Tongue Quotes - page 6

Some people are born with the first word of a language resting on their tongue though it may take some time before they can taste it. (Shannon Hale)
Good Lord, woman. Didn't anyone ever tell you that men have a specified word count set aside each day and if I don't stop talking, my tongue will explode? (Syn) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
A still tongue keeps a wise head. View quote
Barbara Ann Kipfer
You can't make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek. View quote
Bela Lugosi
...it's as empty as a merchant's soul. Sorry, Kheldar, it's just an old expression." "That's all right, Beldin," Silk forgave him grandly. "These little slips of the tongue are common in the very elderly. View quote
David Eddings
I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well. View quote
Jennifer Weiner
I had killed our careful relationship by driving my tongue through its heart and pushing it off a cliff. View quote
Jeff Lindsay
Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow. View quote
Alice Hoffman
Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back. View quote
Alice Hoffman
I said 'well, I'll kiss her twice, you see? We'll come around, I'll kiss her, and if you put a little more track down for the camera, then I'll put my tongue down her throat and you'll get what you want'. He said 'You think so?' View quote
Rod Steiger
The fact of simultaneously being Christian and having as my mother tongue Arabic, the holy language of Islam, is one of the basic paradoxes that have shaped my identity. (Amin Maalouf)
I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say. View quote
Ellen Glasgow
On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people. View quote
Hu Shih
I learnt to sing in Bengali, my mother tongue, then went on to sing in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati and every possible Indian language. View quote
Shreya Ghoshal
Peppers, garlic, hazelnuts and brazil nuts make my mouth, tongue and eyes swell and itch within minutes of eating them. View quote
Andrea McLean
I speak English, so I am no longer cute. My tongue itches for French. View quote
Anna Held
Welsh is my mother tongue, and my children speak it. If you come and live in this community you'll work out pretty quickly that it's beneficial to learn the language, because if you're going to the pub or a cafe you need to be a part of the local life. View quote
Bryn Terfel
I never show the back of my tongue. That is a Dutch expression. View quote
Ben van Berkel
Not necessarily, a lot of my songs are firmly tongue in cheek. View quote
David Coverdale
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. View quote
Dick York
This is courtship all the world over - the man all tongue; the woman all ears. (Emily Murphy)
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. View quote
Julian Sands
Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi. View quote
Knute Nelson
It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you. View quote
Matthew Hale
Now they're getting so politically correct you can't even stick your tongue out at somebody. View quote
Richard Petty