Quotes About Language

Writers are nerds.

I'm a bit nerdy about accents. I love it.

'Rednecks' always made me nervous to play, but I'm glad I wrote it and I continue to play it. It's just that the language is so rough.

I was very nervous about the accent. I was very nervous about being an American.

Every time I've been around Beyonce, I get so nervous that I forget how to speak English.

I'll be honest: I don't even really know what 'Netflix and chill' means.

You can't say whatever you want on network television.

I work in a mix of areas and am informed by them all: child development, psycholinguistics, education, and most especially, cognitive neuroscience.

My neutral accent is Bolton.

The language that we use now impacts on the ability to vote, it impacts on the marketplace; instead of making things clear, it makes it more confusing. I think we need to stop using neutral language and speak in straighter terms. So when you agree to something, you actually get what you agreed to in the first place.

Dumbness comes from the fact that a child is born deaf and that it consequently never learns how to articulate, for it is by the medium of hearing that such instruction is acquired.

An agent once told me that if I would lose my English accent, I would never stop working in America.

Some people accuse the new generation of being ignorant, maybe ignorant for the old generation, but it's a new language.

I want to broaden my horizons, speak a new language, meet new people, and experience a different culture.

When I came here I moved to London and I was meeting so many new people and had to speak only in English, which is not my native language.

I remember my jaw would hurt because I wasn't used to speaking English all the time. Like how, even if you exercise, you'll play kickball one day, and then you're like, 'Wait, I run, but new places are hurting because I don't use my muscles this way.' My mouth was not used to making these sounds.

When I start gearing up to do each new season of 'Murdoch', my wife will often catch me out. I start speaking differently. I start enunciating, and start using certain highbrow words, and things like that.

I'm one for new things: I like new technology, I like new music, I'm not entrenched in some view of what culture should be. I like the fact that it's constantly changing and that language is changing, that behaviour changes.

If a writer doesn't do anything but give a new word to his language and, from there, maybe to other languages, I think that writer redefines the world.

To find a new word that is accurate and different, you have to be alert for it.

The idea of what a feminist is has changed so much that there needs to be a new word for it.

I was born in New York City speaking French at home.

Dealing with a newborn baby, a new language and new people can't be easy on anyone.

I was a Kannada journalist and had worked in 'Samyukta Karnataka' newspaper as a proofreader.