Quotes About Language

When I do Gaelic music, I've learned about Gaelic culture; I've tried to learn the language. Whenever I do mouth music and there's Gaelic speakers in the audience, and they come up and go, 'Good job,' I'm always like, 'Phew.'

Speaking Spanish isn't a benefit in Hollywood.

Silence is ever speaking; it is the perennial flow of language.

A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.

Speaking two languages fluently makes each language not so important.

I can't think of this country without Quebec. Je parle francais. And when I think about being a Canadian, speaking French is part of it.

We can't avoid that our daily and intimate manner of speaking is sometimes rough.

You can express a lot of things, a lot of action without speaking.

I don't think the elite class is only speaking the good English.

If I have a bunch of computer lingo that I have no idea what I'm speaking about, I really need to know what I'm talking about.

I come from Brazil, which is a Portuguese speaking part of the continent.

I was raised speaking English and Spanish. And I also speak Danish. And I can get by in French and Italian. I've acted in Spanish and English, but when something has to do with emotions, sometimes I feel I can get to the heart of the matter better in Spanish.

An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him.

People come from around the world and can understand each other without even speaking the same languages!

Speaking French is good for me and also a mark of respect for the PSG institution.

When you hear someone from the very north of Scotland speaking, I think its nice, very musical and harmonious.

Before you get into the mind, you have to inhabit the physicality. Body language is a great way of speaking.

My grandfather came over from Puerto Rico and raised his kids speaking English so that it would be easier for them to assimilate.

Writing and speaking and communicating, it's something important to me, and something I want to get better at.

There is a pride in speaking this language.

I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is.

In speaking, for convenience, of devices and expedients, I did not intend to imply that Shakespeare always deliberately aimed at the effects which he produced.

In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem.

English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen.