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And suck my tongue. – Dalai Lama	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I got into it mainly through falling in love with a young lady of Mexican descent from Texas Monthly. And she introduced me to breakfast tacos, and she downright forced me to eat cow tongue. … I was head over heels for both the food and the girl. – Courtesy José Ralat Ralat	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I speak Mandarin and Cantonese. They can use their mother tongue and talk to me. I will try to explain to them about the law and about the safety of firearms. – David Liu	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I did not know that I had gnarly Covid and my body was shutting down. I went into four seizures, each one lasting 10 to 20 minutes. On the fourth one I bit my tongue so hard it was nearly falling off. It got so swollen and puffy it wouldn’t fit in my mouth. I was drinking the infected blood, which gave me pneumonia, as well. i went to the hospital and had my fifth seizure and then couldn’t breathe without a tube down my throat. I woke up five days later thinking I was there for just a couple hours. I spent eight days in there. – Bam Margera	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Creativity knows no bounds; there is no jail that would hold it. It flows beyond grammar and edge of canvas and specifics of brush or movement or tongue, out there and within you, always ready for the soul to take flight. – Laura Jaworski	added by anonymous 1 year ago
In those wretched countries where a man cannot call his tongue his own, he can scarce call anything his own. Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. – Benjamin Franklin	added by Normando 1 year ago
If I am lucky then you are my rabbit. If you are lucky then I am your clover. If I eat meat and you eat plants who's kiss lasts longer on the tongue? If you eat meat and I eat plants who's love lasts longer? – Heather Lydia Thornhill	added by heatherthornhill 1 year ago
I have a soul small as a women but that soul is like popping candy tingling your tongue. – Heather Lydia Thornhill	added by heatherthornhill 1 year ago
I've been pretty good about biting my tongue and keeping my opinions to myself, though I don't shy away from a debate. – Emma Heussner	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Mary Leakey made exquisitely detailed maps of the footprint localities. From Mary Leakey map, we were able to approximate where the tracks should be. We began to dig, hoping for the best, but fearing instead that forty years of seasonal rains had washed them away, the soil was hard as cement and it took a hammer and chisel to reach the footprint layer, which we then needed to excavate delicately with a hard-bristled brush and tongue depressor. Fortunately, the footprints were beautifully preserved. – Jeremy DeSilva	Found on CNN 2 years ago
My freshman year I didn’t have a say in anything, i just kind of just held my tongue. I felt like last year I did it better, not to the best of my abilities, but I spoke up a lot more in the locker room. This year I think I’m taking the full pledge to try to lead guys on our team, especially the younger guys. – Trayce Jackson-Davis	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Jamie Spears loves Jamie Spears daughter Britney unconditionally. For thirteen years, Jamie Spears has tried to do what is in her best interests, whether as a conservator or her father, for anyone who has tried to help a family member dealing with mental health issues, they can appreciate the tremendous amount of daily worry and work this required. For Mr. Jamie Spears, this also meant biting Jamie Spears tongue and not responding to all the false, speculative, and unsubstantiated attacks on Jamie Spears by certain members of the public, media, or more recently, Britney's own attorney. – Jamie Spears ' former attorney	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Jamie Spears loves Jamie Spears daughter Britney unconditionally. For thirteen years, Jamie Spears has tried to do what is in her best interests, whether as a conservator or Britney Spears ' father, for anyone who has tried to help a family member dealing with mental health issues, they can appreciate the tremendous amount of daily worry and work this required. For Mr. Jamie Spears, this also meant biting Jamie Spears tongue and not responding to all the false, speculative, and unsubstantiated attacks on Jamie Spears by certain members of the public, media, or more recently, Britney's own attorney. – Vivian Thoreen	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Those sexist jokes that just slip off the tongue around the coffee machine, that's where it starts, that's the small steps that create the environment where people feel that they can become violent and aggressive towards women and girls, so if we want to bring about change, we have to live that change and be that change. – Clive Efford	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Muhammad Ali used Muhammad Ali tongue to lacerate racism and White supremacy and oppression in America, muhammad Ali became more militant, not less. Muhammad Ali became more assertive, not less. Muhammad Ali became more confrontational, not less. – Todd Boyd	Found on CNN 2 years ago
At one point, I couldn't feel my fingers( because it was so cold). At the same time my tongue felt frozen, too. i retreated back to halfway down the mountain, and entered a wooden cabin at the direction of a rescuer. There were already about 10 more runners who came down earlier and we waited for rescue in the cabin for about an hour. Eventually about 50 runners came and took shelter in the cabin. – Read MoreOne participant	Found on CNN 2 years ago
A jug fills drop by drop The tongue is like a sharp knife kills without drawing blood – Buddha	added by ValidVibes 3 years ago
'some people look, but they don't see, for to see means to have feelings,like the delicate touch, as when your tongue can find a tiny fish bone hidden within the morsel of food in your mouth. No eyes required remember this! – RAS CARDO REGGAE	added by RASCARDOFROMTRENCHTOWN 3 years ago
Journalists cannot serve two masters. To the extent that they take on the task of suppressing information or biting their tongue for the sake of some political agenda, they are betraying the trust of the public and corrupting their own profession. – Thomas Sowell	added by Normando 3 years ago
I said some things in a videoed conversation that are not fitting for the role I am privileged to serve, i own that. I have many flaws. Being passionate coupled with an occasional lapse in restraint of tongue are at least two of them. – Jon Smith	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The eccentricity I value is essentially benign, a harmless individualism that reflects a unique, cockeyed view of the world, and spices up what otherwise might be a mundane menu, these eccentrics tend to be self-aware and tongue in cheek. They're winking at us. Some eccentrics, moreover, are just visionaries ahead of their time, like the early advocates of such eccentric notions as animal welfare. – Andy Duncan	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I used metal picks -- they’re brass and copper -- which I always held in my mouth, in the exact place where I got the tongue cancer, plus, I basically live in a recording studio that’s filled with electromagnetic energy. So that’s one theory. I mean, I was smoking and doing a lot of drugs and a lot of everything. But at the same time, my lungs are totally clear. This is just my own theory, but the doctors say it’s possible. – Ethan Miller/Getty Images	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Drama is conveyed with emotion, and it's best to spend time looking for that emotion -- which is international -- instead, besides, I think there is a certain musicality each person has in their own tongue. – Sean Connery	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Right as we do it, I just kiss her, kiss her. I didnt know what a movie kiss was. I wouldnt say I jammed my tongue down her throat but I would say I gave her a real French kiss, ill never forget it as long as I live.I go into kiss her and shes like, Woah! Woah! Woah! Woah! Oh cowboy. You dont use the tongue. – Adam Levine	Found on FOX News 3 years ago

