Tongue Quotations

I do fear for the generations of people who came of age thinking that pop-punk is what punk is, and that all the rebellion you need is just to stick your tongue out in the mirror every once in a while.

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

Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.

I never show the back of my tongue. That is a Dutch expression.

In this day the breeze of God is wafted, and His Spirit hath pervaded all things. Such is the outpouring of His grace that the pen is stilled and the tongue is speechless.

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

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

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

With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face.

Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.

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

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

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

He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.

Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks.

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

In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.

It's funny, I'd rather be known as a writer who crafted a really nice piece about women's friendships over time. But that doesn't roll off the tongue like 'YouTube sensation.'

The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive.

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions.

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

I am living and having supernatural experiences. A lot of people get really freaked out about that. I speak in tongues; I've been baptized in the Holy Spirit.

When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate.

I prefer a kiss that is so much more than just a tongue in your mouth.

We actually did quite a lot of comedy on 'Xena'. The whole show was very tongue-in-cheek.

I'm terrible at speaking extemporaneously about my work - I get completely tongue-tied and consumed with fear.

Once I got cancer of the tongue and throat, I realised that stress is a killer and I had to try and get stress out of my life.

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

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

'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.

Because that's what intimacy is: It's a willingness to be vulnerable, a willingness to bite my tongue and a willingness to set an example of what I believe in.

Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark.

He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.

To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were born - and hence gain entrance to a forgotten world of comprehension.

I'm shy, but sometimes my voice is so clear and strong. Your tongue moves, and the Arabic language is so beautiful.

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.

In Hollywood today, it's cool for guys to wear nail polish and earrings in their lips and tongues. I don't get it.

Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.

Englishmen learn Christ's law best in English. Moses heard God's law in his own tongue; so did Christ's apostles.

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

Not long ago, the term 'business model' was not exactly on the tip of everyone's tongue. Then, in the early to mid-1990s, 'business model' became a catchphrase that described how a company makes money or saves money.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

I work with my acting coach to help me get into character and do pronunciation drills and tongue twisters to help me deliver lines.

Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.

He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.

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

Everything on my body turned real dark. My toes, under my feet, inside my mouth, under my tongue - I just turned really dark. I'm still here, but it's gonna take a while to get back to normal. Chemo kills all the good cells along with the bad.

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

Junipers are generally chosen for the latter purpose, as they can be more readily bent into the desired form; the eyes and tongue are added afterwards, and the representation altogether is really good.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.

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

As for the extraordinary operations of the Holy Ghost, such as working of miracles, or speaking with divers kinds of tongues, they are long since ceased.

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

Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.

I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.

What is Americanization? It manifests itself, in a superficial way, when the immigrant adopts the clothes, the manners and the customs generally prevailing here. Far more important is the manifestation presented when he substitutes for his mother tongue the English language as the common medium of speech.

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.

An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.

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

There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

I hold 'Mi Tierra,' my first Spanish-language album, very close to me because that was all done in my native tongue and won me my first Grammy.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

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

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

O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

In a certain way, it's the sound of the words, the inflection and the way the song is sung and the way it fits the melody and the way the syllables are on the tongue that has as much of the meaning as the actual, literal words.

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

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

One of the distinctive elements is the tongue and groove ceilings. The roofs are designed to look like an inverted Noah's ark. They also have faux columns made of wood but painted to resemble marble, the stone used to build the cathedrals and churches left behind in the old country.

When the heart is full the tongue will speak

Of all sad words of tongue and pen the saddest are these, what might have been.

One should respect his motherland, his culture and his mother tongue because they are givers of happiness.

Of course, my tongue will be dragging on the ground. But to get in shape, you have to play football (and) you have to play in games and scrimmages.

Never hold anyone by the button, or the hand, in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them

I didn't really see the goal. I was trying to recoil my tongue from a two-minute penalty-kill, and then I saw Bernie put his hand up. I was told later that it was quite the move.

Love must flow not from the tongue or from the head only, but chiefly from the heart.

Mr. Hobson may certainly be correct, and his tongue may very well have been planted firmly in his cheek.

Mouth almighty and tongue everlasting, ... Man, you gotta be strong to stand up to Doyle's stuff. It's brutal but funny, and it makes you better mentally.

So have We made it easy in your tongue that they may be mindful.

True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.

Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.

I'd rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more easily than their words.

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.

I just stick my tongue out because I hate smiling in pictures,

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

Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer.

The only thing that makes me mad is it messes up my baseball card. I was consistent for a long time and then that comes up. It was a learning experience for me. I'm a stronger person. I had to be. I had to bite my tongue a lot. I had to keep myself going and make sure I got my work in.

From thy eyes, thy nostrils, ears, and chin--the disease which is seated in thy head--from thy brain and tongue I do tear it out.

God can be addressed by any name that taste sweet to your tongue or pictured in any form that appeals to your sense of wonder and awe.

But it was all tongue in cheek. That said more to me about the man than anything else. I had no idea and there had been no pressure on me before the race or the night before not to ride his horse to win.

He certainly has had his best year. I would have bit my tongue off last year if I said, ?Let's leave Rashad in for defense.' He's a weapon that very few teams can keep on the bench.

He had swallowed his tongue and was blue. I saw the collision and knew that he was going to be unconscious so I stepped in.

Whatever is in the heart will come up to the tongue

There is no evidence that the tongue is connected to the brain

We try to put humorous stuff in there. We try to reflect our personalities in the music and lyrics, and we're just weird, goofy guys. We don't want to give off that overly dark vibe. We want to get away from that and make it kind of fun. Our lyrics are very tongue in cheek and sarcastic and not overly serious.