David Crystal Quotes

People are very ready to criticize other people's accents. There's no correlation between accents and intelligence or accents and criminality, but people do make judgments.

David Crystal

• People

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Television
  • Own
  • Watch

• I worry about whether SBA programs are still doing what they are meant to do - support lenders who fund good business startups and good expansion plans.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Good
  • Business
  • Support

• If you're going to play a villain, there's no greater compliment than being told that you give people nightmares. I never thought I would be the actor that would give people nightmares.

  

  Valorie Curry
  • People
  • Thought
  • Villain

• It always annoys me when stars grumble about fans coming up to them in the street. I love it. These young stars today with all their airs and graces, they need to remember it is an honour and a privilege to make money from acting. How hard is it?

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Remember
  • Stars
  • Privilege

• No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Good
  • Learning
  • Actor

• The U.S. should worry about the effects of its polices on the rest of the world. We would like to live in a world where countries take into account the effect of their policies on other countries and do what is right, broadly, rather than what is just right given the circumstances of that country.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • World
  • Live
  • Country

• I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Love
  • Like

• Love is also a very violent thing. Totally violent. Suddenly, you are, like, at this party your friends invite you to, and you meet this person, and your life is turned upside down, and the next day you can't stop thinking about them. That's violent. Hopefully, it's for the better, but it's a violent thing.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Life
  • Love
  • Friends

• In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Food
  • California
  • Vote

• I miss my horse. He's in Los Angeles.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Horse
  • Miss
  • Los Angeles

• I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.

  

  B. B. King
  • Different
  • Love
  • Like

• I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Life
  • Love
  • Parents

• I never wanted to be one of those actors with a political agenda.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Political
  • Never
  • Agenda

• Work faithfully, and you will put yourself in possession of a glorious and enlarging happiness.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Work
  • Happiness
  • Yourself

• I love the immediacy of those old analog machines; it's really inspiring. You just set them up to play, and they go, playing the same thing until you switch the pattern.

  

  Aaron Funk
  • Play
  • Thing
  • Inspiring

• It's difficult losing, but it's even more difficult when you didn't make a shot. I could see the ball just didn't go your way on an out-of-bounds play or something like that, but when you're just not making them, it's frustrating.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Play
  • Difficult
  • Losing

• Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Audience
  • See
  • Blue

• Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Reading
  • Joy

• If a cream can give you confidence then you really have to check your whole confidence department in the first place.

  

  Freida Pinto
  • Confidence

• I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems.

  

  John C. Hawkes
  • German

• I can't speak for the Kathryn Stockett, but I would guess that she feels proud of the progress the South has made because, growing up, she experienced a very different Mississippi than the one that exists today.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Different
  • Today
  • Proud

• I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to be a good guy, a bad guy, a victim, an abuser. There are all kinds of people in the world, and playing them is what acting is all about.

  

  Kevin Bacon
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• My feeling is... when you show up to a movie set where there's, like, 50 people standing around and months of preparation gone into it, you want to be as prepared as possible, so you should make a million baguettes. That might not actually help in any explicit way, but it'll make you feel more prepared.

  

  Jesse Eisenberg
  • People
  • Up
  • Movie

• People are very ready to criticize other people's accents. There's no correlation between accents and intelligence or accents and criminality, but people do make judgments.

  

  David Crystal
  • People