1.“You can learn how to speak all the language you want when you need it.”
2.“If you want to learn English, make sure you are interested in learning about people and their culture.”
3.“Language is a skin, and words are like paint: They flow out across it without changing its dimensions…”
4.“Speaking only the languages we already speak systematically limits our field of vision and perception.”
5.“To me it is very important to understand the nature of English and how it works.” Shakira.
6.“It’s not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven’t got language, you can’t be conscious.”
7.“Language is life, you can’t define too many people without understanding what they talk about or how to use their own communication tools.”
8.” Language is the road map of a culture. it tells you where its people come from and where they are going.” Rita Mae Brown.
9.” With hard work, learning English, and getting involved, there is no limit on what you can achieve.” Arnold Schwarzenegger.
10.“Language is context-sensitive – you have to choose a word that’s right for the situation at hand..”
11.“You may know all the words in a language, but if they don’t make any sense in the context you won’t be able to use them.”
12.“I’m not saying it’s wrong, but I’m saying it doesn’t make sense to say ‘I like this word.'”
13.“It’s important to remember that language can be used for good or evil – so choose carefully which messages you want your audience to hear.”
14.“You’ve got to get over the idea of feeling ashamed and start getting into that exciting quiet space”.
15.“If people say, ‘I can’t do this,’ I tell them they can do it, but their answer better be ‘because my life depends on it.”
16.“If we always did what we were told, we would always do what was expected of us.”
17.“A writer who uses only words up to a certain point will never get very far; he’ll be like a man standing on the shore of an ocean with his eyes fixed on the horizon and refusing to wade in because he knows that beyond that point lies total darkness.”