I'm so great even I get tongue-tied talking to myself.
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DOUGLAS ADAMS I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
CICERO I suggested in my last sermon that if Oolon Colluphid had tracked down the "God" who had left a mess...
ANDREW RILSTONE Adams first law of survival: Get even first.
DALE ADAMS With a ready tongue and rapier wit, Hamilton could wound people more than he realized, and he was so...
RON CHERNOW Art made tongue-tied by authority.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE At that moment the dull sound of a rumbling crash from outside filtered through the low murmur of th...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the f...
PIERS ANTHONY I'm not great at talking about myself.
KATHLEEN KENNEDY With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buf...
IAIN GLEN This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it wer...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read t...
PIERS ANTHONY Arthur lay in startled stillness on the acceleration couch. He wasn't certain whether he had just go...
DOUGLAS ADAMS One, I never get sick of talking about myself.
DAVID WAIN aliens are living on earth for along time,for those who think im talking about another race youre wr...
RAJA She worked so hard and wanted to get back and have a great senior year. I was so happy that she over...
PENNY DEAN I act as the tongue of you,
... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.
WALT WHITMAN I try to convince myself that it's the alcohol talking. But alcohol can't talk. It just sits there. ...
DAVID LEVITHAN Tongue and hand tied, I was equally cut off and trapped in my own silent dark tomb.
JAZZ FEYLYNN Great necessities call forth great leaders. -Abigail Adams.
ABIGAIL ADAMS Was my happiness so completely tied to him now that I could only feel like myself when he was near?
PAULA MCLAIN All right," said Ford. "How would you react if I said that I'm not from Guildford at all, but from a...
DOUGLAS ADAMS A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversati...
MARK TWAIN A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversati...
MARK TWAIN Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things.
Behold, how great a matter a lit...
BIBLE You're the best gay friend I've ever had!
AMERICA TALKING TO FRANCE Pay attention to whatever you say because a knot tied with your tongue can’t be undone with your t...
VIKRANT PARSAI i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL That's all we were talking about. I'm glad I tied Cliff. I don't want to hear that from him all spri...
C.C. SABATHIA Those games, you've got to really concentrate. They're probably going to get one chance, so I was ju...
SHANE CONNELLY shane:do we have a choice
michael:dont think so
shane:then screw im gitting tired lets go...
RACHEL CAINE Im okay Im okay now.
But you really need to listen to me
'cause im telling you the trut...
GERARD WAY I love talking about myself.
LARA FLYNN BOYLE I went to Yosemite as an homage to Ansel Adams. I could never be Ansel Adams, but to know that's...
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ I have betrayed myself with my own tongue; The case is altered
BEN JONSON Everybody's trying to get better, even myself,
ALLEN IVERSON Even now I'm well aware that if I allowed myself to listen to him I couldn't resist but would have t...
PLATO I love Bobby Douglas. When you think of wrestling, you think of Coach Douglas.
CAEL SANDERSON Local officials from Adams County wanted to have a clean bill so that it wouldn't get bogged down by...
WALTER BROWN I couldn't even get in a defensive stance, so I told Coach I couldn't go. It's great now. It's weird...
JASON FISHER He was the only person in the world she was tongue-tied around, and yet the only person she really w...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN My heart knows me better than I know myself. So, I'm going to let it do all of the talking.
KAT BEA Hindi is my mother tongue. Even though I do not get to use it as often, it's still a part of me.
ANU GARG It's when I start listening to my inner voice that I start talking to myself.
ANTHONY T.HINCKS I just hate talking about myself.
MIUCCIA PRADA And I have to work so hard at talking positively to myself. If I don't, it's just real hard ...
DELTA BURKE I consider myself really lucky to be here talking.
AIDAN NOLAN What I read is so distorted that I cannot believe that the person they are talking about is myself.
BOB KANE I don't know limits, that's why I'am infinite and even when im gone I will still remain Sun
DALADIER They're fake bullets, so why do I feel like Im bleeding out?
JODI PICOULT Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy ...
CAROLINE RHEA Now they're getting so politically correct you can't even stick your tongue out at somebody.
RICHARD PETTY when i meet someone new they tell me that im crazy or that i need personal and that im the weirdest ...
DALLY SALAD Im James Bond. Im Jason Bourne. Im Super-freaking-Mario come to life.
JOHN DAVID ANDERSON We are pretty sure that the boys were seventh and the girls tied for fifth, but I don't even know wh...
DAN ROHRS I myself am also a small investor in Slack, and one can count four to five IM platforms that were la...
