Quotes About Language

When I heard Puerto Ricans in New York City, it sounded very strange. And the first time I heard someone from Spain, I thought they had a speech impediment!

People think for Shakespeare you have to have a big English accent, but it's not true. He designed it so it can be performed in any accent in any time period.

I would prefer to abandon the terminology of the past. 'Superpower' is something which we used during the cold war time. Why use it now?

Sometimes people have a difficult time understanding my English.

The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet

An ear will never do you wrong, but I know writers who... most of the language they use is just extracted language from other languages they've read. I am a big-time reader, but I mix and match.

I think a lot of guys who are on the internet a lot, they're kind of anesthetized to some of the violent language and all that because they see it all the time.

It's the only time my education has come in remotely handy. -on using her Russian literature studies for copying her "Van Helsing" script into Russian to acquire a Slavic accent.

I realize, of course, that I wasn't born knowing how to read. I just can't imagine a time when I didn't know how.

It's very rare to get a film script that has good dialogue. A lot of the time, you spend on film sets really fighting to find out how to say the words.

I thought I'd learn a few new words, but the men were too shocked to even swear this time.

Growing up, I never heard my parents curse, never. The first time I ever said a curse word was with my sister Kim.

Anyone who ever spoke to me would know I would never say the words 'get hitched' nxt time do ur research.

I recall that, the first time I met a Geordie speaker, it was some days before I could understand a single word he was saying.

"Pop" was a dirty word for a really long time and it feels like that's not the case anymore.

When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved.

Creativity needs time to harness before it goes out, and because that's difficult, memes have become the creative language.

Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other.

So familiar are eggs to us, however, that in the eighteenth century they were referred to as cackling farts, on the basis that chickens cackled all the time and eggs came out of the back of them.

Any time you throw pain at a Jackal without a clear present request, within a millisecond he'll jump in.

Was there a little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false?

Typing in all lowercase is popular among young people, SMS users, and anyone who feels literacy has become too time-consuming.

I see it happen in uniracial congregations all the time. But people - when they're in mixed company, we speak differently.

In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.