Weird Language Quotes

#1. I try not to invent; I try simply to translate the weird language of the natural world. And I'm not into absolute ownership of things.

Alice Oswald

#2. Mr. Black started singing a song in some weird language, which I guess was Philippinish.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#3. It's like my ear attunes to the weird language and I'm sucked fully into the story, the same way I am when I watch a movie, so that I feel it.

Gayle Forman

#4. Language isn't weird. People are weird. Language makes sense until people get their phoneme pukers on it." Teia

Brent Weeks

#5. Mostly, I'm drawn to great characters and great worlds that use weird things for their language - whether it's dance, whether it's pop music with Justin Bieber, or whether it's magic.

Daniel Radcliffe

#6. Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law.

June Jordan

#7. When you wear a tattered cloth to a banquet of the honorable, you look weird

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#8. I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry.

Tamsin Greig

#9. I was that weird eight-year-old who was really interested in Shakespeare and understood it and appreciated the language.

Zendaya

#10. There is a weird power in a spoken word.

Joseph Conrad

#11. She'd known he'd understand. Brothers and sisters had their own language, their own shorthand. She was glad to be able to share the weird, ridiculous impossibleness of it with the only person who knew all the same stories, with the person who'd made those stories in the first place. (pg. 117)

Holly Black

#12. The language itself is what gets me interested in writing. It's weird to me that words exist. Never a dull moment with words. They're a layer between our minds and the physical reality around us, obviously, but the layer seems like it's always in flux, like an asteroid belt, constantly moving.

Aaron Belz