Quotes About Language

You know French means like sophisticated, well educated, so far.

Often when you get a really good script, and you receive the new pages, you see that the entire thing has been dumbed down. Films in the '30s and '40s, that were huge blockbusters, were very sophisticated in their language, and the ideas they brought. There were no questions about whether the audience would get it or not.

You don't have to speak English to have sophisticated political opinions.

Hebrew is my first language, so it's really the most personal and the most simple. When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.

I didn't feel like my English was very good until my sophomore year of college.

To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.

For many women, and a fair number of men, saying 'I'm sorry' isn't literally an apology; it's a ritual way of restoring balance to a conversation.

Being Politically Correct means always having to say you're sorry.

It's really difficult for me. Language, I am sorry that I haven't. I think I just always expected that you learn a word in place of a word and when I discovered how difficult the grammar was and learning that was very discouraging for me.

I think I would actually be offended if I was referred to as a donkey in any way. Sorry, nothing personal against donkeys!

I hate it when people use the word 'sorry' aggressively, as in, 'Sorry, but I hate you.' Sorry's an important word, and it shouldn't be abused.

Yes, I am a Bengali but I am sorry I can't converse in Bengali.

I say 'sorry' all the time. I just throw it into sentences.

To have another language is to possess a second soul.

Music is a language in itself and the songs have their own soul, every song has its soul.

The stuff that I dig, it's usually got a soulful component to it. A singer that I really like. I might not understand the language that they're singing in, but I'm really communing with this person.

As a musician, language is almost like another instrument. Every word has a sound.

Acoustic phonetics, which is developing and increasing in richness very rapidly, already enables us to solve many of the mysteries of sound, mysteries which motor phonetics could not even begin to solve.

Don Cornelius gave me an incredulous look regarding my accent. I lessened it; he gave a nod of approval. Instantly, I felt ashamed. I had made my first conscious effort not to sound ethnic.

It's funny because if you ever ask anyone in England to try and do a Beatles accent, no one knows what they really sound like. If you ask anyone in America, they would try and give it a go. English people just know their songs.

Use she, he, it, one, they. You could call me mow mow, and I honestly don't care. A pronoun is just a sound. All I'm listening for in that sound is positivity.

I'm three quarters Scottish, but I sound English. I don't really see British as a race.

We live in an age of sound bites and buzz words.

Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding.