If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.
Abraham Cahan
Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
Adam Clarke
I think our Batman had to be fun, light-hearted, funny, tongue-in-cheek... and I think that made kind of an homage to those earlier comic books, where Batman always had a quip or something.
Adam West
My mother tongue is Telugu. I was born and brought up in Tamil Nadu.
Aishwarya Rajesh
For me, Malayalam is a difficult language. It has got a lot of tongue-twisting words.
I just tell you what I feel. I go out there, you put a quarter on my tongue, twist my ear and I'll spit out some hit for you.
Al Jourgensen
Parents don't reveal how often they have bitten their tongue, fought back the tears, or been too tired to take off their clothes after a day of childcare. The parent loves, but they do not expect the favour to be returned in any significant way.
Alain de Botton
My primary tongue, I would call North-West Mercian.
Alan Garner
When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.
Alanis Morissette
One of the things I'll always remember from my time with 'Black Mirror' is the sense of all the tongue and cheek, and very, very dark sense of comedy there, too.
Alex Lawther
Breast-feeding was so stressful for me. I kept on clenching and pushing my tongue against the bottom teeth, so they started to move toward an underbite.
Ali Wong
I tend to do stuff that is in some way tongue in cheek or humorous or has a kind of wry side to it.
Alice Levine
If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.
Alice Miller
The contribution of Islam to history and modern civilization is the product of the efforts of peoples of many races and tongues which came to accept its way of life.
Aly Khan
Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.
Ambrose Bierce
Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road... all tongues and all prayers belong to me. But I belong to none of them.
Amin Maalouf
The fact of simultaneously being Christian and having as my mother tongue Arabic, the holy language of Islam, is one of the basic paradoxes that have shaped my identity.
Usually when people see me, they see me as more of the soft-spoken one rather than being the witty, smart-tongued character.
Amy Acker
Peppers, garlic, hazelnuts and brazil nuts make my mouth, tongue and eyes swell and itch within minutes of eating them.
Andrea McLean
When I take my free-kicks, I think in Portuguese, and at most, I'll do the celebrating in my native tongue.
He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.
When we, as humans, articulate, our tongues tend to hit the back of the teeth.
We always said if we were going to target a millennial consumer, then we had to do it in their mother tongue, which is digital.
People often think that looking in the mirror is about narcissism. Children look at their reflection to see who they are. And they want to see what they can do with it, how plastic they can be, if they can touch their nose with their tongue, or what it looks like when they cross their eyes.
Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.
I speak English, so I am no longer cute. My tongue itches for French.
I'm terrible at speaking extemporaneously about my work - I get completely tongue-tied and consumed with fear.
I must confess... I don't know any tongue but the Nether-Dutch.
Hindi is my mother tongue. Even though I do not get to use it as often, it's still a part of me.
I think in my mother tongue. That's Hindi.
I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them daily.
Tollywood has a special place in my heart because Telugu is my mother tongue, and when I sing in the language, my mom feels really happy.
I am a sentimental guy, and occasionally, that lump in my throat when I speak has stopped my tongue from working.
Having portrayed English-speaking Indian characters in British and American projects, I have always wanted to use my mother tongue in an Indian film.
There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage of cultural evolution, some in need of restraint, many in need of protection; everywhere a bewildering Babel of tongues.
Apart from English, I speak my mother tongue Malayalam, as well as Tamil, Telugu, and a bit of Kannada and French.
I am not really missing theatre as I get to act in films, that too in different languages, such as Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Marathi, my mother tongue.
In this day the breeze of God is wafted, and His Spirit hath pervaded all things. Such is the outpouring of His grace that the pen is stilled and the tongue is speechless.
Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
You can't make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
I never show the back of my tongue. That is a Dutch expression.
When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
We Houstonians are a spicy lot. We raise our babies with tongues of fire, mostly lit by chips and salsa. Our blood is as thick and warm as queso.
I don't know where I learned elephants like their tongues slapped. Whatever turns you on.
My songs are always on the tip of my tongue. It's always bubbling and brewing and about to come out. I can't really put it into words, but the best way to explain it is feeling like you constantly have some things on the tip of your tongue.
I think it's really hard for me... to sing in English, because it's not my mother tongue.
If I can iron out my accent, it opens up another world of possible jobs. Whereas if you have that very strong European accent, it leaves you always being cast as the Hungarian maid or the stripper or whatever. I have voice lessons, and my coach has given me different tongue-twisters to rehearse at home.
You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer.
I think at the end of the day the diversity has served as a major… that's what has determined the difference between The Roots and some of the other artists from our graduating class. I feel we followed the De La Soul, the Native Tongue blueprint.
