#tongue

Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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I think I'm drawn to more villain-type characters, because it's so cool to get to say all the things you want to say. In Hollywood, you get to this position where you have to bite your tongue so much. You take all your experiences of not being able to say what you really want to say, and channel that through your character. ↗

— Gabrielle Union

#because #being #bite #channel #character

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

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#been #friends #had #poison #tongues

Not necessarily, a lot of my songs are firmly tongue in cheek. ↗

— David Coverdale

#firmly #lot #necessarily #songs #tongue

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

If it's supposed to be a really passionate snog, you slip the tongue in. ↗

— Jennifer Ellison

#really #slip #supposed #tongue #you

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

— John Greenleaf Whittier

#might #pen #sad #saddest #these

I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue. ↗

— Xenocrates

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Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#empty #head #legs #sharp #swollen

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

#avoid #both #come #ear #enter