Quotes About Language

One of the most extraordinary and all-encompassing forms of communication is music. It reaches places that all kinds of other things cannot reach. I'll put my cards on the table: I think it is our greatest language.

Writing has always been an interest of mine, and 'The Language of Flowers' combined my experience with foster care with something I've always wanted to do.

It is interesting that Nehru fought and kept saying that if you break India into languages, there is no end to it.

I'm not any good at foul language or anything like that.

I don't want to say that we are the world in that we are not distinct from each other. I want to say that the humanity that is our foundation is common, but my culture, my beliefs, my values, what makes me sing and what makes me happy and the language I speak in and the relationships I have in the world are distinctive.

I began in an era where four-letter words were not allowed.

Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.

I am the fourth generation of being deaf.

I am only one-eighth the writer I might have been had I contained all the fragmented languages of Trinidad.

Sometimes, but the year I lived in France I started to write songs.

In France they don't think I'm difficult.

I was lucky to live 10 years in France, so I learned how to eat and drink there.

I was going to France to do my masters and my Ph.D., but I didn't know how to say, 'bonjour.' You really feel like a baby, starting everything from scratch.

I really want to learn French so I think it would be great to go and live in France and maybe learn the language for a few months.

After working on 'Europa,' I found it incredibly freeing to speak English in a film, so it kind of sparked an interest in me as an artist to improve my acting.

I feel my thoughts flow freely when I write in Kannada.

'Escargot' is French for 'fat crawling bag of phlegm'.

My French is still good. That's a beautiful language and I'm happy to speak it.

For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.

That's only in America. We don't have French doors in France.

I like to listen to French radio; I'm trying to learn French.

The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French.

The French have made conversation their claim to civilisation.

You may hear from my fabulous accent that I'm French!