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Jaw-jaw is better than war-war. -- Harold MacMillan
You should be dead," he said, his voice full of wonder. "How is it that you're still alive?" Jaw clenched, I worked at his grip on me, trying to get my fingers between him and my wrist. "I work hard at it. -- Kim Harrison
It's hard to act with just your jaw. -- Joel Kinnaman
The Foxhall jaw has now been missing for many years. -- Louis Leakey
Character acting is a much braver pursuit than a guy who runs around and intermittently clenches his jaw muscles. -- Ryan Reynolds
I had me jaw broken, and so my chin stuck way out. That's how I became tough - I learned to pick up anything and fight back. -- Roger Daltrey
Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing is so original. -- Carl Hiaasen
My mum took me to the ballet at three, and that was the only time I sat still, with jaw open, mesmerised. She brought me home, and I wouldn't stop dancing. -- Emma Rigby
Normally, we are happy to find a fragment of jaw, a few isolated teeth, a bit of an arm, a bit of a skull. But to find associated body parts is extremely rare. -- Donald Johanson
Lucy brought with her an image of our human ancestors that you don't get when you find a jaw or an arm bone or a leg bone. Here was 40 percent of a single skeleton. -- Donald Johanson
One time, just passing by, I happened to see Jack White from the White Stripes. I'm a huge White Stripes fan, and I did a whole 180. It was like my jaw hit the ground. -- Reid Scott
Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life. -- Joan Lunden
When I watched Ellen come out in '97, my jaw was on the floor. I thought, There are some people who break the doors down, hold them open, and some people who walk right through. -- Portia de Rossi
I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read. -- Charles Kuralt
I'm a rock god? I'm five foot seven. I had me jaw broken, and so my chin stuck way out. That's how I became tough - I learned to pick up anything and fight back... A rock god! -- Roger Daltrey
In fact, if they didn't let me commute, I would not have taken the role because I wanted to graduate high school with my classmates. I remember my agent's jaw dropping when I told him if I couldn't commute I didn't want the role. -- Sarah Chalke
Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head. -- Dan Hill
During Grover Cleveland's second term, in the 1890s, the White House deceived the public by dismissing allegations that surgeons had removed a cancerous growth from the President's mouth; a vulcanized-rubber prosthesis disguised the absence of much of Cleveland's upper left jaw and part of his palate. -- Robert Dallek
Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape. -- Caio Fonseca
I always thought my jaw line was manly. I have this pockmark on my chin from when I was 9. I used to get freaked out about it because people thought it was a pimple. But those are the things I've become really comfortable with as I've gotten older. My scars. -- Rosario Dawson
The way I miss my daughter Esme is to worry about her. It is not a pleasurable longing. It contorts my body and scrambles my brain, makes me stop breathing, clench my jaw and my fists, it makes me frown, and makes me blind and deaf, in fact entirely without sensory perception. -- Olivia Williams
Even after he was gone, I still loved my father. I looked Norwegian, like him, with a long face, strong jaw, thin mouth, and flashing eyes. And, like him, I was verbal, easygoing, and low-key on the surface, and, deep down, proud, socially paranoid, full of self-loathing, and prone to rage at injustice. -- Kate Christensen
You'll never have any trouble with Mr. T, I'm just a big, calm teddy bear kind of guy. Mr. T ain't ashamed to cry. When I go out and I meet people who are suffering and they come and talk to me, Mr. T cries, Mr. T who could break a man's jaw with his fist. -- Mr. T
To keep your he-man jaw muscles from smashing your precious teeth, the only set you have, the body evolved an automated braking system faster and more sophisticated than anything on a Lexus. The jaw knows its own strength. The faster and more recklessly you close your mouth, the less force the muscles are willing to apply. -- Mary Roach
The native Jewish families in Jerusalem, as well as those in other parts of Palestine, present a marked difference to the Jews of Europe and America. They possess the same physical characteristics - the dark, oblong eye, the prominent nose, the strongly-marked cheek and jaw - but in the latter, these traits have become harsh and coarse. -- Bayard Taylor
The myth that people with epilepsy swallow their tongues is very injurious. When I had seizures without my roommates present, I would often wake up with my gums bleeding, my teeth hurting or my jaw aching. Often, well-intentioned people, believing I would choke on my tongue, tried to force open my clenched jaw to put in a hard object. -- Kurt Eichenwald
I met my darling wife Wilnelia in 1980 when we were on the judging panel for the Miss World contest at the Royal Albert Hall. With two ex-wives and five daughters, I thought I wouldn't be involved with anyone for a long time - if ever. Winnie was so gorgeous, my jaw dropped - and it's a big jaw to drop. -- Bruce Forsyth
The key is just to ignore the pain, because physical comedy only works if you see someone get hurt and they aren't actually hurt. If someone gets hit in the face with a bat, falls down, and gets back up, it's funny. If they stay down and their jaw is wired shut in the next scene, it's really tragic and weird. You have to pretend it doesn't hurt. -- Chris Pratt
