Quotes About Language

My teacher was like, 'Once you pass age nine or ten, it's almost impossible to completely lose an accent.' I did lose it quite a bit, but Indians can always tell.

I've been learning French a bit through my work with Longchamp, and I've been in France quite a lot. And I really love how they express themselves. I especially love when something is untranslatable.

Race is more like a language than it is like the way in which we are biologically constituted.

Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.

We encrypt 'Drag Race' with the secret language that kept gay people linked for many years before the '80s.

Political correctness is a thing of leftist radicals.

The radio was my big influence. Comedy came from the instinctual feel I had for language.

If Kubrick made me love forever the film language, Scorsese made me love actors. And 'Raging Bull' is my favorite male performance ever.

My name is Rain Dove, and my pronouns are just a sound. You can use whatever you want.

Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised.

Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication.

Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind.

There's a whole range of words that people use about landscape. Pastoral? Idyll? I can't stand them.

Almost anything can be funny if said the right way - but it has to be said the right way.

You get a lot of respect for 'Game of Thrones,' and it was a lot of fun to play, but it didn't help my career a lot because Khal Drago doesn't even speak English.

The piano is not really in the language of the 'Game of Thrones' score.

Words matter. Words can be a fire to the gasoline of disturbed minds.

Getting access to diverse civilizations should be easy, and languages are the gateway to that.

The study of gender and language might seem at first to be a narrowly focused field, but it is actually as interdisciplinary as they come.

We've been socialised and told that there is a way to describe people, and that way is by their gender or their sex.

I have the Cuban gene of speaking very loudly.

In general, every country has the language it deserves.

Chess demolishes differences. It's a language of different generations.

I say the word N-U-C-L-E-R the same way that George W. Bush says it.