could chew, I thought the marathon would be easier. For the level of condition that I have now, that was without a doubt the hardest physical thing I have ever done.

Lance Armstrong

#97. I don't care who you are, everybody and their Mother has to have a little bit of an ego, or they will chew you up and spit you out. Brian Grohowski

Brian Grohowski

#98. I like it when actors get an opportunity to chew into something. They love scenes with beginnings, middles, and ends - scenes that give an arc to their characters and allow audiences to get to know these people.

Tracy Letts

#99. I only work out because I have high anxiety, and if I don't I tend to ... I say I'm like a border collie. If I don't have something to expend my energy, I chew the furniture. So it just helps me level out so I don't do copious amounts of drugs.

Jake Abel

#100. don't chew through anything that doesn't have food in it, stay off my face, and don't shit on my gear.

David Miller