Quotes About Language

Thinking and saying you are handicapable instead of handicapped will not change anything about your disease or illness. It will help you think more positively about it though.

Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in German.

It's a bit odd to have a daughter who sounds American.

If an offer comes my way, I would love to sing in every Indian language. It will be like an ode to my fans from every corner of the country.

It's completely beyond comprehension that you just can't say anything without offending somebody or the other.

Good grief, we're getting offended by everything these days! People can't say anything without offending somebody.

Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language.

Some people can do things and get away with it. Comics are famously like that. Why is it that some guys can say the most horrible things and it's not offensive, it's funny?

All labels are offensive in some way.

When members of this House use inflammatory language, use offensive language, it does not help the process. It is beneath the dignity of this body and this country.

A lot of people said I tried to speak white on the phone. That is farthest thing from the truth and offensive.

I think that 'Judaizing the Galilee' is not an offensive term. We used to talk like that.

My writing is about connecting ways of talking to human relationships. My purpose is to show that linguistics has something to offer in understanding and improving relationships.

I wanted to become a director before I wanted to become a writer. When I was 10, people would ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, and I said, 'Walt Disney.' I wanted to make films. But I wasn't offered a camera. I was offered language. So I started telling stories in the theatre and then in my novels.

Bejoy Nambiar had offered me 'Shaitaan' some years ago. But I wasn't confident about my Hindi.

I was offered my first film right after my 10th board exams. Back then, I didn't even know they made films in the South. Films, I thought, were either in Hindi or English.

I got good offers from Bollywood because I can speak Hindi very well.

As a writer and former elected official, I believe in the power of words.

I don't know if I officially proofread my father's book, but I read it. I did get some conception of grammar in general from that.

Oh Mr. Webster could never define what's being said between your heart and mine.

Oh my God, my English is the worst!

You know, you're living in a society where if you say something that you might think may be OK, when it's more sensitive to that particular culture. You have to be very, very careful.

My Hindi is OK. I think I am better with Tamil. I remember the Tamil words.

When I did 'Frantic,' I didn't have a lot of experience. My English was so bad, and I did an OK job, I think, but I was not amazing.