Quotes About Language

The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the right to speak it.

Language is wine upon the lips.

French culture is known for many great attributes, some of which probably have nothing to do with food, wine, and romance.

I don't see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately right wing, and loyal to the political framework and its corporate interests.

I didn't speak English until I was ten, when Philip Burton, the schoolmaster who became my guardian, took me under his wing.

Bill Condon, I must say, may have been one of the best professional experiences of my life, collaborating with him. He, himself, is an Academy Award winning screenwriter. He is a storyteller first and foremost, so we speak the same language. We approach things always from the story.

I speak as much Spanish as anyone who has grown up in Southern California or Texas or Arizona. I had my three years of high-school Spanish and a couple of semesters in college.

English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.

The East Texas accent is a famously difficult accent to do.

New Yorkers have their own way of speaking, their own tempo, and Texans are a lot like that. As much as you think Texas is one thing and New York is another, they're very much the same.

Moving from Cameroon to Texas, that was a change. Learning English, the culture, everything was different so I had to adjust.

The most basic definition of fluency is simply the ability to read text accurately and quickly.

A lot of my work is about text taken to the point of abstraction.

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.

If you're going to do Shakespeare, do Shakespeare. There's a reason why he's been performed for hundreds of years. His words affect people on a very deep level. He's the true humanist. That all comes through his text, his words.

The text is a limited field of possible constructions.

I was dating this guy and we would spend all day text messaging each other. And he thought that he could tell that he liked me more because he actually spelt the word 'YOU' and I just put the letter 'U'.

When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.

Originalism says that when you consult the text, you give it the meaning it had when it was adopted, not some later modern meaning.

You know, kids text a lot today. It's phenomenal.

I have never sent a fax, and I've never even sent a text message.

I learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive.

Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language, has to be worked at very hard.

When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after - long after - I've finished a piece that I can experience in any way its emotional charge.