Quotes About Language

Dancing is like - it's another way of communicating, no?

For one thing, my English isn't fantastic, and communicating in the dressing room is not always easy.

We don't communicate in full sentences anyway. We don't need all those words.

Clarity of communication is important.

I think communication should be fun and that we should all worry less about how we say things and more about what we say.

I was always writing. I've always been attracted to words and stories, communication.

What's the greatest advice I give? Develop excellent communication skills.

Scientists are not necessarily the best communicators.

I'm not very good at story. In fact, compared to character and language, I barely care about story at all.

Our language - the way that we deal with most actors is we don't like to get very complicated because we don't want them to think too much because we find it takes them out of the moment.

Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.

Computers will understand sarcasm before Americans do.

I stay in my bubble; I concentrate on the football. I work, and I try to learn English as quickly as possible.

When the media's around, I try to be careful. I don't want to make a mistake or use bad language, and I have to really concentrate because of the language barrier.

We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean.

Since 'concepts' are closely bound up with language, concept art is a kind of art of which the material is language.

Left, right, populism... all are meaningless concepts.

Language mavens commonly confuse their own peeves with a worsening of the language.

When we use terms we get confused, yet we have no other way.

My accent is very confused.

Take the first A out of Abraham and put it at the end. You get Brahama. There's the ancient connection right there.

Some of the words that pop up on the show have had terrible connotations. But that's the beauty of 'Countdown.'

In my own writing, I avoid 'female' and try to say 'woman' because I feel that the word 'female' has connotations of not just biology but also non-human mammals. The idea of 'female' to me is more appropriate for a female animal.

Everything that we say has consequences. I mean, words matter.