Tongues Quotes (page 8)

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• good
• evil
• world

Evil does not exist; once you have crossed the threshold, all is good. Once in another world, you must hold your tongue. Franz Kafka

• fear
• heart
• wanting

He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue. John Ruskin

• city
• life
• beard

Never! Never, Marge. I can't live the button-down life like you. I want it all: the terrifying lows, the dizzying highs, the creamy middles. Sure, I might offend a few of the bluenoses with my cocky stride and musky odors -- oh, I'll never be the darling of the so-called ‘City Fathers’ who cluck their tongues, stroke their beards, and talk about "What's to be done with this Homer Simpson? Matt Groening

• womanly
• womanizer
• namely

My name is unpronounceable in your tongue, woman? it said. Terry Prachett

• thoughts
• universe
• contemptible

Contempt, thought Tyrion, the universal tongue. George R. R. Martin

• smile her
• smile
• witch

She smiled and sipped from her glass. There was altogether too much of her sitting there, the broad expanse of thigh cradled in the insubstantial stocking and the garters with the pale flesh pursed and her full breasts and the sootblack piping of her eyelids, a gaudish rake of metaldust in prussian blue where cerulean moths fluttered her awake from some outlandish dream. Suttree gradually going awash in the sheer outrageous sentience of her. Their glasses clicked on the tabletop. Her hot... Cormac McCarthy

• friends
• friend
• truthful

Alas; they had been friends in youthbut whispering tongues can poison truth Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• wishes
• painting
• wish

Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue Henri Matisse

• life
• she
• look

Yeah, she shows signs of life if you do this," said Ron, and with his tongue he made soft clip-flopping noises. Umbridge sat bolt upright, looking wildly around. J. K. Rowling

• beautiful
• age
• earth

Who will believe my verse in time to come, If it were fill'd with your most high deserts? Though yet, heaven knows, it is but as a tomb Which hides your life and shows not half your parts. If I could write the beauty of your eyes And in fresh numbers number all your graces, The age to come would say 'This poet lies: Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.' So should my papers yellow'd with their age Be scorn'd like old men of less truth than tongue, And your true rights be term'd a... William Shakespeare

• cover
• secretive
• lots

There's no tongue that's so tied, when tying's needed, as the one that babbles most bewhiles. Babbling covers a lot of secrets. Gilbert Parker

• heart
• may
• tongue

I haven't anything against whores, except this: some of them may have an honest tongue but they all have dishonest hearts. Truman Capote

• love
• feeling
• view

In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes, For they in thee a thousand errors note; But 'tis my heart that loves what they despise, Who in despite of view is pleased to dote; Nor are mine ears with thy tongue's tune delighted, Nor tender feeling, to base touches prone, Nor taste, nor smell, desire to be invited To any sensual feast* with thee alone*: But my five wits* nor my five senses can Dissuade one foolish heart from serving thee, Who leaves unsway'd the likeness of a man*, Thy proud... William Shakespeare

• enough
• affords
• affordability

Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough. Salman Rushdie

• waiting
• light
• small

There it is; the light across the water. Your story. Mine. His. It has to be seen to be believed. And it has to be heard. In the endless babble of narrative, in spite of the daily noise, the story waits to be heard. Some people say that the best stories have no words. They weren't brought up to Lighthousekeeping. It is true that words drop away, and that the important things are often left unsaid. The important things are learned in faces, in gestures, not in our locked tongues. The true... Jeanette Winterson