There are fast chewers and slow chewers, long chewers and short chewers, right-chewing people and left-chewing people. Some of us chew straight up and down, and others chew side-to-side, like cows. Your oral processing habits are a physiological fingerprint.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES There's nothing like biting off more than you can chew, and then chewing anyway. MARK BURNETT She was chewing her fingernails for two days straight. I said she's going to have to meet people wit... KATE GOLDEN You have two hemispheres in your brain - a left and a right side. The left side controls the right s... BILL LEE You have two hemispheres in your brain - a left and a right side. The left side controls the right s... BILL LEE I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through fles... ED WESTWICK There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that w... A. J. JACOBS But what if I should discover that the least among them all, the poorest of all beggars, the most im... C.G. JUNG I'm not straight up and down. I have curves. ERIKA CHRISTENSEN Life is like a seesaw you can be up hi one minute then before you know it you can be down low the ne... GARY F EVANS... The Brady Bunch: The Complete Fourth Season AND CITY Everybody wonders what happens after you die[Carrie] I'm too busy wondering who's dinging my car in... AND CITY Desperate Housewives. AND CITY I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it. AND CITY A stud is born! [Stanford] AND CITY Courtney (Showing Carrie her book cover): Let me talk you through it. Blurred background, aah, fast-... AND CITY It's such a tribute to my show. My show is so good. I feel so blessed to play such a strong characte... AND CITY You men have no idea what we're dealing with down there. Teeth placement, and jaw stress, and suctio... AND CITY I don't believe in the Republican party or the Democratic party. I just believe in parties. [Samanth... AND CITY Sometimes we need to stop analyzing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely ... AND CITY Honey, I've decided we're going to Louisiana. JILL AND We'll have to find new accommodation tonight, JILL AND None of these places, of course, are charging any rent, JILL AND He's a climbing fiend. He's climbing all over the rocks, or he's climbing on his mother. And when he... LISA STEVENS She smiled a little. "You are a manipulator" "I like to think of myself more as an outcome engi... J.R. WARD There are three sides to an argument - your side, my side and the right side. ANONYMOUS Plan more than you can do, then do it. Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Hitch your wag... SOURCE UNKNOWN I never think it's right to chew gum in front of other people, but a lot of times I'll come ... JENNIFER LAWRENCE Both pets and people annoy me, but at least animals don't chew your ear off. RAIN BOJANGLES Remember that the bad days are not forever, and the trouble which seems so terrible at last. GEORGE ORWELL RIM will finally have the power to chew through very complex applications, and make them work. They ... CARMI LEVY If your agent or publisher is jumping up and down at the thought of your novel, it's because the... DAVE MORRIS I walk like a duck: very straight up and down. Or like a penguin. It's a dead giveaway that I... DAVID HALLBERG The Right of property is the guardian of every other Right, and to deprive the people of this, is in... ARTHUR LEE Other men look up and down, left and right; but men like us are different. We are visionaries. EOIN COLFER It appeared to Harriet that she was always the one who remembered having seen other people. They nev... ELIZABETH TAYLOR She can't even chew gum and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book. LIAM GALLAGHER I want you,” she said. “Naked.” His nostrils flared as if he was soaking in the sc... NALINI SINGH I like everything you do to me." "In that case"- he flipped her onto her back again, spre... NALINI SINGH It's that sudden, jerky, fast-twitch ... It's just constantly there. It's a weird kind of feeling...... DIRK JOHNSON The thing that kept bringing us back to Pete's movie is that it was a story about real people. It (a... BEN AFFLECK You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS In spacetime, all events are baked together: a four-dimensional continuum. Past and future are no mo... JAMES GLEICK Seeing you is like pulling teeth and hearing your voice is like chewing tin foil!!! BRANDON BOYD There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I ... TIMOTHY LEARY There are three side effects of acid. Enchanced long term memory, decreased short term memory, and I... TIMOTHY LEARY Eighty percent of flavor comes from your nose, including a set of internal nostrils. When you chew f... MARY ROACH Life is like the ocean, it goes up and down. VANESSA