Quotes About Language

Grant, if we edited Fortran, I assume that you'd put a column thing in there.

The Tamil audience has accepted me and given me a place to establish myself. I'm not taking things for granted... I've learnt the language.

I, like many annoying pedants, will wince when someone says 'less' when they should have said 'fewer.' But my 'poor' sounds like poo-ah, not pore; and my 'grass' rhymes with mass, not farce. What's wrong with that?

The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of our country. They find a kind of French social grace in the language and culture.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

Comedians want honest discussion because it affects us. We make our living talking, so anything around language affects us greatly.

I have friends who read my books in Greek.

I grew up cursing a lot.

In Maori culture there's a lot of humor and just as quickly we are able to express grief.

Anyone who undertakes the literary grind had better like playing around with words.

I believe that if your brain has to get to grips with complicated words, then you won't get Alzheimer's. I'm sure it's not true, but I do believe it.

If we can listen to English music without understanding nothing, and dance on it, and feel the groove, feel the feelings, I'm sure everybody can do exactly the same for each language.

Most Australians who've got an ear can do an American accent because we grow up listening to them on television and in movies.

People who grow up with two or more languages understand that each can express certain aspects of reality better than the other.

I love the whole Punjabi culture as I have seen it very closely in Delhi in my growing up years.

I have grown up loving Shakespeare.

I just write like a grown man, because that's what I listen to. I'm not even speaking complicated English... I don't do five-syllable words, I don't do four-syllable words. This is English. Rudimentary English.

Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.

Children, and sometimes those of larger growth, will not read dialect.

To be an actor, I had to learn Marathi. I used to always grudge why there are so many alphabets in Marathi.

I'm, I guess you could say, the Chinese-speaking, banjo-picking girl.

I guess my diction just isn't very good.

The trickiest thing about the double bind is that it operates imperceptibly, like shots from a gun with a silencer.

People who have made their name in this film industry have called it a gutter. I completely disagree. I hope that the government tells such people not to use this kind of language.