Quotes About Language

The scary thing is I took 12 years of French, and I can barely say, 'My name is... ' And that's not because of the concussions.

I am an actor and I don't have any language barrier. If I get a Tamil film, I will learn the language. It's not a problem.

There was no language barrier when it came to kids, and when it came to play.

I think it's mainly the language barrier and the cultural barrier, but of course also my songs, they have been very serious and melancholic, and so maybe people need to see more of my bubbly side and my personality.

When you come to the South industry, they know that you don't know the language but it never becomes a barrier.

Language doesn't seem to be a barrier for me to do films in the south.

I want to try to have as many people as possible interested in my content, so it needs to go across language barriers.

It doesn't take long to learn basic English.

You do see very few English players going abroad and those that do are largely good players otherwise they wouldn't have gone, but I feel a lot of their downfall is in the language. On the pitch you can learn the different basics of 'left,' 'right' and 'behind you' but off the pitch you want to have that influence around the team.

The language can be different, but the emotional lives are the same no matter whether you're doing Shakespeare or Stoppard or something else... The emotional life is all the same.

When you name a beast, sometimes it makes it less bestial.

Spaniards are fun-loving people, and they love to dance to Punjabi songs for some reason. They didn't understand the language but enjoyed the beats.

My father was the first to read in his family, and he said to me that words were the first beautiful thing he ever knew.

If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.

One belongs to one's language as a writer.

The world didn't always sound right when it was first explained.

September 1966. "I think that we've got to see that a riot is the language of the unheard. And, what is it that America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the economic plight of the Negro poor has worsened over the last few years.

In Greek, the word for "hate," miseo, is best understood as "loving less" rather than as viewing something with hostility.

There can be here no divided allegiance," he wrote in those final stages. "We have room for but one flag, the American flag; for but one language, the English language; for but one soul loyalty, and that is loyalty to the American people.

I have, for instance, silently corrected Jefferson's frequent use of "it's" for "its" and "recieve" for "receive

I love the way you talk. You just let it flow from you as if you own all the words in the world. They're your personal property and you make them dance for you.

As our larynxes descended, we were able to make sounds with our mouths in new and far more expressive ways. Verbal language soon overtook physical gesturing as the primary means of communication for all human beings except Italians. (Earth (The Book), p. 36)

There is no word in the English language that gets thrown around more freely by people who don't know what it means than "fascism." Indeed, the more someone uses the word "fascist" in everyday conversation, the less likely it is that he knows what he's talking about.

Fiction, I believed, was the transmutation of experiential dross into linguistic gold. Fiction meant taking up whatever the world had abandoned by the road and making something beautiful out of it.