Quotes About Language

My entrance to music was singing gospel in church, and to hear that gospel language in a hip-hop song was cool.

Hip-hop basically controls the world through fashion, through music, through language, through culture. It's basically running the world, no matter what anyone wants to think, and that's just the way it is.

The main issue when it comes to hiring someone from Asia is the language barrier. It's difficult to book someone when they don't speak the language and they can't deliver the lines or even speak to the director. But in terms of Asian-American actresses, we all speak it fluently!

I didn't speak English very well, but I studied day and night so I'd be ready for my first break. When Hitchcock interviewed me I didn't understand a word be said, but I had been told that he liked to tell jokes so I watched him carefully and when I thought he was waiting for a laugh... I laughed.

When you go to school in Holland you learn to speak English and write in English - but English is different from the Scottish language!

Writing in English made me become a foreigner in my own country. It helped me create the necessary distance to my homeland.

There's always a certain kind of homework you have to do when there's an accent involved.

I can't decide which way I talk. I really, honestly can't.

Honestly if I had the time, I would love to learn every language in the world. I love connecting to people. If I can't do it through language, I will try to do it through my music.

At school, I was never given a sense that poetry was something flowery or light. It's a complex and controlled way of using language. Rhythms and the music of it are very important. But the difficulty is that poetry makes some kind of claim of honesty.

As it enters the ear, does it come in like broken glass or does it come in like honey?

Diphthongs are indicated by combinations of hooks and circles.

From Dickens's cockneys to Salinger's phonies, from Kerouac's beatniks to Cheech and Chong's freaks, and on to hip hop's homies, dialect has always been used as a way for generations to distinguish themselves.

As long as somebody finances you, can make a film and get it seen any place and in any language; then, hopefully, it's a success.

It's a horrible name, Coldplay. It doesn't conjure up any positive thoughts.

The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.

Language is the house of the truth of Being.

People do not use foul language in the House of Commons chamber. They just don't do it, and I don't, either.

Things are loud in a Jewish household. Conversations are up here; they're pitched pretty high. That's just the way we talk.

We learn English from fifth grade on in school, and I was an exchange student when I was 17 in Houston.

I have always been a huge fan of Shakespeare.

I'm a huge fan of Chennai - the culture, the musicians, the audience... Language is not a barrier. It is all about the emotion in the music.

The deaf community relies so much on eye contact, expression and body language. It's such a huge part of who we are.

I find it hugely exciting to be dealing with another writer's language.