Quotes About Language

If words are doing their job, then their novelty will not be the most noticeable thing about them.

Can I eventually take classes and eliminate my accent? Sure. I guess anybody could. But this is who I am, and this is what I got. And there are millions of people who sound just like me. Millions. It's not like this is some novelty.

Nowhere in the world will you find a cowboy speaking in Tamil.

Bachchan is the luckiest man on earth. No one knows the nuance of the Hindi language or can incorporate elements from stage on to the Hindi cinema the way he does.

If we want to change the nuance of a particular word we have to change that ourselves.

Every language will have different nuances. But language cannot be the basis for discrimination or exclusion.

I love the English language, the colors of it, the many, many nuances, the different influences. I find German stilted, in a way, by comparison.

If you were to talk to somebody from Georgia you would understand what he's saying, he wouldn't sound like your next-door neighbor in Montana, but other than that it's the same language, just with a few little different nuances. That's just like country and blues, or blues and rock 'n' roll. They're the same music with different accents.

I'm a writer, so I like nuances.

It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.

Each actor, every single time you work with an actor, you have to come up with the language that's going to serve them. And that's what allows them to give the performance that you want to nurture inside of them and what you think they're capable of giving.

People learn English from 'Full House.' Candace's husband, Valeri Bure, he learned to speak English watching it... 'Aw, nuts.' 'You got it, dude.'

I understand why people went nuts for 'The Artist.' We use words so much, it's nice to be able to explore a different way of communication, to be able to express silently what someone - or something - is thinking or feeling.

Indian nouns are extremely connotive; that is, the name does more than simply denote the thing to which it belongs - in denoting the object, it also assigns to it some quality or characteristic.

Pronouns really don't matter in a song - 'I' or 'he' or 'she' or even subscribing a lyric to an inanimate object.

Some of us do talk about women like objects, which dehumanizes them.

Obscenity comes from grime.

I don't know how one actually would define obscenity. I'm sure the definition is different according to the age one is living in.

Be obscure clearly.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

I'm showbiz-fat. It's so funny, in all the reviews that I read, no one wants to use the word 'fat' as an adjective. So I have to deal with 'dimpled-kneed,' 'hefty,' 'plus-sized,' the most obscure words you can imagine.

Writers are the ones who figure out how to put their observations into words.

I try to keep my sentences quite pared back. What I really want to do is observe people's relationships and interactions. I don't want language to get in the way of that. It's quite a difficult process to achieve that, for the language to feel clear.

You have to be open to dreaming. It's a complicated language, but I'm obsessed with it.