And suck my tongue.

– Dalai Lama

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I got into it mainly through falling in love with a young lady of Mexican descent from Texas Monthly. And she introduced me to breakfast tacos, and she downright forced me to eat cow tongue. … I was head over heels for both the food and the girl.

– Courtesy José Ralat Ralat

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I speak Mandarin and Cantonese. They can use their mother tongue and talk to me. I will try to explain to them about the law and about the safety of firearms.

– David Liu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I did not know that I had gnarly Covid and my body was shutting down. I went into four seizures, each one lasting 10 to 20 minutes. On the fourth one I bit my tongue so hard it was nearly falling off. It got so swollen and puffy it wouldn’t fit in my mouth. I was drinking the infected blood, which gave me pneumonia, as well. i went to the hospital and had my fifth seizure and then couldn’t breathe without a tube down my throat. I woke up five days later thinking I was there for just a couple hours. I spent eight days in there.

– Bam Margera

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Creativity knows no bounds; there is no jail that would hold it. It flows beyond grammar and edge of canvas and specifics of brush or movement or tongue, out there and within you, always ready for the soul to take flight.

– Laura Jaworski

added by anonymous
1 year ago

In those wretched countries where a man cannot call his tongue his own, he can scarce call anything his own. Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

– Benjamin Franklin

added by Normando
1 year ago

If I am lucky then you are my rabbit. If you are lucky then I am your clover. If I eat meat and you eat plants who's kiss lasts longer on the tongue? If you eat meat and I eat plants who's love lasts longer?

– Heather Lydia Thornhill

added by heatherthornhill
1 year ago

I have a soul small as a women but that soul is like popping candy tingling your tongue.

– Heather Lydia Thornhill

added by heatherthornhill
1 year ago

I've been pretty good about biting my tongue and keeping my opinions to myself, though I don't shy away from a debate.

– Emma Heussner

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Mary Leakey made exquisitely detailed maps of the footprint localities. From Mary Leakey map, we were able to approximate where the tracks should be. We began to dig, hoping for the best, but fearing instead that forty years of seasonal rains had washed them away, the soil was hard as cement and it took a hammer and chisel to reach the footprint layer, which we then needed to excavate delicately with a hard-bristled brush and tongue depressor. Fortunately, the footprints were beautifully preserved.

