Quotes About Language

Therefore, the legacy of pan-Arabism as a phase in postwar Arab politics lies not in its failure over half a century to achieve Arab unity but in the way it captured the high ground of all politics: the language and fundamental categories it is conducted in.

This is too big a word for human beings to understand. Like is more useful and powerful than love.

My mother is really the person I learned to curse from. She discourages me from saying that in interviews. But it's true.

I can speak Cantonese, but I can't speak about fashion - I learnt all my fashion in Europe, so often, during interviews in Chinese I just don't know the right word - it can be very hard to explain things.

I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare.

I'm intimidated by anyone with a British accent.

People who do not speak our language very well do complain of feeling rebuffed by French people, who can sometimes be impatient, or even intolerant.

I like to introduce a few lost gems when I can to fellow word-lovers, and would genuinely love some of them to make a comeback.

If you're going somewhere international, try to learn a little bit of the language. It goes a long way to be able to introduce yourself, ask for things, and even say hello to someone in a new country!

I got introduced to Shakespeare at four years old, and I fell in love with the language.

To my bad luck, my first schedule for 'Natasaarvabhowma' was in Kolkata and I was not really introduced to the language.

I'm squandering invaluable gray matter by censoring myself.

To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.

You have to really understand how people speak, and you have to reconstruct it... Most pleasure in writing, you know, is in inventing.

If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence.

I enjoy the inventive ways in which language is manipulated to make meaning.

My kids have grown up knowing that their mom made a big investment in making sure there was art and language instruction in school and books in the library. Hopefully, they've internalized that.

Word - that invisible dagger.

In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.

I think it's really important that we have diversity - whether it's different languages, cultures - be involved in film and in the arts.

You can listen to carpenters talk for hours in Ireland. The people have a relationship to words that I don't think you will run into anyplace in the world.

I used to have an Australian accent for school and an Irish accent for home.

It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish.

We used to speak Irish - Gaelic Irish - around the dinner table, but over the years, we lost that.