Quotes About Language

I lived in Germany from when I was 6 until I was 10, so, of course, I played soccer. When I came back to the States, nobody played soccer, and none of the schools taught German, so I couldn't continue to excel in those categories.

Whitney wanted to eradicate the idea that in the case of a language we are dealing with a natural faculty; in fact, social institutions stand opposed to natural institutions.

I am not in the least eloquent or fluent with languages. My writing on social media is quite pedestrian. But even if it was near any acceptability, I would not be in a position to pen a script or a book.

My responsibility is to make a film and find my dramatic language; I don't have any political or social responsibility.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

Socialist ideology is making France go to pot, and the French language with it.

Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed.

Black and white is so familiar. It's how we see the printed word in books, so it's kind of neutral in a way. Yet it's ironic that black and white is so charged socially, what with its association with race.

When people say stuff to us casually in reviews, if they write about it in a condescending way with really gendered language, that's not really about me. It used to hurt my feelings more than it does now. That's not about us as a band or me as a person. That's about how you feel about women, and that's a societal thing.

I grew up in a literary home and majored in French, English, and sociology. They all have served me well over the years.

Edith Piaf knocked my socks off when I was 8, but I didn't know what she was singing about.

When I was playing with the Brooklyn Nets, we still called people soft, but we never equated it with being gay. It shows people are capable of changing language and culture.

What we're trying to do is take these words and soften them. I'm an African-American comic. I use the b-word in my act.

I probably should be a little more cautious with how I speak, and I think my delivery needs to be a little softer.

Software is the language of automation.

For Mandarin scripts, there's software now where you can just insert the Chinese script, and it comes out all in pinyin.

At Sussex University, I developed a system called WinLocX to help with the process of translating software into foreign languages.

I don't naturally have the body language of a software guy.

I am trying to persuade my family to spend more time in China. It's no fun to be in exile. I can't even figure out the basic 26 letters, let alone operate, in English. I often feel that although I've found the sky of freedom above my head, I've lost the soil I stand on. I need to be back in my motherland, where I can find inspirations.

It's great that in the German language I've sold almost 30 million books. Isn't that amazing?

I have almost never written about my experience as a soldier on the battlefield, because I tried, and I found that it is beyond my capacity to describe the battlefield. The battlefield consists mostly of smells, and it is very difficult to describe smells in words - very difficult indeed.

Ford Maddox Ford's 'The Good Soldier' is my favourite novel. I first read it in the 1950s and have read it about 20 times since. It's possibly the best-constructed book in the English language.

However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.

I want to speak English perfectly. In fact, I want to speak English just like I fight, and, until that moment, I find it very hard to do an interview solely in English.