Quote by André Aciman Download Open image ““When it comes to the senses all humans speak the same beastly tongue”” — André Aciman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“The tongue is our most powerful weapon of manipulation. A frantic stream of words flows from us because we are in a constant process… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
“...But the human tongue is a beast that few can master. It strains constantly to break out of its cage, and if it is… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practical man relies on the language of the first.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Here is a book of tongues. Take it. (Dark leaves invade the air.) Beware! I now know a language so beautiful and lethal My… — Gwendolyn MacEwen Copy Share Image
“No tongue can tell Your secret for the measure of the word obscures Your nature. But the gift of the ear is that it… — Hakim Sanai Copy Share Image
“We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less.” — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“Our powers, whether of mind or tongue, cannot embrace that measure of understanding” — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
“If some people say what is in their hearts and other people say what glides easily off the tongue, how can we talk to… — Madeleine Thien Copy Share Image
“Our tongue determines many of the curses or blessings we receive.” — Ana Mendez Ferrell Copy Share Image
Don't all writers have a hidden nerve, call it a secret chamber, something irreducibly theirs, which stirs their prose and makes it tick and… — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
“I wanted him to remember the morning on Monet's berm when I'd kissed him not the first but the second time and given him… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
Rituals are how we step into our private field of dreams, a small Elysium all our own. Rituals are made not just for us,… — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
“I desperately wanted to give him something. By contrast, taking seemed so bland, so facile, so mechanical.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
Proust is interested in minutiae because life, as he sees it, is seldom ever about things but about our impression of things, not about… — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
“Well, since you're not going to do anything with me—can you at least read me a story? I'd settle for that. I wanted him… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“This is heaven.” And I wouldn’t hear him say another word for at least an hour. There was nothing I loved more in life… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“He loved the sticky taste. What had I done? I told him and pointed to the bruised evidence sitting on my desk. “Let me… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“When had they separated us, you and me, Oliver? And why did I know it, and why didn't you?” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“As we were swimming back, he asked as though it were an afterthought, “Are you going to hold last night against me?” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“To be with you. To be with you, Oliver. With or without my bathing suit. To be with you on my bed. In your… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
