Tongue Quotes - Page 23

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

I'm so great even I get tongue-tied talking to myself.

I don't use my lips. I use my tongue to make - create the vowels.

Language is a living thing. It must survive in men's minds and on their tongues if it survives at all.

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.

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

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.

Living authors, therefore, are usually, bad companions. If they have not gained character, they seek to do so by methods often ridiculous, always disgusting; and if they have established a character, they are silent for fear of losing by their tongue what they have acquired by their pen--for many authors converse much more foolishly than Goldsmith, who have never written half so well.

You have me like a drawing, erased, coloured in, untitled, signed by your tongue.

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

We Irish had the right word on the tip of our tongue, but the imperialist got at that. What should trip off it we trip over.

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.

No matter what your native tongue is, no matter what part of the world you're from, if your native tongue is distorted with an accent, somehow that's always funny.

He tried to pull me against him, and I bit him on the lip. He licked his lip with the tip of his tongue. 'Did you just bite me?

Someone once said you could tell the people who were in the most successful relationships by the bite marks on their tongues.

Should the fragrance of Thy praise be shed abroad by any of the divers tongues of the world, out of the East or out of the West, it would, verily, be prized and greatly cherished.

Never upstage a man. Don't top his joke, even if you have to bite your tongue to keep from doing it. Never launch loudly into your own opinions on a subject - whether it's petunias or politics. Instead, draw out his ideas to which you can gracefully add your footnotes from time to time.

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

Loquacity, n. A disorder which renders the sufferer unable to curb his tongue when you wish to talk.

Everything’s not exactly the way it seems ” I said. “It seemed like you had your tongue down his throat ” Finn glared at us both. “Well then everything is exactly as it seems ” Loki said glibly.

Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow.

Wit and humor seem to always factor into this - there's a tongue-in-cheek tone you get when you take on a formalist story - because there's an inherent voice you're trying to copy (and often to satirize).

A gen'rous heart repairs a sland'rous tongue.

O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.

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