Best 3547 quotes in «language quotes» category

...I can’t stop squirming. If fidgets were Wikipedia edits, I would have completely revamped the entry on guilt by now, and translated it into five new languages.

I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an interpreter.

I certainly don't walk around my home or being with my family and just using profane language all the time, but on stage, it's a constant.

I certainly like that the Spanish language is spoken around me.

I certainly self-police my language depending on who I'm talking to. I try to be very careful about using filler words, about not drawling certain vowels, even when I can't say "drawl" without drawling. That's kind of sad, because self-policing inhibits communication. You're more focused on the words coming out of your mouth or that should not be coming out of your mouth than making a connection with the person you're speaking to.

I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people.

I chose a pseudonym, Chris Marker, pronounceable in most languages, because I was very intent on traveling.

I come from a place where you don't need to talk all the time. There are sign languages you learn.

I communicate much better with cats, usually. I know them and their body language - as my own cats know mine very well. Cats are adept at reading subtle signals.

I come from a tradition - from the Jewish tradition, which believes in words, in language, in communication.

I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language!

I could eat healthier, I could drink less. I should be learning another language and working out more, but I'm just always saying, 'Ah, I could get hit by a bus tomorrow.'

I couldn't live without music. I experienced things through music in different countries where you cannot speak the same language, but the music and the dance relates everything.

I cried in English, I cried in french, I cried in all the languages, because tears are the same all around the world.

I could speak Spanish fluently growing up, but I'm so out of practice, and I have such a tremendous respect for songwriting in the Spanish language.

I could teach you how to speak my language, Rosetta Stone.

Ideas do not respect national frontiers, and this is especially so where language and other traditions are in common.

I decided to come back and teach goodness in this business. To teach love, because music is the universal language. We are God's bouquet, and through music we become one.

I definitely do see language serving its users, and when it no longer serves them we need to look for new words.

I definitely have a gift for language that is rhythmic and attractive to the ear, and I have interesting [verbal] imagery which I guess is a poetic touch.

I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.

I didn't know the language of my own wisdom. I wanted to be loved and after all the various relationships I went through, I finally realized I am love. I carry love.

I dislike pastiche; it attracts attention to the language only.

I do have a regard for the musicality of language that came from BBC sitcoms like 'Fawlty Towers.'

I do love to interpret songs in American Sign Language.

I do not share the wish to see my language dead and decently buried

I don't know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran.

I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science.

I don't know whose sensibility I'm responding to. Until someone starts pushing against what they've inherited and starts making their own decisions about language, it's difficult.

I don't have any phobias with any language, and I've grown up listening to Anglo-American rock n roll as well as Welsh-language punk rock and I'm all for sharing languages.

I don't know what it is about the french language, it seems to be scared of coming out of the mouth so it comes out the nose instead.

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.

I don't speak anything fluently, but I love picking up languages and I do this Duolingo app. I started when I moved to Sweden, when I was about 19, 20. I really loved the language; it was super melodic and really sexy.

I don't read my reviews, I measure them.

I don't speak anything very well. The longer that you travel, you find out that you really don't even need to speak the language to get around and get things done, to live in those places. If you're somewhat resourceful and perceptive, you're pretty much going to know what's going on because human nature is human nature: they understand it, you understand it, and it works.

I don't speak ... I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.

I don't think all poems need to be written in conversational language - those are often great poems but there should also be poems of incoherent bewilderment and muddled mystery.

I don't think there's any words in the English language to explain what it's -what it's like to- to sit on Texas death row and your thoughts are laying on that gurney, convicted but innocent and being put to death.

I don't think I've ever quite grown out of it, actually. There was a point where I could recite some of those Elvish verses - which I've mercifully forgotten. But I can still, if really pushed, recite the text of the inside of the ruling ring in the language of Mordor.

I’d thought I knew what beauty was in women; but she’d surpassed all the language I had for it.

I don't use coarse language very often. I have a larger vocabulary than that.

I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself.

I do try to incorporate particular rhythmic and generally sonic motifs I discover in music as such, and if one thinks of language in a narrow sense, that, perhaps, suggests a possibility for a rhythmic sensibility that enters poetry from outside of language.

I dream of a language whose words, like fists, would fracture jaws.

I don't use those terms [like Uncle Tom], and I would never speak in that kind of language.

I do swear a lot, but the advantage is that having played abroad, I can choose a different language from the referee's.

I do that in whatever language of the country I'm in, because the audience appreciate it.

If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.

If a language is corruptible, then a constitution written in that language is corruptible.

If any Englishman dedicated his life to securing the freedom of India, resisting tyranny and serving the land, I should welcome that Englishman as an Indian.