I think it's linked to the realisation that we're not going to live forever and that the way of saying and the language become more important than the story.
Every usage, no matter how bizarre or nonstandard, fascinates me, as it tells me something about the way language is evolving.
Ever since I was a kid, I just loved those comedians on TV who would just have fun with the language.
Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.
I don't believe in post-racial or post-gay or post-anything, but I do think within a certain group of friends, what matters less is the specificities of race and sexuality, and what matters more is the shared experience, shared language and shared cultural touch points.
In general, every country has the language it deserves.
New fathers, political prisoners, traumatised presidential aides, resolute schoolboys, MEPs addressing unfriendly chambers - we all find that Shakespeare has magically anticipated our precise circumstances. How he was possible, I still don't understand; but there isn't a day I'm not grateful that he speaks to me in my own language.
Most of us do not, in fact, read another language, and so when we read a translation, we have no way of knowing what has been changed or added.
It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.
I would love to be able to speak my own language and maybe have an interview in Irish, maybe after my fights.
Music is the universal language.
Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change. You've got to be boisterous to get results.
Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up.
I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.
I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it.
I don't know Bengali perfectly. I don't know how to write it or even read it. I have an accent, I speak without authority, and so I've always perceived a disjunction between it and me. As a result, I consider my mother tongue, paradoxically, a foreign language.
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
I'm not trying to stump anybody... it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in.
I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language.
I am now completing research supported by NSF and NEH that is mapping changes in the English language through all of North America, for both mainstream and minority communities.
To those of you who study history, economics, sociology, literature and language I present the challenge of the utilization of the enormous resources in our grasp to the problem of creating a genuinely good life for yourselves and your children.
I have an impeccable memory, and I can learn dialogues in any language in 20 minutes, including Telugu and Malayalam.
Theater is about language, so characters have to define themselves through language for an audience.
What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself.
In this respect I suppose I'm the total opposite of Garry. With his very emotive body language at the board he shows and displays all his emotions. I don't.
I would say colonialism is a wonderful thing. It spread civilization to Africa. Before it they had no written language, no wheel as we know it, no schools, no hospitals, not even normal clothing.
'Let God be true but every man a liar' is the language of true faith.
Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.
The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.
You can learn Elvish, if you want. It's a language like Italian and English. You can learn to read it, you can learn to write it, and you can learn to speak it.
Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
I see tendencies, I see body language.
Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.
On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance.
