Here's the stuff we found when you searched for "but don't upstage yourself--keep at least half of your face to the audience"

• You can put your boots in the oven, but that don't make them biscuits.
• I don't know why but I always love episodes without words. like just something about them makes me feel calm or something..
• I don't think I realized what I had gotten myself into, but it seemed like the potential for fun and insanity were there in equal parts
• don't cut off your nose to spite your face
• This one goes out to you - not so much the people in the audience, but more the people in my mind
• I didn't have the heart to tell him I was lying about taco night, but at least the hellhound made some friends
• Why the bell of a Tuba faces up instead of toward the audience
• But I don't want to pay for the obese smoking couch potato
• Hold my tomb up to the light and watch me rot forever if you must. But don't you ever ever call me dead.
• don't just wait for it, but you can only wait for it
• Can I play with your breasts? Yes, but don't get out of the yard.
• You and I and half the book's audience also have penises
• Being a dickhead
• I wish I cared about the things you cared about but I don't.
• Of course they want to come here. Who doesn't? Besides the people from Los Angeles, but we don't speak of them.
• we are learning how not to forget, but we still don't know what's true
• So says the preacher man, but... I don't go by what he says
• At least the dark don't hide it
• i always want to go back. but i don't know if it's time yet. i have some things i have to do.
• I don't want the world, I just want your half
• When you have a trip planned, but don't go, you need to cancel your reservations
• I don't know who Amber is, but she's got a stalker
• you never felt her hot blood on your face but, hey, who's keeping track
• I don't agree with what you say, but I will defend your other, less ludicrous opinion that glitch speed runs are pointless.
• I don't have a soul. But something still hurts.
• Things you don't want to hear (but will) when you get into bed with a girl
• You don't know me, but someday you will
• Someone has writer's block but I don't know if I'm him right now
• but don't take my word for it
• We might not like each other very much afterwards, but at least we'll understand each other.
• the struggle continues, but at least i know i'm not alone
• Now there's revolution but they don't know what they're fighting
• I don't believe in God or the soul but these machines can make me cry
• You want to reassure her, but you don't know where to start
• you don't have to eat your dinner but you pay for your plate
• Don't be a smartass and offer up a contrived solution that *technically* solves the puzzle but goes against its spirit
• If you don't want us to look at your breasts, don't shove them in our faces
• I Love Them But They Don't Love Me
• I know there are other fish in the sea but I don't want them
• every horse can be tamed by someone. but they don't always live at the same time.
• There are many things that I would like to say to you but I don't know how
• I don't want to be a weeping mass of emotion, but I am
• Japanese puns that are not funny but at least are puns
• I don't Daylog but I'm Daylogging
• They don't realize they're talking about death but I can hear it behind their voices
• the desert was once alive, but I don't remember it
• She doesn't know what he sees, but sometimes it makes his face beautiful
• We don't look for trouble but if it comes we don't run
• I would kiss you, but I don't know how to kiss
• Don't lament but rather embrace the removal of human interaction
• Things they don't teach you at law school but really ought to
• When you can almost recognize her face, but you can't remember her name
• I don't know if these are good flowers or bad flowers, but I picked them for you
• My library books are late, but I don't care
• World, take care of me. You don't owe it to me, but I don't know any better.
• Keep doing it, but don't call it that
• But I Don't Want To Take Over The World
• i call my phone and i check my messages, but i don't have any messages
• Figures don't lie, but liars can figure
• That man has writer's block but I don't know if I'm him right now
• You don't see the light at the end of the tunnel now, but it's there. I'm holding it for you.
• I don't know about that fellow Rand, but I'd never trust a McNally.
• But the last half of the book is blank, and the author is gone.
• I'm happy but you don't like me
• My finger can point to the moon, but my finger is not the moon. You don't have to become my finger, nor do you have to worship my finger. You have to forget my finger, and look at where it is pointing.
• Don't take this personally, but it's personal
• Little lights that don't blink off but fade out instead
• Take it til you make it, break it if you have to, but don't ever fake it.
• don't work from ideas toward reality, but from reality toward ideas
• I don't hate people. Honestly. But the best conversation I've ever had still wasn't as good as the worst catnap I've ever had.
