Top 100 Quotes About Open Mouths
#2. If you have a song to sing, who are you not to open your mouth and sing to the world?
Maya Angelou
#3. Feminine power is silent, dark, mysterious, healing, nurturing. A woman can walk into a room and control it. She doesn't even have to open her mouth if she knows where her power is.
Iyanla Vanzant
#4. Look at these humans! How could such glacial slowness even be called life? An age could pass, virtual empires rise and fall in the time they took to open their mouths to utter some new inanity!
Iain M. Banks
#6. But there's no end to what's been said, and I'll be a party to nothing. I was born with my mouth shut:those with their mouths open do nothing but start trouble and catch flies.
Elizabeth Bowen
#7. Dress for the story that you'd like to have people know about you before you even open your mouth.
Rachel Roy
#8. We should not open our mouths too hastily upon approaching God. On the contrary, we first must ask God to show us what and how to pray before we make our request known to Him. Have we not consumed a great deal of time in the past asking for what we wanted? Why not now ask for what God wants?
Watchman Nee
#9. Here's the thing - if you stop learning, you might as well pack it in. You can't learn anything with your mouth open.
Leonard Lauder
#11. If I see any injustice done, I have a big enough mouth and the position to open up about it.
Michael Caine
#12. Our jobs as prophetic singers is to gain an understanding of the Word, know it in our hearts, live it in our lives, and open our mouths to sing it. The Holy Spirit then anoints it with His power, and lives are changed; things are shifted in the spirit as we sing.
Anna Blanc
#13. And what's wrong with headstrong girls?" she pressed. "Other than the fact that they're not wooden-headed ninnies who can only open their mouths to give orders and gossip?
Sarah J. Maas
#14. Christian men ought not refrain from the sexual pollutions that surround us because they object to lovemaking; they refrain because they object to the wanton vandalism of it. Our culture is doing to sex what people who chew with their mouths open do to food.
Douglas Wilson
#15. No encounter, mouth open up ... that is how the drug businesses see the general public.
Jerry Seinfeld
#16. Idiot wind, blowing every time you open your mouth.
Bob Dylan
#17. The best thing you can probably do is keep a low profile, keep your eyes and ears open, your mouth shut, and you will learn a ton.
CM Punk
#18. Have faith. The Lord can magnify the words you speak and make them mighty. God doesn't ask you to convert but rather to open your mouths.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#19. We are born with our eyes closed and our mouths open, and we spend
our whole lives trying to reverse that mistake of nature.
Dale E. Turner
#20. They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.
Thomas Reed
#21. Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.
Emma Goldman
#22. The sun weighs on them from overhead, weighs like light upon them all, as they tilt their faces up toward the source, mouths open, joyful, and light touches the backs of their mouths, the unbroken backs of their throats.
Alexandra Kleeman
#23. Wind is blowing past me and I open my eyes to look at the bridge above me. But I see only Harlin. And as I fall, he mouths, I love you.
Suzanne Young
#24. When you open up your mouth, everything of God comes out and it commands attention, it commands change. I'm talking about the power that's inside of you.
Ludacris
#25. The bore is good for promoting sleep; but though he causeth sleep in others, it is uncertain whether he ever sleeps himself; as few can keep awake in his company long enough to see. It is supposed that when he sleeps it is with his mouth open.
Maria Edgeworth
#26. He nudged his nose against hers, and their mouths fell sleepily together, already soft and open.
Rainbow Rowell
#27. I'm totally anonymous until I open my bloody mouth and people recognize the voice.
Michael Ironside
#28. Lift up your heads, ye people,
lift up your faces, too,
open your mouths to sing His praise,
and the rain will fall on you.
Aimee Semple McPherson
#29. Forget about tennis, I was scared to open my mouth. I didnt even feel worthy of saying something and not sounding stupid.
Jennifer Capriati
#30. It's funny. You take adults, they look lousy when they're asleep and they have their mouths way open, but kids don't. Kids look alright. They can even have spit all over the pillow and they still look alright.
J.D. Salinger
#31. I've done a lot of radio in my life so I am absolutely used of working with the voice. I have a very distinctive voice so it's always great for me because I open my mouth and everybody knows who it is.
Michael Caine
#32. Never open your mouth,unless you're in the dentist chair
Sammy Gravano
#33. The white May blossom swooned slowly into the open mouth of the grave.
John Banville
#34. Just because you can thrill a toddler by chewing with your mouth open doesn't mean you should.
Michael Nesmith
#35. Words are not in the power of men; men are in the power of words. Every time we open our mouths, a thousand dead men speak through us.
Hermann Bahr
#36. ... those who have their mouths open all the time generally have their ears shut.
