Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brigid Brophy

We Irish had the right word on the tip of our tongue, but the imperialist got at that. What should trip off it we trip over.

Edward Norton

When you have a pipe salesman with a business called Macabee Pipes, I'd say you've got your tongue planted firmly in your cheek.

(Blocking shots) was kind of her forte. She had a ton of them every game.

Every puffin we see tonight is a miracle.

Bobby Bowden

A ton better, ... Just a ton better. I don't sense a lot of me. I haven't sensed a lot of selfishness. More importantly, they're working together.

Tonight just didn't go our way and we just didn't play to our ability.

E. B. White

Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.

Amy Poehler

Meryl Streep is not here tonight. She has the flu - and I hear she's amazing in it.

Dwayne Johnson

Every once in a while I get the highly inappropriate proposal which is like, 'Wow, Really! You don't even know me and I don't know you at all, and you want that to happen? Tonight? Ok, I get off work at 7.30.'

Anne Bronte

If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.

Anne Sexton

Let there be seasons so that our tongues will be rich in asparagus and limes.

Dave Attell

You know what wakes me up? A tongue in the ass. There is no alarm clock on that one, you are up, you are shaking, you are in a karate stance.....the day has begun.

Ambrose Bierce

WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard.

Amanda Hocking

Tomorrow you will belong to someone else," Finn said. "But tonight, you're with me

Annie Baker

I'm terrible at speaking extemporaneously about my work - I get completely tongue-tied and consumed with fear.

Angelina Grimke

It is through the tongue, the pen, and the press that truth is principally propagated.

Andre Dubus

For the twenty million Americans who are hungry tonight, for the homeless freezing tonight, literature is as useless as a knowledge of astronomy.

Anne Carson

Caught between the tongue and the taste.

William Shakespeare

He does me double wrong That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.

Robert Greene

The human tongue is a beast that few can master.

Red Smith

The natural habitat of the tongue is the left cheek.

Rip Taylor

I was supposed to be on the Tonight Show but I broke my shoulder instead.

Thomas Carlyle

No mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something.

Roland Barthes

One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.

V. S. Pritchett

It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the tongues.

Suzanne Collins

So I learned to hold my tongue and to turn my features into an indifferent mask so that no one could ever read my thoughts.

Suzanne Collins

You're not afraid I'll kill you tonight?" "Like I couldn't take you.

Tacitus

Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.

Rumi

Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, But love unexplained is clearer.

Ray Bradbury

Those women like to see their tongues dance.

John Milton

But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, 4 to perplex and dash Maturest counsels.

John Schlesinger

I've never felt that using something with tongue in cheek has been a bad thing.

Matthew Hale

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