Tongue Quotes

Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.

If you watch Olivier's interviews, he has this reptilian tongue; it seems too big for his mouth. My pursuit of that became distracting, so I let it go. The thrill was finding the right pair of glasses.

What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever, A thing that answers, but hath not a thought As lasting but as senseless as a stone.

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

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

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

I'm from the South, and there's a different understanding of how to chop. There's a syllable play. It's a delicate art. Your accent has a lot to do with it. If you're from a certain area, words don't roll of your tongue as slick.

I'd managed to bite a very large hole in the side of my tongue before they could pry my teeth apart. By all evidence, and there's no denying it, that thing I had on the set was a fit.

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

If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest.

I was a really bad teenager and I got my tongue pierced. I don't even remember where I did it, but it was under very surreptitious circumstances.

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

The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.

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

How about keyboards in your mouth? How fast can you type with your tongue? People will think you're just masticating, when you're really talking to your girlfriend.

The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.

Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.

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

Not necessarily, a lot of my songs are firmly tongue in cheek.

Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks.

A quote is just a tattoo on the tongue.

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

The only way a ventriloquist speaks differently is that he forgoes using his or her lips, and learns to reproduce sounds using the tongue, upper palate, and teeth only. Those 'difficult' letters are B, F, M, P, V, W, and Y.

If it's supposed to be a really passionate snog, you slip the tongue in.

Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those who formed his tradition never saw it, in characters on the pages. It was all on the tongue and in the ear.

Love's tongue is in his eyes.

You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.

Are you motivated? Are you coherent? Is your intention aligned? Are your feet, tongue, heart and wallet congruent? That intention shines through.

There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.

I overdramatize.

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.

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

You can't make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.

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

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

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

I was totally picked on, but look at me now! I was definitely picked on by boys and girls. I was really lanky and skinny and the boys would say, 'Turn sideways and stick out your tongue, you look like a zipper.'

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

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

I can flip my tongue over. Only one in 10,000 people can. I learned that at Ripley's Believe It or Not!

The natural habitat of the tongue is the left cheek.

Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.

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

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

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

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

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