Alan Dean Foster
#37. For myself I never plan the way I deliver a message. I do prepare the content, and then I open my mouth and give it. And so the expression, the gestures, the emphasis on words, all of that just comes.
Anne Graham Lotz
#38. It's impossible to register any emotion without using some muscle which, in time, will produce a wrinkle ... By the time she is thirty, a starlet has been carefully taught to smile like a dead halibut. The eyes widen, the mouth drops open, but the eye muscles are never involved.
Jean Kerr
#39. I haven't dated anyone seriously in three years-maybe longer- because when they open their mouths, they no longer interest me. But you? You eat up my thoughts all day long. You make me wonder what your thinking even when you're not around me. I'm fucking crazy about you, Marjorie.
Jessica Clare
#40. As one, they leap, laughing, and that is where we leave them - mouths open, arms spread wide, fingers splayed to take in the whole world, bodies flying high in defiance of gravity, as if they will never fall.
Libba Bray
#41. It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.
George Bernard Shaw
#42. So much can be gained from watching other singers, seeing what they do and what they don't do, seeing how they look when they breathe, how wide they open their mouths for a high note.
Renee Fleming
#43. Spend as much time as you can with your mouth shut and your eyes and ears open.
John Jakes
#44. You know so much about people from the second they open their mouths. Right away you might know that you might want to keep them out. That's part of the horror of speaking, of writing. There is nowhere to hide. When you try to hide, the spectacle can grow grotesque.
Maggie Nelson
#46. Birds nested among the gutters and eaves of Unseen University, although it was noticeable that however great the pressure on the nesting sites they never, ever, made nests in the invitingly open mouths of the gargoyles that lined the rooftops, much to the gargoyles' disappointment.
Terry Pratchett
#47. Her slippers went fitik, fitik, sliss, fitik, on the floors. They were soft sounds, like the sounds mouths make when they open and close.
M T Anderson
#48. I don't want to open my mouth or speak anymore, because everything I say becomes scandalous. It wears you out.
Megan Fox
#49. I had to stand in front of my refrigerator, which was open, dipping pretzels in cream cheese and stuffing them in my mouth. If I did that, I was good. Otherwise I was nauseous.
Jennifer Connelly
#50. The best way to reveal a character is to get them to open their mouths.
Roddy Doyle
#52. Every single one of them with their eyes open and on him, their mouths, too, halfway screaming, halfway begging. Offering themselves to him, because the call was irresistible despite being recognizable. They were moths who know what the light is, know what it will do to them. And come anyway.
Glen Hirshberg
#53. You have never spent any time in theatrical circles, have you? So you do not know those thespian faces that can embody the features of a Julius Caesar, a Goethe and a Beethoven all in one, but whose owners, the moment they open their mouths, prove to be the most miserable ninnies under the sun.
Thomas Mann
#54. I don't have to say I'm going to make a song. A song is always there. I just have to open my mouth and a song comes out.
Peter Tosh
#55. A long, slow kiss. With mouths open. Teeth knocking. Tongues tangling. The kind my brother Marsh used to call a Saturday Night Special.
Merline Lovelace
#56. If your mind isn't open, keep your mouth shut too.
Sue Grafton
#57. Shiny musical instruments wailed, their mouths open like lilies.
Ismail Kadare
#58. One never knows when and why such people start talking; frequently they only open their mouths because they realize they haven't said anything yet, or because they're worried that if they continue to remain silent they will be regarded as insignificant.
Timur Vermes
#59. I remember John walking on and starting to play, and my mouth sort of dropped open in disbelief at the power of the playing coming across the stage - and the technique! I've never, ever seen another drummer play quite the way he did.
Cozy Powell
#60. You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
Al Pacino
#61. The little Durands were there, I conclude," said she, "with their mouths open to catch the music; like unfledged sparrows ready to be fed. They never miss a concert.
Jane Austen
#62. Tis Better to Sit there and LOOK the fool, than to open your mouth and prove it.
Mark Twain
#64. If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I not guilty?
Lucy Stone
#65. The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be.
Pete Seeger
#66. Mike and I both stared at Edward with our mouths hanging open.
Stephenie Meyer
#67. When I don't know what to do, I just open my mouth. Why won't anyone date me?
Chelsea Handler
#68. When you open your mouth to speak, you reveal a great deal. The words you use and the way you speak are like a blueprint of who you are deep inside ...
Robert K. Dellenbach
#69. I wonder about death, I who may never know it. It looks much like ecstacy, the way they open their mouths as they drown, the way their fingers dig into your skin. Their eyes are wide and startled and they trash in your hands as though with an excess of passion.
