Quotes About Language

India is a very, very old country with a history, culture and tradition like Italy. And we can use the English language to be in touch. Then India's industrial situation is similar to us. Both have big companies but are dominated by small and medium-sized companies. It is extremely important for both to do joint ventures.

Like Pinter and Orton, the writer, Clive Exton, catches the poetry of modern everyday speech, which, whether we like it or not, includes four-letter words used as verbs, nouns, adverbs and adjectives. But, God, is it difficult to learn.

Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an atomic bomb.

Almost any word can be drafted to serve as a verb, even words we think of as eternal and unchanging, stuck in their more traditional roles.

The verbs that are used for people who write quickly are almost never flattering.

I spent 20 years doing research on regular and irregular verbs, not because I'm an obsessive language lover but because it seemed to me that they tapped into a fundamental distinction in language processing, indeed in cognitive processing, between memory lookup and rule-driven computation.

Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages.

Picture books are the distillation of an idea, and you have to use just the right words. I love that, and I try to use a lot of action verbs.

The verb is relatively of much greater importance in an Indian tongue than in a civilized language.

One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb.

Sometimes you can do things with Spanish - like verbs and genders - easier than you can in English.

I spend my days kneeling in the muck of language, feeling around for gooey verbs, nouns, and modifiers that I can squash together to make a blob of a sentence that bears some likeness to reason and sense.

You can say now, 'I dissed him' - to diss, I dissed him - or, 'Stop dissing her'. And that's the interesting thing, that it's the prefix that's become the verb! It's a most remarkable development.

I know I have difficulties with some verbs. But if they get me, they get me. And if they don't understand me, they don't understand me.

'State' can be a word that is a noun or a verb or an adverb - it's kind of why I chose that title. It's not to confound the audience but to keep me from painting myself into a cul-de-sac in the early stages of making a record by having too high concept or having some really strict set of rules I have to adhere to.

I beg you, don't use the verb, 'discover', I hate it. What does it mean, that I didn't exist before?

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

In order for sensation to accede to the objectivity of things, it must itself be changed into a thing. The agent of change is language: the sensations are turned into verbal objects.

Of course, we have known for a long time that a word, like any verbal sign, is a unity of two components.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

Beyond basic mathematical aptitude, the difference between good programmers and great programmers is verbal ability.

Contrary to the negative stereotype that folks who swear have poor vocabularies, a fluency in taboo language correlates with overall verbal fluency. The more words you know, the more you know... and the more colorfully you can express yourself, with nuance, metaphor, and emotion.

From the earliest moments of life, children begin to learn the fundamentals of language. The most powerful influence for effective language development are the verbal interactions with caregivers.

Football is more verbal in Holland, but there is a different approach in England.