Quotes About Language

I'm not a French singer.

English is like music. The English language is really fit for singing. The notes match the feelings, and it makes sense.

Good music is good music no matter what language you're singing in. I think my fans appreciate the fact that I'm not afraid to be myself. I'm proud to be an Arab.

They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that.

Remember: Y'all is singular. All y'all is plural. All y'all's is plural possessive.

Nobody's ever called me Sir Richard. Occasionally in America, I hear people saying Sir Richard and think there's some Shakespearean play taking place. But nowhere else anyway.

I've seen almost all of Rajinikanth sir's movies, at least the ones that have come to Mumbai, since I don't understand Tamil. I loved him in the movie 'Hum' as well.

It's spelled, like, S-E-R-G. I always thought it would be funny if I called my son 'Sir.' Like calling your daughter 'Ma'am,' or something like that.

Women become aunties as soon as they are married while men become sir. And this happens not just in India but everywhere in the world, including Brazil.

My father was very disappointed by war and fighting. And he thought language could help us out of cycles of revenge and animosity. And so, as a journalist, he always found himself asking lots of questions and trying to gather information. He was always very clear to underscore the fact that Jewish people and Arab people were brother and sister.

My sister called her pillow a pilgo. My brother called his pacifier his nimma. But I don't think I was much of a word generator myself.

Americans and French are notoriously monolingual, especially earlier generations. Language is a sense of pride in both cultures. I think that the French and Americans are like brothers or sisters who are so similar that they irritate one another.

It comes from within to not be ashamed of our brothers and sisters who have accents.

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

A sitcom. I hate that word.

Just saying I'd like to do a sitcom is poison words, isn't it?

People enjoy sitting back knowing they won't hear a lot of four-letter words.

When you're six years old, the word 'poo' is the funniest word on God's earth, but this insults my intelligence.

When I started writing poetry in my senior term of high school - I was sixteen - I felt in touch with a secret language. It gave me a sense of identity. I suddenly discovered I wasn't alone.

Yes and, you know, I can't use the nice words anymore because I used to chicken out by using them. I used to call myself plus size, used to call myself chubby. I used to call myself overweight.

There was a Burger King in Hamilton, N.Y., where Colgate is, that had three sizes: Small, Medium, and Liter. I would go in there and order a large. And they'd say, 'We don't have large; we have liters.' So they'd make us order liters of cola, which I found to be just anti-American.

I could speak three languages when I was six, and when I went to school, I only liked to read and sketch. At five, I could write and everything.

There is no more important foundational skill than reading.

Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language.