If you had teeth of steel, you could eat iron coconuts
Singhalese Proverb
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YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More...
HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes...
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HARRY YOU You know what would be a fun game? If Pac-Man was on a beach, and he was chomping coconuts. You coul...
JACK MCBRAYER What difference does it make if you brush your teeth with it or eat it?
BARBARA ROBINSON You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant!
But yet you draw not iron, for my heart
Is true as stee...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?
GRAHAM CHAPMAN Are you suggesting that coconuts migrate?
MONTY PYTHON If you could eat portions of pine trees, you could eliminate corn in many ways.
HOMARO CANTU The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth.
ROSE SCHNEIDERMAN It's a friendly face that greets you with bone-crushing teeth to eat you.
LEONARD SONNENSCHEIN God gives nuts to those with no teeth. -Arabic proverb.
ARABIC PROVERB Amos, talk about pearls for teeth ... you got ‘em. No wonder the boys go for you, because I could ...
JAMES PURDY The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted.
STEPHEN KING You are my father, Incarceron.
I was born from your pain.
Bone of steel; circuits for vein...
CATHERINE FISHER My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA We are not in the business of iron ore. Whatever captive iron ore sources we have, we use it to make...
LAKSHMI MITTAL We are not in the business of iron ore. Whatever captive iron ore sources we have, we use it to make...
LAKSHMI MITTAL If you're happy, you eat. If you're sad, you eat. You lose a job, you eat. You get a job, you eat. I...
BARBARA COOK He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.
BIBLE In your life you will love someone so much you could eat them, then you will get married and wish yo...
UNKNOWN Iron or glass? they'd ask.
She was neither.
She was steel.
JAY KRISTOFF The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted. ~The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordo...
STEPHEN KING When we think of coconuts or pigs, there are no coconuts or pigs in the brain.
GREGORY BATESON When iron and carbon come together, there emerges steel! To be something stronger and better, you mu...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Not very smart," Chudo-Yudo growled. "Stalking a Baba Yaga." He showed a set of sharp white teeth. "...
DEBORAH BLAKE A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
JOHN KEATS Comrades, this man has a nice smile, but he's got iron teeth.
ANDREI GROMYKO Comrades, this man has a nice smile, but he's got iron teeth.
ANDREI A. GROMYKO Iron which is brought near a spiral of copper wire, traversed by an electrical current, becomes magn...
HERMANN VON HELMHOLTZ A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS I made up my mind I was going to live, thank the good Lord. I broke my arm when a load of steel fell...
LELAND CHANDLER By committing foolish acts, one learns wisdom
SINGHALESE PROVERB Even the fall of a dancer is a somersault
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BILL BRYSON These pipes are mostly made of cast iron or steel, and over a period of years they start to corrode.
TOM MCGEE The proverb warns; Don't bite the hand that feeds you. But maybe you should, if it prevents you from...
THOMAS SZASZ If you beat metal long enough, it turns to steel.
PENELOPE DOUGLAS I wonder if I could eat a child if I had the chance.'
'I doubt if I could cook one,' said Const...
SHIRLEY JACKSON You should eat a waffle! You can't be sad if you eat a waffle!
LAUREN MYRACLE If you can't bite, don't show your teeth.
YIDDISH PROVERB The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it pr...
THOMAS S. SZASZ The proverb warns that, 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it p...
THOMAS SZASZ No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth.
HARRY HOUDINI If you come back to me, I'll never leave you", I whispered into the furry ear. "I'll make you all th...
ILONA ANDREWS The good Lord made us all out of iron. Then he turns up the heat to forge some of us into steel.
MARIE OSMOND If I lived back in the wild west days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a sold...
JACK HANDY I have a wild bunch of coconuts!
BENNY HILL That if you could acquire enough, accomplish enough, you’d never want to own or do another thing. ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK It's hard to beat the rough texture of steel-cut oats, with their slight resistance against the ...
YOTAM OTTOLENGHI How could you love animals and eat them?
