Quotes About Language

My fan base is in Malayalam cinema, and that's where I want it to be.

When you sit players in front of doctors and surgeons, they use big, fancy words, and sometimes players get lost. It's hard to digest. But when you've been there and you can break it down into 'football language,' they can understand it better.

I try to avoid saying 'fantastic' too often and 'obviously' is a dangerous word for all broadcasters.

I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literature and the history to the place.

My mother had been a Latin teacher, and she was always very fascinated with words. She and I shared books and responded to them.

Although a linguist, I was always interested in, and fascinated by, Stephen's explanations of his work and proud of his discoveries and achievements.

I was fascinated by the shape of words even before I knew what they meant.

You can learn any accent you want. It's a fascinating thing.

I love dialects and accents; they're something that really resonate with me and that I find fascinating.

When I was very little my mother would read to me in bed. She gave me a fascination for stories, and for the music in words.

Britain's fascination with its changing language is renowned.

I remember as a child of five or six lying in the bath marvelling at the different languages displayed on the shampoo bottles around me. From that moment on it was always words not numbers that held a fascination for me.

Why on earth do we want closer connection with England? We have little in common with English people except our language. We are fast becoming an entirely different people.

I think it keeps your brain moving faster, singing in another language.

Kids are mean. But because kids are so mean, it made me learn English faster. I think it took me six-eight months to learn English.

I keep a big, fat dictionary with me while writing.

Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.

I got so much negative feedback about my accent. People saying, 'Yeah, you need to go to elocution lessons.'

Watching and learning from the great Josette Bushell-Mingo, who was playing Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra at the time, and then to return to the same stage six months later playing a lead role, was incredible - I fell in love with the poetry and the breadth of the language so much that I didn't want it to end.

As a result of the feminist revolution, 'feminine' becomes an abusive epithet.

There are few things more American than falling back on the language of race when what we're really talking about is class or, more accurate still, manners, values and taste.

Most people understand that the more words children are exposed to, the stronger their vocabularies will be. But fewer people are aware that the quality of the words also significantly affects brain development.

The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating.

I learned Romanian very late, when I was fifteen, in town, and I wanted to learn it. I like the language very much.