A Quote by Tony Harrison

Articulation is the tongue-tied's fighting.

Tony Harrison

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Articulation Fighting Tied Tongue

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Tony Harrison
English - Poet
Born: April 30, 1937

When fathers are tongue tied religiously with their offspring, need they wonder if their children's hearts remain sin tied?

Charles Spurgeon

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I use a lot of double-tonguing [using the tongue to control airflow]; that allows me to play as fast as if I was slurring, but with clean articulation on every note.

Paul Smoker

Art made tongue-tied by authority.

William Shakespeare

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I'm so great even I get tongue-tied talking to myself.

Douglas Adams

I act as the tongue of you, ... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.

Walt Whitman

Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity In least speak most, to my capacity.

William Shakespeare

A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.

Mark Twain

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

Annie Baker

I have tried many times to express my feelings, but at each attempt, I find myself tongue-tied.

Kate Cary

I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well.

Jennifer Weiner

For ritual allows those who cannot will themselves out of the secular to perform the spiritual, as dancing allows the tongue-tied man a ceremony of love.

Andre Dubus

With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face.

Iain Glen

The rage is still there but I found the right kind of channel, because it's tied to a love, it's tied to a struggle for justice. And most importantly, for me, it's tied to a recognition that I am a cracked vessel.