Jaw Wired Shut

Famous quotes containing the words jaw, wired and/or shut:

    It is an old saying in the town that “most any fellow with a chaw in his jaw can sit on his front porch and spit down the chimney of a neighbor’s house.”
    —Administration in the State of Ariz, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    And these poor nerves so wired to the skull
    Ache on the lovelorn paper....
    Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious—except he purposely shut the eyes of his mind & keep them shut by force.
    Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)