Quotes About Language

I used to just sit down and read the dictionary, and I read the Bible and Shakespeare from cover to cover.

I use the dictionary all the time when I'm reading or working on scripts.

A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.

I'm always going to be working on my English, and I'm always going to work on my English so that I can do different characters from different nationalities.

Danish is a different language, even though Danish people understand Swedes, and very few Swedes understand Danish.

I love all Daphne du Maurier's stuff. And just enjoying period dramas, really... wanting to do something drastically different from 'Nighty Night', the chance to write very different language.

Before 'The Last Samurai,' I couldn't believe I could do that. I didn't think I would be able to explain myself and my feelings in English, in a different language. But I could.

I do a mind game every day. I play chess, sudoku. I learn something different: a language, a few words of a different language.

As soon as you start speaking in a different language or with a different accent, it changes you as a person.

If you're about to get a tat, make sure you're 110% sure it's what you want. If you're getting it in a different language make sure it is exactly what you want it to be because there is no going back.

I'm trying to know every part of London, to improve my English and enjoy the football. On my days off, I go to different parts of the city.

Some languages expand not only your ability to speak to different people but what you're able to think.

Funny how words in one language get used in another language. For example, 'scotch' in Russian is tape and 'pampers' means diapers.

It's probably the first type of music we had, rhythm, whether it's poetry or tapping.

There are things that Scotsmen get and other people don't get in the dialogue. Scottish characters can be pinpointed by a phrase, targeted very quickly.

The Australian way of affirmative action is setting goals and recognising discrimination and lack of opportunity and deciding to take action and setting some goals and targets. I guess I prefer that language to talking about quotas.

When I'm being interviewed, presumably it's because people want to know how I feel about something or what my motivation is, not because they want to hear what I sound like in English. I wouldn't be true to the task if I responded in my unrefined English.

Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.

Learning Japanese was certainly a task, but my passion for the culture, as well as my will to communicate with fans and friends, always encouraged me to continue.

Perhaps one day we will have machines that can cope with approximate task descriptions, but in the meantime, we have to be very prissy about how we tell computers to do things.

Dubbing for myself in Hindi is a big task. I know Hindi. I can read and write Hindi, but I dont normally speak the language, and that is very important.

For me, writing in English is not an easy task.

Some scholars argue that although the brain might contain neural subsystems, or modules, specialized for tasks like recognizing faces and understanding language, it also contains a part that constitutes a person, a self: the chief executive of all the subsystems.

'Do you spell it with a 'V' or a 'W'?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'.