Quotes About Language

People thought I wrote in a very 'masculine' way.

If you can not master your language you must be it's slave.

My mother, with a Master's in English Literature, taught me to appreciate language and that words matter.

I'm left-brained, so I'm all about a mathematical approach to language. I've always been interested in that.

You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.

I try to use the Australian idiom to its maximum advantage.

Words take on many different meanings.

I have never had a problem with people not being able to understand the words and the meanings in Titus.

The 'Mother of God' stuff comes from my dad who used to use that all the time. He would say, 'Mother of God' all the time. He used to just say 'Mother' and we know what he meant.

Poetry is meant to be heard.

I use music as a medium to talk to people.

Music is the only medium by which everyone is connected in the world.

I look at a film as just a film; language doesn't really matter. I just don't want to limit myself to a particular language, genre or medium.

I think that in the past there has been a kind of cultural resistance to Latin because it's associated with elitism.

I thought it was respectful to each country to sing in their language.

I ain't never called nobody no redskin. I've never been mad, like, 'Get out of this restaurant, you redskin.'

The world doesn't revolve around English.

Some people just have a love for words and thinking about words that rhyme.

When you're doing poetry like mine that rhymes, it's very easy to sound like a song that didn't work out!

I always read poetry before I write, to sensitize me to the rhythms and music of language.

I'm kind of over people using the word 'bae'. Let's get rid of that.

I wish I was not such a very bad hand at languages. That is one thing I cannot do, that and ride.

The things are in right direction and I am very much the producer of the film 'Super' that is made in three language.

Every time there is a movie that tells a South African story, it is done by someone who must be taught the right way of pronouncing 'Sawubona.' Enough is enough.