Quotes About Language

As to Magyar, I think that my speech was incorrect, inappropriate.

What you hear is southern Michigan, not a drawl, but a halting kind of speech where you leave spaces when there shouldn't be any. We take a breath anywhere.

There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.

Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.

A great speech is literature.

Politically correct speech will not defeat the enemy.

Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.

Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.

Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.

But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible.

U.S.A. is the speech of the people.

Russian is such a tough and complex language that I am happy enough to understand everything and read most things pretty well, but, without constant practice, my speech is not what I wish it was, and I would sooner write in crayon than write a letter in Russian.

'Why' is a question no animal can ask, because both the question and answers require speech. Have you ever seen an animal shrug?

I feel like I'm losing my ability to understand reality; like when someone loses their hearing, they can still speak English, but their speech eventually becomes distorted because they can't hear themselves.

I think the first little jolt I got was reading Gerard Manley Hopkins - I liked other poems... but Hopkins was kind of electric for me - he changed the rules with speech, and the whole intensity of the language was there and so on.

Readers in general are not fond of dialect, and I don't blame them. I've read books myself that I've had to put down because sounding out every speech gave me a headache.

If anything is scary about my writing, it's that it's the product of a very particular vision and doesn't reference common speech that heavily. By 'common speech,' I don't mean language as much as an agreed-on way of seeing, or a shorthand.

I went to this arts high school in Greenville, S.C. In speech class, the teacher, a white man, would say, 'You're talking ghetto. Don't talk ghetto.' I'm not only offended, but I'm confused because while there's nothing wrong with people who come from the projects or the ghetto, that's actually not my experience.

Political speeches might represent the ideas of the politician at hand, but often times, it's not written in their own words.

I love English. I learned it from the speeches of Winston Churchill.

The language is always powerful in Shakespeare, but with 'Antony and Cleopatra,' the speeches are so big and muscular and rich - exhausting to speak, actually.

If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless.

Be it Hindi or Hinglish, Zee was never and will never be speechless.

Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction... Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier achieved by free improvisation between people sharing a common attitude, a common language.