Holly Black
#70. Their lips touched now, mouths pursed tight, their eyes open, both of them stock still. The moment held, a kind of such glorious confusion.
David Nicholls
#71. Open your mouth wide A universal sigh
Thom Yorke
#72. Close thine ear against him that shall open his mouth secretly against another. If thou receivest not his words, they fly back and wound the reporter. If thou dost receive them, they fly forward and wound the receiver.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#73. I don't create controversies. They're there long before I open my mouth. I just bring them to your attention.
Charles Barkley
#74. One idiot can shut 1000 wise men mouths, where as 1000 wise will fail to open the eyes of an idiot.
Yssubramanyam
#75. What we need as Christians is to be able to feed ourselves. How many there are who sit helpless and listless, with open mouths, hungry for spiritual things, and the minister has to try to feed them, while the Bible is a feast prepared, into which they never venture.
Dwight L. Moody
#76. The fox when it sees a flock of herons or magpies or birds of that kind, suddenly flings himself on the ground with his mouth open to look as he were dead; and these birds want to peck at his tongue, and he bites off their heads.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#77. Charming villains have always had a decided social advantage over well-meaning people who chew with their mouths open.
Judith Martin
#78. There would not be so many open mouths if there were not so many open ears.
Joseph Hall
#79. The royal family's existence is a constant reminder of the hollowness of John Major's rhetoric, and idiotic statements by its leading members a constant boost to the republican cause. They're fine opening hospitals. It's when they open their mouths they get into trouble.
Alastair Campbell
#80. - 'twould almost damn those ears; The author's meaning is this: - That some people are thought wise whilst they keep silence; who, when they open their mouths, are such stupid praters, that the hearers cannot help calling them fools, and so incur the judgment denounced in the Gospel. - THEOBALD.
William Shakespeare
#81. I'm a very open person. I know I open my mouth way too much, but I just do that.
Courteney Cox
#82. Let me tell you, I fall asleep on planes with my mouth open, and it certainly doesn't look very attractive.
Emily Robison
#83. He said, "If these were silent, the very stones would cry out." Under the impulse of His spirit arose like a clamorous chorus the facades of the mediaeval cathedrals, thronged with shouting faces and open mouths. The prophecy has fulfilled itself: the very stones cry out.
G.K. Chesterton
#84. If you have a good idea, open your mouth and say something else.
Keith Johnstone
#85. The only people who come close to annoying me as much as left-laners are cart-hogs, shoppers who leave their carts in the middle of the aisle and wander a few feet away, where they stand with their mouths open staring stupefied at the shelves as if they've never seen food before. I
Tawni O'Dell
#86. Lick your lips, Griet."
I licked my lips.
"Leave your mouth open."
I was so surprised by this request that my mouth remained open of its own will. I blinked back tears. Virtuous women did not open their mouths in paintings.
Tracy Chevalier
#87. Open discussion of many major public questions has for some time now been taboo. We can't open our mouths without being denounced as racists, misogynists, supremacists, imperialists or fascists. As for the media, they stand ready to trash anyone so designated.
Saul Bellow
#88. He could feel the pores of his body open like a million mouths and slurp the water in like a sponge.
Stephen King
#90. I will live to piss in the open mouths or the open graves of my enemies, whichever comes first.
Harlan Ellison
#91. I think you're all enlightened, until you open your mouths.
Shunryu Suzuki
#92. We should be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that He should bother to call us by name, our mouths wide open at His love, bewildered that at this very moment we are standing on holy ground.
Brennan Manning
#93. What you want to worship above youth, I think, is beauty, and beauty is so beyond just appearances after a while. Because you can be with someone who's good-looking; if they open their mouths and they're an idiot, then they cease to be beautiful very quickly.
Patton Oswalt
#94. Fools carry their daggers in their open mouths.
Josh Billings
#95. A little less fight and a little more spark, close your mouth and open your heart.
Elvis Presley
#96. If someone throws a pie at your face, just open your mouth really wide and say, 'Thanks for feeding me, a**hole.'
Demetri Martin
#97. They move their heads around and flatten out their mouth and nose on the other person's mouth and nose and open their mouths in different ways, and you are supposed to feel sort of hot or wet or something as you watch.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#98. And if candor strikes to forcefully, step back, draw careful breath, and consider the angle your words must take before you open your mouth, let them leak out. Because once you tilt the truth, it becomes a lie.
Ellen Hopkins
#99. She gets on her tippy-toes and kisses him. Long, slow, deep. The kind of kiss where you can feel little pieces of your soul trading places as mouths open and breath mingles.
Chuck Wendig
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