Language Quotes
There's a world of difference between, "Look at this mess you made!" and "I don't like to see food on the floor!
The written word is what distinguishes us from all other animal life forms on this earth.
If you want a language to survive, capture great thoughts within it. William Shakespeare has ensured Elizabethan English will never perish from this world.
I am beginning to worry that my speech is becoming a rather incomprehensible mixture of a Victorian woman, an Australian Beach Bum and a Laddish city boy
To lose your own language was like forgetting your mother, and as sad, in a way.
Don't you know how, in talking a foreign language, even fluently, one says half the time not what one wants to but what one can?
To start speaking my language start reading what I read... start reading what I have written. Listen to what I have listened.
There are stories that don't need a plot. Sooner or later they rise above the confusion and untangle their mysteries in a series of sentences.
I could displace the mystery of my speech onto writing, the latter perhaps recharging the former
If I build own language... will be better because I always will end up making new words.
Regardless of what language it is said in, "I love you" stays beautiful, and two hearts beating together make the same sound. It is the language of Love.
He liked to address every man in his own language, as a good European should.
The way people want to get respect for their culture and language, it is critical to reciprocate the same to other else you don't have any right to condemn others
Your language looks like a treasure map, ' she said, 'if you forget all the rest of the letters and focus in on the x, it looks as if you could find out where the treasure is.
I refuse to be linguistically constrained by dictionary writers.
Language was just that thing that happened when you opened your mouth at the table, squeezed a few noises out of your vocal chords, and induced Socrates thereby to pass the salt.
One's identity derives not from one's nation or blood but from the language one uses.
At the end of the second week they were still working and Arretapec, Conway and their patient were being talked, whistled, cheeped and grunted about in every language in use at the hospital.
He comments on how amazing it is that everything in the universe can be described by the twenty-six written characters with which they have been working.
The wisdom of the East is immortalized in its vocabularies and must be liberated from European language imperialism once and for all.
Always remember that it is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood: there will always be some who misunderstand you.
In English we blame others for not understanding us when really it's our fault for not saying what we wanted to say.
Tourists and imperialists do not come to be taught. They call things the way they call things at home.
One picture is worth a thousand words. Yes, but only if you look at the picture and say or think the thousand words
In general, ' Voss replied, 'it is necessary to communicate without knowledge of the language.
Voices have a language of their own and communicate much more than the words that they say.
For the body tells all to him who knows the language, and doesn’t lie.
You are the language so universalyou are forgottenBe my linguistTurn meinto your words.
Your first love is like your first language. No matter how many other languages you learn to speak, you can never be as good as in your first.
Your first love is like your first language. No matter how many other languages you speak, you can never be as good as in your first.
We thought speaking in English meant you were more intelligent. We were wrong of course. It does not matter what language you choose, the important thing is the words you use to express yourself.
Humans make tools. Some animals make tools too. The making and using of tools is important for developing language, how we think and speak. If we do not make anything, it affects our thinking.
A translator must, of course, be an interpreter of cultures.
The audible signals people can produce are not a series of crisp beeps like on a touch-tone phone. Speech is a river of breath, bent into hisses and hums by the soft flesh of the mouth and throat.
For the first few months I went round in a linguistic fog. Often I only realized what someone had said minutes or even days or weeks afterwards.
Lewis is like a gateway, making the riches of Deep Church more accessible.
He said it twice because he had never said it before, and it sounded funny.
Books, like landscapes, leave their marks in us. (...) Certain books, though, like certain landscapes, stay with us even when we left them, changing not just our weathers but our climates.
He spoke Spanish, English, Italian, and just enough of every other language to be able to charm women around the world.