I don't say that I'm GOING to be LIKE every other comic that's blue, or gratuitous use of language. I do TRY to have my own standards: I don't do everything the audience WANTS, and I do try to surprise them.

Our own genomes CARRY the story of evolution, WRITTEN in DNA, the LANGUAGE of molecular genetics, and the narrative is unmistakable.

The POWER of MATHEMATICS is OFTEN to change one thing into another, to change geometry into LANGUAGE.

Some people think that English poetry begins with the Anglo-Saxons. I don't, because I can't accept that there is any continuity between the traditions of Anglo-Saxon poetry and those established in English poetry by the time of, SAY, SHAKESPEARE. And anyway, Anglo-Saxon is a DIFFERENT LANGUAGE, which has to be learned.

If the PRESIDENT is going to use so much language of THEOLOGY and the Bible, then let's use that language for a serious DISCUSSION about the WAR in Iraq. And that was NEVER done.

Years ago, I went to Brazil and fell in LOVE with it. I really like the music, samba, bossa NOVA, the language and the PEOPLE.

Let's just SAY that most people, when learning a NEW language, are only interested in 'funny' WORDS.

I have struggled all my LIFE with my stuttering. Not to mention all my other speech impediments. I think I have EVERY language disorder known to speech pathologists.

I GET ALONG with all the women SINGERS, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly LANGUAGE.

Animals PRAISE a good day, a good hunt. They praise rain if they're THIRSTY. That's PRAYER. They don't live an unconscious life, they simply have no language to talk about these things. But they are grateful for the good things that COME along.

When I DISCOVERED that, through ACTING, you can speak a beautiful language aloud and have a relationship to language that isn't one that's just eyes-to-page, pen-to-page - it's one that's full-bodied, full-voiced, full-heart... it REALLY opened my heart and made me FEEL like I could be a STORYTELLER.

I would like to spend more time with SPANISH POETRY. I know FRENCH BETTER than Spanish, but Spanish was my first language, and my father spoke it to us.

The LANGUAGE of FRIENDSHIP is not WORDS but MEANINGS.

When we SAY Tamil, we are not TALKING of a LANGUAGE but an ENTIRE civilisation.