O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics – Unless I am down with rheumatics.
Blue Tongue Films is a very important part of my life.
The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you.
There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.
‘Liquid Swords’ just represents a sharp tongue, sharp words.
If it’s supposed to be a really passionate snog, you slip the tongue in.
Honestly, the angrier I am, the looser my tongue is… when I get angry, it’s just a motor mouth, and it just goes off, which is great, but it doesn’t really work unless I’m very, very passionate about what I’m talking about.
It is France. I know the league well. It is my mother tongue. Inevitably, there is an attraction for me. A return? It might not be my first choice, but of course, it is not impossible.
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman’s weapon is her tongue.
Study a foreign language if you have opportunity to do so. You may never be called to a land where that language is spoken, but the study will have given you a better understanding of your own tongue or of another tongue you may be asked to acquire.
For a sore throat I take arnica, just a tiny pill dissolved under my tongue. And because your throat is like a muscle, I keep mine warm drinking herbal teas, usually camomile.
Talk about your negative experiences with the father, with your girlfriends. Not with your children. And bite your tongue when it comes to diminishing, denying, dismissing, name-calling.
Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive.
I’ve played American characters before, so I’ve naturally become more at ease. Still, there are some American words that I cannot get my tongue around, but if you keep it flowing, you are never too far away from the truth.
Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
Apl has a lot of songs that are paying homage to his native tongue. He’s from the Philippines. He has songs inspired by his culture.
I say it with my tongue firmly planted in cheek but there’s truth to it – being a comedian is very close to being a therapist. When you’re working smaller clubs, you’re listening. You’re feeling an energy, you’re going with a tone but when people start yelling out, you almost start a conversation with people.
My mother tongue is Telugu. I was born and brought up in Tamil Nadu.
I said ‘well, I’ll kiss her twice, you see? We’ll come around, I’ll kiss her, and if you put a little more track down for the camera, then I’ll put my tongue down her throat and you’ll get what you want’. He said ‘You think so?’
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.
An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
I’d managed to bite a very large hole in the side of my tongue before they could pry my teeth apart. By all evidence, and there’s no denying it, that thing I had on the set was a fit.
If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends – you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.
Give us that grand word ‘woman’ once again, and let’s have done with ‘lady’; one’s a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one’s a word for lackeys.
I’ve never felt that using something with tongue in cheek has been a bad thing.
I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor – a very Canadian sense of humor and I am only learning now stupidly that you can’t read tongue. When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesn’t read that way.
When you look at the brain regions associated with picking up data from the body, a huge amount of the brain is devoted to picking up information from the lips and tongue.
I’m tongue in cheek, but very much to the point.
The sweetest noise on earth, a woman’s tongue; A string which hath no discord.
I think you have to have a sense of humor about every movie that you’re doing. Your character needs to be relatable in a way that, even when you’re doing the most bizarre things, sometimes a bit of tongue in cheek is necessary to keep up the believability of it.
The natural habitat of the tongue is the left cheek.
Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart’s the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
I don’t know Bengali perfectly. I don’t know how to write it or even read it. I have an accent, I speak without authority, and so I’ve always perceived a disjunction between it and me. As a result, I consider my mother tongue, paradoxically, a foreign language.
I am a sentimental guy, and occasionally, that lump in my throat when I speak has stopped my tongue from working.
I was told in many places of Osgar’s bravery and Goll’s strength and Conan’s bitter tongue, and the arguments of Oisin and Patrick. And I have often been given the story of Oisin’s journey to Tir-nan-Og, the Country of the Young, that is, as I am told, a fine place and everything that is good is in it.
I’m obsessed with ‘Wicked’, and I’d love to play Nala in ‘The Lion King’. Some of the songs from ‘The Lion King’ are performed in my native tongue, so when the cast performed an extract from the show in ‘Strictly’ in the language I grew up with, it made me cry.
Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.
I want to make wines that harmonize with food – wines that almost hug your tongue with gentleness.
Apart from English, I speak my mother tongue Malayalam, as well as Tamil, Telugu, and a bit of Kannada and French.
The Soyuz craft weighs tons, and you’re lying on the floor of it on your back. But the Russians do tell you, remember, before you land, stop talking so you don’t bite your tongue off.
He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.
I like ‘Yabai!’ That just rolls off the tongue. It means sick, wicked in Japanese.
You can’t make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.
The thing that made Groucho special was the way he used his body parts. He also had a wicked tongue. People didn’t realize it, but when Groucho said something, he meant it.
I never show the back of my tongue. That is a Dutch expression.
The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.
Because that’s what intimacy is: It’s a willingness to be vulnerable, a willingness to bite my tongue and a willingness to set an example of what I believe in.
What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.
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.
I’m not really a green juice kind of guy. I like feeling downtrodden and worthless when I walk around London and have someone click their tongue at me and tell me to speed up.
I drink for the effect, because it loosens up the tongue a little bit.
Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.
There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do.
