Quotes About Language

My flow follows sometimes what's going on in the hip-hop industry even though I'm speaking Jamaican patois.

I grew up speaking both languages, and for me that's really important.

When I came back from Bolivia, my Spanish was in some ways as good as my English. I am rusty today. But I am comfortable talking in Spanish. I am not flawless or fluent, but I am comfortable. It takes me a day or two speaking a lot of Spanish to get back into a rhythm.

When I speak English, I've been told, I have this patrician way of speaking that's very irritating. It's the whole class thing.

If only Coca-Cola had had the kind of message to accompany its addictive deliciousness that Fox News has, we'd all be speaking Cokelish today.

Speaking and writing English perfectly should not be a privilege. To those who try to politicize this matter, I tell them now, do not mess with the future of our children.

I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.

The thinking is that we started evolving language not by speaking but by gesturing.

In the 1960s, there was a forward way of speaking and inflection.

English is my language because of the history, and what I try to do - and I did that in 'Carpentaria' in particular - is to write in the way we tell stories and in the voice of our own people and our own way of speaking.

When I was a kid, I resented my grandparents not speaking the perfect English I wanted to speak.

When I was a child, I grew up speaking French, I mean, in a French public school. So my first contact with literature was in French, and that's the reason why I write in French.

I speak English. I grew up speaking Bengali. This is the normal, the known, the obvious composition of who I am. Then there's Italian, this strange, other component of me that I've just created. It was a creative process just to learn the language, never mind to start expressing myself in it.

Being partly Italian or, rather, having an Italian last name, I've always dreamed of really becoming partly Italian, of eating piles of mouthwatering fettuccine in the piazza, speaking a language that demands music over mumble, and yes, if I'm honest, perhaps dressing a little better.

Nobody speaks German outside of Germany.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

Yes, I'm half Italian. So my grandfather speaks heavy Italian... and I couldn't understand a word he said.

I want a language that speaks the truth.

The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.

Making fun of people's looks is something that children do - mean children - and, in fact, linguists have determined that Trump actually speaks like a 3rd grader.

I've come to learn that music speaks for itself.

I'm fluent in Spanish, so I can do a character that speaks Spanish.

I speak a little Portuguese, but my daughter speaks it better than me. I always feel that Italy is my home, but it is important for my husband that we also live in France. Sometimes we live as a family all together, but as we are two working actors, sometimes we have to be apart. Sometimes I'm shooting a movie; sometimes he is.

It's good to have someone who speaks your language in everyday life, especially for me, who does not speak English so well.