Tongue Quotes - Page 29

• A dream...I was trying to explain to St. Peter, and was doing it in the German tongue, because I didn't want to be too explicit.

  Mark Twain

  Dream, Trying, Want

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.142, Courier Corporation

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• Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.

  Virginia Woolf

  Expression, Giving, Sound

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• What is a nation without a mother tongue?

  Jack Edwards

  Mother, Language, Nations

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• The tongue is the only muscle in the human body that never gets tired [talking].

  Evan Esar

  Tired, Talking, Body

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• There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, and sand eddies in a whirlwind.

  Dante Alighieri

  Pain, Dark, Language Words

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• Straight men need to be emasculated.... Every straight guy should have a man's tongue in his mouth at least once.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Men, Should Have, Guy

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• The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.

  Winston Churchill

  Foundation, Inheritance, May

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.444, Da Capo Press

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• I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.

  Horace Walpole

  Moving, Thinking, Talking

  Horace Walpole, John Wright, George Agar-Ellis Dover (1st baron) (1840). “The letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford: including numerous letters now first published from the original manuscripts”, p.198

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• I was very glad that Mr. Attlee described my speeches in the war as expressing the will not only of Parliament but of the whole nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless and, as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it, and if I found the right words you must remember that I have always earned my living by my pen and by my tongue. It was a nation and race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Heart, Race

  Speech at Westminster Hall, London, 30 Nov. 1954

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• Language development, for instance, has a critical period that begins in infancy and ends between eight years and puberty. After this critical period closes, a person’s ability to learn a second language without an accent is limited. In fact, second languages learned after the critical period are not processed in the same part of the brain as is the native tongue.

  Norman Doidge

  Eight, Years, Brain

  Norman Doidge (2007). “The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science”, p.52, Penguin

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• Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark.

  Brad Paisley

  Serious, Ballads, Remarks

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We were romantics. We didn't just read poetry. We let it drip from our tongues like honey. Spirits soared. Women swooned, and gods were created, gentlemen. Not a bad way to spend an evening, eh?

  Robin Williams

  Gentleman, Honey, Way

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• I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor

  Max von Sydow

  Mother, Thinking, Musical

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• That's a rule in the business. No tongue. You can't really get into it, otherwise, it's weird. I think that particular scene made his (Adam Brody) girlfriend jealous. There were issues.

  Rachel Bilson

  Girlfriend, Jealous, Thinking

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• 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.

  Rachel Bilson

  Party, Years, Car

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• I once went out with this wild girl. She made French toast and got her tongue caught in the toaster.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Girl, Food

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• Bein' rich is having leftovers. Good leftovers make yo' tongue fly outta yo' mouth and smack yo' brains out.

  Paula Deen

  Brain, Mouths, Leftovers

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• I hate McDonald's. I don't want to order my dinner by yelling into a clown's mouth. If I want my face in a clown's mouth, I'll tongue kiss Glenn Beck.

  Joan Rivers

  Hate, Kissing, Yelling

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• A wounding tongue. I'm working on it. Perhaps its the Celt in me.

  Alan Rickman

  Celts

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• I'm kissing Alyson Hannigan and I almost stuck my tongue in her mouth because we just got so into it at one point.

  Amber Benson

  Kissing, Mouths, Stuck

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• Muhammad Ali - he was a magnificent fighter and he was an icon... Every head must bow, every knee must bend, every tongue must confess, thou art the greatest, the greatest of all time, Muhammad, Muhammad Ali.

  Don King

  Art, Icons, Boxing

  "Only in America!". Interview with Greg Hanlon, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 17, 2009.

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• You know what wakes me up? A tongue in the ass. There is no alarm clock on that one, you are up, you are shaking, you are in a karate stance.....the day has begun.

  Dave Attell

  Alarms, Ass, Karate

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

  Lucy Lawless

  Comedy, Shows, Whole

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• These were specific enablements given to certain believers for the purpose of authenticating or confirming God's Word when it was proclaimed in the early church before the Scriptures were written. The temporary sign gifts included prophecy (revelatory prophecy7), miracles, healings, tongues, and interpretation of tongues. The sign gifts had a unique purpose: to give the apostles credentials, that is, to let the people know that these men all spoke the truth of God. Once the Word of God was inscripturated, the sign gifts were no longer needed and they ceased

  John F. MacArthur

  Healing, Unique, Men

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• Evangelicalism is like my religious mother tongue. I revert to it whenever I’m angry or excited or surrounded by other people who understand what I’m saying. And it’s the language in which I most often hear God’s voice on the rare occasion that it rises above the noise.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Mother, Religious, Voice

  Rachel Held Evans (2012). “A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband 'Master'”, p.18, Thomas Nelson Inc

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