Twyla Tharp Quotes

I love the English language. Words have power.

Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday.

I've always loved the English language. I just like words, you know?

I love the English language, the colors of it, the many, many nuances, the different influences. I find German stilted, in a way, by comparison.

I'm not trying to stump anybody... it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in.

I love words.

Languages are true analytical methods.

Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish.

No matter where we live, we have to use words. Once you've been looking into words, their stories, it's easy to fall in love with them.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

English is a very expressive language.

I'm quite obsessed with words.

The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn't be any of this.

Language is a virus from outer space.

To write you have to be able to know how to put words together.

Well, language seems to be something that obsesses me. I'm always writing about it.

Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.

I have always loved the fluidity of language - delighting in dialects, dictionaries, slang and neologisms.

The Gaelic language itself depends very much on ear and rhythm, and when those who are thinking in Gaelic speak in English, they get the same rhythm.

Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.

I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think, are very powerful and they convey an intention.

Words are so lovable. How could you not love words?

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.

I always loved reading. I always was the spelling bee champion. I always loved words. I always wanted to know what they meant, why you used them, who first said them. I was always interested in that.

The way that words fit together is always interesting to me. I love words.