Quotes About Language

Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.

I love the sense of belonging in Hong Kong. I love that it is such an international city. I love our food and our language. The people are energetic and passionate. I just really love this city.

In Hong Kong, 'wonton' means swallowing a cloud.

When I read the Koran or hear it read, the images and the poetry, the sound of the language is very inspiring.

When I came to Korea for the first time, I couldn't understand the language.

We have debuted in Japan and Korea, but we also really want to make songs in other languages for global fans if there is an opportunity.

I felt like, I need to do English music; I speak better English than I do Korean. I think the fans enjoy it as well, so let's start making music in English.

I grew up in so much church: English-speaking church, Korean church.

Jennie would speak English to me, and Jisoo helped me out with my Korean.

I've found that one's language abilities, especially for Korean kids like me, get frozen at the age you immigrated. So I've always associated Korea with being a child and being infantilized through my inability to speak.

Whenever I write my music, it's always been in English first and then I take it into Korean.

My grandmother, if she were still alive, she'd be very proud that I held through and did a film in Korean and didn't compromise and then start using that foreign language of English.

I remember hearing my mom saying so many times we should never have left Korea. She would see the way that I was growing up and the fact that I was speaking English and not speaking Korean as well, and she would fear the things that we were forgetting.

I think we use a lot of words and labels when trying to describe people: ones with autism, ones without autism. In general, I think that labeling people is a major issue, and people don't understand the power of language.

A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.

Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication.

I'd never known that anyone could kiss in English, kiss in apologies.

Aiyaaaa," Zheng said softly. And if that meant "holy shit," I agreed.

Poireaux vinaigrette aux grains de caviar." I did a quick translation. "Leeks and fish eggs in vinegar?" He grinned. "It sounds better in French." Yeah, but did it taste better?

Psychiatrist Louann Brizendine states in The Female Brain, "Men use about seven thousand words per day. Women use about twenty thousand.

A pronoun, too, will aptly reflect the number of its antecedent: "they" does not refer to one person, no matter how many personalities she or he has, or how eager you are to skirt the gender frays.

All phone calls are obscene.

A pronoun, too, will aptly reflect the number of its antecedent: 'they' does not refer to one person, no matter how many personalities she or he has, or how eager you are to skirt the gender frays.

The happening and telling are very different things. This doesn't mean that the story isn't true, only that I honestly don't know anymore if I really remember it or only remember how to tell it. Language does this to our memories, simplifies, solidifies, codifies, mummifies. An off-told story is like a photograph in a family album. Eventually it replaces the moment it was meant to capture.