Pastoral Resources

This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.

I will speak with a straight tongue.

He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.

The new Germany has the unquestionable right to hold its tongue between its teeth.

You can't make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.

After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past.

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress.

Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.

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.

I want to make wines that harmonize with food - wines that almost hug your tongue with gentleness.

Allan had come down wanting to do some sort of crucial music and I'd been involved in so-called Art Music and wanted to explore other areas - we were approaching it in some quite tongue-in-cheek ways and we had a lot of fun - we spent more time laughing than playing music.

This is courtship all the world over - the man all tongue; the woman all ears.

I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.

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

By the time I got to the hospital, I certainly realised that I had a problem because I couldn't write or print at that time, which lasted luckily only about four months. I'd gone numb here and on my tongue and the right foot a little bit.

There's an element of tongue-in-cheek in every one of our songs. Walking off into the sunset, holding hands, and being married forever was not exactly a brand new idea.

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product.

You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark.