Best 374 quotes in «tongue quotes» category

He tastes like mint and need, as he overpowers me with his tongue.

He tried to pull me against him, and I bit him on the lip. He licked his lip with the tip of his tongue. 'Did you just bite me?

He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.

His tongue is by turns a sponge, a brush, a comb. He cleans himself, he smooths himself, he knows what is proper.

How often, when we have been nearest each other bodily, have we really been farthest off! Our tongues were the witty foils with which we fenced each other off.

Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery... a topic that often leaves even the most sophisticated thinkers tongue-tied and confused. And, as with all of the earlier mysteries, there are many who insist - and hope - that there will never be a demystification of consciousness.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

I act as the tongue of you, ... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.

I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions.

I am firmly of the opinion that people who can’t speak have nothing to say. It’s one more thing we do to the poor, the deprived: cut out their tongues … allow them a language as lousy as their life

I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/ Who says my hand a needle better fits./ A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong/ For such despite they cast on female wits;/ If what I do prove well, it won't advance,/ They'll say it's stolen, or else, it was by chance.

I basked in you; I loved you, helplessly, with a boundless tongue-tied love. And death doesn't prevent me from loving you. Besides, in my opinion you aren't dead. (I know dead people, and you are not dead.)

I don't know where I learned elephants like their tongues slapped. Whatever turns you on.

I do know when the blood burns, how prodigal the soul lends the tongue vows.

I don't work on poems and essays at once. They walk on different legs, speak with different tongues, draw from different parts of the psyche. Their paces are also different.

I don't use my lips. I use my tongue to make - create the vowels.

I eat green ants often enough. They are wonderful. The trick is to squash them before you eat them, otherwise they bite your tongue and it ruins the experience.

If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother tongue, linguistic starvation will abide.

If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.

If there is a knower of tongues here, fetch him; There's a stranger in the city And he has many things to say.

If thou desire to be held wise, be so wise as to hold thy tongue.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

If toes had eyes, then I could see how my feet know where to go, but toes are blind. And how is it that my tongue speaks words it cannot hear? Because for all its eloquence, the tongue itself is deaf, and flaps in soundlessness.

I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them daily.

I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well.

If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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 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.

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.

It hurts not the tongue to give fair words.

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 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.

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