Quotes About Language

Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside?

The hardest portion of English, I must say it: Idioms.

I was born here in the States. I moved to Portugal when I was five. And then my parents put me in an English school.

My daughter's Portuguese.

I don't have any connection to Portuguese, but I listened to a lot of music in other languages because I was really into house music; there are all sorts of languages that are featured in house.

Portuguese is the language of my heart; it's the language of my feelings. It's the language that I feel I can express myself best in.

Growing up biracial and speaking four languages - French, Chinese, Portuguese, and English - gave me a different lens. I was always very acutely aware of coming from a different perspective. I think that definitely contributed to what I chose to do with my life.

The hall-mark of American humour is its pose of illiteracy.

We don't have 'posh' in Canada. It's just not a thing that exists.

I grew up with a posh English accent, and all my aunts sounded as if they came out of a Merchant Ivory movie.

People assume I'm posh because I'm one of the acting dames. I grew up in Tottenham and didn't used to speak like I do now.

I do speak well as I went to a posh school. But I come from no real breeding.

I think I have got quite a posh Scottish accent. It's funny because I grew up in Oxgangs and Fife.

I always change my words in everything I do. I make the language fit, because I know the character from the inside out. Often character actors are not in a position to do that, but I do it. I don't change any cue and I never change anybody else's lines, but I make my own words fit my mouth.

People talk about the age and positioning of a brand, but hell, it's not about that. The global language is digital, and we need to speak the language.

The Hebrew Bible has long been the world's possession, and those who come to it by any means, through whatever language, are equals in ownership, and may not be denied the intimacy of their spiritual claim.

It's like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There's all these languages and possibilities and concepts to speak or communicate with.

The minute you start putting words on paper you're eliminating possibilities.

I was obsessed with what a song was and what the possibilities of language in a song are.

Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.

As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying.

Anxiety about the possibility that children will be corrupted if they hear rude words has been around for a long time.

I had always thought that I would do something that was connected to music as a career, or possibly Chinese, which was my major.

If you write a blog post, you've got something to say; you're not just creating words and synonyms. We'd like the computers to actually pick up on that semantic meaning.