The Tongue Quotes

Cat tongues are awesome." --Nellie Gomez, The 39 Clues, Beyond The Grave

And what rules of economy dictate that a boy without a foot is more whole than a girl without a tongue?

The tongue is the worst part of a bad servant.

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

Cat got your tongue? And what a lovely tongue it is. I know. It licked every inch of me. Repeatedly. For months," He purred but with steel in the velvet

Nothing shows the kind of fool you are as quick as your tongue.

Had you told me 20 years ago this would be my life, I'd have gone "What?" and then stuck out my tongue to all the girls that were mean to me.

Speaking in tongues is as normal to me as 'Pass the salt' It's a secret, direct prayer language to God.

Oh I don't need an education Just a microphone's intoxication And I can't deal with concentration Give me tongues and stimulation

You are good when you are fully awake in your speech, Yet you are not evil when you sleep while your tongue staggers without purpose. And even stumbling speech may strengthen a weak tongue.

Any other iron on you?” he asked impatiently. “Just my tongue stud.” His look was a mixture of curiosity and horror. “I’m kidding, you idiot. Let’s go.

When I first started to write poetry, I used to feel as if my tongue would go numb.

Me? I'm just a literary girl gone wrong. Slow with the tongue. Quick with the pen. Undeniably cute. But, on the whole, ill-equipped for the privilege of living.

We are given two of most of our body parts, either opposites or similarities, but not the tongue; except for my wife's which is forked.

Thirst will parch your tongue and your body will waste through lack of sleep ere you can describe in words that which painting instantly sets before the eye.

Oh! how foul a thing, that we should see the tongue of one animal in the guts of another.

Richelle Mead delivers sexy action and tongue-in-cheek hellish humor-if damnation is this fun, sign me up!

Yiddish is the voice of exile, the tongue of ghettos, but I'll shed a tear when it joins ancient Greek and dead Latin. For gossip and insult, you can't beat Yiddish.

You're surrounded by it wherever you go, you walk through it, breathe it...it's in your lungs and under your tongue and between your fingers and toes.

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

Speaking in a common tongue, speaking through guitars and drums.

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

That's right I never hold my tongue for saving face Even the mic feedback will humm "Amazing Grace"

When the end comes, dark and hungry I'll be alone, love When the end comes, black and starving I'll say good-bye, love.-from Golden Tongue: The Poems of Steven Slaughter

Hello, Grace's parents. I'm Grace's boyfriend. Please notice the chaste distance between us. I am very responsible and have never had my tongue in your daughter's mouth.

You needn't tell a bird it's a bird. Or remind a fish of its purpose. It's only us who lose our way. We have names because we must. - from Golden Tongue: The Poems of Steven Slaughter

A perfect Muslim is he from whose tongue and hands mankind is safe.

If it is possible for the human tongue to give the fullest description of God, I have come to the conclusion that God is Truth.

The real seat of taste was not the tongue but the mind

The Negro was taught to speak the white man's tongue, worship the white God, and accept the white man as his superior.

The man was a deceiver. He was deceitful and I will never bite my tongue in saying that. I don't think he was anything but a politician, and he used Negroes to get elected and to get votes.

I have sworn with my tongue, but my mind is unsworn. [Lat., Juravi lingua, mentem injuratem gero.]

We pulled the seeds out and scattered them on their flossy parachutes, leaving only the leathery brownish yellow tongue, soft as the inside of an elbow.

the whole flavor and quality of the American representative government turns to ashes on the tongue, if one regards that government as simply an inferior and rather second-rate sort of corporation.

When you think about the person responsible for creating the character and the dialogue, Bill Monahan, who's a Boston guy, obviously, his words roll off my tongue quite nicely.

Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.

The swifter hand doth the swift words outrun: Before the tongue hath spoke the hand hath done.

I speak to you in one tongue/ but every moment that ever mattered to me/ occurred in another language.

Like a frog, the aphorist waits for something to fly by that he can catch with his tongue.

Something is sticking out its tongue at me from the corner of my mirror.

The wise who control their body, who control their tongue, the wise who control their mind, are indeed well controlled.

This is not to say that I wasn't completely repulsed. I mean, I wasn't exactly proud that my stepbrother was in there tongue wrestling with the second stupidest person in our class, after himself.

London has now become almost like a gigantic frog! With its long tongue it draws curious insects from all over the world inside itself!

For heaven's sake, all you fool speak not in the name of God, for He has his own tongue to speak!

Science is the tongue in the mouth of the Universe; it is destined to know every little corner of the cosmos.

What are you doing?" she asked, trying to raise herself. "First, I thought I'd show you what a pity it would be if they cut off my wicked tongue.

Facts are God’s native tongue.

Pride dwells in the thought; the tongue can have but a very little share in it.

I would rather die with the taste of you on my tongue than live and never touch you again.

I tell you this, and I tell you plain: What you have done, you will do again; You will bite your tongue, careful or not, Upon the already-bitten spot.