Quotes About Language

Knowing how to speak to people with the right words at the right time, that's immensely powerful.

It's hard for me to get embarrassed, but the things that do embarrass me would be if anybody ever heard my wife and I talking in our robust, made-up language.

I don't want to play only Latin women. I want to have roles in English.

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.

We think; therefore, we often talk rubbish.

I lapsed into rude.

Foreign-language books are sometimes more beautiful when you can't tell what's being said. It's like you ruin it by reading.

I think Russia is a difficult country, and it's very difficult for people to adapt here, especially if they don't speak the language well.

I couldn't speak any English when I first left Russia, and Intimissimi taught me everything. The team was like a family to me - they showed me how to model and how to stay in shape. They really believed in me.

I read Russian literature a lot.

I fell in love with 19th-century Russian plays.

It's very difficult to write in Russian for someone who has never been schooled in Russian.

I study hard at Russian, which is a tough but most attractive language.

My father was a teacher of the Russian language and literature in high school.

Russian literature got me interested in what literature means.

Although I don't understand Russian, I like the sound.

Latinos are learning English. That doesn't mean that they should sacrifice their original language or that they should give up this in-betweeness that is Spanglish.

I don't speak Punjabi. My dad runs a beauty salon and is an Elvis fan.

Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing.

I was born in Santa Monica but brought up abroad so I don't use English much.

Sometimes I say things that I think are obviously sarcastic and people take them quite literally.

I can be a very sarcastic person, and sometimes people take every word I say literally.

I haven't sat down and memorized the language of Elvish, and anyone who does that is crazy!

Nincompoop is such a brilliantly satisfying word.