#tongues

RUMOUR: "Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#gossip #libel #reputation #rumor #slander

I cut off his fingers to get him to talk, and when he'd confessed everything I wanted to hear, I had his fucking tongue cut out, and the stump cauterized." Everyone in the room stared at him. "I called him an asshole, too," said Locke. "He didn't like that. ↗

— Scott Lynch

#bondsmagi #cauterizing #tongues #torture #torture

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

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#been #friends #had #poison #tongues

How does a person feel when looking at the sky? He thinks that he doesn't have enough tongues to describe what he sees. Nevertheless, people have never stopping describing the sky, simply listing what they see. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#describing #does #enough #feel #how

When we were making Speaking in Tongues and Remain in Light, we were jamming. From that we were taking the best bits and then recording and improvising on top of those. ↗

— Tina Weymouth

#bits #improvising #jamming #light #making

As for the extraordinary operations of the Holy Ghost, such as working of miracles, or speaking with divers kinds of tongues, they are long since ceased. ↗

— George Whitefield

#divers #extraordinary #ghost #holy #holy ghost

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

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#judgment #men #neither #nor #sad

You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters. ↗

— John Burns

#characters #clean #collars #come #hands

In Hollywood today, it's cool for guys to wear nail polish and earrings in their lips and tongues. I don't get it. ↗

— Scott Caan

#earrings #get #guys #hollywood #i