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Quotes About Tongue

O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.
~ Alexander Pope
Fate loves best such syllables as are sweet and sonorous on the tongue.
~ James Russell Lowell
An Australian fly will try to suck the moisture off your eyeball. He will, if not constantly turned back, go into parts of your ears that a Q-tip can only dream about. He will happily die for the glory of taking a tiny dump on your tongue. Get thirty or forty of them dancing around you in the same way and madness will shortly follow. And
~ Bill Bryson
arachibutyrophobia.
~ Bill Bryson
Language is more fashion than science
~ Bill Bryson
his pink tongue lolling happily from his mouth.
~ Brad Meltzer
Having told of so much beauty, how is it possible to tell of her? There are no words left on the earth in any tongue that will do. Such words vanished from the world when it shook itself free from the ocean of chaos, in a cataclysm that reshaped it like one of the balls small children throw in the air at play.
~ Tanith Lee
hatred and jealousy must find a tongue; only the creatures which never feel those things have no need to talk.
~ Tanith Lee
What if I have bad breath?' I asked. 'Chew on some gum,' she said. 'What if I can't find his tongue?' 'Back off on your tongue until you can feel his.' 'What if he throws up in my mouth?' 'Um, that would just be gross.
~ Julie Halpern
I believe in a tongue-first exploration of the world. Food is our most immediate daily relationship to our ecosystem, and there is something delectable and intriguing about it.
~ Natalie Jeremijenko
You mind your tongue!" "Oh, I do," I said. "I sharpen it every evening on your name.
~ Franny Billingsley
Actually, it would be assumed that the young lady had no such impulses at all, but I'll tell you something: Chocolate melts on my tongue too.
~ Franny Billingsley
The taste of blood and that annoying sting of a bitten tongue. Once man got the taste of blood there was no going back, like a serpent circling itself eating its own tail."
~ Brandon Garic Notch
Are you a witch?" "A man with a brave tongue should support his words with courageous actions." "This seems like something a witch would do.
~ Brandon Mull
You have quite the clever tongue on you!" "I've never actually had someone's tongue on me," Shallan said, turning a page and not looking up, "clever or not. I'd hazard to consider it an unpleasant experience." "It ain't so bad," Gaz said.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Wasing the where of needing," she read, forming the unfamiliar words. The lofty tongue was used for old documents dating to the time of the Origin, and occasionally for government ceremony.
~ Brandon Sanderson
That was a tall order for Ivy. Sarcasm was kind of her native tongue, though she was fluent in "stern disappointment" and "light condescension" as well. She was also a good friend. Well, imaginary friend.
~ Brandon Sanderson
From the depths of the West of Europe, a young child will be born of poor people, he who by his tongue will seduce a great troop; his fame will increase towards the realm of the East.
~ Nostradamus
I'm forbidden fruit. Once you go to certain households, mommy doesn't want you to see that dirty man who sticks his tongue out and spits out blood and all that stuff.
~ Gene Simmons
When Demaratus was asked whether he held his tongue because he was a fool or for want of words, he replied, "A fool cannot hold his tongue.
~ Plutarch
I gave my cat a bath the other day; they love it. He enjoyed it, it was fun for me. The fur would stick to my tongue, but other than that . . .
~ Steve Martin
The work deals extensively with fundamentals such as feeling the pulse, examining bowel products, observing the tongue, acupuncture, moxibustion, and concepts such as the flow of qi (energy), yin-yang, zang-fu, and the five phases. Feeling
~ Steve Parker
Who ever told you there is no such thing in the world as real, true, everlasting love? May the liar have his despicable tongue cut out!
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
The city wasa, wasa, wasa wossname. Thing. Woman . Thass what it was. Woman. Roaring, ancient, centuries old. Strung you along, let you fall in thingy, love, with her, then kicked you inna, inna, thingy. Thingy, in your mouth. Tongue. Tonsils. Teeth . That's what it, she, did. She wasa...thing, you know, lady dog. Puppy. Hen. Bitch .
~ Terry Pratchett