Best 374 quotes in «tongue quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.

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

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

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

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

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

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 hurts not the tongue to give fair words.

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.

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

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 was my tongue that swore; my heart is unsworn.

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'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 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 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.

I would rather fight with my hands than my 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.

Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.