Linguistic Appreciation Quotes

I think I feel in love with words before I feel in love with music.

At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in the United States would be a double major in Russian and French, but I have to admit that the pressure of getting through so many books spoiled reading for me.

I've always loved the word blunderbuss. I've always thought that it was a beautiful word and that it could mean several different things.

I loved the sound of the words, even if I was not entirely sure what all of them meant.

The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of our country. They find a kind of French social grace in the language and culture.

Rose: "If you'd teach me to swear in Russian, I might have a new appreciation for it."Dimitri: "You swear too much already."Rose: "I just want to express myself."Dimitri: "Oh, Roza… You express yourself more than anyone else I know."- Rose Hathaway & Dimitri Belikov (Frostbite)

I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.

I don't really have a bucket list, but if I did, one entry would be to dust off my college Russian and spend a big chunk of a year reading, or trying to read, 'War and Peace' as it was meant to be read, in Russian, with all that rumbly rocks-on-rocks poetry inherent to the language.

I like to relish words and sentences, and phraseology, and there's not much facility for that [playing Maigret].

How can I teach my boys the value and beauty of language and thus communication when the President himself reads westerns exclusively and cannot put together a simple English sentence? (John Steinbeck, in a private letter written during the Eisenhower administration)

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

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

I do so like all-encompassing words. Verb, adjective, noun. Yes, you are shitted.

I love words.

I love the Spanish language.

Rap and spoken word have reawakened the country to poetry in itself. Texting and Twitter encourage creative uses of casual language, in ways I have celebrated widely. But we've fallen behind on savoring the formal layer of our language.

I love the musicality of words.

Mama had an appreciation of the language. She taught me a love of words, of how they should be used and how they can fill a creative soul with a passion and lead to a life's work.

To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life.

I'd love to do something like 'A Canterbury Tale,' because I love the English language.

..I love your name. I don't want to cheat myself out of a single syllable.

I write because I'm in love with language; because I like working for myself, inside my head; and because it's the only way I know to make a stab at answering the never-ending questions of the heart that arise simply from the everyday living of our lives.

Although a linguist, I was always interested in, and fascinated by, Stephen's explanations of his work and proud of his discoveries and achievements.

An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice.