Quotes About Language

I graduated with an English degree and worked for awhile in academic publishing.

In 1981, Ms. Ebtekar was made editor-in-chief of the English-language newspaper 'Kayhan International.' The man who gave her the job was Mr. Khatami, who was then head of the Kayhan publishing house.

Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens, but by their own choice, Puerto Rico is not a state. The relationship has worked well for Puerto Rico - which has strengthened its culture, language and economy - and for the United States, which has helped create in Puerto Rico a showcase of democracy and prosperity for all of Latin America.

You're not from Puerto Rico, so you should say Puerto Rico like all the other people from the place that you come from.

It's funny because I'm so used to acting in English that any time I have these moments where I have to speak Russian, it definitely takes a different part of my brain to pull it off, but it's always nice and fun.

Now that we've got computers, you can pump up anything that anybody ever uttered.

If you compulsively pun you are called a paronomasiac.

Always say 'no pun intended' to draw attention to the intended pun.

True net-heads sometimes resort to punctuation cartoons to get around the absence of inflection.

I found a great many pieces of punctuation and typography lying around dormant when I came along - and I must say I had a good time using them.

And if you want to know why great editors scare the pants off of writers everywhere, read 'Eats, Shoots and Leaves' by Lynne Truss. The punctuation police are everywhere!

I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators 'the haute couture of language.'

Hate begets hate and if karma and punishment is the only language you understand then the road ahead will be rocky.

I think the humor of double puns is incredible.

I live and die by puns.

I love making puns.

Puns are a form of humor with words.

Americans don't like puns and plays on words, which is totally opposite in the comedy world to France or even Italy and Germany.

I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.

I'm probably doing puns more than anything in my life.

I say 'as it were' or 'so to speak' too often because puns and double entendres keep insinuating themselves into my consciousness as I'm talking.

I don't like to define my music. To me, music is pure emotion. It's language that can communicate certain emotions and the rhythms cuts across genders, cultures and nationalities. All you need to do is close your eyes and feel those emotions.

I write plays and movies, I live and work at the borderline between word and image just as any cartoonist or illustrator does. I'm not a pure writer. I use words as the score for kinetic imagistic representations.

Political correctness means nothing to me. Nothing. It's the new Puritanism, darling. Preventing us from expressing ourselves.