Quotes About Language

Somehow after a few vodkas, the language barrier always seems to disappear.

I think Latin has some logic to it and there was a discipline.

With sociolinguistics, after covering the basics of the field, I focused on discourse analysis.

I just discovered when I was, oh, 12 or 13, that I was very interested in language - and this showed itself as poetry. There was no looking back.

Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the existence or non-existence of Rules A, A1 or A2.

The name 'Mondelez' I hate. It sounds like a disease.

So I started to learn Russian and I was one of those probably way too eager, annoying young actor kids who was trying to change all my lines to Russian, much to the dismay of the director and Nic Cage.

I'm getting to compose music for diverse language films from all over the country.

I choose my words very delicately because I have a divided society.

If you learn the language of loss early, I think you seek out others who have experienced the same thing, who speak that same language of loss.

I had two experiences with very close friends of mine who experienced aphasia, the loss of language. It shocked me.

To direct actors is difficult. To direct actors in another language is more difficult, but directing non-actors in another language is one of the craziest things that I have done and one of the most rewarding experiences I have had.

I'm getting to be an expert in finding hairdressers in foreign cities.

Many Arabic/Islamic words have now entered the English dictionary, such as haj, hijab, Eid, etc., and I no longer need to put them in italics or explain them.

We know that reading to children is a crucial step. From the beginning, babies who are read to are exposed to the cadence of language, and school-age children who read at home for 15 minutes a day are exposed to millions of words.

I was in school for architecture and when you're in school for a creative discipline, so much of what you produce comes out of inspiration from other people. The more you're exposed to architecturally, the better you can develop your own language out of that history of architectural thought.

I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through.

It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.

I find in music there's a space and a language I can use to express things in ways I can't describe conversationally.

My belief is that nothing that can be expressed by mathematics cannot be expressed by careful use of literary words.

Expressing myself through language was always something that I had had to learn to do more so than others.

I think poetry is able to say things in such a small, perfect way that are so hard to say. I think it's a perfect medium for expressing difficult ideas and concepts and feelings. It's one of my great loves.

I'm from Hackney, and it's an area that is not so pretty, and we have a different way of expressing ourselves than somebody from uptown that has lots of money.

The greatest form of expression - or, at least, the most common that we have as human beings, what separates us from the animals - is speaking: the ability to communicate.