Best Tongue Qoutes
1522 Tongue quotes by 994 unique authors
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I cannot too often repeat that Democracy is a word the real gist of which still sleeps, quite unawakened, notwithstanding the resonance and the many…
— Walt Whitman
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He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often…
— Ali ibn Abi Talib
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Yet some of my friends tell me they understand 50 percent of what my mother says. Some say they understand 80 to 90 percent. Some…
— Amy Tan
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And in this silence of the dumb and these speeches of the blind, in this medly of people bound together by the same grief, terror…
— Vasily Grossman
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Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.
— Anna Akhmatova
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The microspeed of the tongue ought to be always slightly less than the microspeed of the thoughts and certainly not ever the reverse.
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
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There was no working title for the album. The record-jacket designer said `When I think of the group, I always think of power and force.…
— Jimmy Page
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Likewise the piercing of the body for multiple rings in the ears, in the nose, even in the tongue. Can they possibly think that is…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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When I was 5, someone thought it was smart to let me watch The People Under the Stairs. It might not have even been that…
— Ellen Page
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I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well.
— Jennifer Weiner
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Among the worst examples is that of the Alberni Indian Residential School (British Columbia) where, during the 1920s, children caught talking Indian suffered the hideous…
— Ward Churchill
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Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of art, all art,…
— Jeanette Winterson
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The human tongue is a beast that few can master.
— Robert Greene
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Tea! thou soft, sober, sage and venerable liquid;- thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of…
— Colley Cibber
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Bedeviled, / human, your plight, in waking, is to choose from the words / that even now sleep on your tongue, and to know that…
— Marie Howe
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I was walking down the road with two friends when the sun set; suddenly, the sky turned as red as blood. I stopped and leaned…
— Edvard Munch
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The day the Church abandons Her universal tongue will be the day before She returns to the Catecombs.
— Pope Pius XII
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Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue
— Henri Matisse
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In a world of bands called Limp Bizkit and Hoobastank, Electric Sheep rolls off the tongue like a Shakespearean love sonnet. Leave me alone.
— Tom Morello
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And then, there will be some black men who can remember that, with silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and steady eye, and well-poised bayonnet, they…
— Abraham Lincoln
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I write in praise of the solitary act: of not feeling a trespassing tongue forced into one's mouth, one's breath smothered, nipples crushed against the…
— Fleur Adcock
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Those meaningless and unanswerable questions the minds keep returning to, like a tongue exploring a broken tooth.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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The greatest propaganda in the world is our mother tongue, that is what we learn as children, and which we learn unconsciously. That shapes our…
— Marshall McLuhan
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It is of no use for any of you to try to be soul-winners if you are not bearing fruit in your own lives. How…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Let us see that our knowledge of Christ be not a powerless, barren, unpractical knowledge: O that, in its passage from our understanding to our…
— John Flavel
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