Quotes About Language

When I was in south Sudan, people used to rap in my village. But the rapping was more in the mother tongue, Nuer.

My mother was a barmaid and I was raised in a trailer park. I'm used to that language. I put it on the screen so that people could interpret it as they wish.

I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical, and I run to a book as a child to its mother.

Mothers remember a child's first words, and quote them in tones usually reserved for Byron.

My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary.

Like my mother before me, I have always been a good speller.

To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were born - and hence gain entrance to a forgotten world of comprehension.

It's okay to be proud of your good English. But don't be proud of being poor at your Mother tongue. Only the scum of the earth do that.

We must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity. It will not be an activity in which all people can participate.

If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go.

I see the dance being used as a means of express what is too deep, too fine for words.

We do what we must, and call it by the best names.

Change your language, change your mindset, change your actions, change your life

The words you speak reveal the heart you have.

Who cut him?' Sam liked saying things like 'Who cut him?' It reminded him of being a kid and watching prison movies, which is probably why prisoners talked like that, too.

Film is one if three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.

Even though we can't communicate using the same language, we use music instead.

Music is an incomparably more powerful means and is a subtler language for expressing the thousand different moments of the soul's moods.

Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.

You cannot sing African music in proper English

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.

I have always taken care to put an idea or emotion behind my words. I have made it a habit to be suspicious of the mere music of words.

In some instances, music is actually better than the spoken word, because it doesn't need to be understood.