Quotes About Language

I think the word 'blog' is an ugly word. I just don't know why people can't use the word 'journal.'

To take the ugly language out of 'Ragtime' is to sanitize it, and that does it a great disservice.

It's not a deliberate thing. It's not like I was rejecting the UK, which is what the papers said. It's just that when you spend a lot of time in your formative years around an accent, you're going to pick it up. I had been living in LA for a bit and that's what happened.

I managed to do some classes in Ukraine but people there didn't really speak English. They spoke Russian so that's what I learned there.

I was an exchange student for a summer, and most of that summer was in Ukraine. I used to say 'the Ukraine' until I was there, and one of the Ukrainian college students I got to be good friends with, he said, 'Do you say I'm going back to the Texas,' and I said, 'No.' He said, 'We don't say we're going back to the Ukraine, either.'

When I was a kid, my daily routine was playing make-believe, and I kind of created these stories throughout the day. And when it came time to go to preschool, my English wasn't really so great because my mother wanted me to learn Ukrainian, so she signed me up for these children's theater groups.

Living freely means being able to freely communicate in your native language and to be guided by the 10th article of the constitution, which defines Ukrainian as the only state language and guarantees the unhindered development of Russian and all the other languages.

Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.

The word processor is a better tool than a quill pen because you can do so much more with it, but on the other hand, what you have to say and how you say it is the ultimate determination.

I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us toward ultimate reality.

The ultimate storyteller is Shakespeare, who was able to get the 'groundlings' to laugh at his bawdy humor and storylines but could still be studied by scholars to this day for the complexity of his language, meter, and symbolism. That's the real guy.

In the past some of the most influential Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologians, such as Maimonides, Aquinas and Ibn Sina, made it clear that it was very difficult to speak about God, because when we confront the ultimate, we are at the end of what words or thoughts can do.

The North and South were one people sharing one language and one culture for about 5,000 years. Ultimately, we should reunite.

Ultimately, it's about the quality of the writing whatever style you are writing.

You'd think after 8 years of things called 'The Patriot Act' and 'No Child Left Behind' they would know that we have figured out the 'Call it what it ain't' PR ploy by now, but... um... no.

I'm often loose with my tongue. I may have said something about the NAACP being un-American or Communist, but I meant no harm by it.

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.

I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell.

Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.

It would be some sort of shock horror story if a child left school unable to read or write. But we do not teach explicitly, or test in the main, either speaking or - much more importantly - listening.

I ask unanimous consent that I be able to deliver a floor speech on immigration reform in Spanish.

In my worst moments, I think the biggest effect of 'Eats, Shoots & Leaves' was to kill the happiness of people who had previously skipped through life, unaware of all the atrocities lurking in the world around them.

There are so many unbelievable words... But that doesn't mean I have a favorite word.

The best scheme of Phonetics is a stiff uncertain thing.