Quotes About Language

I am a consummate metaphor addict.

Metaphor is embodied in language.

Metaphor matters because it creates expectations.

I've simplified much more in my writing. I say what I've got to say, not in metaphor.

We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.

I was in love with metaphors and similes and alliteration, just the play on the words. I was fascinated with that concept.

Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.

Languages are true analytical methods.

Fashion and style are a language - they helps us communicate with each other in a creative way. Style is one of the most important methods of self-expression.

Take a simple name like Nicholas: you can rhyme it with ridiculous. If you aren't too meticulous. You know, every word's rhymable.

I'm not familiar with the metric system.

What I like about Sapphics is the music of a non-iambic metric in English.

I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry.

It is quite common to meet people that live a few kilometers away from Mexico and that have never been there. We need to revive on many levels an illustrious desire to get to know the world, to learn another language, to understand and create empathy with people that live a few kilometers away from us. It's never late to do this.

I like Mexico a lot.

I was in Mexico for three years.

I am very happy to be able to cross borders to go to China, to Mexico, to America, everywhere, and there is an instant understanding of what I do. This is incredibly beautiful because you've suddenly communicated with everyone without speaking the same language. The language of music is able to go anywhere.

I really love Anglo music, and the language as well. Like, my kids, they - born here, Miami. So I just - a little bit more familiar with the language.

It's really hard to find a lot of things that rhyme with Michael Diamond.

My dad likes to take the mickey out of me for saying everything is 'amazing.'

In my mind, if you went back to the Middle Ages, in Italy they'd be speaking Middle Age Italian. And at that point, it would obviously be indecipherable for us, but for the people of that time, it was just normal talking.

English was always my favorite subject in middle school and high school.

I love the Midwest accent.

I never looked up what a Midwestern accent was; I just did a very generic one.