Language Quotes

A book, child. A book just for you, in a lost language.

Mind in language are inseparable. If we violate our language we violate ourselves.

Who is to say that robbing a people of its language is less violent than war?

We're on the border of this world, speaking a common language. That's all.

In speech he stretched out his vowel sounds to give his mouth a rest before the next consonant.

A rumor is usually a lie that the media can legally profit from.

A civil tongue speaks the language of masters. An uncivil tongue reveals character flaws of its master.

Strictly speaking, nothing that’s said is true. (Though one can be the truth, one can’t ever say it.)

He needed some sort of membrane between himself and experience, which, for him, became language.(Jeanette Winterson on T.S.Eliot)

He’s more a shape in a drape than a hep cat

I realized that lacking the feminine, the language had communicated to me in subtle ways that women were nonentities, that women counted mostly as they related to men.

...he learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke—the language that everyone on earth was capable of understanding in their heart. It was love.

Sometimes language can't even read the music of meaning.

Feelings or Emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are in your deepest place.

I've had the privilege of learning foreign languages. Instead of merely speaking a watered-down form of my mother tongue, like most people, I'm also helpless in two or three other languages.

It was made clear to me that Music is related to everything, especially nature and language, but in order to speak it naturally, I had to first make myself a part of it.

ll our tongues and cultures are constant shoplifters" from other tongues and cultures.

When two lovers discover a language of their own.

Language spread its warm, absurd rays over all my adolescent thoughts, and I felt the way we all long to feel: moody, lonely, lovesick and explosive with the prospects of tomorrow.

[T]he accumulation of things not spelled out, not properly articulated, may result in neurosis.

Learn to say “please” and “thank you” in multiple languages.

Thou shalt not use the 140 characters limit as an excuse for bad grammar and/or incorrect spelling.

Language is the light of the mind.

They had nothing in common but the English language, and tried by its help to express what neither of them understood.

Music is the language of all. It tames the savage beast and allows us to get over heartbreak. It helps us express what we really want to say and it has the power to lift hearts and awaken our souls….

How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?

Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks they can talk about language.

Lie, illusion, deception, she said--was that it truly, the universal language we all speak?

That one of history’s greatest brains struggled with amo, amas, amat should be consolation to anyone who has ever tried to learn a second language.

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found the time to conquer the world.

Photograph speaks every language

If language had been the creation, not of poetry, but of logic, we should only have one.

The topics which language limits us to aren’t much worth discussing in the first place.(attrib: F.L. Vanderson)

Verbing Weirds Language only if you're expecting it to work in a simple way. This is a special case of the more general truth that Language Weirds.

If you use the term 'over-exaggerate, ' you know the definition neither of 'exaggerate' nor of 'over.

That’s when I have to ask him. “Can you really talk like that? Being holy and all?”“What? Because I’m a priest?” He finishes the dregs of his coffee. “Sure. God knows what’s important.

Music is the Universal Language that allows all people to communicate with each other.

Poetry is, among other things, a criticism of language.

The locust has no kingJust noise and hard languageThey talk me over

Language most shews a man: Speak, that I may see thee.

You are. Before you are whatever you are labeled.

There is a rhythm to our language. they echo the rhythm of our life.

[L]anguage functions best when we mediate between the descriptive and prescriptive influences, changing the rules to better suit some things, but sticking to them for others.

...that it is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.

If someone said 'diametrically, ' could 'opposed' be far behind?

How many Lojbanists does it take to change a brokenlight-bulb?” goes the old Lojban joke. “Two: one to decidewhat to change it into and one to decide what kind of bulbemits broken light.

...there are no sweeter words in the English language (or any other) than husband and wife.

its badness is so potent that it seems to undermine the very idea of literature, to expose the whole endeavour of making art out of language as essentially and irredeemably fraudulent

The problem Creationists identify is with the word 'theory', not with the case for evolution

If a mark of affection can sometimes be taken for an insult, perhaps the gesture of love is not universal: it too must be translated from one language to another, must be learned.