Language Skill Quotes

The President [George W. Bush] speaks Spanish almost as well as he speaks English.

Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language.

I have not the advantage of a classical education, and no man should, in my judgement, accept a degree he cannot read.

I did my best to hide by changing my name many times. But I was captured by the Chinese police. But because my Chinese was so good, they thought I was Chinese and released me. That was a miracle.

Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.

I ended up majoring in English, which I'm not particularly fluent in.

I can speak French but I cannot understand it.

Shakespeare's language does not require a British accent. It requires a facility with language, and that's all.

Those English and Scottish know how to do accents.

My CIA godfather told me he'd never heard any American speak Japanese so well.

When people ask me about my dialogue, I say, 'Don't you hear people talking?' That's all I do. I hear a certain type of individual, I decide this is what he should be, whatever it is, and then I hear him. Well, I don't hear anybody that I can't make talk.

Accents are very tangible, blessedly, and if you have to do one, it's a way of getting into character. I can read it through a few times and pretend I know what I'm doing!

Should people working in our country speak English? Yes, they should.

I would absolutely be down to do something in Spanish.

The more you read, the better you are at writing, no matter what you're writing. A lot of songwriters miss that and don't see the connection there, and I've always felt like you're more able to communicate if you have a bigger toolbox to work with.

There was writing and foreign languages. I always had an ease with foreign languages. So the both are related, both language related kind of mind.

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'

Her fluency was marvelous. She would say things at random, intricate, flamelike, or slide off into a parenthetical limbo peppered with fireworks-- admirable linguistic feats which a practiced writer might struggle for hours to achieve.

My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.

A politician is a man who can be verbose in fewer words than anyone else.

Pep Guardiola, when he was at Bayern Munich, he was able to reply in German in his first press conference.

Anyone who can not write should.

Voices are always a challenge. I always have to work at each accent I do.

Like language, a code of manners can be used with more or less skill, for laudable or for evil purposes, to express a great variety of ideas and emotions. In itself, it carries no moral value, but ignorance in use of this tool is not a sign of virtue.

Writing is a mysterious activity.