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My maternal grandmother made fantastic ox tongue with velvety roasted potatoes. She cooked sweet red cabbage and lovely cauliflower with butter and bread crumbs.

Quotes by Yotam Ottolenghi

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

Quotes by Xun Kuang

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

William Shakespeare

Why does the lizard stick his tongue out? The lizard sticks its tongue out because that's the way its listening and looking and tasting its environment. It's its means of appreciating what's in front of it.

Quotes by William Shatner

A quote is just a tattoo on the tongue.

Quotes by William F. DeVault

There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do.

Quotes by William Drummond

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

Quotes by Washington Irving

The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.

Quotes by Washington Irving

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

Quotes by Washington Irving

A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.

Quotes by Washington Irving

Cockneys make good beggars. They are held in high esteem by the fraternity in America. Their resource, originality and invention, and a never-faltering tongue enable them to often attain their ends where others fail, and they succeed where the natives starve.

Quotes by W. H. Davies

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.

Voltaire

I come up with the ideas for my videos, and I write the lyrics and choreograph them, and I direct them and tell everyone what to do and how I want them to sing the parts and do the tongue pops and eye rolls and stuff like that.

Quotes by Todrick Hall

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.

Quotes by Thomas Hardy

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

Quotes by Tennessee Williams

This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.

Quotes by Tahar Ben Jelloun

Apl has a lot of songs that are paying homage to his native tongue. He's from the Philippines. He has songs inspired by his culture.

Quotes by Taboo

From the start, English has happily absorbed words from every tongue it's encountered.

Quotes by Susie Dent

English has always been a mongrel tongue, snapping up words from every continent its speakers encountered.

Quotes by Susie Dent

Unlike our neighbours on the mainland of Europe, we have resisted creating an academy to legislate over proper English. We each have our linguistic bugbear, but few of us would want to freeze our mother tongue.

Quotes by Susie Dent

Late-night shows are 'Chopped.' Who are your guests tonight? Your guests tonight are veal tongue, coffee grounds and gummy bears. There, make a show ... Make an appetizer that appeals to millions of people. That's what I like. How could you possibly do it? Oh, you bring in your own flavors. Your own house band is another flavor.

Quotes by Stephen Colbert

You have to be brave and ask the questions on the tip of your tongue.

Quotes by Stacey Dooley

I learnt to sing in Bengali, my mother tongue, then went on to sing in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati and every possible Indian language.

Quotes by Shreya Ghoshal

Sugar is my friend, not my love. I always season sugar with a bit of acid or salt. Listen to your tongue.

Quotes by Sherry Yard

Being a Bengali, I have kept in touch with the cinema of my mother tongue.

Quotes by Sharmila Tagore

Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.

Quotes by Sextus Propertius

Long-stemmed broccoli should be tossed with olive oil and flaky salt and roasted in a hot oven until the florets turn the color of hazelnut shells and shatter on the tongue.

Quotes by Samin Nosrat

I'm a notorious late-night texter. I seem to use a lot of lip, heart, and tongue emoji.

Quotes by Sam Heughan

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

Quotes by Sallust

O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.

Quotes by Saint Teresa of Avila

The Welsh have everywhere adopted the Cymric tongue; they hug themselves in the belief that they are pure descendants of the ancient Britons, but in fact, they are rather Silurians than Celts.

Quotes by Sabine Baring-Gould

I thought that Wu-Tang was the best sword style - the best sword-style of martial arts. And the tongue is like a sword. And so I say that we have the best lyrics, so, therefore, we are the Wu-Tang Clan.

Quotes by Rza

I'm tired of biting my tongue.

Quotes by Robin Wright

I want to make wines that harmonize with food - wines that almost hug your tongue with gentleness.

Quotes by Robert Mondavi

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.

Quotes by Robert Fitzgerald

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

Quotes by Richard Steele

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

Quotes by Richard Petty

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

Quotes by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The natural habitat of the tongue is the left cheek.

Quotes by Red Smith

A few years ago I was at a party and this guy threw me over his shoulder, ran across the street, put me in his car, and stuck his tongue in my mouth.

Quotes by Rachel Bilson

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Rabindranath Tagore

I work with my acting coach to help me get into character and do pronunciation drills and tongue twisters to help me deliver lines.

Quotes by Quvenzhane Wallis

A sickle-cell attack would creep up slowly in my ankles, legs, arms, back, stomach, and chest. Sometimes my lips and tongue turned numb, and I knew I was going into a crisis.

Quotes by Prodigy

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

Quotes by Publilius Syrus

From the leg lamp to Ralphie's tongue getting stuck on a frozen pole to that BB-gun incident, 'A Christmas Story' has left its mark on all our brains, so much so that it sometimes feels like this story is our own.

Quotes by Phoebe Robinson

I drink for the effect, because it loosens up the tongue a little bit.

Quotes by Peter Steele

Are you motivated? Are you coherent? Is your intention aligned? Are your feet, tongue, heart and wallet congruent? That intention shines through.

Quotes by Peter Guber

Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.

Quotes by Peace Pilgrim

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

Quotes by Paul Tillich

I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions.

Quotes by Omar N. Bradley

I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.

Quotes by Ogden Nash

That which neither weapon nor flame could accomplish will be achieved by a sweet speaking tongue in council.