Celery, raw, Develops the jaw -- Ogden Nash
Talking jaw is better than going to war. -- Lord Randolph Churchill
To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war. -- Winston Churchill
I still looked the same - I had a swollen jaw. -- Muhammad Ali
Drink beer, smoke dope, and eat pussy until your jaw breaks -- Phil Anselmo
...just shattered structures rising up like rotten teeth from a diseased jaw. -- Robert R. McCammon
Even the simplest choice can make a jaw-dropping difference in our world. -- Tom Hanks
What is compelling with 'War Horse' is the jaw-dropping, awe-inspiring craftsmanship in this movie. -- Stacey Snider
Matty told Hatty about a thing she saw, had two big horns and a wooly jaw. -- Sam the Sham
A man touched me: his hand... my thigh. I touched him too: my fist... his jaw. -- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Why get killed when you can run ... your ego will heal much faster than a broken jaw. -- Richard Pryor
Just when you think you've heard it all from Team Obama, the next day brings another jaw-dropper. -- Monica Crowley
Chaol," he said, looking over his shoulder. Dorian's eyes were frozen, his jaw clenched. "Treat her well. -- Sarah J. Maas
How would you like to bite that in the ass, develop lock jaw and be dragged to death? -- Willie Nelson
It occured to Starling how much Roden would benefit from an elbow smash in the hinge of his jaw. -- Thomas Harris
The trouble with having a wired jaw is that you can never tell when you're sleepy. You can't yawn. -- Rocky Bridges
Only let's cut out the transcendental twaddle when the whole thing is as plain as a sock on the jaw. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Just because I'm no jaw clacker doesn't mean there should be a ruction put up whenever I have sommat to say. -- Tamora Pierce
With a sound like a bat hitting a watermelon, pirate fist connected with pirate jaw and a gold tooth bounced across the deck. -- Gideon Defoe
Life has this in common with prizefighting: if you've received a belly blow, it's likely to be followed by a right to the jaw. -- Carolyn Heilbrun
Shave that jaw, brush that hair, tone down the crazy in the eyes, and he would have to fight women off with that crossbow. -- Ilona Andrews
Not too many people know how hard I have worked since I broke my jaw. I have been flogging myself on the training paddock. -- Andrew Johns
Success comes to the man who grits his teeth, squares his jaw and says, "There is a way for me and, by jingo, I'll find it". -- Cliff Sloan
[If] you are ready enough to pull my knitting to pieces, but provide none of your own, the only sock is a sock in the jaw! -- J. R. Ackerley
You were the one who hit me on the roof? I hit you on the jaw. We just happened to be on a roof at the time. -- Darynda Jones
It is easy to tell tourists from tarpon. Tarpon have a narrow, bony plate inside the mouth of their lower jaw. Tourists have both upper and lower plates. -- Ed Zern
You shouldn't throw stones if you live in a glass house and if you got a glass jaw, you should watch yo mouth: cause I'll break yo face. -- Curtis Jackson
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"Promise. Don't misunderstand me-you are quite vexing." He touches his tender jaw. "And you hit like a man. But you didn't cause his illness. That is his doing." -- Libba Bray
Debt is to man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes sinew and bone, its jaw is the pitiless grave. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Anybody who has had experience of poetesses knows that they may forgive a punch on the jaw, but never a suggestion that they would be wiser to give up versifying. -- Robertson Davies
The moment we decide to throw more energy into fighting for our mate than with him, the crack of a fist on the enemy's jaw splits the ears of angels. -- Beth Moore
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The ABCs of Death offers us a chance to work closely with a large number of visionary filmmakers to create a film with more jaw-dropping moments than a whole summer of blockbusters. -- Tim League
Nothing is static. Even the Mona Lisa is falling apart. Since fight club, I can wiggle half the teeth in my jaw. Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer. Maybe self-destruction is the answer. -- Chuck Palahniuk
We sat down and Lend put his arm around me. Every single jaw at the table dropped. "Man," John said, shaking his head. "All this time I was pretty sure you were gay. -- Kiersten White
I have come to the conclusion that Tony Blair has finally gone mad ... he made assertions that are so jaw-droppingly and breathtakingly at variance with reality that he surely needs professional psychiatric help. -- Boris Johnson
One half of my head, from the top of my skull to the cleft of my jaw, hammers, bangs, sizzles while the other half, serene and content, looks on at the agony next door. -- Rudyard Kipling
Regarding Her Majesty, Queen Levana, has she or any of the Lunar court commented on the escape of the convict?" Kai's jaw tensed. "Oh, she's had a thing or two to say about it. -- Marissa Meyer
If war has its chivalry and its pageantry, it has also its hideousness and its demoniac woe. Bullets respect not beauty. They tear out the eye, and shatter the jaw, and rend the cheek. -- John Stevens Cabot Abbott
"In my youth," said his father, "I look to the law, And argued each case with my wife; And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw Has lasted the rest of my life." -- Lewis Carroll

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