Top 1200 Sharp Tongue Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

To dread no eye and to suspect no tongue is the great prerogative of innocence--an exemption granted only to invariable virtue.

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

The sense of smell can be extraordinarily evocative, bringing back pictures as sharp as photographs of scenes that had left the conscious mind.

And from the first declension of the flesh I learnt man's tongue, to twist the shapes of thoughts Into the stony idiom of the brain.

Now the tattoos," Zia announced. "Brilliant!" I said. "On your tongue," she added. "Excuse me?

Freedom is like a man who kills himself Each night, an incessant butcher, whose knife Grows sharp in blood.

Tamil is almost like my mother tongue and for quite some time, I had been concentrating on Telugu.

The labyrinth of Ephebe is ancient and full of one hundred and one amazing things you can do with hidden springs, razor-sharp knives, and falling rocks.

The upright, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God.

I had killed our careful relationship by driving my tongue through its heart and pushing it off a cliff.

With 'I Want Action,' I think people take it in the context of the Sunset Strip and the party scene; it was tongue-in-cheek.

If sharp-elbowed parents are no longer able to buy themselves out of state education, they are incentivised to improve their local schools.

I love hip-hop, because you can do this like that and still be super successful! You ain't gotta hold your tongue.

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

Even when it comes to writing fiction, how do you encompass all this stuff that's right on the tip of your tongue? You have to fold that into what you're working on.

I have to be smarter than my opponents. I have to figure out their styles in the ring. I have to be three or four steps ahead of them. So my mind has to be sharp.

Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.

For the uttering sweetly and properly the conceit of the mind, English hath it equally with any other tongue in the world.

'Helping industry' is the elephant pit of socialism, a deep hole with sharp spikes at the bottom, covered over with twigs and fresh grass.

Jonathan Lethem's 10th novel, 'The Blot,' is engaging, entertaining, and sharp for its first two-thirds. Then it goes to hell.

I consider it an indubitable mark of mean-spiritedness and pitiful vanity to court applause from the pen or tongue of man.

If the fruit is green it will not fall to the ground even if you beat it with a sharp stick. When it is ripe it falls of its own accord in the silence of the night.

Everybody has a wicked side, whether they are six or sixty, and yet so often storytelling draws a sharp line between good and evil.

My only goal is to stay focused on my craft and make sure my life is as sharp as it can be to attack any character that is given to me.

How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.

The Word of God conceived in the heart, formed by the tongue, and spoken out of the mouth is creative power.

foolish men say things in anger that they later regret and an angry tongue does not mean one is guilty.

Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new... but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design?

The ideal situation for any state is to experience sharp economic growth while its rivals' economies grow slowly or hardly at all.

In modern praxis lost positions are salvaged most often when the play is highly complicated with many sharp dynamic variations to be calculated.

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.

A dream...I was trying to explain to St. Peter, and was doing it in the German tongue, because I didn't want to be too explicit.

Apart from English, I speak my mother tongue Malayalam, as well as Tamil, Telugu, and a bit of Kannada and French.

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

These three things God requires of all the Baptized: right faith in the heart, truth on the tongue, temperance in the body.

You've been holding a machete waiting to cut your way through and into the place called Future. You have waited and waited and now this knife has grown dull. But now I am sending angelic hosts to sharpen your weapon and assist in cutting you through. Your tongue has even grown powerless in this last season because your faith and hope have been deferred. But this is NOW! I will put MY Word in your mouth. You will speak with a new vigor. I AM sharpening your tongue. Get ready, for all things are being sharpened. Get ready, for you will now cut and your way will open up.

You've got a bold tongue, little man. One day, someone is like to cut it out and make you eat it.

I'm kissing Alyson Hannigan and I almost stuck my tongue in her mouth because we just got so into it at one point.

Unlike Conrad or Nabokov, I didn't have circumstances which would have coerced me out of my native tongue altogether.

She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency.

Full of criss-crossed fits, you lie all the time. Your tongue should be embarrassed, you're a threat to mankind.

Theres nothing like reading about a world that feels dead to throw your own beautiful, colorful life into sharp relief.

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

I'd just rather have a really sharp, interesting, smart gay son than some big dumb hetero meathead.

I believe the biggest themes of life are put into the best focus when held up against the very sharp light of mortality.

Youth, though it may lack knowledge, is certainly not devoid of intelligence; it sees through shams with sharp and terrible eyes.

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

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

Denied dancing and musical instruments, slaves expressed a hidden tradition of musicality and poetics by tongue and signal.

I work out every single day, so you all don't have to worry about me being in shape, and my mind is going to always be sharp.

In the Shao Lin temple, they never allow you to touch the skin of a drum until you can tongue what you're going to play.

For us Indians, I don't think English can ever exude that magic of emotions which our mother tongue can.

Constant repetition of tongue-twisters was like lifting weights for me, but patience and persistence have paid off.

You only communicate to pass the time, or to express the emotions. Your tongue has to develop [the capacity] to speak consciousness.

What good does it do to speak in tongues on Sunday if you have been using your tongue during the week to curse and gossip?

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

Gardens can be sharp and spiky as well as rose-embowered and honeysuckle-twined: there are corners and settings where thistles are not such an asinine taste after all.

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?

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.

Always when you are about to say anything, first weigh it in your mind; for with many the tongue outruns the thought.