Quotes of: Tongues Keyword

Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.

Charles Simmons

A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.

Irvin S. Cobb

I am the owner of my life, so hold your tongue and let me live.

Debasish Mridha

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

Betty White

This is Nimrod, because of whose vile plan the world no longer speaks a single tongue.

Dante Alighieri

In the Shao Lin temple, they never allow you to touch the skin of a drum until you can tongue what you're going to play.

Dick Dale

We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less.

Diogenes Laërtius

I'm a pretty easygoing person, and it bleeds into the music. Even if I'm writing the most personal song, it's not going to come out totally serious; there's always a little tongue in the cheek.

Mac DeMarco

You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters.

John Burns

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

Charles Caleb Colton

Peppers, garlic, hazelnuts and brazil nuts make my mouth, tongue and eyes swell and itch within minutes of eating them.

Andrea McLean

Sleep on it until your thoughts are rational and your tongue is capable of speaking only kindness and truth.

Toni Sorenson

Tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

William Shakespeare

She ate quickly. Hunger was a sensation so long situated in his abdomen he felt it as he would an inflamed organ. He took his time, tonguing the pulp into a little oval and resting it against his cheek like a lozenge. If the bread wouldn't fill his s...

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

Then why was his tongue in your mouth? Was he conducting a clinical test of your gag reflex?" He smiled, but not nicely. "How is your gag reflex, Ms. Lane? Are you a hair trigger?" Barrons likes to use sexual innuendo to try to shut me up. I think he...

Faefever

In the act of creation, as in all the arts, the soul should be felt in the face and the fingers and the tongue, even in the cavities.

In Conversation

If you dissect a bird / to diagram the tongue, / you'll cut the chord / articulating song.

The Collected Poems

If your blade were as sharp as your tongue, you'd have sliced me through years ago.

The Daisy Chain

If your blade were as sharp as your tongue, you'd have sliced my through years ago.

The Daisy Chain

I had killed our careful relationship by driving my tongue through its heart and pushing it off a cliff.

Darkly Dreaming Dexter

A bitter man needs to place his troubles on the front of his tongue so that they taste sweeter.

Dubious Musings of a Peculiar Man