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#tongue

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


Washington Irving


#constant #edged #grows #keener #never

An aversion came over me that we feel for all the mutilated. Why is that so, do you think? Because they put us in mind of what we would rather forget: how easily, at the stroke of a sword or a knife, wholeness and beauty are forever undone? Perhaps. But toward you I felt a deeper revulsion. I could not put out of mind the softness of the tongue, its softness and wetness, and the fact that it does not live in the light; also how helpless it is before the knife, once the barrier of teeth has been passed. The tongue is like the heart, in that way, is it not?


J.M. Coetzee


#heart #tongue #beauty

God in His infinite wisdom blessed humans with redundant tongues: one to outfit the mouth for speech. And a mother tongue to give it meaning... Though it wags out such inconceivable beauty, attached to the mother tongue lies one much maligned woman.


David B. Lentz


#bostoniad #david-b-lentz #mother-tongue #beauty

She suddenly remembered studying the brain in science class- how a steel rod pierced a man's skull, and he opened his mouth to speak Portuguese, a language he'd never studied. Maybe it would be like this, now, for Josie. Maybe her native tongue, from here on in, would be a string of lies.


Jodi Picoult


#lies #mouth #native-tongue #remembered #speak

The tongue is the most remarkable. For we use it both to taste out sweet wine and bitter poison, thus also do we utter words both sweet and sout with the same tongue.


Neil Gaiman


#wine

The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.


Joseph Butler


#deceiving #employed #injustice #made #may

I'm sticking my tongue out in scenes to try to make that work in 3D. I'm thinking I'll try to get my tongue all the way out to the second row of the audience.


Nicolas Cage


#get #i #make #out #row

Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.


Adam Clarke


#more #prayer #requires #than #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


#breathed #certainly #characters #ear #formed

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


#afterwards #altogether #bent #chosen #desired






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