Language Fatigue Quotes

You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy, rigid.

The problem with depicting what's weird and what isn't is that it's got to this point of near total oversaturation. There's definitely a threshold at which that language and experience becomes tedious. How can something be weird if everything is apparently weird?

I'm too tired to speak in English.

You know, funny is this weird word for me. I hear is so many times it has no meaning anymore.

Our language has become a tired and inefficient thing in the hands of journalists and writers who have nothing to say.

Length of saying makes languor of hearing.

It's all quotes, anyway, and it all sounds the same to me.

I have spent too long training myself to speak with an American accent, it's ingrained. I spend 16 hours a day on set speaking with an American accent. Now, when I try to speak with an Aussie accent, I just sound like a caricature of myself.

Besides, if I wanted to hear people speaking wall-to-wall French, all I had to do was remove my headphones and participate in what is known as ‘real life,’ a concept as uninviting as a shampoo cocktail.

I don't see how English as we use it in Europe can be revivified. It's like Latin must have been in about A.D. 300, tired and used up. All one can do is press very hard stylistically to make it glow.

I remember my jaw would hurt because I wasn't used to speaking English all the time. Like how, even if you exercise, you'll play kickball one day, and then you're like, 'Wait, I run, but new places are hurting because I don't use my muscles this way.' My mouth was not used to making these sounds.

Cath felt like she was swimming in words. Drowning in them, sometimes.

In my junior year in college, I was getting kind of tired of French. So, I took an economics course, and I loved it. The rest of my two years in college I spent in economics.