Quotes About Language

I don't understand why the accent you speak in has to indicate what level of intellect you have.

It's not the most intellectual job in the world, but I do have to know the letters.

When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.

You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world, more highly civilised too, with rules.

People with accents exist and just because they have an accent doesn't mean they're less intelligent or what-have-you.

I wish I could adjust my voice, but it's just what's happened to me. It's because I've lived abroad for a long time, and my wife is English and my kids all have English accents, and every voice I hear is English. I've never intentionally changed my accent at all.

The book, 'Citizen,' begins with daily encounters, little moments, places where language reveals how racism determines how we interact.

Human language is the new UI layer, bots are like new applications, and digital assistants are meta apps. Intelligence is infused into all of your interactions.

I'm always interested in how people use language to not say what they mean.

Power doesn't just exist. It is threaded through different mechanisms of control. I'm interested in those complexities. But I want to address that in very forthright language and sometimes with images.

Linguistics is very much a science. It's a human science, one of the human sciences. And it's one of the more interesting human sciences.

It's interesting because you feel on the one hand, we understand people from what the say, and in another sense, you'd think that you'd be able to convey more through dialogue.

English is the only interesting thing that's left in my life.

I believe that the interior life is the same for all of us. And because they're steeped in faith, Irish-American Catholics are a people who have a language for the examined life.

Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions.

I believe that music is an international language and deserves to be heard all over the world.

I have set out to change the language of the international system.

When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies.

I am learning English and even try to talk in English with people. I don't care if people are laughing at me. I always look at the Internet for the correct pronunciation and play word games.

Dominant and emerging forms of interpersonal communication have to find their way into literary language somehow - think of the epistolary novels of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

My emotions lose their force when I endeavor to interpret them, and my words seem very inept.

I learned to interpret the ancient pictograph codices and read Nahuatl, the Aztec language.

What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic meaning. The expression 'This is my Body' means this is myself.

I was six or seven and an interpreter.