Quotes About Language

Also, I think having a musicality about me that helps in identifying different things in languages and getting them right.

What is your identity, and how do you know who you are if you don't have language?

If I could talk in only one language for the rest of my life, it'd be Tamil.

What I love about 'Culpables' is that it's a completely clean song. We do not speak ill of women or men. The song is clean. It does not have bad words.

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.

Words are illusions.

The language of the moment or, as it were, the language of the order in which we live, is the image. I felt that if I wanted to commune with the public, I should best do so through the language of image. It's a conscious embrace of a contradiction.

The God of the Hebrews is a God that human language, we're not even supposed to speak the holy name. We were told in the Second Commandment we could make no images of this God, and I don't think that means just building idols, I think that means also trying to believe you've captured God in your words, in the Creeds, in the Scriptures.

I feel like I can communicate much better using images than words.

For me, nudity and strong language have never been huge loadbearing elements of how I like to tell a story. Graphic images certainly are.

We do not need to have a way to talk clearly about other people's images.

After we become literate, we literally 'think differently' about language: images of brain activation between literate and nonliterate humans bear this out.

We just need more complex, important roles that tell our experiences as an immigrant; as someone with an accent, but also American; but also someone who's second or third-generation American, born and raised here who actually don't speak any language other than English.

You know, I think there are certain words like 'illegitimate' that should not be used to describe a person. And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.

How I say it has as much of an impact on what people think of me as what I say.

For a lot of people, and I'm one of them, where you are and who you're spending your time with greatly impacts your accent.

If something is too perfect, it doesn't speak your language. If it's imperfect, I understand it.

I love an imperfect rhyme.

Words are an imperfect medium for explaining.

Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness.

I hate the words 'handicapped' and 'disabled'. They imply that you are less than whole. I don't see myself that way at all.

I don't like when I say 'honestly' - not to imply that I'm otherwise not honest.

The biggest lesson I've learned by living abroad for the last four years is the importance of communication.

Having a facility for language is an important part of being an author.