JAAN TALLINN Another title, but we'll probably be tied with Vista, so it's not so great. That tarnishes it a litt...
FOREL DAVIES So I'm pushing myself, but I am still at heart a home cook, and I use that to my advantage when talk...
DAVE LIEBERMAN Sometimes talking to you is like talking to myself: pretty damned annoying.
RICHELLE MEAD Once we got the lead to four, I felt confident. Even if they came back and tied, I felt like we'd be...
ANDY PODMOLIK Of course I contradict myself. Why else would I often bite my tongue and attempt to put the fire out...
JEN TINDUGAN-ADOVISO Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the ...
CAROLINE RHEA I don't like talking about myself. I'm not really interested in myself. One of the good thin...
DAVID MORSE [Douglas told a New York Daily News columnist that his report of a Douglas-Dowd relationship] got me...
ELIZABETH VARGAS At my age, I realize that my most precious possession is time, and I've got too much unfinished work...
BENNY CARTER I myself don't like doggy doors. It's just another opening for someone to get in. Even that small? E...
MARK LUMPKIN This feels great. Especially being a freshman. Sometimes I get nervous feeling I have to prove mysel...
BRITTANY MORRIS If natural selection can create creationists it can manage a caterpillar with a face on its arse.
ZANE STUMPO Oh good, everything was back to normal - I was talking to myself again.
STEPHANIE KLEIN I started off doing live TV, so I kind of learnt that if I get myself into trouble, I get myself out...
CAT DEELEY I'll keep peace at all cost, even if I choke to death on my tongue.
PAULA DEEN Coventry is a tremendous test for our squad. They have a great history in this game, a great coach i...
CHRIS AGNELLO Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see.
JOHN GARDNER I was trying to explain my situation to myself. My situation was that I was in pain and nobody knew ...
SUSANNA KAYSEN If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man ...
ABRAHAM CAHAN Late Fragment
And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I...
RAYMOND CARVER We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee in
the time that I lived there so suc...
JAMES AGEE We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so suc...
JAMES AGEE I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.
WALE That other saying, I'm a part of all that I have met, I think that would have to begin with my w...
ERNIE HARWELL I've never really cared about how others see me as much as I care about how I see myself when I look...
STEPHANIE ADAMS We're so awash in tongue-in-cheek-attitude, ... it may get to a point when it burns itself out.
ROBERT THOMPSON The truth is that politicians are basically tied to trying to get reelected, so they can't reall...
JIM BROWN All that I have done will be remembered when I am all said and done.
TRUMAINE M. PRESSLEY I love it, I love being able to help. Just spending time talking to (the patients), or making them l...
HEATHER PATTERSON I think if we are talking about safety, the worst thing we could do is put a stop sign there. The mo...
BOB PETERSON Really, it's not so much just being the best in the county, but kind of being able to redeem myself ...
STEVEN BELL But, being that I have always been rather awkward and shy around girls, especially those I liked, wh...
ANDREW JAMES PRITCHARD I'm so fucking in love with you I don't even know what to do with myself anymore.
KATY EVANS I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.
OSCAR WILDE Sorry to interrupt myself, but it's the only way I stop talking.
RUSH LIMBAUGH When I was ten years old, I had great pride in myself, which sometimes even took the form of boastin...
SAID NURSI The western half of the United States isn't even worth talking about, ... They're having a great day...
RALLY CAPARAS If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a ...
ABRAHAM CAHAN I don't even take myself seriously, so how could I possibly take Hollywood seriously?
BRITTANY MURPHY I'm so embarrassed by that album. I don't even own it myself.
EDWARD FURLONG Twist a tongue, and tongue a twist how many twists can a tongue twister twist around the twisting to...
JAZZ FEYLYNN Im trending therefore I am.
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DOUGLAS ADAMS Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of.
DOUGLAS ADAMS Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sen...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have...
DOUGLAS ADAMS It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear.
DOUGLAS ADAMS In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
DOUGLAS ADAMS He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Anything that is in the world when youre born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may...
DOUGLAS ADAMS The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy also mentions alcohol. It says that the best drink in existenc...
DOUGLAS ADAMS The red brick wall was the color of a brick-red Crayola
DOUGLAS ADAMS Even traveling despondently is better than arriving here.
DOUGLAS ADAMS The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a...
DOUGLAS ADAMS My doctor says that I have a malformed public duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre,' h...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Same as you, Arthur. I hitched a ride. After all, with a degree in maths and another in astrophysics...
DOUGLAS ADAMS He actually caught himself saying things like "Yippee," as he pranced ridiculously round the house.
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