Language Quotes
Each time a language dies, another flame goes out, another sound goes silent.
Why is English so widespread today, and not Danish?
A spoken language is a body, a living creature, whose physiognomy is verbal and whose visceral functions are linguistic. And this creature's home is the inarticulate as well as the articulate.
So many people understand language, but few people understand the real meaning of language. They that understand the meaning of language understand language and life better!
Falling in love is like learning a whole new language and the culture that goes along with it. When you fall out of love it can be hard to pick up where you left off and start a new.
...it always felt good to have that moment of resolve, like saying, "I'm gonna learn French!" It doesn't matter if you do it or not, deciding is the high, right?
You can lie in any language on earth, and body language is no exception.
I should think a dead language would be rather boring, sociallyspeaking.
The difference between a stumbling block and a stepping stone is how high you raise your foot.
Spanish—how shall I say this?—is likePortuguese spoken with a speech impediment.
Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouse buttons, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs.
She decided that day to study Russian, the language of violence, terror, and absurdity. She knew she would never be bored.
the Devil's hand directs our every movethe things we loathed become the things we love
Missing someone, they say, is self-centered.I self-center you more than ever.
Alphabet: a symbolic system used in algebra, with applications that have yet to be discovered by dyslexics and two thirds of college graduates.
Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.
That of which we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence
I am a lover of truth, a worshiper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
The language of light can only be decoded by the heart.
A row of trees far away, there on the hillside.But what is it, a row of trees? It’s just trees.Row and the plural trees aren’t things, they’re names.
You must know in what way you are going to use the morphology and syntax to build your 'how
Everyone smiles in the same language, Happiness knows no frontiers, no age. No difference thar makes us feel apart if a smile can win even a broken heart.
Some people us language to describe the lives they lead, and other people use language to create the lives they lead.
Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through you. Always be kinder than necessary.
Ljubav se moze pojaviti u najcudnijim oblicima.Zato je i cesto pomesamo sa necim sto ljubav nikada nece biti.
Poetry is an art of expressing the unknown music of our inner feelings and emotions in our known language.
We cannot see the best things in life, we can only feel them. A poet tries to describe those indescribable feelings in a language of emotions and inner perceptions.
Poetry has its own unique language which every mind translates differently according to their own personal view.
The language of a smile is charming, mesmerizing, meaningful, and often mysterious, but everyone understands a smile better than words.
We sit and talk, quietly, with long lapses of silenceand I am aware of the streamthat has no language, coursingbeneath the quiet heaven ofyour eyeswhich has no speech
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
A tough life needs a tough language—and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is.
Language has not the power to speak what love inditesThe soul lies buried in the Ink that writes
Când ne deschidemtu mie şi eu ţie, când ne scufundămtu în mine şi eu în tine, când ne pierdemtu în mine şi eu în tine, Abia atuncieu sunt euşi tu eşti tu.
Is there a better method of departure by night than this quiet bon voyage with an open book, the sole companion who has come to see you off, to wave you into the dark waters beyond language?
My sincere thanks to friends and family, especially my mother, father, brother, and Mandy, who continue to love and support me despite my obsessions.
Polysyllables obfuscate a preponderant ignorance with so much more style and panache.
We awaken by asking the right questions.
All we can do is to prepare for a universal language that will go on changing for ever. We don’t know everything. We aren’t final. I wish we could make that statement a part of the Fundamental Law.
The way of words, of knowing and loving words, is a way to the essence of things, and to the essence of knowing.