Mama had her little cough. Once or twice, some quiet sobbing, out of sight... Or the slamming of kitchen cupboard doors. That was her language.
That's one of the ways language evolved, by some very obscure form becoming common usage. And I must say that I'm very intrigued by use of language and slang, and criminal underground terms.
Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.
I think a lot of Marx was quite sloppy. There was all sorts of politically aggressive language when he lacked arguments for things.
I learned my English from Keith Spurgeon. He had some small children, and I was young, too, and so we spoke the language together, and it was fantastic.
Few things are more painful than being a successful writer born in a small country with an impenetrable language.
He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.
A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.
Whitney wanted to eradicate the idea that in the case of a language we are dealing with a natural faculty; in fact, social institutions stand opposed to natural institutions.
My responsibility is to make a film and find my dramatic language; I don't have any political or social responsibility.
I consider social skills a bit like learning a language. I've been practising it for so long over so many years I've almost lost my accent.
Anyone interested in language ends up writing about the sociological issues around it.
I stole a ton of film language from Steven Soderbergh and 'The Limey.' It's the definition of elliptical. It was the first movie I remember that introduced me to storytelling that isn't just one scene after another, and that things can be mixed up in the way that real experiences can.
There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
North Korea and South Korea speak the same language, and actually, we are the same country.
There's a specificity of language that's required in Shakespeare that most drama students in England deal with - a specificity of language that is somehow not as clear in a lot of American schools.
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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.
Language is wild - you can't fence it or tell it what to do - and it's the same with people. Even under the worst excesses of Stalinism or consumerism, the human spirit will still express itself.
