Best 374 quotes in «tongue quotes» category

I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.

I haven't anything against whores, except this: some of them may have an honest tongue but they all have dishonest hearts.

I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.

I have tried many times to express my feelings, but at each attempt, I find myself tongue-tied.

I hold 'Mi Tierra,' my first Spanish-language album, very close to me because that was all done in my native tongue and won me my first Grammy.

I'm so great even I get tongue-tied talking to myself.

I heard the tongues of angels and the tongues of men and it all sounded no different to me.

I’ll die if you go. The Jinn will come, and I’ll have one of my fits. You’ll see, I’ll swallow my tongue and die. Don’t leave me, Mariam jo. Please stay. I’ll die if you go.

I love hip-hop, because you can do this like that and still be super successful! You ain't gotta hold your tongue.

I never show the back of my tongue. That is a Dutch expression.

In the modesty of fearful duty, I read as much as from the rattling tongue of saucy and audacious eloquence.

I prefer a kiss that is so much more than just a tongue in your mouth.

I stuck my tongue out at him because I was feeling exceptionall mature.

I still smile it's not worth the trouble any more for a long time now it's not been worth the trouble the tongue spring goes into the mud I stay like this not thirsty any more the tongue goes back into the mouth it closes it has to make a straight line now it's done I've made the image.

I suppose that people, using themselves and each other so much by words, are at least consistent in attributing wisdom to a still tongue.

I sandpapered the roof of my mouth with 3 bowls of Cap'n Crunch - had raw gobbets of mouth-beef dangling onto my tongue all day

It hurts not the tongue to give fair words.

I think [ Lars Von Trier] is a fantastic filmmaker. No question. You've got to be ready for him. He's sharp and he's got a sharp tongue and I love that. He doesn't mind it back.

I tell you this, and I tell you plain: What you have done, you will do again; You will bite your tongue, careful or not, Upon the already-bitten spot.

It is observed in the course of worldly things, that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues; and more men's fortunes overthrown thereby than by vices.

It is not, nor it cannot, come to good, But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.

It is a sad thing when men have neither enough intelligence to speak well nor enough sense to hold their tongues; this is the root of all impertinence.

I was pretending that I did not speak their language; on the moon we spoke a soft, liquid tongue, and sang in the starlight, looking down on the dead dried world.

It is through the tongue, the pen, and the press that truth is principally propagated.

It reminded me of that tongue-in-cheek quick history of art I'd overheard...Used to be people couldn't draw very well, then they could, and now they can't again.

It was my tongue that swore; my heart is unsworn.

It's a very good time for horror. This business certainly has changed, but there's still room for serious horror films. Look at 28 Days Later, that's not a tongue-in-cheek picture.

It's like an angel crying on your tongue.

I would rather die with the taste of you on my tongue than live and never touch you again.

I would quarrel with both parties, and with every individual of each, before I would subjugate my understanding, or prostitute my tongue or pen to either.

I would not know the thing I sought until I found it. It was both something within and something without myself. Within, it was like the buried memory of a name that will not come to the tongue for utterance.

I would rather fight with my hands than my tongue.

Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.

Language is wine upon the lips.

Let us always guard our tongue; not that it should always be silent, but that it should speak at the proper time.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue

Love provided me with a tongue and tears.

Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf.

Matrimonially speaking, a bridle for the tongue is better than a rein for the heart.

Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue.

Max [Landis] writes in quite a heightened way, specifically for Dirk. There's a rhythm and a specific speed to it, and it was very easy to learn because it was so well-written. It just rolled off the tongue. There aren't many auditions that I go for, where I feel like I could actually do the part. But with this one, even though I was not quite sure how to pin Dirk down, I thought I could do it.

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.

My tongue is prone to lose the way,Not so my pen, for in a letterWe have not better things to say,But surely put them better.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

Morelli grabbed the front of my shirt, pulled me to him, and kissed me. It was a great kiss, but I didn't know what the heck it meant. It seemed to me a breaking up kiss would have had less tongue.

Mulch's tongue lolled out, resting on the centaur's neck. "Mmm," he mumbled around his tongue. "Horse. Tasty" "Let's go," said Foaly nervously. "Let's go right now.

Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest.

My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree; Murder, stern murder in the dir'st degree, Throng to the bar, crying all, 'Guilty!, guilty!

My knives are like a tongue - I love, I do not love, I hate. If you don’t love me, I am ready to attack. I am a double-edged knife.