Quotes About Language

Happily, financial capitalism and free trade have not done away with national languages and literatures, as Marx rather too blithely hoped.

I was born in Missouri, but I was raised in Detroit. One of my stock and trades is accents.

It's rare to find an Indian who speaks Chinese. It's rare to find a Chinese who can speak any of the Indian languages. Neither of them at the trading level - I want to repeat this, at the trading level - can speak English, either.

Shaun White and Danny Kass were obsessed with trading Olympic pins. I bet they can say 'pin' in every language.

A bilingual marriage, by the way, is a great way to stay together for longer than you normally would because you can't understand each other very well.

I like words. I like the way they clash around together and bang up against each other, especially in songs.

The way that words fit together is always interesting to me. I love words.

Speech sounds can be analyzed into fundamental units called phonemes; these move around like protozoa in a drop of water, and, like protozoa, join together and split up.

I came to grotesque language in the patriarchal culture under the dictatorship. The body that was broken into pieces is a sick body. I put the disease of this world and my sick body together.

No, you used nouns and verbs together in a pleasing but illogical format.

Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest of them wrote!

I wrote poems and an essay about that weird language. We still remember it to a certain extent, and it still comes up when we're all together. It's so fundamental to how I think.

As far as the writing goes, I started telling stories as soon as I could talk, and started writing them down as soon as I could string words together.

A country without a language is a country without a soul.

In language gender is particularly confusing. Why, please, should a table be male in German, female in French, and castrated in English?

I am a Mexican that has been lucky enough to travel the world, speaking English, but with a heart that speaks a universal language.

It's daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when the language is incomprehensible.

Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don't have a passport.

Musicians can travel all over the world and have an audience, because there's no language barrier.

Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs.

The best way to travel abroad is to live with the locals.

The photo collage is a way to travel that must be used with skill and precision if we are to arrive... The collage as a flexible hieroglyph language of juxtaposition: A collage makes a statement.

I hope to have more time to think, to look at the sky, dealing with less crisis management, to learn another language, to travel.

His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger self, after being taught, grew up to be the older self and was, therefore, capable of teaching.