Language Appreciation Quotes

I don't hate language. I have my own language, but I also enjoy the English language. Obviously, you don't read a lot of literature and not care about language.

I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.

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

I've always been in love with language. My favorite book is a dictionary. I have always loved words.

The sounds and rhythms of words are really important to me.

My French is still good. That's a beautiful language and I'm happy to speak it.

I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted.

Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own.

Language is the crowning achievement of human beings, and that is something Muslims have always known and revered. We are a literate people whose miracle is a Book from an unlettered man, peace and blessings be upon him, who was the most articulate and eloquent human being who ever lived. We honor our Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, in honoring language that he loved so much and used so well.

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

I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

I loved and still love watching words flower into sentences and sentences blossom into stories.

I learned to love the feel of good words.

The word 'circumnavigate' is quite a beautiful word.

Words are humanity's greatest natural resource, but most of us have trouble figuring out how to put them together. Words aren't cheap. They are very precious. They are like water, which gives life and growth and refreshment, but because it has always been abundant, we treat it cheaply. We waste it; we pollute it, and doctor it. Later we blame the quality of the water because we have misused it.

I love English and literature.

My most interesting correspondence is with my translators. I marvel at their sensitivity over certain passages that just anyone, even if he knows German well, would not appreciate.

After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence.

We agreed that people are now afraid of the English language. He [T.S. Eliot] said it came of being bookish, but not reading books enough. One should read all styles thoroughly.

I think there's some pretty amazing language in the Bible.

One thing I can say about the French language is that no one in the world loves their language as much as they do. It doesn't matter if you're close - it still sounds terrible to their ears.

I do love perusing the dictionary to find how many words I don't use - words that have specific, sharp, focused meaning. I also love the sound of certain words. I love the sound of the word pom-pom.

Maybe my job on this planet is to make the Asian accent sexy.

If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.

Being Irish, I always had this love of words.