Quotes About Tongue Tied

#1. O, how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, And in the praise thereof spends all his might To make me tongue-tied speaking of your fame.

William Shakespeare

#2. Rubbing absently at my temple, I do declare this woman leaves me flabbergasted and tongue tied.

Poppet

#3. I'm so great even I get tongue-tied talking to myself.

Douglas Adams

#4. I was reminded of the time I got a free upgrade to first class, where I sat right next to Sean Connery. Tongue-tied, I couldn't think of a thing to say besides, "You're Sean Connery," of which presumably he was aware.

Lionel Shriver

#5. She turned and plunked herself down on the padded webbing. "He's a little awkward, a little tongue-tied around women, and a man that fit and good-looking without a girlfriend?

Barbara Dunlop

#6. If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.

Abraham Cahan

#7. He was totally in thrall to the face of the girl in front of him. She stunned him. She paralysed him. Just being in the presence of that face made him pause, his tongue tied with self-consciousness. But she made it easy for him

Tony Parsons

#8. For ritual allows those who cannot will themselves out of the secular to perform the spiritual, as dancing allows the tongue-tied man a ceremony of love.

Andre Dubus

#9. The best time to meditate, when the doctor is tongue tied.

Aporva Kala

#10. People of the middle sort like us, thinking people that is, are always tongue-tied and awkward. What is the reason of it? Whether it is the lack of public interest, or whether it is we are so honest we don't want to deceive one another.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#11. Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery ... a topic that often leaves even the most sophisticated thinkers tongue-tied and confused. And, as with all of the earlier mysteries, there are many who insist - and hope - that there will never be a demystification of consciousness.

Daniel Dennett

#12. With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face.

Iain Glen

#13. Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain: Lest sorrow lend me words and words express, The manner of my pity-wanting pain ...

William Shakespeare

#14. When fathers are tongue tied religiously with their offspring, need they wonder if their children's hearts remain sin tied?

Charles Spurgeon

#15. I found heaven today. Her name is Mercy. She didn't see me because I was too tongue-tied to speak to her - Luke

Shannon Dermott

#16. She exuded a raw, animal magnetism that left boys like me tongue-tied, and made men ignore their wives and crowd up close.

Michael Schmicker

#17. He was the only person in the world she was tongue-tied around, and yet the only person she really wanted to talk to.

Sarah Addison Allen

#18. Art made tongue-tied by authority.

William Shakespeare

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

Jennifer Weiner

#20. Articulation is the tongue-tied's fighting.

Tony Harrison

#21. He was tongue-tied in the presence of a fourteen-month-old baby. All the things he thought of saying, like 'Who's Daddy's little boy, then?' sounded horribly false, as though he'd got them from a book. There was nothing to say, nor, in this soft pastel room, anything that needed to be said.

Terry Pratchett

#22. I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#23. That other saying, I'm a part of all that I have met, I think that would have to begin with my wonderful parents back in Atlanta when I was a youngster five years old I was tongue tied.

Ernie Harwell

#24. I have tried many times to express my feelings, but at each attempt, I find myself tongue-tied.

Kate Cary

#25. Mine is the tongue tied silence of awkwardness, hers the smiling silence of anticipation, and then we utter inanities to each other, like "beautiful weather arranged for us" and "I like these kind of clouds.

Meir Shalev

#26. With a ready tongue and rapier wit, Hamilton could wound people more than he realized, and he was so nimble in debate that even bright people sometimes felt embarrassingly tongue-tied in his presence.

Ron Chernow

#27. Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I.

Pink Floyd

#28. I'm terrible at speaking extemporaneously about my work - I get completely tongue-tied and consumed with fear.

Annie Baker

#29. I am often tongue-tied with strangers and have what the philosopher Monsieur Diderot calls l'esprit de l'escalier, staircase wit: only long after a remark is made to me will my imagination supply the thing I should have said in reply.

Debra Dean

#30. I basked in you;
I loved you, helplessly, with a boundless tongue-tied love.
And death doesn't prevent me from loving you.
Besides,
in my opinion you aren't dead.
(I know dead people, and you are not dead.)

Franz Wright

#31. At times, I get very lonely because people are afraid to talk to me or don't wait for me to write a response. I'm shy and tongue-tied at times. I find it difficult to talk to people who I don't know.

Stephen Hawking

#32. What happens to me when I'm provoked is that I get tongue-tied and my mind goes blank. Then I spend all night tossing and turning trying to figure out what I should have said

Nora Ephron

#33. Children, even the most shy and tongue-tied, spill all their vibrancy out into the world. There are no reserves, no deep wells where emotion sinks and is buried.

Katy Simpson Smith

#34. Baseball is a tongue-tied kid from Georgia growing up to be an announcer and praising the Lord for showing him the way to Cooperstown. This is a game for America. Still a game for America, this baseball!

Ernie Harwell

#35. A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.

Mark Twain

#36. Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity
In least speak most, to my capacity.

William Shakespeare

#37. I act as the tongue of you,
... tied in your mouth ... in mine it begins to be loosened.

Walt Whitman

#38. Have you ever been with a man who d-did those things to you?" His voice had turned husky and dark. "Talked dirty to you? Spanked you? Tied you up and sspent hours figuring out how many ways he could make you c-come with his tongue?

Ruthie Knox

#39. Fans think they want to see more than the 10 to 20 seconds of Itchy and Scratchy that we put on the show, but my feeling is less is more. Once you've skinned and flayed a cat, ripped his head off, made him drink acid and tied his tongue to the moon, there really isn't that much to say.

Matt Groening