Tongue Quotations

I do fear for the generations of people who came of age thinking that pop-punk is what punk is, and that all the rebellion you need is just to stick your tongue out in the mirror every once in a while.

This is courtship all the world over - the man all tongue; the woman all ears.

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

Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.

In this day the breeze of God is wafted, and His Spirit hath pervaded all things. Such is the outpouring of His grace that the pen is stilled and the tongue is speechless.

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.

The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.

With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face.

Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.

Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.

I learnt to sing in Bengali, my mother tongue, then went on to sing in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati and every possible Indian language.

Now they're getting so politically correct you can't even stick your tongue out at somebody.

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

He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.

Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks.

In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.

It's funny, I'd rather be known as a writer who crafted a really nice piece about women's friendships over time. But that doesn't roll off the tongue like 'YouTube sensation.'

The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive.

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

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've never felt that using something with tongue in cheek has been a bad thing.

I am living and having supernatural experiences. A lot of people get really freaked out about that. I speak in tongues; I've been baptized in the Holy Spirit.

When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate.

We actually did quite a lot of comedy on 'Xena'. The whole show was very tongue-in-cheek.

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

I'm terrible at speaking extemporaneously about my work - I get completely tongue-tied and consumed with fear.

Once I got cancer of the tongue and throat, I realised that stress is a killer and I had to try and get stress out of my life.

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.

'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.

Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark.

Because that's what intimacy is: It's a willingness to be vulnerable, a willingness to bite my tongue and a willingness to set an example of what I believe in.

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

To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were born - and hence gain entrance to a forgotten world of comprehension.

I'm shy, but sometimes my voice is so clear and strong. Your tongue moves, and the Arabic language is so beautiful.

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.

In Hollywood today, it's cool for guys to wear nail polish and earrings in their lips and tongues. I don't get it.

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

Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.

Englishmen learn Christ's law best in English. Moses heard God's law in his own tongue; so did Christ's apostles.

The new Germany has the unquestionable right to hold its tongue between its teeth.

Not long ago, the term 'business model' was not exactly on the tip of everyone's tongue. Then, in the early to mid-1990s, 'business model' became a catchphrase that described how a company makes money or saves money.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

I work with my acting coach to help me get into character and do pronunciation drills and tongue twisters to help me deliver lines.

Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.

He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.

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

Everything on my body turned real dark. My toes, under my feet, inside my mouth, under my tongue - I just turned really dark. I'm still here, but it's gonna take a while to get back to normal. Chemo kills all the good cells along with the bad.

For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love.

Junipers are generally chosen for the latter purpose, as they can be more readily bent into the desired form; the eyes and tongue are added afterwards, and the representation altogether is really good.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.

I speak English, so I am no longer cute. My tongue itches for French.

As for the extraordinary operations of the Holy Ghost, such as working of miracles, or speaking with divers kinds of tongues, they are long since ceased.

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

Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.

I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.

What is Americanization? It manifests itself, in a superficial way, when the immigrant adopts the clothes, the manners and the customs generally prevailing here. Far more important is the manifestation presented when he substitutes for his mother tongue the English language as the common medium of speech.

And you know what - and I don't mean this in tongue in cheek way - but it's like deja vu. When I walked in to WCW they were producing wrestling on a little teeny sound stage at Disney, okay? I'm walking into TNA and they're producing wrestling in a little teeny sound stage at Universal.

An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.

I drink for the effect, because it loosens up the tongue a little bit.

There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

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.

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

It's going to be the year of the sharp elbow and the quick tongue.

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

In a certain way, it's the sound of the words, the inflection and the way the song is sung and the way it fits the melody and the way the syllables are on the tongue that has as much of the meaning as the actual, literal words.

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.

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

Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth

It's like an angel crying on your tongue.

Your wits make others witty.

It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it sadly fails me in framing an excuse; and always the lapse occurs at some crisis, when a facile word or plausible pretext is specially wanted to get me out of painful embarrassment.

The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator.

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.

A wounding tongue. I'm working on it. Perhaps its the Celt in me.

This is the forked tongue of grief again. It whispers in one ear: return to what you once loved best, and in the other ear it whispers, move on.

I suddenly leaned forward,bringing my face close to hers.catching her breath,stifling that laugh and pink tongue,she watched me wide-eyed.I removed the wallet from my back pocket and sat down casually again. "What happened?" I asked idly. "I thought...never mind".She blinked. Ha,gotcha

Oh for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might!

To be away from home and yet to feel oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world, and yet to remain hidden from the world—impartial natures which the tongue can but clumsily define. The spectator is a prince who everywhere rejoices in his incognito.

Aid the dawning, tongue and pen; Aid it, hopes of honest men!

Sweet music! sacred tongue of God.

Nothing is of greater threat to the enemy than a believer with the Word of God living and active upon her tongue, readily applied to any situation.

She told Papa about it. He made her stick out her tongue and he felt her wrist. He shook his head sadly and said, "You have a bad case, a very bad case." "Of what?" "Growing up.

O for a thousand tongues to sing my great Redeemer's praise, the glories of my God and King, the triumphs of his grace!

Your name hangs in my heart like a bell's tongue.

Some words live in my throat breeding like adders. Others know sun seeking like gypsies over my tongue to explode through my lips

Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.

The tongue has no bones, but can break a heart.

The productions of the press, fast as steam can make and carry them, go abroad through all the land, silent as snowflakes, but potent as thunder. It is an additional tongue of steam and lightning, by which a man speaks his first thought, his instant argument or grievance, to millions in a day.

There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue

How we love to blame others for our misfortunes! Almost every individual who has lost money in stock speculation has on the tip of his tongue an explanation which he trots out to show that it wasn't his own fault at all.... Hardly one loser has the manliness to say frankly, "I was wrong.

Of all cold words of tongue or pen, the worst are these: "I knew him when -

They took away our land, our language, and our religion; but they could never harness our tongues...

How sad they are, the promises we never return to. They stay in our mouths, roughen the tongue, lead lives of their own.

The tongue is the vile slave's vilest part.

The tongue is the worst part of a bad servant.