Quotes About Language

When I first arrived in the country, I really didn't speak much of the language. I knew two words coming here, and they were 'Hello' and 'Shut up.'

I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings.

The Scottish are not shy when it comes to expressing themselves.

I do find the sibling connection endlessly fascinating, as I do all family dynamics. I like how siblings seem to create their own parentless mini-civilization within a family, one that has its own laws, myths, language, humor, its own loyalties and treacheries.

I took acting and elocution lessons, to get rid of my Sicilian accent.

Along with 'normal' people in this country, I'm sick and tired of political correctness.

I think with all my books, language has been their subject as much as anything else. Language can elide or displace or sideline whole groups of people. You can't necessarily change the way language is used, but if it becomes something you're conscious of... that gives you a certain power over it.

We Liberal Democrats believe in dialogue. We believe in cooperation with both sides of industry and between both sides of industry. And we believe in the language of cooperation. We reject the language of confrontation.

I can identify with Riho because I was the talent that didn't speak the language in Japan. I'm very excited for the fans to kind of build a relationship with her because it's going to take work from both sides to understand one another.

I think being deaf gave me an increased sense of sight.

Deafness and sign language are extremely close to my heart.

I lived for a year in Scotland. British sign language is very different from American.

A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.

I learned to speak first, and then to sign. I have never really known what it was like to hear, so I can't compare hearing aids to normal hearing.

Although I'm not fluent in sign language by a long way, I could have a fairly decent conversation.

If I don't have words, it's a sign I'm not reading enough.

When I write a word in English, a simple one, such as, say, 'chief,' I have unwittingly ushered a querulous horde into the room. The Roman legionary is there, shaking his cap, or head, and Andy Capp is there, slouching in his signature working man's headgear.

Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away.

Speaking, writing, and signing are the three ways in which a language lives and breathes. They are the three mediums through which a language is passed on from one generation to the next.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things.

Our people could not talk with these white-faced men, but they used signs which all people understand.

Chimps can do all sorts of things we thought that only we could do - like tool-making and abstraction and generalisation. They can learn a language - sign language - and they can use the signs. But when you think of our intellects, even the brightest chimp looks like a very small child.

The importance of an artist is bringing new signs into a language.