Quotes About Language

Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me.

A lot of the language about Millennials is extremely gendered.

More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to.

I would have never dreamt in a million years I would go out with a ballroom dancer from Russia, as, when we were younger, we did not even speak the same language.

When I'm on television, I'm talking to millions of people, so the conversation is totally different. My words are different. My diction is different because now I'm really talking American English and not homeboy English.

If I were bombing with my jokes in English, I would go back to France. Maybe do that mime thing.

When I started off, I always used to do parodies and impressions, mimicking people... and then institutions. You become aware that some institutions have their own language. You almost define yourself by how you speak.

Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words.

Our leaders increasingly see fit to lecture the ethnic minorities on the need to integrate, including of course the need to speak English. What about the need, though, for Britain to integrate with the rest of the world?

Ability to speak the majority language is not just important for inclusion; it is important for minorities to be able to claim their rights and entitlements.

You know, I would like to ask to the other parts of Canada to respect the minority of the French Canadians.

I have been adopted by the millennials, and I'm enjoying every minute of it! I'm learning a new language.

If you can't hear language, you won't be able to understand language and experience normal development. Every minute spent without hearing is a minute a child is not getting back.

One day you're cut off, at the very start you're cut off and can't go back, the language you learn and the whole business of walking and all the rest is for the sake of the single thought, how to get back again.

Las palabras echan a perder lo que se piensa, el papel ridiculiza lo que se piensa.

El lenguaje es inútil cuando se trata de decir la verdad, de comunicar cosas, sólo permite al que escribe la aproximación, siempre, únicamente, una aproximación desesperada y, por ello, dudosa al objeto, el lenguaje sólo reproduce una autenticidad falsificada, una deformación espantosa, por mucho que el que escribe se esfuerce, las palabras lo aplastan todo contra el suelo y lo dislocan todo y convierten la verdad total en mentira sobre el papel.

Headlines don't have to be complete sentences, nor do they have to be punctuated unless they are.

Every language has a grammar, a set of rules that govern usage and meaning, and literary language is no different.

poem is an experiment with and in language, an attempt to discover how best to capture its subject and make readers see it anew.

Another linguistic accident: an unholy marriage of Greek terminology filtered through Latin. That sort of thing begets monsters.

This is based on no science, pseudo of otherwise, but I firmly believe that the elapsed time between the development of language and creation of the first poem was about five minutes.

The principle of critical mass is so simple that it is no wonder that it shows up in epidemiology, fashion, survival and extinction of species, language systems, racial integration, jaywalking, panic behavior, and political movements.

If the Aeneid is language as metaphor, as the sacramental ritualizing of human experience, Cicero's speeches are language as practical tool.

Ideas! There is no occasion for them; all that class of ideas which can be available in such a case has a language of representative feelings.