• Don't ask me about the half life of love
• Well at least this time I don't think you're dying.
• But I don't want to be Princess Leia!
• Look, I don't mean to be an asshole or anything, but...
• Don't kill your invisible husband to see what he looks like or you'll sob your heart out. But don't worry about the millions of invisible men coming to attack your village because they won't kill you if you don't know how to fight them.
• There is despair, Mr. President, in faces you don't see, in the places you don't visit in your shining city
• My soul is in a million pieces. I tried to collect most of them, but some are missing, and the ones I have don't fit together anymore. Feel free to take a piece or two.
• Don't litter, but go ahead and throw your cigarette butt on the ground
• He thinks I don't, but I do
• I can lie to the face of the devil himself, but I can't fool you.
• I don't know where he gets his words but I like them
• I don't want to wear your skin, but I will if I catch you!
• I don't know what he was listening for, but he wasn't listening
• live studio audience
• general audience
• audience fragmentation
• Medieval Masculinity and the Modern Film Audience
• captive audience
• My "audience" with the Gypsy King
• dreams desire no audience
• An acoustic set, played for an audience of one.
• audience (user)
• audience participation
• Audience cost
• The Extroverted Feeler learns to pick his audience
• Misery always has an Audience
• The narcissism of the performer is less than the narcissism of the audience
• I'd tell you but then I'd have to kill you
• butt set
• Mr. Butts
• Words that sound dirty but really aren't
• Good from far, but far from good
• But I'm a Cheerleader
• I want to watch pornography, but my pornograph is broken
• Every Which Way but Loose
• separate but equal
• That'd be the butt, Bob
• Friends and lovers, but sometimes just friends
• Butt hinge
• Butt joint
• I'm no fucking Buddhist, but this is Enlightenment.
• But my computer really IS possessed
• Butt crack of dawn
• Lots of MIPS but no I/O
• Things people put up their butts
• Project B.U.T.T.
• Butted mail
• The vodka is good, but the meat is rotten
• The Children's Story... (but not just for children)
• it's not what you node, but how you node
• cigarette butt
• How can I help but use your eyes as a means for self-asphyxiation?
• Everything is relative, but some things are more relative than others
• Mandibular block injection
• old chestnut: all but two
• answer: all but two
• Not just Everything, but INFINITE TURBO EVERYTHING HAPPY FISH
• terrified but hopeful
• Streets thick with wild chaos and cigarette butts
• It was hormones, it was hormones, but it was valid
• There is infinite hope, but not for us
• anti-abortion but pro-choice
• Straight but not Narrow
• I like electronic music, but I am not a raver.
• The odds are good, but the goods are odd
• Scrabble words with a Q but no U
• Monkey Butt!
• butt breath
• I'm not anorexic, but I'm working on it
• Poetry you found that you wrote when you were ten but secretly still like
• You wouldn't know it, but I think you're achingly beautiful
• Something Childish, but Very Natural
• Genuine but Insignificant Cause
• You're laughing now, but I'm voting this sucka down
• Work where you must but live and shop in Tustin
• English may be a "living language," but Latin is not -- so get it right.
• upstage
• I'm not a dyke just 'cause I shaved my head, but if it keeps certain people away, fuckin' A right on
• I bought an orange, but it was a grapefruit
• I'm not pregnant, but thanks for asking
• silent but deadly
• equal but opposite
• Maybe I'm naive but this type of website bugs me
• Fell, But Tried
• I'm straight, but you might be the one
• I love you but you are not here, oh how my poor heart aches with angst
• but aren't we all
• Cat Butt
• Honesty is the best policy, but wait a while
• Butt fluffies
• Can't nothin' fail but a try
• What to do if you earn a lot but hate your job
• I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it
• We all love movies and books about us owning ourselves
• But who nodes the noders?
• But there are NUNS watching us!
• General Butt Naked
• I am capable of poetic language, but not always of poetry
• I'm gay, but I'm not sure it's genetic
• Conscription if necessary, but not necessarily conscription
• It hasn't been so long, but
• The Tesla Coil made me cry, but I got a free lunch out of it.
• Push butt: Rub hands under arm

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