Quotes About Language

Since my schooldays, I've read the translations of Bengali writers. I'm Punjabi, but I read a lot of Bengali and Urdu literature.

During the making of 'Abdullah' I asked the assistant director to teach me Hindi; he taught me to read the script too. He also taught me Urdu. Now I can sign autographs in Hindi, Urdu and can write my name in Tamil.

I was exposed to a Muslim school, so I learnt Urdu. I was exposed to a Hindu school, so I learnt Hindi. I was exposed to a Church of England school, so I got my Senior Cambridge certificate.

I was fascinated with Urdu ever since I was a child.

A kiss can be a comma a question mark or an exclamation point. That's a basic spelling that every woman should know.

Mama had an appreciation of the language. She taught me a love of words, of how they should be used and how they can fill a creative soul with a passion and lead to a life's work.

I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are, what we want to be and what we become.

The only consistent hobby I've had is studying Spanish and French because of some delusion of grandeur to work around the world. I love sports but usually I'm looking for the next job.

Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations.

Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.

You can say 'stop' or 'alto' or use any other word you think will work but I've found that a large bore muzzle pointed at someone's head is pretty much the universal language.

I have to be perfectly honest: You should have an anniversary to acknowledge the way I work the ebonics.

If you want to work on the core problem, it's early school literacy.

I do not so easily think in words.... after being hard at work having arrived at results that are perfectly clear... I have to translate my thoughts in a language that does not run evenly with them.

The aim of scientific work is truth. While we internally recognise something as true, we judge, and while we utter judgements, we assert.

There is always the danger in scientific work that some word or phrase will be used by different authors to express so many ideas and surmises that, unless redefined, it loses all real significance.

Syzygy, inexorable, pancreatic, phantasmagoria - anyone who can use those four words in one sentence will never have to do manual labor.

I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.

If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.

Anyone can express himself or herself, but what writers and poets want to do in their work, more than simply express themselves, is communicate.

The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.

If women are breadwinners and men bring home the bacon, why do people complain about having no dough? I'm confused. Also hungry.

I don't like reading music. It's like learning a language. You can't read music proficiently overnight. It takes time, it's boring work.

Consider six or eight hours a day sacred to the Lord and His work, and let nothing hinder your giving this time (to language study and practice) till you can preach fluently and intelligibly.