#cheek

also in the boom of the big bell there is a quaintness of tone which wakens feelings, so strangely far-away from all the nineteenth-century part of me, that the faint blind stirrings of them make me afraid, - deliciously afraid. never do I hear that billowing peal but I become aware of a striving and a fluttering in the abyssal part of my ghost, - a sensation as of memories struggling to reach the light beyond the obscurations of a million million deaths and births. I hope to remain within hearing of that bell... and, considering the possibility of being doomed to the state of a jiki-ketsu-geki, I want to have my chance of being reborn in some bamboo flower-cup, or mizutame, whence I might issue softly, singing my thin and pungent song, to bite some people that I know. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#mosquitoes #poignant #reincarnation #tongue-in-cheek #death

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#any #cheek #credit #deserve #i

I looked, and saw that Bob had entirely lost his left ear, and a large piece from his left cheek. His right eye was a little discoloured, and the blood flowed profusely from his wounds. ↗

— Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

#bob #cheek #ear #entirely #eye

We should tell our kids to just have fun, participate and not get bent on winning or losing. But every coach, when they say that, they say it tongue in cheek, 'Don't worry about winning': If you win I'll get you ice cream, but if you lose I'm going to pout in the car. ↗

— Bode Miller

#bent #car #cheek #coach #cream

Some words having to do with the death of the people in the World Trade Center attack had been added, and when I got to it, I had this overwhelmingly emotional experience. I struggled to get through the words; tears were streaming down my cheeks. ↗

— Leonard Nimoy

#attack #been #center #cheeks #death

There's an element of tongue-in-cheek in every one of our songs. Walking off into the sunset, holding hands, and being married forever was not exactly a brand new idea. ↗

— Peter Noone

#brand #brand new #element #every #exactly

Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily. ↗

— Gary North

#apparent #bribe #cheek #christian #fact

Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#believe #cheek #copy #got #just

The natural habitat of the tongue is the left cheek. ↗

— Red Smith

#habitat #left #natural #tongue

I began imagining scenes in public which some drunk would come up to me and slap me in the face. Nothing like that ever happened, but I often wonder if I would have turned the other cheek. ↗

— Max von Sydow

#cheek #come #drunk #ever #face