Language Quotes
I like the word ‘evil’. Scramble it a little and you will get ‘vile’ and ‘live’. ‘Good’, on the other hand, is just a command to ‘go do’.
The smartest people can write the worst emails and those of less intellect can write the best.
A good story or a book is all about it's power to hold it's readers still till the very last word of it's climax - complexity in language, dialogues, descriptions, everything else is secondary!
To make a simple change of a typeface can instantly transform text which had the appearance and tone of a joyous announcement to suddenly convey that of a somber tragedy.
He called it potentia because there's nothing quite like Latin for disguising the fact you're making it up as you go along.
Music is the language of the universe, which everyone, including all animals, can understand.
A ham sandwich is better than nothing. Nothing is better than eternal happiness. So eternal happiness is beaten by a ham sandwich.
A man who serves language, however imperfectly, should always serve truth.
The language, feminine desires to speak, and her first phrase to express her love to him - *blush*
I think about how language works so I can best explain how language works.
I was not born with English in my pocket.
No special academic expertise is required for insight into the Orwellian use of language, only clear thinking and common sense.
My parents would not permit ugly language in the house, which was okay with me. I didn't want to learn German anyway.
I just like the feeling of finding the right word in my mind and employing it. I get pleasure from that feeling. I prefer language to gesture. I figured other people might, too.
The silent adjustments to understand colloquial language are enormously complicated.
I like the way he says we and am amazed, as I often am by language as power, at the way a simple pronoun can upend a relationship.
Whenever I write a paragraph in English, I first check it with the Google Translator, and most often it says no language detected.
To knock today's prestige dialects off their pedestals, it helps to realize that they are really foul perversions of yesterday's prestige dialects.
Man acts as though he were the sharper and the master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
You don’t realise how language actually interferes with communication until you don’t have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense.
The worst kind of oppression is when the victims think and talk in the language of their oppressors.
Do you know, by the way, that German is the only language in the world that has a word for ‘pleasure derived from the misfortune of others’? Schadenfreude.
To pronounce French properly you must have within you a deep antipathy, not to say scorn, for some of the most sacred of the Anglo-Saxon prejudices.
Her attachment to language was earthy, physical, and immediate. Pretty words you could eat.
I had a dream about you last night... we tried to joke but neither could make any sense. We realized that puns are present in every language, though not shared by any of them.
Wow, I miss Latin. So much fun - all those exciting verbs that don't come unit the end of the sentence. It's like a movie trailer for language.
Language, because it is imperfect, cannot encompass experience in its raw and primal condition. To verbalize emotion and action is to decrease their impact.
The language of nature is silence.
I'm online, therefore I am.
You would be amazed by how I can torture the English language. I am an abusive lover.
What is realized in the novel is the process of coming to know one's own language as it is perceived in someone else's language, coming to know one's own belief system in someone else's system.
Thousands of miles from Georgia, beginning that night in England, my dad became a foreign-language speaker to me – and I was utterly charmed by it. I found the foreigner in myself.
Arguments about language are usually arguments about politics, disguised and channeled through one of our most distinctive markers of identity.
There is really only one way to learn good writing: good reading and extensive writing and revising.
Yesterday's abomination is today's rule.
If you look at the historical record, you will find that language has always been in decline. Which means, really, and it never has.
The language of experiment is more authoritative than any reasoning: facts can destroy our ratiocination—not vice versa.
Music is exciting and easy to enjoy, the rhythm and voice.It does not need interpretation. That is why it is called the Universal Language.