Tongue Quotes

All parts of the human body get tired eventually - except the tongue.

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

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

I'm not the sexiest thing in the world, I feel actors who have to 'play' sexy lose all their sex appeal. When they start with the tongue and the heavy lids, it looks so ridiculous. I think you just have to be yourself.

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.

A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

A few years ago I was at a party and this guy threw me over his shoulder, ran across the street, put me in his car, and stuck his tongue in my mouth.

I'm sticking my tongue out in scenes to try to make that work in 3D. I'm thinking I'll try to get my tongue all the way out to the second row of the audience.

Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.

Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe; for within its precincts, surrounded by a lofty wall, there is room enough for a town of five hundred families.

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

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

You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.

Give us that grand word "woman" once again, and let's have done with "lady"; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one's a word for lackeys.

The natural habitat of the tongue is the left cheek.

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

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

I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.

I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well.

Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.

O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics.

You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

If it's supposed to be a really passionate snog, you slip the tongue in.

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.

I think I'm drawn to more villain-type characters, because it's so cool to get to say all the things you want to say. In Hollywood, you get to this position where you have to bite your tongue so much. You take all your experiences of not being able to say what you really want to say, and channel that through your character.

It was in Cardiff, and the cast was 60 per cent Welsh-speaking. It's the first time I've walked into a rehearsal room speaking my mother tongue, which in itself was a breath of fresh clean air from the Welsh mountains. Singing Hans Sachs is always a milestone, but I was happy to be part of such an achievement, not personally but as a company.

Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.

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

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