“There are some people that aren't into all the words. There are some people who would have you not use certain words. Yeah, there are 400,000 words in the English language, and there are seven of them that you can't say on television. What a ratio that is. 399,993 to seven. They must really be bad. They'd have to be outrageous, to be separated from a group that large. All of you over here, you seven. Bad words. That's what they told us they were, remember? 'That's a bad word.' You know bad words. Bad thoughts. Bad intentions.” PeopleUseRememberCertainLanguageGroupsTelevisionYeahIntentionSevenEnglish LanguageOutrageousRatiosBad WordBad ThoughtsBad Intentions Author:George Carlin
“It's fun when the writers start writing jokes to you, but also it's fun when the writers will come to you and say 'Hey, listen, we're working on this story and we need to know if you speak any foreign languages.' And I said 'No, I don't. I speak a little Spanish, but I can learn a foreign language.' And they go 'Okay, do you think you can learn Portuguese?' And I go 'Yeah, whatever it takes. If it's funny, I'll do it.' So of course I start looking online and learning Portuguese, and as it turns out, I get the script and it's now Serbian.” IfsThinkingKnowsNeedsWritingLittlesSaidI CanStoriesTurnsCoursesSpeakLanguageFunJokesOkayYeahScriptsHeyOnlineWhatever It TakesForeign LanguagePortuguese Author:David Alan Basche
“Yeah, and the language the "we" has, and the character the "we" has. Because that was the part of the book that I didn't plan out, but the part that I was most curious about as I was writing. You know what you're doing, but you're sometimes still sort of curious as you're writing it.” KnowsWritingStillsBookSometimesCharacterLanguagePlansYeahCurious Author:Chang-Rae Lee
“I'm trying to steal from everybody. So yeah, there's cats that I'm personally affiliated with - Carl Franklin, Paul Thomas Anderson - and others that I don't know personally but their work I'm a big admirer of, like Martin Scorsese. But I'm hoping to come up with a language that is mine, that's specific to my take on this material.” KnowsTryingBigsLanguageMinesMaterialsCatYeahCome UpStealingFranklinAdmirerScorsese Author:Don Cheadle
“As soon as you think you have a firm idea you allow it to dissolve and you let go of it, particularly when it comes to a stylistic or aesthetic identity. In fact, you only really find out what it is when you deconstruct it; so, yeah, that's a sort of collage sensibility of having a lot of voicings coming from all over the place and not necessarily trying to shape them or try to commodify them. It keeps you in the living language... an opportunity to not be governed so much by intellect.” ThinkingTryingIdeasFactsOpportunityLanguageIdentityShapesLetting GoYeahIntellectFirmAestheticSensibilityCollages Author:Daniel O'Sullivan
“I'll probably take the prize for the most irrelevant degree. Although some of the things now where they study, you know: "post feministic colonial film theory" - those kind of majors, yeah, that's probably worse. But I was, you know, classics, Greek and Latin, like what's more irrelevant than dead languages, you know?” KnowsKindFilmLanguageStudyTheoryDegreesMajorsYeahPostsGreekPrizeLatinIrrelevant Author:Robert Greene
“You still had to find the music inside your language. You know, it was - that's a big part of what sort of moved me to begin writing the book. I wrote a little essay and I felt, yeah, this is a good voice. This is a good feeling. It feels like me.” KnowsFeelsWritingLittlesStillsBookFeelingsBigsLanguageFeltVoiceYeahMovedLike MeEssaysGood Feeling Author:Bruce Springsteen
“The au pair was bug-eyed. "What happened back there?" "It's not our fault!" Dan babbled. "Those guys are crazy! They're like mini-Darth Vaders without the mask!" "They're Benedictine monks!" Nellie exclaimed. "They're men of peace! Most of them are under vows of silence!" "Yeah, well, not anymore," Dan told her. "They cursed us out pretty good. I don't know the language, but some things you don't have to translate.” KnowsMenWellsGuyLanguageSilenceHappenedCrazyYeahFaultsMaskPairsTranslateBugsMonkVowCursedVaderVow Of Silence Author:Gordon Korman