Quotes by Nostradamus

Marathi is my mother tongue; there's a certain comfort level speaking in it.

Quotes by Mithila Palkar

It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you.

Quotes by Matthew Hale

He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.

Quotes by Matthew Henry

Not long ago, the term 'business model' was not exactly on the tip of everyone's tongue. Then, in the early to mid-1990s, 'business model' became a catchphrase that described how a company makes money or saves money.

Quotes by Marc Ostrofsky

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

Quotes by Mao Zedong

Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.

Quotes by Maimonides

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.

Quotes by Maimonides

I was a really bad teenager and I got my tongue pierced. I don't even remember where I did it, but it was under very surreptitious circumstances.

Quotes by Lucy Alibar

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.

Leonardo da Vinci

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.

Quotes by Lana Del Rey

I wanted a name I could shape the music towards. 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.

Quotes by Lana Del Rey

The myth that people with epilepsy swallow their tongues is very injurious. When I had seizures without my roommates present, I would often wake up with my gums bleeding, my teeth hurting or my jaw aching. Often, well-intentioned people, believing I would choke on my tongue, tried to force open my clenched jaw to put in a hard object.

Quotes by Kurt Eichenwald

I was totally picked on, but look at me now! I was definitely picked on by boys and girls. I was really lanky and skinny and the boys would say, 'Turn sideways and stick out your tongue, you look like a zipper.'

Quotes by Krysten Ritter

All parts of the human body get tired eventually - except the tongue.

Quotes by Konrad Adenauer

The days of Democrats biding our time, biting our tongue, and triangulating at the margins are over.

Quotes by Kevin de Leon

I prefer a kiss that is so much more than just a tongue in your mouth.

Quotes by Katherine Heigl

The new Germany has the unquestionable right to hold its tongue between its teeth.

Quotes by Karl Liebknecht

I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.

Quotes by Karen Armstrong

If you watch Olivier's interviews, he has this reptilian tongue; it seems too big for his mouth. My pursuit of that became distracting, so I let it go. The thrill was finding the right pair of glasses.

Quotes by Julian Sands

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

Quotes by Joseph Butler

I like reading Ball Tongue lyrics and all that stuff. And they published a book, and I wouldn't give my lyrics, and it's all wrong in the book, and I giggle. It's funny.

Quotes by Jonathan Davis

Englishmen learn Christ's law best in English. Moses heard God's law in his own tongue; so did Christ's apostles.

Quotes by John Wycliffe

The verb is relatively of much greater importance in an Indian tongue than in a civilized language.

Quotes by John Wesley Powell

I speak my mind, so I don't hold my tongue for nobody.

Quotes by John Wall

By the time I got to the hospital, I certainly realised that I had a problem because I couldn't write or print at that time, which lasted luckily only about four months. I'd gone numb here and on my tongue and the right foot a little bit.

Quotes by John Newcombe

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

Quotes by John Greenleaf Whittier

Love's tongue is in his eyes.

Quotes by John Fletcher

For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love.

Quotes by John Donne

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.

Quotes by Jeremy Taylor

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

Quotes by Jennifer Ellison

I'm often loose with my tongue. I may have said something about the NAACP being un-American or Communist, but I meant no harm by it.

Quotes by Jeff Sessions

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.

Quotes by Jeff Dunham

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.

Quotes by Jeff Dunham

I can loop my tongue into multiple rolls.

Quotes by Jamie-Lynn Sigler

Even though the moniker 'Vanilla ISIS' is tongue in cheek, it is a reminder to avoid constantly framing the concept of terrorism through an Islam-centric lens.

Quotes by Ibrahim Hooper

And you know what - and I don't mean this in tongue in cheek way - but it's like deja vu. When I walked in to WCW they were producing wrestling on a little teeny sound stage at Disney, okay? I'm walking into TNA and they're producing wrestling in a little teeny sound stage at Universal.

Quotes by Hulk Hogan

I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.

Quotes by Horace Walpole

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

Quotes by Horace

I play damaged people a lot. I'm a Cancer. And I say that tongue and cheek, but I wear my heart on my sleeve. I'm a very emotional woman.

Quotes by Hilarie Burton

Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.

Quotes by Hermione Gingold

Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe; for within its precincts, surrounded by a lofty wall, there is room enough for a town of five hundred families.

Quotes by Hernan Cortes

My mother tongue is German.

Quotes by Herta Muller

An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.

Quotes by Henry James

I hold 'Mi Tierra,' my first Spanish-language album, very close to me because that was all done in my native tongue and won me my first Grammy.

Quotes by Gloria Estefan

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

Quotes by George Bancroft

Once I got cancer of the tongue and throat, I realised that stress is a killer and I had to try and get stress out of my life.

Quotes by Geoffrey Boycott

I'm forbidden fruit. Once you go to certain households, mommy doesn't want you to see that dirty man who sticks his tongue out and spits out blood and all that stuff.

Quotes by Gene Simmons

I can flip my tongue over. Only one in 10,000 people can. I learned that at Ripley's Believe It or Not!

Quotes by Gabourey Sidibe

What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever, A thing that answers, but hath not a thought As lasting but as senseless as a stone.

Quotes by Frederick Tennyson

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