Quotes About Language

Oy, veh ! And where were the Italian speakers yesterday when we needed them?" "Today we need Russian!" "Russian? Who needs Russian? I need Litvaks! Are there any Litvaks in here? Anyone here even know what the heck a Litvak is?" "And I need—excuse me, dearie, what language is that you're speakin'?—Well, gracious me, I don't even know what I need! A mind reader, maybe!

Our ruling class have never been up for re-election before, but I hereby serve notice on behalf of the people of Great Britain that their time has come." Such language had never been heard from a British Prime Minister before. Although received with rapture in Sheffield town hall, Harry Perkins' words burst upon the Athenaeum as though the end of the world was at hand. Which, in a manner of speaking, it was. "South of France for me, old boy," said Furnival.

It's how we communicated.' 'I like old-fashioned language.' 'With cussing,' he said. 'Fuck, yeah. Cussing makes you live longer. Did you know that? It gets shit out of your system.

If you've used adverbs, look at them carefully. Adverbs are the weakest words; verbs are the strongest. Many, many times I've found that I have the wrong verb so I'm attempting to cheat and modify the wrong verb by using an adverb.

When you speak in other tongues, no one understands what you're saying, because you're speaking to God. It's a direct communication between your spirit and God. You're speaking the language that only He understands.

he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him ..." (1 Corinthians 14:2).

In other words, he charges up, builds up, overhauls, or refreshes himself. Praying in tongues refreshes and revives you.

As children, as we learn what things are, we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults, entirely submerged in words and concepts, we spend almost all of our time thinking and worrying about the past and the future, hardly ever looking at or engaging with the world visually.

The most common double-letter pairing in the English language being the double L, of course, challenged only by the double T.

Ich fürchtete das Schlimmste, nicht, weil ich den Plan der Griechen Zug um Zug durchschaute, sondern weil ich den haltlosen Übermut der Troer sah. Ich schrie, bat, beschwor und redete in Zungen.

She was doubtful, amid our toxic swirl of new namegiving; what she doubted was the reality of names, though she had to deal with them; she certainly felt that naming is seldom accurate, name and thing coincide only for a short time. She shrank from stamping any name on herself, the brand mark which decides which herd you belong to and which stable you should occupy.

Apenas nos dijimos otra cosa que nuestros nombres, pero nunca había oído un poema de amor más bello.

Aucune image ne peut rivaliser avec les richesses d'un texte!

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Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand.

The fact that I am writing to you in English already falsifies what I wanted to tell you. My subject: how to explain to you that I don't belong to English though I belong nowhere else, if not here in English. —GUSTAVO PÉREZ FIRMAT, "BILINGUAL BLUES

I have been so alone on this journey, cut off from my past. However hard I try, I will always feel alien and strange. And now I've stumbled on a fellow outsider, one who speaks my language without saying a word.

From the recesses of my brain a word floats up: synecdoche. A part that stands in for the whole. Christina's World.

She learned about Indian words that have been incorporated into American English, like moose and pecan and squash, and Penobscot words like kwai kwai, a friendly greeting, and woliwoni, thank you.

Don't call humans rats—rats are superior.

Sam,' said Saul fervently, 'when you talk, you know you create a world.

Every language is a temple, in which the soul of those who speak it is enshrined.

An idiom is a set phrase of two or more words that means something different from the literal meaning of the individual words.

She [Isis] invented a form of shorthand which she taught to the Egyptians and provided them a way to abridge their excessively involved script.