Tongue Quotes - Page 3

You know what wakes me up? A tongue in the ass. There is no alarm clock on that one, you are up, you are shaking, you are in a karate stance.....the day has begun.

Where the lips are silent the heart has a thousand tongues.

A woman of haughty and fierce carriage, of a nimble wit and active spirit, a very voluble tongue, more bold than a man.

She alone dares and wishes to know from within, where she, the outcast, has never ceased to hear the resonance of fore language. She lets the other language speak - the language of 1,000 tongues which knows neither enclosure nor death. To life she refuses nothing. Her language does not contain, it carries; it does not hold back; it makes possible.

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

A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind.

Wild tongues can't be tamed, they can only be cut out.

A man is hid under his tongue.

Above anything, welcome silence, for it brings fruits that no tongue can speak of, neither can it be explained.

Its sad that governments are chiefed by the double tongues.

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

The only one who knows this ounce of words is just a token, is he who has a ton to tell that must remain unspoken.

A learned man's knowledge will be of no avail to him if he doesn't have control over his tongue

Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language.

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

Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.

Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

O Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.

I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/ Who says my hand a needle better fits./ A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong/ For such despite they cast on female wits;/ If what I do prove well, it won't advance,/ They'll say it's stolen, or else, it was by chance.

True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

A drunk tongue is an honest one in my opinion.

The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

There will be ups, there will be downs, there will be sideways. I can just tell you I have been hired, I have been fired, I have been lauded, I have been vilified. I've said some of the most brilliant things that just by accident appeared on my tongue, and I've said some of the dumbest things that you could imagine. But each day - even the day that I knew I was going to be fired - I looked forward to because I've always believed that tomorrow was going to be the best day of my life.