Quotes About Language

The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.

I used to watch a lot of American and British television as a child, which helped teach me the language and accents; it was partly that which landed me the part of Roxy in a London production of 'Chicago' when I was 25.

Just to see how much time is consumed looking down at your phone when you could be reading, becoming better at your own language, or learning a new language - you could be doing so many productive things. You could becoming a better student-athlete.

I try not to be too profane around children or old people. Other than that, that's how I speak.

I don't even use profanity when I'm angry. I think people expected I'd have written a nice romance or something.

I wanted to cut down on the profanity, because I think I'm funnier without sayin' a lot of cuss words.

I know, if I'm speaking to God in any kind of way, I keep myself from using profanity.

I was born into a profession in which my love of words, chosen with care for their meaning and nuance, was extremely important, not only to me, but also to the people with whom I worked with.

Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.

It always rankled me - in law school and the legal profession - when lawyers would speak to each other in their own exclusive language.

Going to the U.A.E. for the first time was a real cultural shock. Everything was different. People didn't speak my language, it was all new, a huge change. But I loved it.

I grew up in a lot of different places, so I pick up accents pretty quickly.

I came from doing Wushu and other martial arts, and then I got into movies, and I had to learn that as well - the language of martial arts movie fighting. It's a different thing; it's a different kind of logic.

I've always loved the word blunderbuss. I've always thought that it was a beautiful word and that it could mean several different things.

Academic writing is such a different way of writing.

Everyone communicates with music in a different way. With some people, if there's not sheet music, they're not playing it.

With Riho, she doesn't speak English. Is that something that's going to keep us from having her on our roster? No! She's incredible. She's got incredible heart, and very, very talented in that ring in many different ways.

It's quite interesting to hear the different ways boys and girls talk about sex, because they're not so different at all.

I do get a bit of a sense, just from e-mails some people send me, just a little sense of how people in different countries seem to respond differently to certain lines in a song.

I think if we ever encountered aliens, even communicating with them would be really, really difficult.

More scientific language and less diplomatic rhetoric may make this world even better.

It's not easy to direct in another language, especially comedy.

I like to express myself fully with my body, with my language, with my voice, and through directing.

England gave me a language and literature, the basis of what I am as a writer, but when I started writing more directly about my own experience, it wasn't England so much as what went before.