Quotes About Language

One thing that really bothers me is when a young black person speaks or leads a conversation, and afterward a white person says, 'You're really articulate.'

It's good to have someone who speaks your own language just to get your mind off of basketball.

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

Music is just another language, but it's very special because it crosses everyone's borders.

Denmark is like a secret little place with its own special language.

It is always something special when you can talk with people from your country. It is always nice to hear advice in your own language.

I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.

I love the power of words - no music or special effects - and I want to demonstrate that power.

When you see the poet laureate saying that every child should have read 'Ulysses' and that you're just giving up on children if you think it's elitist - does that include children with special needs or whose first language isn't English?

The poet is a specialist in something which everyone practises. Herein, poetry differs from the other arts. Everyone does not practise music or painting or even dancing, but everyone without exception puts together words poetically every day of his life.

Poetry isn't just different from prose, it's more important for the human species.

It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection.

I'm not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language.

When we look at the specific effect of the Internet on language, languages asking the question, 'Has English become a different language as a result of the Internet?' the answer has to be no.

I'm very attracted to directors who want to experiment. The thing that attracts me the most are people who are trying find a language that is correct for their film, for that specific film.

For each movie that I do, I like to find a specific language to tell the specific story.

The great thing about not being American is that you don't assume you know what a Southern accent sounds like, so you have to be specific.

With 'True Grit,' the language was very specific, as is Shakespeare. You couldn't really improvise, nor would you really ever have to. I never felt the need to. It was all so beautifully written, and it was all right there.

New York cops are very specific in terms of the way they talk and the way they handle themselves.

Theatricality is a concept. It's not a specific language.

However, the word madda in modern Hebrew specifically means science.

I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used.

I took a Logo programming class in fifth grade. Logo is a language specifically designed for the classroom environment. It was basically doodling through words.