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A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
Samuel Johnson
Fly
Other
Stately
Insect
Wince
Horse
Make
Him
Still
Sting
Sir
May
When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.
Norman Mailer
Book
Wince
Write
Read
Which
Ask
Ever
Everybody has those stories that make them wince when they think about them silently. But as soon as you tell that story, it becomes a little bit less cringe-inducing.
Aisha Tyler
You
Think
Everybody
Bit
Those
Tell
Wince
About
Soon
Make
Becomes
Stories
Story
Little
Little Bit
Them
Less
I wince at some of the things I did as the young wife of Canada's fifteenth prime minister, Pierre Elliott Trudeau.
Margaret Trudeau
Wife
Young
Minister
Wince
Some
Prime
Prime Minister
Pierre
Canada
Did
Fifteenth
Things
I, like many annoying pedants, will wince when someone says 'less' when they should have said 'fewer.' But my 'poor' sounds like poo-ah, not pore; and my 'grass' rhymes with mass, not farce. What's wrong with that?
Steph McGovern
Will
Grass
Says
Wince
Someone
Wrong
Mass
Like
Annoying
Said
Sounds
Fewer
Rhymes
Poor
Should
Farce
Less
Many
Designer pricing should hurt, but it shouldn't kill you. You wince when you hand over your AmEx, but once you get it home, you never regret it. You divide it by how many days you're using it, and suddenly it becomes affordable.
Michael Bastian
Home
You
Hurt
Regret
Once
Wince
Divide
Pricing
Never
Never Regret
Over
Days
Becomes
How
Hand
Get
Affordable
Should
Your
Many
Using
Suddenly
Designer
Looking back, I wince at the careless way I tossed out my opinions.
Luke Ford
Looking
Looking Back
Careless
Back
Way
Out
Tossed
Wince
Opinions
I just think lots of words have physicality. How about the word 'wobble?' You think that's arbitrary? When you say the word 'wince,' you wince. How about that?
Roy Blount, Jr.
You
Words
Word
Think
Say
Arbitrary
Wince
About
Physicality
How
Lots
Just
Sometimes, on a personal level, I wince.
Terry Semel
Sometimes
Wince
Personal
Personal Level
Level
When you read 'author Katharine Holabird, creator of Angelina' and you're not even mentioned, you wince.
Helen Craig
You
Wince
Mentioned
Read
Author
Even
Creator
I have a hard time listening to things I've recorded. I don't necessarily go back and enjoy it. Occasionally I'll have the iPod on shuffle and something will come on. Nine times out of ten I'll wince and go on to the next one.
Brian d'Arcy James
Time
Listening
Will
Enjoy
Nine
Back
Out
Wince
Something
Recorded
Ten
Come
Occasionally
Go
iPod
Times
Next
Hard
Hard Time
Shuffle
Things
Necessarily