Quotes About Language

Many novice writers try to avoid using 'said' by substituting synonyms: 'he uttered,' 'she murmured,' 'he questioned.' It's true that any word repeated too often becomes monotonous, but substitutions for 'said' can be worse than its repetition.

If a term becomes too popular, its irritant value is ramped up. The impulse is then to replace it with something else.

There is no way for me to replicate for you what a sentence reads like for a Chinese reader.

Pep Guardiola, when he was at Bayern Munich, he was able to reply in German in his first press conference.

Lexicographers are language reporters.

There should be no doubt about my commitment to responding to questions from reporters in the same language that the question is asked.

The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

What music is better able to do than language is to represent the complexity of human emotional states.

Just because I take my music international doesn't mean I have to sing in English. I will continue to sing in Punjabi, Hindi, Gujarati, and Tamil. I want to represent my own country through its own languages.

Both of my parents were college-educated within the curriculum in Haiti. When they came to the United States, both had to learn English. My mother worked in retail and continues to do so today, working as the lead sales representative in a fine-jewelry store. My father became a machinist.

Representative institutions are as much a part of the true Briton as his language and his literature.

I'm absolutely convinced of that. Israel is the representative of the United States in that part of the world. Its policies are so integrated with American policies that they use the same language.

I think I'm representing a new generation of Latinos - bilingual, bicultural people.

All that I can say is people who represents Karnataka in the Rajya Sabha should speak our language and represent our interests. How can your neighbour safeguard your interests when he cannot even speak your language or understand your difficulties. So, it is better to have our own people.

The language of America changed with the election of Bill Clinton, because with all due respect to my friends on the Republican side, Bill Clinton is the best communicator of the last 50 years. He felt your pain.

I think 'immigration' is a bad word for many Republicans.

I don't understand the word 'hunk.'

Introductions are always weird for me because my name is Hari and it's constantly mispronounced . 'Hurry', 'Hairy' - there are different ways to screw it up, and it leads to these awkward conversations.

I'm a teacher and a writer; my life is words. When I see the denigration of language, it hurts me, and it's easy to denigrate a word by trivializing it.

I love talking in an American accent. Even though it hurts my face after a few hours.

I heard someone say the other day that they thought it was sexier to call someone their fiance instead of their husband or wife.

Hyperbole is something I'd better avoid.

I am just fascinated by music and I want to know how to identify all the things I love about it; to me music theory is like learning another language and then being able to explain how much you love something more clearly.

The accent in England can change literally from street to street, and people have this sort of feudal tribalism whereby you can identify somebody's provenance by their voice.