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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm often loose with my tongue. I may have said something about the NAACP being un-American or Communist, but I meant no harm by it.
- Lips
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only way a ventriloquist speaks differently is that he forgoes using his or her lips, and learns to reproduce sounds using the tongue, upper palate, and teeth only. Those 'difficult' letters are B, F, M, P, V, W, and Y.
- Framing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even though the moniker 'Vanilla ISIS' is tongue in cheek, it is a reminder to avoid constantly framing the concept of terrorism through an Islam-centric lens.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The pen is the tongue of the mind.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I play damaged people a lot. I'm a Cancer. And I say that tongue and cheek, but I wear my heart on my sleeve. I'm a very emotional woman.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe; for within its precincts, surrounded by a lofty wall, there is room enough for a town of five hundred families.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother tongue is German.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hold 'Mi Tierra,' my first Spanish-language album, very close to me because that was all done in my native tongue and won me my first Grammy.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020