- Circumstances
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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Muscle
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- Nov 07, 2020
The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
- Glamour
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was going to Miami quite a lot at the time, speaking a lot of Spanish with my friends from Cuba - Lana Del Rey reminded us of the glamour of the seaside. It sounded gorgeous coming off the tip of the tongue.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted a name I could shape the music towards. I was going to Miami quite a lot at the time, speaking a lot of Spanish with my friends from Cuba - 'Lana Del Rey' reminded us of the glamour of the seaside. It sounded gorgeous coming off the tip of the tongue.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was totally picked on, but look at me now! I was definitely picked on by boys and girls. I was really lanky and skinny and the boys would say, 'Turn sideways and stick out your tongue, you look like a zipper.'
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
The days of Democrats biding our time, biting our tongue, and triangulating at the margins are over.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you watch Olivier's interviews, he has this reptilian tongue; it seems too big for his mouth. My pursuit of that became distracting, so I let it go. The thrill was finding the right pair of glasses.
- Injustice
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- Nov 07, 2020
The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like reading Ball Tongue lyrics and all that stuff. And they published a book, and I wouldn't give my lyrics, and it's all wrong in the book, and I giggle. It's funny.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Englishmen learn Christ's law best in English. Moses heard God's law in his own tongue; so did Christ's apostles.
- Importance
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- Nov 07, 2020
The verb is relatively of much greater importance in an Indian tongue than in a civilized language.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the time I got to the hospital, I certainly realised that I had a problem because I couldn't write or print at that time, which lasted luckily only about four months. I'd gone numb here and on my tongue and the right foot a little bit.
- His
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- Nov 07, 2020