– Jeremy DeSilva

Found on CNN
2 years ago

My freshman year I didn’t have a say in anything, i just kind of just held my tongue. I felt like last year I did it better, not to the best of my abilities, but I spoke up a lot more in the locker room. This year I think I’m taking the full pledge to try to lead guys on our team, especially the younger guys.

– Trayce Jackson-Davis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Jamie Spears loves Jamie Spears daughter Britney unconditionally. For thirteen years, Jamie Spears has tried to do what is in her best interests, whether as a conservator or her father, for anyone who has tried to help a family member dealing with mental health issues, they can appreciate the tremendous amount of daily worry and work this required. For Mr. Jamie Spears, this also meant biting Jamie Spears tongue and not responding to all the false, speculative, and unsubstantiated attacks on Jamie Spears by certain members of the public, media, or more recently, Britney's own attorney.

– Jamie Spears ' former attorney

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Jamie Spears loves Jamie Spears daughter Britney unconditionally. For thirteen years, Jamie Spears has tried to do what is in her best interests, whether as a conservator or Britney Spears ' father, for anyone who has tried to help a family member dealing with mental health issues, they can appreciate the tremendous amount of daily worry and work this required. For Mr. Jamie Spears, this also meant biting Jamie Spears tongue and not responding to all the false, speculative, and unsubstantiated attacks on Jamie Spears by certain members of the public, media, or more recently, Britney's own attorney.

– Vivian Thoreen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Those sexist jokes that just slip off the tongue around the coffee machine, that's where it starts, that's the small steps that create the environment where people feel that they can become violent and aggressive towards women and girls, so if we want to bring about change, we have to live that change and be that change.

– Clive Efford

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Muhammad Ali used Muhammad Ali tongue to lacerate racism and White supremacy and oppression in America, muhammad Ali became more militant, not less. Muhammad Ali became more assertive, not less. Muhammad Ali became more confrontational, not less.

– Todd Boyd

Found on CNN
2 years ago

At one point, I couldn't feel my fingers( because it was so cold). At the same time my tongue felt frozen, too. i retreated back to halfway down the mountain, and entered a wooden cabin at the direction of a rescuer. There were already about 10 more runners who came down earlier and we waited for rescue in the cabin for about an hour. Eventually about 50 runners came and took shelter in the cabin.

– Read MoreOne participant

Found on CNN
2 years ago

A jug fills drop by drop The tongue is like a sharp knife kills without drawing blood

– Buddha

added by ValidVibes
3 years ago

'some people look, but they don't see, for to see means to have feelings,like the delicate touch, as when your tongue can find a tiny fish bone hidden within the morsel of food in your mouth. No eyes required remember this!

– RAS CARDO REGGAE

added by RASCARDOFROMTRENCHTOWN
3 years ago

Journalists cannot serve two masters. To the extent that they take on the task of suppressing information or biting their tongue for the sake of some political agenda, they are betraying the trust of the public and corrupting their own profession.

– Thomas Sowell

added by Normando
3 years ago

I said some things in a videoed conversation that are not fitting for the role I am privileged to serve, i own that. I have many flaws. Being passionate coupled with an occasional lapse in restraint of tongue are at least two of them.

– Jon Smith

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The eccentricity I value is essentially benign, a harmless individualism that reflects a unique, cockeyed view of the world, and spices up what otherwise might be a mundane menu, these eccentrics tend to be self-aware and tongue in cheek. They're winking at us. Some eccentrics, moreover, are just visionaries ahead of their time, like the early advocates of such eccentric notions as animal welfare.

– Andy Duncan

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I used metal picks -- they’re brass and copper -- which I always held in my mouth, in the exact place where I got the tongue cancer, plus, I basically live in a recording studio that’s filled with electromagnetic energy. So that’s one theory. I mean, I was smoking and doing a lot of drugs and a lot of everything. But at the same time, my lungs are totally clear. This is just my own theory, but the doctors say it’s possible.

– Ethan Miller/Getty Images

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Drama is conveyed with emotion, and it's best to spend time looking for that emotion -- which is international -- instead, besides, I think there is a certain musicality each person has in their own tongue.

– Sean Connery

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Right as we do it, I just kiss her, kiss her. I didnt know what a movie kiss was. I wouldnt say I jammed my tongue down her throat but I would say I gave her a real French kiss, ill never forget it as long as I live.I go into kiss her and shes like, Woah! Woah! Woah! Woah! Oh cowboy. You dont use the tongue.

– Adam Levine

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

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