Quotes About Language

The thing that most interests me about writing - there are lots of things, but the thing I can't do without - is the hit of happiness a lovely sentence delivers.

I enjoy finding the right word and giving each its full measure, its full space in a sentence.

I still don't know whether I know how to write a sentence.

Nothing feels better than constructing a beautiful sentence.

I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.

It's always nice to end your sentences with an exclamation mark, and not a comma.

People don't have to understand a language to understand the emotion and sentiment behind a song.

I may be working in different languages, but the sentiments of audiences remain the same.

I speak English. I dream in it. I cannot separate my English from my Shona; I see the world with those two languages.

Communication is always important, but it's a separate type of language in football.

I need to study English more. I'll start by watching 'Sesame Street' every day.

People always come up to me and say, Oh, you're Chloe Se-VIG-ny, right? Sevigny. Number seven, letter e.

You can still be sexist even though you're not necessarily talking about women.

Shakespeare is a wonderful language to speak, but it's also a world to get your mind into thematically.

I like Shakespeare. I like some of his work a lot.

The way Shakespeare wrote Fallstaff is with a heightened language and everything.

With Shakespeare, if you're not going to do the iambic pentameter, do some other play.

Shakespeare feels very natural to me.

At the roots, people are still people. That's why Shakespeare is so popular no matter what the language.

Shakespeare is where I live. I adore him.

Doing Shakespeare certainly makes you a better actor.

In another life I would be a medievalist. I loved Chaucer, far more than Shakespeare.

One of the problems with Shakespeare is that you can never give him a ring.

It's also crazy how Shakespeare has that cadence, and it's about locking into the jazz of the language, just like locking into the rhythm in N.W.A's lyrics.