Quotes of: Tongues Keyword

What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight...

Wade Davis

...feel the fierce way desire tourniquets itself around you and clings Clubland South of Market tweak- chic trannies powder their noses from bullet-shaped compacts and flick their forked tongues like switchblades as they burn the night down bleed day...

Cottonmouth Kisses

I placed some of the DNA on the ends of my fingers and rubbed them together. The stuff was sticky. It began to dissolve on my skin. 'It's melting -- like cotton candy.' 'Sure. That's the sugar in the DNA,' Smith said. 'Would it taste sweet?' 'No. DNA...

The Best American Science Writing 2001

Back home, my favorite part of Mass was during communion, when I'd stand at the rail and hold a little gold platter under people's chins. The pretty girls would line up for communion (I confess to Almighty God). They'd kneel (and to you my brothers a...

Love Is a Mix Tape

Trudi: You know how they use that gun to pierce your ears? They don't use that when they pierce your nipples, do they? Jody: Forget that gun. That gun goes against the entire idea behind piercing. All of my piercings, sixteen places on my body, all o...

Pulp Fiction

She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency.

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

Earthquakes just happen. Tornadoes just happen. Your tongue does not just happen to fall into some other girls mouth!

Deadly Cool

Don't care for her tongue, do you? How strange. I find it one of my favorite parts. Bones to Gregor

Destined for an Early Grave

Guns don’t kill people. Politicians with sharp tongues do.

The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over.

Mmmmmm I like that thing you do with your tongue. What do you call it? Speaking? Yeah, I dig it

Egghead: Or, You Can't Survive on Ideas Alone

I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing.

The End of the Affair

...that witchcraft requires no potions, familiar spirits, or magic wands. Language upon a silver tongue affords enchantment enough.

The Enchantress Of Florence

Books of the sages of the ages reflect upon in stages; like honey their words on the tongue give due savour.” {Source: A Green Desert Father}

A Green Desert Father

It 'appens to be true. An' if'n yew want ter stay moi friend, yew'd best 'old yer turpitudinous twaddle of a tongue an' listen fer once.

Gang Loyalty

His tongue tapped his top lip as he cupper her breast in his hand. "Tis boidhche --beautiful.

The Highland Henchman

His tongue tapped his top lip as he cupped her breast in his hand. "Tis boidhche --beautiful.

The Highland Henchman

Lips and tongues lie. But actions never do. No matter what words are spoken, actions betray the truth of everyone's heart.

Born of Fury

A brick could be used like sandpaper, to smooth out a cat’s rough tongue. 

Brick and Blanket Test in Brick City (Ocala) Florida

You have got a sharp tongue, haven't you honey? You'll have to watch it or you'll go to a lonely spinster's grave.

Bauhinia Junction

She tasted sweet, like oranges, liquid sunshine in my mouth as we kissed, our tongues playing together.

A Baumgartner Reunion

From one small spark a bushfire grows. Sellers of misery are our foes. Merging ruthlessly tongues of flame. Point your finger at those to blame.

Bushfire