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Tongue Quotes
On sharp words and the edge they never lose.
Several lines here return to the same image: a sharp tongue behaves like a tool that only grows keener the more it gets used, unlike a temper, which is said never to soften with age. This page collects quotes built around that comparison. Related reading continues on Speech quotes.
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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
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I work with my acting coach to help me get into character and do pronunciation drills and tongue twisters to help me deliver lines.
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A sickle-cell attack would creep up slowly in my ankles, legs, arms, back, stomach, and chest. Sometimes my lips and tongue turned numb, and I knew I was going into a crisis.
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From the leg lamp to Ralphie's tongue getting stuck on a frozen pole to that BB-gun incident, 'A Christmas Story' has left its mark on all our brains, so much so that it sometimes feels like this story is our own.
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Are you motivated? Are you coherent? Is your intention aligned? Are your feet, tongue, heart and wallet congruent? That intention shines through.
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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.
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That which neither weapon nor flame could accomplish will be achieved by a sweet speaking tongue in council.
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It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you.
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