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  • Clint Eastwood is so fair and consistent. It does not matter who he is talking to, he is always nice. It doesn't matter whether he is with a production assistant or Steven Spielberg, he is friendly and never seems superior. I think it is hard for people to realize that he is accessible because they are caught up in the image and can't talk to him because he is 'Clint Eastwood', so they get tongue-tied. They get terrified. It is funny watching people with him.

    Nice   Thinking   Talking  
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  • Love is a kind of dementia with very precise and oft-repeated clinical symptoms.

    Love Is   Kind   Symptoms  
    Louis de Bernieres (2012). “Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel”, p.399, Vintage
  • 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!

    Tom Keegan, Ernie Harwell (2002). “Ernie Harwell: My 60 Years in Baseball”, Triumph Books (IL)
  • 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.

    Wise   Art   Pain  
    William Shakespeare (2013). “Sonnets”, p.140, Pushkin Press
  • When fathers are tongue tied religiously with their offspring, need they wonder if their children's hearts remain sin tied?

    Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2016). “Treasury of David”, p.1522, Bible Study Steps
  • I get the most starstruck around musicians. I get tongue-tied and don't know what to say. I'm so jealous of them. When you make a movie, you're constructing something - it's a little bit like making an album. But after musicians make an album, they get to perform it live and experience it in front of a crowd.

    Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. December 11, 2012.
  • I loved you; even now I may confess, Some embers of my love their fire retain; But do not let it cause you more distress, I do not want to sadden you again. Hopeless and tongue tied, yet I loved you dearly With pangs the jealous and the timid know; So tenderly I loved you, so sincerely, I pray God grant another love you so.

    Love   Jealous   Fire  
  • Articulation is the tongue-tied's fighting.

    1978 'On Not Being Milton'.
  • 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.

    Class   Tongue   Faces  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity In least speak most, to my capacity.

    William Shakespeare, William Harness (1830). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare”, p.310
  • 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.

    Confused   Lasts   Tongue  
  • Art made tongue-tied by authority.

    Sonnet 66
  • 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 (1986). “Tuned to Baseball”, Taylor Trade Publishing
  • I'm so great even I get tongue-tied talking to myself.

    Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.214, Pan Macmillan
  • 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 (1993). “The night world and the word night: poems”, Carnegie Mellon Univ Pr
  • The resolving of the ethical, is freedom; the negative resolution also has this, but the freedom, blank and bare, is as if tongue-tied, hard to express, and generally has something hard in its nature. Falling in love, however, promptly sets it to music, even if this composition contains a very difficult passage.

    "Stages on Life's Way" by Søren Kierkegaard, Hong, (p. 111), April 30, 1845.
  • He was the only person in the world she was tongue-tied around, and yet the only person she really wanted to talk to.

    World   Tongue   Wanted  
    Sarah Addison Allen (2008). “The Sugar Queen”, p.14, Bantam
  • Bush is almost always clear when he's speaking cruelly. For example, when the subject is the punitive infliction of great pain, there is no problem with his syntax, grammar, or vocabulary, even if he happens to be lying. ... On the other hand, our president is extraordinarily tongue-tied when he's trying, off the cuff, to sound a note of idealism, magnanimity or -- especially -- compassion.

    Pain   Lying   Compassion  
  • 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.

    Spiritual   Men   Dancing  
    Andre Dubus (2010). “The Times Are Never So Bad: A Novella and Eight Short Stories”, p.121, Open Road Media
  • A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.

  • I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

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

  • Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.

    "Consciousness Explained". Book by Daniel Dennett, 1991.
  • I have tried many times to express my feelings, but at each attempt, I find myself tongue-tied.

    Kate Cary (2011). “Bloodline”, p.92, Egmont UK
  • More than anything in this world, I wish I had been born rich. It would have made up for everything. I'd still be ugly, sure, but I'd be rich and ugly. I'd still be weak and dim and tongue-tied with women, but I'd be rich enough for them not to care. I'd no longer be a social misfit, I'd be eccentric. And most of all, I'd no longer be what I was, I'd be something different.

    Wish   Care   Ugly  
  • 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.

    Writing   Names   Knowing  
    William Shakespeare, Howard Staunton (1860). “The Plays of Shakespeare with the Poems”, p.772
  • I'm terrible at speaking extemporaneously about my work - I get completely tongue-tied and consumed with fear.

    Tongue   Terrible   Tied  
  • Love is a kind of dementia with very precise and oft-repeated clinical symptoms. You blush in each other's presence, you both hover in places where you expect the other to pass, you are both a little tongue-tied, you both laugh inexplicably and too long, you become quite nauseatingly girlish, and he becomes quite ridiculously gallant. You have also grown a little stupid.

    Stupid   Love Is   Long  
    Louis de Bernieres (2012). “Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel”, p.399, Vintage
  • 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.

    Lonely   Writing   People  
    "Stephen Hawking: 'I would consider assisted suicide'" by Jessica Elgot, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2015.
  • 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 (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.43, Courier Corporation
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