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• I was going to Miami quite a lot at the time, speaking a lot of Spanish with my friends from Cuba – Lana Del Rey reminded us of the glamour of the seaside. It sounded gorgeous coming off the tip of the tongue.

  Lana Del Rey

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Tongue, Spanish

• If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.

  Paul Tillich

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Tongue

• 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.

  Diane Lane

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  Tags in Tongue, Intimacy

• There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.

  Thomas Hardy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Tongue, Sound

• Welsh is my mother tongue, and my children speak it. If you come and live in this community you’ll work out pretty quickly that it’s beneficial to learn the language, because if you’re going to the pub or a cafe you need to be a part of the local life.

  Bryn Terfel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Tongue, Quickly

• 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.

  Jeff Dunham

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Tongue, Upper

• If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest.

  Xunzi

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Tongue

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

  Diogenes

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  Tags in Listen, Tongue

• A quote is just a tattoo on the tongue.

  William F. DeVault

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Tattoo, Tongue

• Junipers are generally chosen for the latter purpose, as they can be more readily bent into the desired form; the eyes and tongue are added afterwards, and the representation altogether is really good.

  Robert Fortune

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Eyes, Purpose, Tongue

• 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.

  Robert Fitzgerald

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Whole, Language, Tongue

• Now they’re getting so politically correct you can’t even stick your tongue out at somebody.

  Richard Petty

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Getting, Somebody, Tongue

• A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don’t like her daughter to resemble her in.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Topics in Mother

  Tags in Tongue

• The natural habitat of the tongue is the left cheek.

  Red Smith

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Tongue

• The tongue always returns to the sore tooth.

  Topics in Russian Proverbs

  Tags in Tongue

• It is easier to talk than to hold one’s tongue.

  Topics in Greek Proverbs

  Tags in Tongue

• In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.

  George Bancroft

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  Tags in Disappointed, Tongue, Slander, Belong

• Better a slip of the foot than of the tongue.

  Topics in French Proverbs

  Tags in Tongue, Foot, Comparison

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

  Tennessee Williams

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  Tags in Tongue, Brother

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

  Washington Irving

  Topics in Age

  Tags in Constant, Tongue, Temper