Explore Quotes on Language

I'm nuts about the South - the people, the language, the food, the land, the stories and writers that come from there - but it's hard to know whether I'll use it as a location again.

Language failed me very often, but then, the substitute for me was silence, but not violence.

There's something in the German language that makes you feel like you're getting a hug and a backstab at the same time.

Dream Home' is uncomplicated with everyday language that resonates with homeowners. We also included hundreds of never-before-seen images.

Some people think fashion is frivolous but it's not... it's just that some ideas come and go quickly, and that's the nature of the language of fashion.

Food is language. It helped me to open up the conversation on other things.

'Being Cyrus' is very young in language or grammar. I am not saying that these things can't be achieved in Hindi. All I am saying is that it would not be the same.

If I have written anything, a person will comment using abusive language if they feel it's wrong. Why can't you relax and write properly.

I just can't take anyone who tries to justify a comment using foul language.

I hate all that nonsense about not touching the colonialists' language. All that about it being corrupting and belonging to the master and making you Caliban. That thinking just denies you an outlet. You deny everything that is great from a language, whether it is Conrad or Shakespeare.

If music goes out of language, then you are in bad trouble.

If you talk about language in the Caribbean, you must relate it to history.

The study of gender and language might seem at first to be a narrowly focused field, but it is actually as interdisciplinary as they come.

One of the nice things about the United States is that, wherever you go, people speak the same language. So native New Yorkers can move to San Francisco, Houston, or Milwaukee and still understand and be understood by everyone they meet. Right? Well, not exactly. Or, as a native New Yorker might put it, 'Wrong!'

One of the first studies in the field of gender and language, by Don H. Zimmerman and Candace West in 1975, found that in casual conversations between women and men, women were interrupted far more often.

I like having a paperback original. And until literature catches up with the culture - the violence, language, syntax, compression, concision, complexity and diversity that the Internet offers - books still make sense.

I think 'Mrs. Brown's Boys' in particular is very good, though I do find that perhaps the language is a bit strong for a family, but it is very popular, and I think it's very funny.

I was obsessed with what a song was and what the possibilities of language in a song are.

Dance music is no longer a simple Donna Summer beat. It's become a whole language that I find fascinating and exciting. Eventually, it will lose the dance tag and join the fore of rock.

Music is indeed the universal language and unites people.

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.