Quotes About Language

It's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

It makes me insane when people say 'Ossies.' It's Ozzies. Ozzies!

When the insane people start the chatter, there's no way to win that fight. It's literally like arguing with someone who is speaking another language, so there's no engaging with that kind of stuff.

I have to watch my language. I think a lot about the words I use in both the public environment and the dressing room. The language you use is a direct insight into how you are feeling.

While I admire the insights of many of the people in the world of computing, I get this cold feeling that I speak a different language.

The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.

I've always been inspired by people who can speak other languages.

Every different director has another language - for instance, Hitchcock does not like any bright color ever, unless the story says 'there goes the girl in a red dress.'

Well it was not exactly a dissertation in logic, at least not the kind of logic you would find in Whitehead and Russell's Principia Mathematica for instance. It looked more like mathematics; no formalized language was used.

It was important to me to become day-to-day fluent and functional in another language, and about 10 years ago, I went to Rome for the first time and felt an instant gut connection and wanted to get to know the city.

I found that Scottishness and Englishness are actually strong, instinctive things, whatever the historical reasons. Even the accent changes - just two inches across the border.

They've got so many Latin players we're going to have to get a Latin instructor up here.

I'm the only instrument that's got the words, so I've got to be able to get that across.

Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work.

I don't remember consciously not being able to play an instrument. It's been kind of like a language for me.

The French no longer respect their language, because they no longer love themselves, and, no longer loving themselves, they no longer love what was the instrument of their glory - their language.

Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There's always going to be slippage between the words and the infinite complexities of a thought. As a writer, I find that frustrating, but as a social animal, I wouldn't have it any other way.

Voice is the first instrument.

The word 'embarrassing' is an insulting word, to tell you the truth.

I never worked with a dialogue coach before, but I'd hate it if an American did a British accent and didn't do it well. It would be insulting.

I don't like this word, 'Feminazis,' or 'libtard.' I don't like these words, because I feel there's no true understanding of the word 'feminism,' there's no understanding of the word 'liberal,' and I find these very derogatory and insulting.

To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults.

Usually male directors have to use foul language to get the job done. But I never came down to that level as being a women I wanted to keep my respectability intact.

Telangana is not like Jharkhand or Chhattisgarh, nor even like Haryana. Apart from the language it shares with the rest of Andhra Pradesh, it is today more integrated economically into the state as a whole.