HANAE AVLEE What? Ridden on a horse?''Yes''You're using coconuts!''What?''You've got two empty halves of coconut...
MONTY PYTHON After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.
ELVIS PRESLEY If you don't cut the cake in pieces and just eat the whole cake, then you only had one piece.
ANONYMOUS The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, ...
THOMAS SZASZ Iron ore and steel stocks were supposed to be struggling, but they brought us some of our best retur...
CHRIS PALMER My favorite Proverb: If you argue with a fool, how will they know who the fool is?
C. FERN COOK If I could rap, that would be a sensation, but I can't, you see, I'm just a Caucasian.
RYAN STILES You've got to have steel in you somewhere.
ALAN BATES Red gave us a choice. If we came up (to Boston) Sunday, we could eat Chinese. If we came up Monday, ...
ALAN COHEN Don't let the cereal eat you. It's only a fucking box of cereal, but it will eat you alive if you le...
KATHLEEN GLASGOW China's iron and steel industry has entered an important stage of strategic restructuring, which can...
XIE QIHUA The most common thing I see in my practice is rotator cuff tear disease. If you can imagine not bein...
DR. ANAND MURTHI Little drops of rain Whisper of the pain Tears of love Lost in the days gone by.
ROBERT PLANT "THANK YOU" I eat a variety of foods like vegetables, fruit and beef for protein and iron.
SASHA COHEN If I don't brush my teeth after I eat, I'll get them all dirty and my breath will smell bad.
JAMES MERCADO You cannot eat a cluster of grapes at once, but it is very easy if you eat them one by one.
JACQUES ROUMAIN The journey of a thousand miles must begin with wondering if you turned off the iron.
WILLIAM ROTSLER If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM The English eat all sorts of birds - pigeons, ducks, sparrows - but if you tell them you eat puffin,...
BJORK Once you raise your own child and you will comprehend the hardship of your parents.
– Chinese prov...
CHINESE PROVERB Jared gripped me tighter. "If you beat metal long enough, it turns to steel.
PENELOPE DOUGLAS If you can EAT! you can lose the weight!!
NANCY S. MURE Shopping in Thailand is super cheap and generally high quality. Bangkok is also safe. If you see any...
BOBBY LEE 'What? Ridden on a horse?'
'Yes'
'You're using coconuts!'
'What?'
'You've got two em...
MONTY PYTHON People asked if I could have played the Terminator. Are you kidding? Not a chance, I never could hav...
SYLVESTER STALLONE If you have never been to the dentist before, who taught you to brush your teeth?
KAI KAWASUGI Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your li...
JOHN KEATS If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not...
LEE TREVINO I wonder is happiness only an essence of good living, that you shall taste only once or twice while ...
RICHARD LLEWELLYN It used to be, just get up there and rip the driver as hard as you could. Now you have to think on t...
ARRON OBERHOLSER Hear me out. Would you eat a hamburger if there was any chance it could punch you in the face?
...
CLAUDIA GRAY If you are what you eat, you are what you see and hear.
E.A. BUCCHIANERI Your world needs you. So, use your education to become endowed with muscles of iron and nerves of st...
ABHIJIT NASKAR If you take 12 waters from the coconut - not the ones you buy in the store, although that's good...
DICK GREGORY If you can't sell it, you can always eat it.
MICKEY CARROLL That's why most of us never got in trouble. We played all day. You'd only break to eat, if you had t...
JIM ARNOLD You know, I think I could eat that grain as fast as you are grinding it.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The food here is so tasteless you could eat a meal of it and belch and it wouldn't remind you of any...
REDD FOXX You, too, could easily look like that if you had a squad of mad geeks fussing over you with retouchi...
AISHA TYLER They seemed weak but OK. They said they had eaten coconuts, boars and wild shoots. They hunted to st...
SHAUKAT HUSSAIN If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of ...
VIC SNYDER I believe that if you eat well, you work even better.
FERRAN ADRIA
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PROVERB The morning hour has gold in its mouth.
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