Quotes About Language

When I was little, seven or eight years old, in third and fourth grade, I would always try to use long words and stuff.

I would love to be bilingual. I think having a second or third language at my bidding would open up the world in amazing ways.

I learned at an early age that using the third person will push some buttons.

When you get into the third or fourth generation of Latino immigrants to the United States, you see the kids speaking more English than Spanish, and it's important that we don't lose our identity, our language.

I remember, my mom, she's lived in Spain for about thirty years, and we were playing the Royal Albert Hall, and she was with some friends from New York. Morrissey came out with the sign 'The Queen is Dead,' and my mom's friends are like, 'Oh my God.' They took it literally.

In order to make Alma innocent and open, I had to forget that I'm stressed as an actress because I'm making a film with Paul Thomas Anderson. I had to let go of everything and hold onto the text. The language was like a rope I could cling onto and make my way blindfolded through the shooting.

As a theoretician, I am proud to be part of a counter revolution... discovering that quantum field theory language was not dead and finished but had not really been explored thoroughly enough.

It's no longer possible to simply build English country houses out of words, because they've already been so thoroughly described that all the applicable words have been used up, and one is forced to build them instead out of words recycled and scavenged from other descriptions of other country houses.

And though thou hadst small Latin, and less Greek.

Though I read and speak Malayalam, Malayalis won't accept outsiders speaking their language.

Though I do manage to mumble around in about seven or eight languages, English remains the most beautiful of languages. It will do anything.

I think 'Mrs. Brown's Boys' in particular is very good, though I do find that perhaps the language is a bit strong for a family, but it is very popular, and I think it's very funny.

Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.

A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen.

When I first heard Kraftwerk, I thought they were an American band singing in German.

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

A college degree was very important for them; it wasn't for me. So I picked English because I'm fluent. I thought it would be the easiest to do.

Ever since the arrival of printing - thought to be the invention of the devil because it would put false opinions into people's minds - people have been arguing that new technology would have disastrous consequences for language.

That means presenting the issues in certain ways that will appeal to those people and then becoming a prisoner of your own language and thought process. That has always happened - it's just been intensified.

I try to be as thoughtful as I can about everything that comes out of my mouth and not reinforce sexism.

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.