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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.

Quotes by Sam Graves

I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the...

Quotes by Sally Kirkland

I'm very much aware of the need for politicians to be careful with language as well as what they do.

Quotes by Sajid Javid

Language is very important. If you are condoning acts of terror... you are giving credibility to a view that is perverse and is wrong.

Quotes by Sadiq Khan

I don't speak Spanish, and I get so much crap for it. Oddly enough, it was the first language I learned, but somehow I lost it throughout the years. I can understand pieces of it, but I don't speak it....

Quotes by Ryan Guzman

The power of real debate is in the language and intellectual honesty of the debaters, alongside the engagement of spectators.

Quotes by Ruzwana Bashir

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

Quotes by Russell Brand

After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?

Quotes by Russell Hoban

Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.

Quotes by Russell Hoban

It is okay to experiment with language. Writers such as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf experimented with writing, but basically, one must have a familiarity with the language. And to have that, one must respect it.

Quotes by Ruskin Bond

We encrypt 'Drag Race' with the secret language that kept gay people linked for many years before the '80s.

Quotes by RuPaul

No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude.

Quotes by Rupert Murdoch

All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature.

Quotes by Rudolf Steiner

Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.

Quotes by Rudolf Arnheim

The wonderful thing is, imagination is universal all over the world, no matter what the language is.

Quotes by Roy Horn

The only thing that kept us from going bigger worldwide was the language barrier. All the corn that we did on 'Hee Haw,' it was hard to translate into their slang.

Quotes by Roy Clark

If I could have any power, I think flying would definitely be up there! Along with speaking every language.

Quotes by Roxanne McKee

I studied French in high school and German in college and I once took a 24-hour Italian crash course. English has by far the most words in it of any other language. Our money might not be worth anything anymore,...

Quotes by Roy Blount, Jr.

When money gets too far away from actual, physical, real equity and property it gets too abstract and too distantly derived and then suddenly it's not worth anything anymore. And the same is true of language.

Quotes by Roy Blount, Jr.

'Beloved' by Toni Morrison. I think I read it first in college and have read it every few years since. The language itself is remarkable. I don't know that I've read a book that explains America so well.

Quotes by Ross Gay

Frequently Asked Questions

What do these Language quotes explore?
This set looks at the limits of ordinary language for describing science, the case for more scientific language in public discourse, feeling outmatched by the sheer size of the English language, and wanting to master the technical language of a craft like directing. If you like exploring how words shape meaning, so is our Like collection.
Is there a quote about language struggling to describe science?
Yes — one quote says, "The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language."
Is there a quote calling for more scientific language in public life?
There is. One quote argues, "More scientific language and less diplomatic rhetoric may make this world even better." For more ideas along these lines, see our More collection.
Is there a quote about the English language being hard to keep up with?
Yes — one quote admits, "Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head." Shakespeare is famous for exploring love as much as language, and you can see more of that in our Love collection.
Is there a quote about wanting to master a craft's technical language?
Yes — one quote shares, "The producing thing has come quite naturally to me. I feel like for directing, I would like to be more technically-savvy. I want to have the language under my belt." For more reflections framed in first person, see our Me collection.

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