Top 180 Tongue Quotes

It’s funny, I’d rather be known as a writer who crafted a really nice piece about women’s friendships over time. But that doesn’t roll off the tongue like ‘YouTube sensation.’

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

It seems odd to think of tasting without any perceptive experience, but you are doing it right now. Humans have taste receptor cells in the gut, the voice box, the upper esophagus. But only the tongue’s receptors report to the brain.

Parents don’t reveal how often they have bitten their tongue, fought back the tears, or been too tired to take off their clothes after a day of childcare. The parent loves, but they do not expect the favour to be returned in any significant way.

When I was in south Sudan, people used to rap in my village. But the rapping was more in the mother tongue, Nuer.

Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace… on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.

I am an entrepreneur in the classic mold. No matter what I do – outside of sticking my tongue out – I tend to make money, and quite a bit in non-KISS stuff.

If you really, truly believe in something, you’re on fire, and your tongue rolls at the same pace.

I’ll take a shot of vodka if I want it to be raspy… I tell whoever’s in the studio to get boiling hot water, like super boiling, that they’re afraid to give it to me. I put it exactly on the back of my tongue to shock my body. That cleans it up.

In a certain way, it’s the sound of the words, the inflection and the way the song is sung and the way it fits the melody and the way the syllables are on the tongue that has as much of the meaning as the actual, literal words.

I’m a pretty easygoing person, and it bleeds into the music. Even if I’m writing the most personal song, it’s not going to come out totally serious; there’s always a little tongue in the cheek.

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.

Hermione uses all these big long tongue twister words. I don’t know what she’s going on about half the time!

I went through an evolutionary process of learning to have a voice and how to use it, knowing when to step in. I don’t always get it right, for sure. However, it’s better to speak your mind than hold your tongue and wish you had said something.

True story – I had index cards; I would write things on them and post them on the mirror in the bathroom. And I would speak it. Because you have to speak life. You have to speak what you want. You have to watch what you say because it’s power in your tongue.

Mothers have always held such symbolic weight in determining a person’s worth. Your mother tongue, your motherland, your mother’s values – these things can qualify or disqualify you from attaining myriad American dreams: love, fluency, citizenship, legitimacy, acceptance, success, freedom.

Tamil is my mother tongue.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.

Englishmen learn Christ’s law best in English. Moses heard God’s law in his own tongue; so did Christ’s apostles.

A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

Readers want to visualize your story as they read it. The more exact words you give them, the more clearly they see it, smell it, hear it, taste it. Thus, a dog should be an ‘Airedale,’ not just a ‘dog.’ A taste should not be merely ‘good’ but ‘creamy and sweet’ or ‘sharply salty’ or ‘buttery on the tongue.’

Once I got cancer of the tongue and throat, I realised that stress is a killer and I had to try and get stress out of my life.

I think in my mother tongue. That’s Hindi.

I don’t hold my tongue for nobody.

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.

I was running for mayor of Syracuse – the first woman to run for mayor in our city, or in New York, and one of the first in the United States. I was known for my strong conservation plank. In 1969, the term ‘conservation’ was hardly on the tip of every citizen’s tongue.

I don’t deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

There’s an underlying sense with ‘Tongue’ that… it’s really… it’s real. I mean that in the sense that now I’m not afraid to touch on relationships and on my sexuality in my videos.

My son likes Doctor Seuss books, but they’re right tongue twisters. You get to certain bits and you stumble your words and it makes you feel like an idiot.

My mother tongue is German.

English has always been a mongrel tongue, snapping up words from every continent its speakers encountered.

I don’t talk for the sake of talking and I don’t talk with a forked tongue.

Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.

My mother tongue is Punjabi, but my first language is Urdu, which was the case with the people in undivided Punjab.

I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.

One of the defining moments in my life was when I had the privilege to speak to him over the phone. I couldn’t say anything – I was tongue tied. I just cried out of sheer happiness. That day I made a promise to myself; One day I will play for Sachin’s team- I’ll play for team India.

I don’t think tongue cancer is the best cancer for an actor.

I tend to do stuff that is in some way tongue in cheek or humorous or has a kind of wry side to it.

A soldier of fortune with twisted tongue will come to pillage the sanctuary of the gods; To the heretics he will open the gate, thus stirring up the Church militant.

Our comedy was light-hearted amusement that seemingly tripped naturally off the tongue. That’s why I don’t think it will date.

‘Blood Feast’ is my favorite of Lewis’ films. When we shot ‘Serial Mom,’ and I showed them the infamous tongue scene, one of the female crew members said, ‘I hate when a guy does that.’

I don’t believe in holding your tongue, especially if it’s something you can directly benefit from or some people need to hear.

I’m not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.

The tongue should express what is in the heart.

I’m Iranian, which means I feel that I have more right to take off other races and religions, being an ‘ethnic’ myself. But it’s a mythical character, the Fonejacker, and it’s all tongue in cheek.

I work with my acting coach to help me get into character and do pronunciation drills and tongue twisters to help me deliver lines.

That which neither weapon nor flame could accomplish will be achieved by a sweet speaking tongue in council.

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

We should tell our kids to just have fun, participate and not get bent on winning or losing. But every coach, when they say that, they say it tongue in cheek, ‘Don’t worry about winning’: If you win I’ll get you ice cream, but if you lose I’m going to pout in the car.

A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.

The mass of Venom. I mean, he’s like a big, foreboding, physical presence. Actually, let me correct myself – the eyes, the tongue, the mouth, those are his most distinguishing traits, and so making those look as photoreal and true to the comics as we possibly could was super important to me.

I think at the end of the day the diversity has served as a major… that’s what has determined the difference between The Roots and some of the other artists from our graduating class. I feel we followed the De La Soul, the Native Tongue blueprint.

He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do: and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him.

There’s a scene where Diana is having her first dinner at Balmoral, my first big scene with everyone. I didn’t really know anyone super well at that point. I had this big story to tell about hunting, a real tongue twister. And I just couldn’t say it.

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.

I’ll keep peace at all cost, even if I choke to death on my tongue.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

If you’re going to be pigeon-holed as anything as a woman, it’s good to be pigeon-holed as someone with an acid tongue who gets things done.

Teach thy tongue to say ‘I do not know’, and thou shalt progress.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.