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• If you ask Jim Courier, I mean, that guy has his tongue up (Roger Federer's) ass, I think...you know, the whole time when you actually listen to him commentating or listen to him talk about Roger Federer. Sometimes makes me sick almost.

  Tommy Haas

  Mean, Thinking, Sick

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• Go your way, seducers, flatterers, idlers, those glib of tongue and charlatans; I am not a seed that you can force to grow; my goal differs so from yours that I would be wasting my time in trying to explain where my inclination drives me.

  Dominique Fernandez

  Goal, Trying, Would Be

  Dominique Fernandez (1976). “Porporino: Or, The Secrets of Naples”

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• They put the thing down your throat so you don't swallow your tongue, and they put electrodes on your head. That's what was recommended in Rockland State Hospital to discourage homosexual feelings. The effect is that you lose your memory and become a vegetable. You can't read a book because you get to page 17 and have to go right back to page one again.

  Lou Reed

  Memories, Book, Vegetables

  "Lou Reed Interview: Metal Machine Music Revisited". Interview with John Doran, thequietus.com. October 28, 2013.

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• But the mechanics of learning to 'throw your voice' are pretty simple. Anyone with a tongue, an upper palate, teeth, and a normal speaking voice can learn ventriloquism.

  Jeff Dunham

  Simple, Voice, Teeth

  Jeff Dunham (2010). “All By My Selves: Walter, Peanut, Achmed, and Me”, p.13, Penguin

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• My knives are like a tongue - I love, I do not love, I hate. If you don’t love me, I am ready to attack. I am a double-edged knife.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Hate, Knives, You Don't Love Me

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• Slander-mongers and those who listen to slander, if I had my way, would all be strung up, the talkers by the tongue, the listeners by the ears.

  Plautus

  Ears, Way, Slander

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• I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and women, with their twitching faces, with their lying tongues, like a cork on a rough sea. Like a ribbon of weed I am flung far every time the door opens.

  Virginia Woolf

  Weed, Women, Lying

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.687, Wordsworth Editions

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• The camera is not merely a reflecting pool and the photographs are not exactly the mirror, mirror on the wall that speaks with a twisted tongue.

  Lee Friedlander

  Wall, Mirrors, Cameras

  Lee Friedlander (1970). “Self Portrait”

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

  Katy Perry

  Prayer, Secret, Salt

  "Katy Perry's Preacher Mom Disagrees With Daughter's Career Choices", www.foxnews.com. March 16, 2011.

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• You've got the words to change a nation
  but you're biting your tongue

  Emeli Sande

  Biting, Nations

  Song: Read All About It

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• And the process of reading is such a private one. I once came into a room where a friend of mine was reading one of my books, and he clicked his tongue impatiently and shooed me off.

  Vikram Seth

  Book, Reading, Rooms

  Vikram Seth (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.447, Hachette UK

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• My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged.

  Euripides

  Mind, Stills

  Euripides (1959). “Euripides: Alcestis. The Medea. The Heracleidae. Hippolytus. The Cyclops. Heracles. Iphigenia in Tauris. Helen. Hecuba. Andromache. The Trojan women”

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• A fool cannot hold his tongue.

  Plutarch

  Fool

  Plutarch, Matthew Morgan (1718). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.383

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• Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those who formed his tradition never saw it, in characters on the pages. It was all on the tongue and in the ear.

  Robert Fitzgerald

  Character, Ears, Pages

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• Again the pressure pushes me in the chair, shuts my eyes. I notice the dark red tongues of the flame outside the windows. I'm trying to memorize, fix all the feelings, the peculiarities of this descending, to tell those, who will be conquering space after me.

  Valentina Tereshkova

  Eye, Dark, Space

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• Howbeit your faith seeth but the black side of providence, yet it hath a better side, and God shall let you see it. ... “For we know that all things work together for good to them that love God,” ergo, shipwreck, losses, &c., work together for the good of them that love God: hence I infer, that losses, disappointments, ill tongues, loss of friends, houses, or country, are God's workmen, set on work to work out good to you, out of everything that befalleth you.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Country, Disappointment, Loss

  "Letters of the Rev. Samuel Rutherford".

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• What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Law, Giving, Firsts

  Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Mowgli of the Jungle Book: The Complete Stories”, p.26, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue

  Zeno of Citium

  Feet

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• O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! Then with passion would I shake the world.

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, World, Mouths

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.89, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The motive is this, 'Oh! that God could be glorified, that Jesus might see the reward of his sufferings! Oh! that sinners might be saved, so that God might have new tongues to praise him, new hearts to love him! Oh! that sin were put an end to, that the holiness, righteousness, mercy, and power of God might be magnifi ed!' This is the way to pray; when thy prayers seek God's glory, it is God's glory to answer thy prayers.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Jesus, Prayer

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• When fathers are tongue tied religiously with their offspring, need they wonder if their children's hearts remain sin tied?

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Children, Father

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2016). “Treasury of David”, p.1522, Bible Study Steps

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• The sacred pint alone can unbind the tongue.

  James Joyce

  Drinking, Sacred, Pints

  James Joyce (2013). “Four Novels by James Joyce”, p.32, eBookIt.com

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• Not she with trait'rous kiss her Saviour stung, Not she denied him with unholy tongue; She, while apostles shrank, could danger brave, Last at his cross and earliest at his grave.

  Eaton Stannard Barrett

  Kissing, Bravery, Lasts

  Eaton Stannard Barrett (1822). “Woman, a Poem: by Eaton Stannard Barrett ... Occasional Poems ...”, p.32

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• He hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his tongue is the clapper; for what his heart thinks his tongue speaks.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Thinking, Sound

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 3, sc. 2, l. [12]

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• It is my experience that the short path to the simple and precise English needed by a man of science lies thorough the tongues of Homer and Vergil.

  Henry Crew

  Lying, Simple, Men

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