Sometimes, when I have to learn the lines in German and French, it's that much more difficult because it doesn't just sink… — Alicja Bachleda-Curus Copy Share Image
Will we allow the decline of our language-the language of Shakespeare, Shaw and Steinbeck? Will we abuse our precious gift of communication?… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
“I said "it is my first language, my mother tongue, my family, my people, my home; it is my heart, my heart,… — Joanna Brooks Copy Share Image
Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Evangelicalism is like my religious mother tongue. I revert to it whenever I’m angry or excited or surrounded by other people who… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“Even after the Hellenistic empire of Alexander’s successors was supplanted by that of the Latin-speaking Romans, the usual linguistic development – the… — Dimitri Gutas Copy Share Image
I've had the privilege of learning foreign languages. Instead of merely speaking a watered-down form of my mother tongue, like most people,… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
It was in Cardiff, and the cast was 60 per cent Welsh-speaking. It's the first time I've walked into a rehearsal room… — Bryn Terfel Copy Share Image
“The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue, will always be in a language dead to degenerate… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I am very comfortable doing Bengali films because it's my mother tongue, which enables me to emote well, and my home is… — Konkona Sen Sharma Copy Share Image
“And if Germans do have systematic minds, this is just as likely to be because their exceedingly erratic mother tongue has exhausted… — Guy Deutscher Copy Share Image
During all the first part of the Middle Ages, no other people made as important a contribution to human progress as did… — Philip Khuri Hitti Copy Share Image
“Finally, I would like to point out that now in the age of English, choosing a language policy is not the exclusive… — Minae Mizumura Copy Share Image
Marathi is my mother tongue; there's a certain comfort level speaking in it. — Mithila Palkar Copy Share Image
Every call to worship is a call into the Real World.... I encounter such constant and widespread lying about reality each day… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
Having portrayed English-speaking Indian characters in British and American projects, I have always wanted to use my mother tongue in an Indian… — Art Malik Copy Share Image
“Noam Chomsky pointed out, the number of possible sentences is infinite in any language; there is no limit to the grammatical combination… — James Crawford Copy Share Image
I think it's really hard for me... to sing in English, because it's not my mother tongue. — Bill Kaulitz Copy Share Image
The rhythm of my body is the same as my mother tongue. It is in this rhythm where I find sanctity, that… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
It is France. I know the league well. It is my mother tongue. Inevitably, there is an attraction for me. A return?… — Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang Copy Share Image
If I don't make heritage visible and the strength of mother tongue important for my grandchildren, it scares me that they might… — Hugh Masekela Copy Share Image
Things that are so hard for people, like playing championship-level Go and poker, have turned out to be relatively easy for the… — Oren Etzioni Copy Share Image
Foreign languages was the only thing that interested me when I was at school, so playing in another language... it is quite… — Tom Wlaschiha Copy Share Image
