A Quote by Louis Armstrong

I don't let my mouth say nothin' my head can't stand.

Louis Armstrong

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Head Mouth Nothin Say Stand

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Louis Armstrong
American - Musician
August 4, 1901 - July 6, 1971

Aig [F.-M. Sir Douglas Haig] 'e don't say much; 'e don't, so to say, say nothin'; but what 'e don't say don't mean nothin', not 'arf. But when 'e do say something--my Gawd!

E. V. Lucas

Just 'cause I don't run my mouth don't mean I got nothin' to say.

Mike Cooley

Jesse ain't running nothin' but his mouth.

Marion Barry

When you got your hand in the lion's mouth, don't do nothin' til you get it out.

Big Bill Broonzy

I started the day with some nothin’ tea. Nothin’ tea is easy to make. First, get some hot water, then add nothin’.

Andy Weir

My daddy always told me to just do the best you knew how and tell the truth. He said there was nothin to set a man’s mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were. And if you done somethin wrong just stand up and say you done it and say you’re sorry and get on with it. Don’t haul stuff around with you.

Cormac McCarthy

The poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be.

Bruce Springsteen

I don't wear makeup. I can't stand nothin' on my face. It's a phobia. It's not a platform.

Patti Smith

I could think of nothing else to say to her. In fact I could never think of anything to say to her, and I sat thinking of past painful conversations between us: How are you, Jean Louise? Fine, thank you ma'am, how are you? Very well, thank you; what have you been doing with yourself? Nothin'. Don't you do anything? Nome. Certainly you have friends? Yessum. Well what do you all do? Nothin'.

Harper Lee

My most persistent memory of stand - up is of my mouth being in the present and my mind being in the future: the mouth speaking the line, the body delivering the gesture, while the mind looks back, observing, analyzing, judging, worrying, and then deciding when and what to say next. Enjoyment while performing was rare - enjoyment would have been an indulgent loss of focus that comedy cannot afford.

Steve Martin

The monster likes to talk; he jumps into your head and opens your mouth, making it spout your deepest darkest deceptions. Making you say all the things you'd rather not say, at least not in mixed company." (Ellen Hopkins)

Ellen Hopkins

For most of us, the classic test of willpower is resisting temptation, whether the temptress is a doughnut, a cigarette, a clearance sale, or a one-night stand. When people say, "I have no willpower," what they usually mean is, "I have trouble saying no when my mouth, stomach, heart, or (fill in your anatomical part) wants to say yes.