Language Quotes
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The language of women should be luminous, but not voluminous.
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I love the Bronte sisters, but I feel a closer kinship to the Ephron sisters, Nora and Delia, if only because their work makes me laugh more than the Brontes. I also love the Mitford sisters with their secret language and their endless letters back and forth.
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I think literary theory has not been terribly good for English studies in a while. It's not that theory isn't interesting, but it isn't about books, or the idiosyncrasies and complexities of putting language together.
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There's almost no content in terms of language at all. I don't like using language to convey meaning. I'd rather use images and music.
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My stories do have plot. They're not just scattered language; they're controlled, toward an end.
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My plays have been translated into all of the official languages of South Africa except Afrikaans.
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Lots of people speak Afrikaans. It's not a statement; it's just a language that we use to communicate. It has its own flavour; it's got its own slang. People laugh. People like it. They like us being open.
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To feel estranged from language is to lose your own body.
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Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside?
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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Nothing much interested me other than playing with language and telling stories and doing something with the wonders of the world around me.
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Describing certain sounds, there's a common language that guitar players have.
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Understanding that these statements do not represent reality, we should not be threatened by the language that he has used.
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I love literature, the English language and storytelling. I also have thirty horses and seventy foxhounds to feed.
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People appreciate when you make an effort to speak their language.
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DNA is a code of four letters; proteins are made up of amino acids which come in 20 forms. So the ribosome is a very clever machine that reads one language and operates in another.
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I am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare.
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We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.
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I love language. It doesn't bother me that its effects are partial. To me that is very sanity-producing. It would be weird if the effects of language were more than partial, if your whole life existed within your texts. That would be much scarier to me than language being an inadequate tool to represent.
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I am most familiar with the Gujarati language.
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What I know is the characters in a Southern town. I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long. And I know the neighborhoods, and I hopefully know the people, and I feel a connection to them. And I also feel like I'm honoring them when I talk about them.
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If I didn't have children I might be more of a lush than I am. I like booze. I struggle with smoking. And I'm a big swearer. I'm trying to rein it in but I do think it's a nice seasoning of language.
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While taking sign language in high school, one of our assignments was to go out and participate in the deaf community, so I really got to know a lot of the group from that. I felt like they needed a little bit more of a voice because people treat them different just because they're hearing impaired.
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I've never lived in an English-speaking country, ever, but I lived in Austria. So, my second language is German. And when I went to school, I had a lot of classes in English.
