This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.
My love for Neo-Tokyo is a bulbous mass of post-human organic circuitry. Cyperpunk is my mother tongue. My love is a man-machine interface gun.
Linguist say parties in the conversation will tolerate silence for four seconds before interjecting anything, however unrelated.
If we should be worrying about anything to do with the future of English, it should not be that the various strands will drift apart but that they will grow indistinguishable. And what a sad, sad loss that would be.
Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.
An idle tongue is the mother of all conflicts.
Hamlet: Now mother, what's the matter? Gertrude: Hamlet, thou hast thy father much offended. Hamlet: Mother, you have *my* father much offended. Gertrude: Come, come, you answer with an idle tongue. Hamlet: Go, go, you question with a wicked tongue! ...
Twist a tongue, and tongue a twist how many twists can a tongue twister twist around their twisting tongue. If a tongue twister's tongue could twist, how many twists would the tongue twister's tongue twist while their tongue was a twisting.
I want to make wines that harmonize with food - wines that almost hug your tongue with gentleness.
I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.
Perchik: Your daughter has a quick and witty tongue. Tevye: Yes, the wit she gets from me, as the good book says... Golde: The good book can wait, it's time for Sabbath. Tevye: The tongue she gets from her mother.
A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.
When I was in south Sudan, people used to rap in my village. But the rapping was more in the mother tongue, Nuer.
People don't talk like this, theytalklikethis. Syllables, words, sentences run together like a watercolor left in the rain. To understand what anyone is saying to us we must separate these noises into words and the words into sentences so that we mig...
Twist a tongue, and tongue a twist how many twists can a tongue twister twist around the twisting tongue.
Mothers have need of sharp eyes and discreet tongues when they have girls to manage
For us Indians, I don't think English can ever exude that magic of emotions which our mother tongue can.
I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor.
I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue.
I learnt to sing in Bengali, my mother tongue, then went on to sing in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati and every possible Indian language.
The fact of simultaneously being Christian and having as my mother tongue Arabic, the holy language of Islam, is one of the basic paradoxes that have shaped my identity.
