Chewed Quotations

The secret to my success is that I bit off more than I could chew and chewed as fast as I could.

Twenty years on, the books are still fun to write and I've still got lots of stories I want to tell, mainly about social injustice and people chewed up by the system.

She was so badly hurt, that the one spot where the dog had chewed her was like 10-12 inches and so badly that Dr. Will could put his hands right inside her insides.

When the tent went down, one of us chewed through the wall of the tent until he'd opened up a hole big enough to crawl through.

Greenies are safe if they are fed properly and chewed by the dog.

I feel terrible about it. I'm having a hard time forgiving myself because he was so chewed up.

He was probably helped early on by being a small player in a rapidly growing market. He honed his skills and management team, and whatever flaws he had, which were few, were gone by the late '90s, and he chewed up everybody in sight.

If the guy's safe there and the runner goes to second base, I deserve to be taken out to the tunnel and chewed out. But it did work out for us.

I went to St. Mary's School and to St. James High School. We left just before my senior year and moved to California. My dad was a painter in Grand Forks and a house painter in California. My mother was sick, and my grandmother and aunt lived out there, so our transition was family-covered. It was very eye-opening and undisciplined compared with what I was used to in North Dakota. In Catholic school, I was used to standing to answer when someone asked a question. In California, they didn't care if you chewed gum.

It breaks my heart to see these young, really talented bands getting chewed up into the system. I remember a time if you'd signed to a major label it was such a sell out! But now... unless you've signed to a big label, you're a failure now.

Well, I think every now and again, some people deserve to get their butts chewed. Every now and again some people deserve a pat on the back. What I try and do is compliment folk who deserve a compliment, and chew folks out who deserve to be chewed out.

You are just constantly cleaning stuff up; you don't get to bring out big plates of nice food. You get to take it away when it's all chewed up by some idiot.

Don't forget: cruciferous vegetables must be chopped, crushed, or chewed well for maximum benefit!

When I spoke to him he wasn't respectful. He just chewed on a straw when I asked him to take it out of his mouth.

Everybody who goes into government gets somewhat chewed up in the process. Being a senior appointee is like being at a startup, only more so: You run into opposition from the entrenched oligopoly of contractors whose business model is to extract as much money from government as possible for doing as little as possible.

'The X Factor' is great entertainment, but it doesn't prepare people for getting chewed up and spat out by the music industry.

After I saw our time, we just crossed our fingers and chewed our nails. Irvington's time was so close to ours the whole way, so we had to wait for the announcement. The kids really wanted to win, so I'm happy for them and proud.

After a while, no matter how much you love any pop song, you're going to get tired of it. That's the way it is with any entertainment. It's good when you first hear it or see it, you like it for a while, then it gets old. It gets chewed up and spit out and it's done.

Some books are to be tasted; others swallowed; and some to be chewed and digested.

Coach chewed us out because we weren't playing hard and we were lackadaisical in the first half. He fired us up and we finally started attacking the basket.

The photo that I looked at, I don't know if the photographer didn't like that he was chewing gum, but he had him put his gum on his hat. I kinda liked that. So, I chewed gum for about a month and saved it on a plate and then finally attached it into the canvas.

The way we played in the last game (a 99-74 loss to Memphis on Wednesday), it was just a difference in attitude. We started the first half tonight with that same muddy approach. We were lethargic and really didn't have any enthusiasm and we got chewed out at the half.

If my dad got chewed up like that ... I can assure you I would have been calling everybody.

I love words, but I also love finding out that there is a word for something that you've experienced but didn't know there was a word for. Like 'toothpack' - that is a word for when you eat biscuits or cookies and you get that annoying layer of chewed substance on your molars that you kind of have to pick out.

It's gotten to the point where, you get chewed out by coach Sherman or by your position coach, but at the same time, you go on to the next play. You're taught to put it out of your mind and go to the next play. With this, you have to run and take the play off. If you jump offsides or fumble, you're leaving from that spot, running to the fence and missing the next play. I think it's going to help.

If you made a mistake on the field, he just chewed you out when he got back to the dugout. It made you angry that one of your teammates was snapping at you. But you look back and say, that was Frank Robinson. If he can't tell you what the heck to do, if he sees something you're not doing, who are you to tell him any different?

As a matter of fact, we at Palomar were called in and I know it was during my working hours to be chewed out royally because we did not have 50 people in the designated area to do the phone banking.

All the jurors took notes to pay attention and stay awake. We chewed a lot of gum and ate a lot of candy.