PARADIS I have feelings that are to the right, and I have feelings that land on the left side of the aisle. ... ADAM CAROLLA She can't even chew gum and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book. LIAM GALLAGHER Planning your life is one way to ensure you are on the winning side more than the losing one. STEVEN REDHEAD People are entitled to different opinions and views. Just because somebody doesn't agree with you do... DEON POTGIETER Bring out others better side and they are more likely to see and support yours. You can't develop po... KARE ANDERSON Men and women are like right and left hands; it doesn't make sense not to use both. JEANNETTE RANKIN Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories BEN OAK An accident on the other side of the freeway will slow people down - any little thing. It's not coun... BOB HERAKOVICH There'll be a whole lot of things you ain't gonna want to do, but you'll have to do in this life jus... MILDRED D. TAYLOR The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain... SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need SARAH J. MAAS I turned. Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere... SARAH J. MAAS Idea is an introduction to creativity that gives birth to reality. STEPHEN MAGNUS When you have the right, doesn't mean that you are right. FARAH EZZATIE Before I knowed it, I was saying out loud, 'The hell with it! There ain't no sin and there ain't no ... JOHN STEINBECK What you need to learn, children, is the difference between right and wrong in every area of life. A... JEANNE DUPRAU Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong. WINSTON S. CHURCHILL There is nothing like right or wrong question or answer. A question may be right for someone and wro... ANUJ SOMANY But you can't go around changing your definition of right and wrong (or smart and stupid) just becau... JIM BUTCHER I found out was, by the rhythm of my chewing, how I chewed fast, slow or what have you, I could tell... ROD STEIGER He wanted to argue like this forever. This was better than nothing. There was no exhausting his ange... DAVID DUCHOVNY Deep down, I know that I am a child of God who has inherited divine capacities; some of them I striv... MARY MANIN MORRISSEY I just finally discovered what's wrong with my brain: on the left side there is nothing right and on... ANONYMOUS We patched it up with chewing gum and Scotch tape. NORM HEWITT Chew some sugarcane, it's a good exercise for your mouth SOTONYE ANGA Some people are kind of themselves, and some people are straight-up actors that can meld into a lot ... EDWARD FURLONG Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes. JOHN MASON BROWN When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice. APURVA GAGLANI Some people are slow to take decisions because they have not trained their mind to think fast and th... SUNDAY ADELAJA I'm starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we loo... JOHN GREEN I've found that I snack less and concentrate better when I chew on a plastic stirrer - the kind ... GRETCHEN RUBIN Mr. Klamp laid down the law. No tardiness, no talking above 40 decibels, no untied shoelaces, no vis... POLLY SHULMAN The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it. GLASER AND WAY Calamity is man's true touchstone. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER A man must be potent and orgasmic to ensure the future of the race. A woman only needs to be avai... MASTERS AND JOHNSON The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it. GLASER AND WAY Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too. LICHTY AND WAGNER It has been said, in regard to a judo expert's level of mental development, that "the arms are an e... WATANABE AND AVAKIAN There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER I have kept a diary, WITHNAIL AND I One year later the society claimed victory in another case which again did not fit within the parame... TROUBLE AND STRIFE I sometimes think that I don't have a purpose in this world. I am simply useless and wanderin... GINGER AND ROSA Patricia Compton, you are great at what you do and your beautiful spirit added so much to our specia... REAH AND PAUL The key to finding beauty is to know where to look. SEIGFRIED AND ROY That boy was going to make the world turn, and the stars would fall like rain. TWIST AND SHOUT For my 2015 Book Reading Challenge resolution, the 1 (one) book I want to read is titled: "Write, yo... ROLF AND RANGER A person who never made a mistake, never made anything." ~Rosamund Pilcher, Endings and Beginnings ENDINGS AND BEGINNINGS The American people, taken one with another, constitute the most timorous, sniveling, poltroonish, i... HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
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