Quotes About Tongue

Does it hurt to bite your tongue so hard?" he asked with faux concern. Holly didn't miss a beat. "I'm in a car with you--I clearly have a high pain threshold

Nod house turned into shout house. In the shout house memory said shut up. It said silence, misery said amen, the mule's head meant my stubborn lungs. . . I stood imagining I fell back dreaming, stuck tongue stuck in my jaw broke my jaw

Yet the voice could take fright . This Kathy Kerouac foresaw only too well when syllables suddenly started coming out of her mouth like little fragments of oblivion giving her the impression she was contradicting herself. It was in these moments, when words were both true and false, solemn and light, on the tip of her tongue and deep in the throat, that space shrank in her mouth like a hard-felt blow.

After a brief postprandial snooze he ordered the necessaries for washing, and spent an extraordinarily long time lathering both cheeks with soap, while distending each in turn from the inside with his tongue. Then, pulling the towel off the inn-servant's shoulder, he used it to rub every part of his plump face, beginning behind his ears, after twice snorting straight into the inn-servant's face as a preliminary.

To the tongue which bringeth thee words without reason, the answer that best beseemeth thee is?silence.

You seem to be attracted to trouble," he said. "Yeah, she's real pretty," I replied. "Your tongue is sharper than mine ever was." I stuck out my tongue and tried to look at the tip of it.

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

He catches a glimpse of Infinity, but words cannot voice his delight, for the eye has no tongue.

The Most Difficult Tongue Twister EXPERTS AGREE. –courtesy of F. J., St. Louis, Missouri Theophilus Thistle, the thistle-sifter, sifted a sieve of unsifted thistles. If Theophilus Thistle, the thistle-sifter, sifted a sieve of unsifted thistles, where is the sieve of unsifted thistles Theophilus Thistle, the thistle sifter, sifted?

The two men who were fencing were De Vigne and a smaller, slighter fellow; the one calm, cool, steady, and never at a disadvantage, the other, skilful indeed, but too hot, eager, and rapid: for in fencing, whether with the foils or the tongue, the grand secret is to be cool, since, in proportion to your tranquillity, grows your opponent's exasperation!

Except you. The revelation was so blindingly sudden the words almost slipped out, and she had to bit her tongue and look away. pg 391, A Matter of Magic

What do we do with these huge gifts of the throat and tongue? How do we manage? — Related to the Buttercup, Blooms in Spring

Patrick Maguire, the old peasant, can neither be damned nor glorified:The graveyard in which he will lie will be just a deep-drilled potato-fieldWhere the seed gets no chance to come throughTo the fun of the sun.The tongue in his mouth is the root of a yew.

That's how you know it's real medicine," I said. "If it tasted good it would be candy.

I want to hear you wound my lovely language with your rough barbarian tongue.

There was only the promise for the moment, as exhilarating as the feeling of champagne fizzing and dancing on my tongue.

His lips in truth-entangling lines which smiled he lie his tongue disdained to speak.

The wilderness has a mysterious tongue Which teaches awful doubt, or faith so mild, So solemn, so serene, that man may be, But for such faith, with nature reconciled;

I thought without his tongue we'd be back in control! And it worked! His tongue is no more!

I resisted the temptation to turn around and stick out my tongue in derision at Beliquose. After all, there was no telling when or if we should meet again, and I certainly did not need him saying, 'Ah yes, Poe, the fellow whose trespasses i could have forgiven in their entirety... except for the tongue thing. Yes, for that, you must surely die.

The Spirit of the LORD spoke through me; His word was on my tongue.

You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, and will not fear havoc when it comes.

Is there iniquity on my tongue? Can my mouth not discern malice?

His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and violence; trouble and malice are under his tongue.