Quotes About Language

I was criticized a lot when I was singing in Korean. The producers and people from my agency would point out my accent and tones, and would tell me I sound too American to fit the local market.

To me, poetry is spoken - not exclusively, but there's a mix of languages in it. That's what I liked about 'For the Confederate Dead;' it has many different tones to it.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

My mother tongue is Telugu. I was born and brought up in Tamil Nadu.

A quote is just a tattoo on the tongue.

I think in my mother tongue. That's Hindi.

Marathi is my mother tongue; there's a certain comfort level speaking in it.

Foreign languages was the only thing that interested me when I was at school, so playing in another language... it is quite demanding because if it is not your mother tongue, you are missing some connotations and some emotional depth of certain things.

Study a foreign language if you have opportunity to do so. You may never be called to a land where that language is spoken, but the study will have given you a better understanding of your own tongue or of another tongue you may be asked to acquire.

I am very comfortable doing Bengali films because it's my mother tongue, which enables me to emote well, and my home is there too.

Here's my advice to my brown friends: The next time you're on an airplane in the U.S., just speak your mother tongue. That way, no one knows what you're saying. Life goes on.

I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.

I must confess... I don't know any tongue but the Nether-Dutch.

Apart from English, I speak my mother tongue Malayalam, as well as Tamil, Telugu, and a bit of Kannada and French.

I don't know Bengali perfectly. I don't know how to write it or even read it. I have an accent, I speak without authority, and so I've always perceived a disjunction between it and me. As a result, I consider my mother tongue, paradoxically, a foreign language.

I never show the back of my tongue. That is a Dutch expression.

I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.

My mother tongue, Mende, is very expressive, very figurative, and when I write, I always struggle to find the English equivalent of things that I really want to say in Mende. For example, in Mende, you wouldn't say 'night came suddenly'; you would say 'the sky rolled over and changed its sides.'

I think it's really hard for me... to sing in English, because it's not my mother tongue.

I speak English, so I am no longer cute. My tongue itches for French.

Spanglish is a creative way also of saying, 'I am an American, and I have my own style, my own taste, my own tongue.'

It is certain that the truth of the Christian faith becomes more evident the more the faith itself is known. Therefore, the doctrine should not only be in Latin but also in the common tongue, and as the faith of the Church is contained in the Scriptures, the more these are known in the true sense, the better.

My primary tongue, I would call North-West Mercian.

I can loop my tongue into multiple rolls.