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“When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.”

Anger Breaths Spread Tongue

Author:Sappho

“Context is everything. Dress me up and see. I'm a carnival barker, an auctioneer, a downtown performance artist, a speaker in tongues, a senator drunk on filibuster. I've got Tourette's. My mouth won't quit, though mostly I whisper or subvocalize like I'm reading aloud, my Adam's apple bobbing, jaw muscle beating like a miniature heart under my cheek, the noise suppressed, the words escaping silently, mere ghosts of themselves, husks of empty breath and tone.”

Source: Motherless Brooklyn: A Novel

“When I undertake to tell the best, I find I cannot. My tongue is ineffectual on its pivots, My breath will not be obedient to its organs, I become a dumb man.”

Men Breaths Tongue Dumb Organs Obedient

Book:Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892

Source: Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892

“When I saw that scene [in ocean from the Aquarius] for the first time, it blew me away. It caused me to reflect on my age, my history and all that I've been through in Brazil. Having been away from Brazil for so long, while not speaking in my own tongue, when I saw that image, I felt like I was taking my first deep breath after nearly suffocating to death. It was like the plastic had been removed from my head. Even if this breath turned out to be my last, at least I got to have this one moment of release. At least I got this one chance.”

Ifs Firsts Long Moments Age Lasts Felt Chance My Own Saws Scene Ocean First Time Breaths Tongue Release Plastic Brazil Deep Breath One Chance Suffocating Aquarius

Author:Sonia Braga

“Where is the sound?" someone hastily scribbled on the blackboard, and they all waited anxiously for the reply. Milo caught his breath, picked up the chalk, and explained simply, "It's on the tip of my tongue.”

Sound Breaths Caught Tongue Chalk Blackboard

Book:The phantom tollbooth

Source: The phantom tollbooth

“And what do you want right now?" Right now I itch to heal his wounds and forget my own. He touches my cheek with the tips of his fingers. My breath hitches. "Do you want to kiss me, Alex?" I whisper. "Dios mio, I want to kiss you ... to taste your lips, your tongue." He gently traces my lips withthe tips of his fingers. "Do you want me to kiss you? Nobody else would know but the two of us.”

Knows Want Two My Own Forget Taste Right Now Kissing Breaths Fingers Lips Tongue Wounds Heal Want Me Cheeks Alex Kiss Me You Want Me Two Of Us Do You Want Me Dio

Author:Simone Elkeles

“I also think pronunciation of a foreign tongue could be better taught than by demanding from the pupil those internal acrobatic feats that are generally impossible and always useless. This is the sort of instruction one receives : “Press your tonsils against the underside of your larynx. Then with the convex part of the septum curved upwards so as almost — but not quite — to touch the uvula, try with the tip of your tongue to reach your thyroid. Take a deep breath, and compress your glottis. Now without opening your lips say "Garoo".' And when you have done it they are not satisfied.”

Thinking Trying Done Impossible Taught Breaths Presses Lips Tongue Satisfied Opening Useless Internals Instruction Pupils Deep Breath Feats Take A Deep Breath Pronunciation Thyroid

Author:Jerome K. Jerome

“Because you need me," he said, drawing in his breath as she squirmed against him. "Just as I need you." He crushed his mouth to hers. "I've needed you for years." Another kiss, this one deep and drugging, his tongue searching her intimately”

Needs Years Said Needed Kissing Mouths Breaths Tongue Drawing Need You Crushed I Need You One Deep

Author:Lisa Kleypas

“I suddenly leaned forward,bringing my face close to hers.catching her breath,stifling that laugh and pink tongue,she watched me wide-eyed.I removed the wallet from my back pocket and sat down casually again. "What happened?" I asked idly. "I thought...never mind".She blinked. Ha,gotcha”

Mind Faces Laughing Happened Breaths Wide Tongue Sat Pockets Catching Wallets Stifling

Author:Chetan Bhagat

“His breath in my ear, he ran his tongue along the curved edge, sucking the fleshy lobe and my small diamond stud into his mouth, and my eyes drifted closed while I babbled a weak sound of longing.”

Eye Sound Mouths Weak Ears Breaths Longing Edges Tongue Ran Diamond Studs

Author:Tammara Webber

“His face is livid, gaunt his whole body, his breath is green with gall; his tongue drips poison.”

Whole Body Faces Breaths Green Tongue Poison Sarcastic

Author:John Quincy Adams

“Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.”

Men Body Science Sound Knowledge Figures Cold Taste Speech Mouths Sight Hot Breaths Seven Hearing Smell Tongue Pleasant Visible Sensations Passages Taste And Smell

Book:Hippocrates

Source: Hippocrates

“Loud is the summer's busy song The smallest breeze can find a tongue, While insects of each tiny size Grow teasing with their melodies, Till noon burns with its blistering breath Around, and day lies still as death.”

Stills Lying Song Grows Summer Breaths Busy Size Tongue Tiny Loud Melody Smallest Insects Breeze July Noon Tease

Author:John Clare

“'Sblood, you starveling, you elf-skin, you dried neat's tongue, you bull's pizzle, you stock-fish! O for breath to utter what is like thee! you tailor's-yard, you sheath, you bowcase; you vile standing-tuck!”

Standing Skins Breaths Fishes Tongue Thee Yards Bulls Neat Sassy Tailors

Author:William Shakespeare