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Quotes About Language

So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words.
~ Godfrey Reggio
I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English.
~ Hector Hugh Munro
People have fallen in love with words and lost the world. It's time to regain it.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
Tears are the noble language of eyes, and when true love of words is destitute. The eye by tears speak, while the tongue is mute.
~ Robert Herrick
Did you know that there are over three hundred words for love in canine?
~ Gabrielle Zevin, Elsewhere
If you love language, it will love you back.
~ John Simon
I believe 'love' is very nice to hear, but it's used so much that it's come to a point where it's almost meaningless.
~ Park Chan-wook
Considering that I'm British and I talk the way I do, I love it when a director takes a chance on me.
~ David Oyelowo
Learn to love the data and, for heaven's sake, write well.
~ Ian Lurie
I love anything that kind of removes me from myself and employs something else. So, I love accents and I love pretending.
~ Jamie Bell
As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of language.
~ June Jordan
I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.
~ Robert Morgan
It's fun to read things when you don't know all the words. Even children love it... they come up against weird words, and the weird words excite them.
~ Salman Rushdie
Did you know there are thirty-two names for love in one of the Eskimo languages?" August said. "And we just have this one. We are so limited, you have to use the same word.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
Bette Midler can say four-letter words and make you love it.
~ Liberace
Love one another, push the perimeter of this glorious language. Lastly, please show proper courtesy; open not your neighbor's mail.
~ Mark Dunn
A single metaphor can give birth to love.
~ Milan Kundera
I love the laconic. Clearly, I am not of their number.
~ Renata Adler
I love language as I love life itself!
~ Jacques Derrida
Love is the language all animals understand.
~ Anthony D. Williams
I never met a word I didn't love
~ Gail Carson Levine
How can the word love, the word life, even fit in the mouth?
~ Jandy Nelson
I love variety. I love theater. I also love radio. I love language. But, the older you get, you need to earn money. You need to heighten your profile.
~ Indira Varma
I love working in cinema - it can be in any language!
~ Jiah Khan