Quotes About Language

I've often been asked, 'aren't you going to sing in English?' So I'm very glad to have a song in English.

I'm glad I did South films because I feel they have moulded me. They are really loud and are in a different language, so it's not easy.

I was so glad when geek went from being a bad word to a good word.

Apparently when I went to school, I had a Glasgow accent.

I lost my accent pretty quickly, so everyone assumes I was born and raised in America. But I'm very much still in touch with my Filipino roots. That will never go away.

When I go home to England, my friends all make fun of me for sounding American.

The reason they call it 'golf' is that all the other 4 letter words were used up.

Defining the terms of the debate generally dictates who's gonna' win it.

I believe a good actor does not have an accent of his own.

Language is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good deal about that.

Yogaraj Bhat has many good feeling on his work. I know about it. He wants to take Kannada to world level.

Just because somebody cusses doesn't make him a bad person. Just because a guy doesn't cuss doesn't make him a good person.

My parents did not want us to lose our culture and our language. And that was a good thing.

Writing—the art of communicating thoughts to the mind, through the eye," which, he had no doubt, "is the great invention of the world.

A burro is an ass. A burrow is a hole in the ground. A reporter should know the difference.

It is not objective proof of God's existence that we want but, whether we use religious language for it or not, the experience of God's presence.

With words as valueless as poker chips, we play games whose object it is to keep us from seeing each other's cards.

Listen to your life. Listen to what happens to you because it is through what happens to you that God speaks... It's in language that's not always easy to decipher, but it's there, powerfully, memorably, unforgettably.

It is not objective proof of God's existence that we want but, whether we use religious language for it or not, the experience of God's presence.

The reading of these speeches added much to my limited stock of language, and enabled me to give tongue to many interesting thoughts, which had frequently flashed through my soul, and died away for want of utterance.

In a world that was created by God's words, words are not symbols. They are things. You call a demon, you make a demon. You curse at God and you risk dying.

There is a possible slight confusion here that I should eliminate. Robinette (and all the rest of the human race) called these people Heechee. Of course, they didn't call themselves that, any more than native Americans called themselves Indians or the African Khoi-San tribes called themselves Hottentots and Bushmen. What the Heechee in fact called themselves was the intelligent ones. But that proves little. So does Homo sapiens.

Ich verspräche gerne diesem Buche die Liebe der Deutschen.

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