Quotes About Language

There is a whole host of people that have got an accent like mine, whether they're from Merseyside or Wales or the North West.

Trump talks like a guy at a bar in West Virginia. Trump talks like my dad sitting around the dinner table.

When I had my first son, in 2017, we decided to give him a Burmese middle name. I picked Mindon, after the penultimate king of Burma. It sounded strong and regal, and it wasnt too difficult for a Western speaker.

To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.

We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both Great Britain and America to us; sending us their culture in the shape and form of movies and television.

I'm writing in English; I'm writing for a Western audience, but the people I'm surrounded by in my daily life are mostly non-white.

The first Western teacher of English in Japan was a Native American.

A lot happened in Vancouver. It was my first Western experience. I learned English, which is my second language. I became very acquainted with Western culture. I had my first sewing machine when I was 9. I trained in fashion illustration when I was in school.

Bilingual films come with a certain inbuilt practical problem with respect to the setting of the story and the dialect.

I'm very much an Arab, although I need to practise my Arabic more.

I still have an accent. But when I return to Prague, I speak the language yet do not know what they are talking about.

Of my English friends, I should find language too poor to speak the just praise and the excellence which shines in their characters and lives.

When a woman shouts, she isn't usually praised for it. She's condemned as aggressive and coarse.

If I were to pray in Arabic, I'd pray to Allah. If I were to pray in English, I'd pray to God.

From that moment, I did not cease to pray to God that by his grace it might one day be permitted to me to learn Greek.

Vilnius was once known as 'The Jerusalem of Lithuania' because of the number of prayer houses and scholars there; in the first half of the 20th century, it became a center of Yiddish-language scholarship.

Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.

I became aesthetically obsessed with language. And 'literary artist' - poet and novelist - is a calling. You are called to it the way preachers are called to preaching the gospel.

If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.

As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't.

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture.

I don't think Stoppardian has a precise definition.

I'm German! Actually, I love my countr, ;I love the language. The German language is very special because it is so precise. There is a word for everything. There are so many wonderful words that other languages don't have. It is impressive to have such a rich language, and I love to work in that language.