#tongue

Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#been #friends #had #poison #tongues

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. ↗

— Dane Cook

#being #cheek #close #clubs #comedian

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

— Paula Deen

#cost #death #even #i #keep

But the mechanics of learning to 'throw your voice' are pretty simple. Anyone with a tongue, an upper palate, teeth, and a normal speaking voice can learn ventriloquism. ↗

— Jeff Dunham

#learn #learning #mechanics #normal #palate

I just smile. And they - my opponents don't like it when I smile at them. They think I'm playing or something. But - like I smile throughout the whole fight. Sometimes I'll be throwing combinations and I just smile and stick my tongue out at them. ↗

— Rau'Shee Warren

#fight #i #just #like #opponents

I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#conversation #get #go #i #other

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'. ↗

— John Greenleaf Whittier

#might #pen #sad #saddest #these

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

— Tennessee Williams

#brother #dangerous #human #most #tongue

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#foreign #gifts #humor #perish #tongue

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#brains #clothes #hearts #liking #make