Quotes About Language

When I rapped for 'Manto', I used cuss words and no one objected because it was an adult movie. I feel cuss words are also a way of expression.

Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.

Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think.

'Cougar' has become so distasteful. I really hate that expression.

When I speak in English, my expressions become different. My attitude, too. I'm not sure why, but there really is a difference. My hands move differently when I speak English.

I am my father's daughter: I have his language, his expressions.

English is a very expressive language.

Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.

Shakespeare is the best writing ever. It's incredibly rich, dense, expressive language.

The eyes have one language everywhere.

I need to distort not just leather and fabric, but also words. It's a disorder I have.

American Sign Language is a language. It's fun to learn, and it's different from other languages because you use your hands, you use your face, your facial expressions, and there is also an incredible culture that comes with it and an amazing community too, and through that, we can support each other.

I don't know what happens at radio as far as what is that X factor that makes a song click and have people get connected to it when it's in another language.

My problem with the word 'clean' is that it has become too complicated. It has become too loaded. When I first read the term, it meant natural, unprocessed. Now it doesn't mean that at all. It means diet. It means fad.

My job is to analyze conversations and discover why communications fail.

I like to write in fairly everyday language - I've always tried to write lyrics that, if people would speak the words, it wouldn't sound like a song.

I grew up in a Glaswegian house because my parents are fairly Glaswegian-sounding.

Sentences are not as such either true or false.

I am most familiar with the Gujarati language.

Try to say something familiar in a unique way so that it's sing-alongable, even if you don't speak English.

Somebody, just because they are black, too, or just because they are trans, too, or just because they're gay and recognize I'm trans, does that mean you have the familiarity to use certain language? And I don't mean with just me but with the community.

I think that a lot of teams aren't as close-knit as we are because a lot of the Spanish speakers don't know English and some of the English guys don't care to try and learn Spanish and relate to Latin players.

Tears are the noble language of the eye.

Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.