General Quote by James Lind

There was a strange kind of comfort in misunderstandings and differences that were old enough to have lost their teeth.

— Faith Sullivan

They looked as if nothing had ever touched them--all well-mothered, protected, with a soft sheen of contentment. None of them had ever been in…

— Charles Bukowski

He made a story for all of them, a story to give them strength. The words of the story poured out of his mouth…

— Leslie Marmon Silko

“All of them were shriveled, desiccated, bone-thin and skeletal, every jaw cruelly broken, opening and closing in mute entreaty, the teeth clacking together like…

— Edward M. Erdelac

Here was my first lesson on the resolutely maintained untidiness and ill-health of the English upper orders. In baggy evening dress and old before…

— Clive James

They had to match blood type and meet all sorts of things I don't know about.

— Shelley Fabares

“The teeth!—the teeth!—they were here, and there, and everywhere, and visibly and palpably before me; long, narrow, and excessively white, with the pale lips…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“We went into a small, windowless office crowded between two others that appeared empty. A middle-aged American woman was seated behind a metal desk.…

— Gene Wolfe

“We lost them in the vastness of their dresses and found them again, squeezed the pulp of their bodies and inhaled the perfume of…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“There is something else remarkable about the bodies to which conodonts belonged. They have no hard bones. These were soft-bodied animals with hard teeth.”

— Neil Shubin

“There was nothing the matter with them except they were dead tired. It was not the dead-tiredness that comes through brief and excessive effort,…

— Jack London

“One pit held the tangled severed legs of men, blood caked over kneecaps or shredded thigh muscle. Another pit held a confusion of forearms…

— Samuel Snoek-Brown